The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-26
BY BILL AK.

BY BILL AK.
 "Ginger" Clarke rocked the cradle for Baby Keith of the long legs yesterday afternoon, and the victim made sad a corpse the most pessimistic would care to gaze upon.
 Withal. he died hard For the first six innings of the game he had everything, and the Barons were as Gulliver in tine land of the giants, so weak were they, and feeble.
 But in the seventh there was much hard hitting on the part of the Vaughnites and the day was saved
 The score: Birmingham l. Little Rock l.
 In justice to Keith the 1907 graduate of the University of Arkansas, and Arkdh- sas' representative among the 1908 Cecil Rhodes students at Oxford, be 1t said that he was out of shape. Furthermore, it leaked out last night that before the game Keith complaining, said:
 Michael, l am wholly unfit
 You are simply afraid rejoned M'fh- ael of the angel face.
 After the game Keith reminded some of his friends that he had begged to be kept seated on the bench on account of a kink in his wing.
 .'I can tell" he said, when have any thing. My arm was out of whack yester- day
 In spite of the fact, however, Keith went through the Barons like buzz saw for six innings of the game Within that space the locals connected safely but twice, and there WAS not the semblance of q score.
 In the seventh. Meek opened up with a triple 10 right. and thereafter the scholar ly lad from Arkansas was easy pickings.
 It is feared that after Meek had solved his delivery fhe youngster Tapped Wih6s for higher cimes-i e., he went into the air.
 "Ginger' pitched a splendid game. He had excellent control, a lack of which has beaten him on many previous oc- casoins
 Too he was given jam up support In the eighth inning, for instance Page would have bingled over third had not Alcock brilliantly covered an acre or ter ritory and caught him fair. Then Gilbert who followed, would have bingled safely to deeper left had not Gardner spectaeu- larly raced across his garden and clutched the n)all as 1t neared Mother Earth
 The gilt edge support continued through out.
 And Ginger pitched some too
 In the fourth inning. Gilbert and Rock enfield led off with singles, juicy ones, too.
 Douglass. attempting to sacrifice, buntei out. but Wood was passed on four balls, this issuance of transportation serving to ill the bags.
 The bases were full, and one out!
 The fans feared for their honor, ana the tin horn" for his $2.
 But "Ginger" wormed out all right. BowcoclS flied to Gardner, and the fielder held Gilbert chained to third. Hess retired the side from Demont to Meek.
 But in the sixth, the visitors scored. As Keith was trottng along at a 2:40 gait, the fans feared in their hearts that this one tally would decide the affair.
 But many a horse scheduled to win, drops dead, and many more lose out on the stretch. Ginger" paced smoothly, and when the home loomed up he, re- fusing to become frightened, simply increased his speed. The result was that he went under the wire by several lengths. But this Aggression.
 Tn the sixth. Gilbert, first up. was plinked n the small of the back, and wincing. trotted to first, from which pillow he waited Finn smile. He was sacrificed by Rockentield.
 Douglass was next up,
 Score: Little Rock, 1; Birmingham, 0. Molesworth opened with a single, the second of the game, in the Barons' half of the sixth. Demont sacrificed him. but all hope shrieked away when Gardner and Smith failed to deliver.
 In their half of the seventh, however the Barons truned the trick.
 Meek opened with juicy swat to right and went three bases before halt ing. Walters famed. but Alcock hit safely to shirt right, scoring Meek.
 Ilatimer hit safely to left cetner.
 Clark flied out to right, but Moles- worth laced one to deep center, which served to send Alcock and Latimer from the sacks
 Score: Birmingham, 3; Little Rock. l. At this stage, one might have heard the fans signing that sigh of relief bad he stood some thousand yards away.
 But there was stil lmore to come.
 In the eighth, after Smith had flied to catcher, Gardner drew pass. He