The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-02
UNIONTOWN WINS
 FROM FELL CITY
PRATT's TEAM DROPPED THREE TS-WELSH CHAMPION AND M'GEHEE VS. CARNES, BROWN AND WELLER.

Gnontown, September 1.-(Special J. Several issues of The Age Herald during the past week have been full of discus- sions as to which of the amateur teams in Alabama deserve the state champion ship. During all this discussion Union- town has been steadily playing winning ball, thinking that string of victories would speak louder than any number of words. She closed today, having won the last six straight games, the last three having been taken from the Pell City champions The Pratt" aggregation claiming to state championship for the past four years. came on their tour into western Alabama with the determination to uphold their standard They took two of their three games with Demopolis and entered Uniontown with the determinn- tion of repeating the act. But in this small berg she met her Waterloo, losing three straights to the Uniontown cham pions.
 As the Uniontown club has met and defeated the strongest teams throughout central Alabama, and she has doWned the Pell City club with Alabama City's star pitcher, Carnes, doing the twirllng, We claim the amateur championship of the state We recognize in Alabama City. whom we have not had the pleasure of meeting on the diamond although we have tried several times to arrange games with them. as our nearest competitors, but as they have only won three out of five from Pell City. and we have taken three straights and lost none. we consider our claims to the championship just ard fair. The Pell City team has played three of the cleanest games of the season here, and have by the gentlemanly con duct of the men won many friends, who look forward with good deal of pleas ure to another meeting with them next season.
 Out of thirty-one games played against the fastest teams in Alabama, the locals have won twenty, tied three and lost eight. giving them a percentage of .714.
 Chapman in the first game held his op- ponents to seven scattered hits and him self opened hostilties with the first safe hit off Carnes. which, coupled with Me Lemore's single and Welch's home run, netted three runs. In the seventh the locals added two more. while Pel City was able to shove across only three dur ing the game. Carnes was touched up for a total of ten hits. R.H T.. uniontown ..o 10 5 Fell City ..3
 Batteries: Chapman and MeLemore; Carnes and Mccoy.
 The feature of the second game was easily Paul Weleh's magnificent pitching and the gilt edge work of both clubs. The "twenty-inning kid" gave Pair two hits and Carnes one, while with the oth- CTS it was one, two, three. and eleven strike-outs. Brown pitched in fine form, holding the locals to five hits. but lost his game, 1 to 0. R.H.E F.. Uniontown :. .. .. .. .. .. Il Batteries: Welch and McLemore; Brown and Mccoy.
 In the third game, Mack Weller lasted one inning, during which time the heavy hitting locals connected with his delivery for three singles and two three -baggers, showing across five runs. He was re- placed by Rooney, who held the locals safe until the seventh. when they showed five more runners across the rubber. After the first inning McGhee was in fine form, and let the opponents down with two lone talles, striking out ten men during the eight innings played and en- abling the locals to make it three straights from ''Pratts Pets.'
 RHE. Uniontown :. ;. :. :. ...1o 10 Batteries: McGehee and McGhee and McLemore Weller, Rooney. Mccoy and Pratt.