The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-24
The Barons hit the bottom.

the same place yesterday afternoon 2 to (, to ?.
 The Barons hit the bottom.
 Tom Fisher was the hero of the first game. The sorrel-topped lad with man agerial burden on his shoulders, held the 1arons to three swats. and no scores
 r1is support was brilliant.
 His support was better than he.
 Throughout the game the Barons h.t him hard, but always some Pirate, by piece of superb daring, plucked him from despair Benson was especially of fensive, and 'Jud" Daley displeased, too.
 Clark pleads guilty to having been hit inopportunely. Had the Pirates soused him a. any othe. time than when, they did, he would have escaped. As it was, he was beaten.
 The second game was fiasco.
 It WAS characterized by everything save excellence, and everything covers a deal Of ground.
 Hickman, Shreveport pitcher. was hit hard.
 Ragan. Birmingham pitcher, was hit harder
 Indeed, MT. Ragan appeared as if he was "all in" It seemed that behind his every delivery, was a prayer. His bland smile, his innocent stare, and his childish weakness, kept the knockers at peace Poor old Rip! It seems that the time comes for slow music, and sweet flowers as far as his baseball career is con cerned.
 Well, Harry Vaughn didn't take the hint, and Ragan was not removed
 The score of the second game was 4 to2.
 Birmingham knockers are fierce. Did you hear them yesterday? They screeched and hssed. and ,gain, hissed and screech- ed. They tossed bottles and cushions and a store of language. Meek was the favor ite Of their wrath.
 We have nothing like that at home" said Tom Fisher. When we were shoot ing tn chutes down in Shreveport, they knocked in town. There was no hammer sng from the beachers. The fans of Shreveport are on the square '
 The Birmingham knockers whooped them up for Shreveport and derided the locals. Would you have thought 1t?
 Fans in Birmingham knocked Birming- ham, and boosted an opponent.
 Fans in Birmingham singled out an Individual and hlssed him!
 he language was not much, but the intimation was superb.
 Captsin Lewee of Shreveport, while aid ing In removing a number of cushions that some of the tom-tits had flown from the smokers into the diamond. soft ly murmured;
 Be gentlemen, boys be gentlemen"
 Lewees voice is not too strong. but those remarks carried from one end of the field to the other
 Well. they beat us in a double-header, as we started out to tell in the first chap ter. before we digressed
 In the first game the Pirates scored two runs. The first of these was born in the second inning. It came about in this wise Warrender was given a base on balls, but Lewee. hitting to the inteld and being safe at first on fielder's choice, forced him at second. Lewee moved forward a peg when McIver bowed to first on four balls Clarke flied out easily, but Rapp bingled lusciousy between third and short. It is unnecessary to add that the first score was thereupon swung up.
 The second happened thus:
 In the sixth inning, Warrender, first up, hit to center. After Lewee famed Mum grew impatient. and a spirit of daring coming over him. plunged madly forward. He stole the keystone. McIver Init safely to right center for two bags. Ragan was easy. In the first and sec ond innings of the second game the r,{,.a Tn urli cin 1ai was sacrificed to second, from which bag he scored on Warrender's chuck. In the second, McIver was safe on Demonts er- ror but was thrown out at the plate when he attempted to score on Clarke's double. Clarke, however, scored when Massing singled to right.
 For fear that the two would not be suf- fcient to thoroughly humliate the Barons the Pirates added two more in the eighth. Benson singled and Daley was safe when Meeks error showed up. They then ex- ecuted the double steal, and with one out, scored on Lewee's neat bingle to left.
 But the Barons scored. Two runs count ed in the eighth. Prior to that period, nu- merous chances presented themselves but the locals were not taking notice nor ad- vantage of things yesterday.
 Here's what happened right at the be- ginning of the eighth:
 MoieSWorth, first up, doupled to lert.
 Demont followed with a triple to right center.
 Demont scored on Smiths infeld out
 The second game was rotten. Rotten is harsh in the extreme, but triumphantly expressive. There was presence of list lessness that appalled, and paralyzed. The fans were disgusted with the players and the players with the fans. as well as themselves.
 It was a dark, dark day for Birmlng- ham.
 It issalways a dark day. that on which hope smothers.
 The Barons will play another double