The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-15

Little Rock barely kept out of seventh place in the race yesterday by winning from Birmingham in a ten-inning game. There was excitement enough for every body in the diamond battle. for after a hot contest, with pitching honors about even between Buchanan and Fleharty, the game almost broke up in row in the tenth inning with a fistic encounter betweeen Catcher Casey and MT. Fle- harty.
 The racket occurred in the last half of the tenth inning Kane was first at bat and made a hit to rght held. F1eharty followed and swung hard at the second ball pitched, which was a high one and slipped through Casey's hand and hit the grandstand.
 Umpire Pfenninger got it into his 'nog- gin" that 1t was foul and so called 1t, sending Kane back to first. This precipi- tated war argument from the Baron players, who gathered around MT. Pfen- ninger but could not convince him that he was in error. When Fleharty went back to the plate he got into an argu- ment with Casey. Hot words were passed and in moment Fleharty dropped his bat and the two were rolling over in the dust together, Fleharty on top. The Little Rock players ran to the rescue and pulled the two apart after a mighty struggle. Casey getting the worst of it by long odds, not from F1eharty's hands, but from the endeavors of his team mates, because he came out of the fray almost ''pantless' e stand to hide the rent in his knicker- bockers, which extended from waist to knee.
 The Elyton constabulary was promptly on the scene and put both players under arrest and of course MT. Pfenninger put both of them out of the game. The case will be called in the Elyton police court today.
 Birmingham started the run-getting in the second inning. After Gygli had died at first on an infield hit, Marcan swatted the ball to the right field fence for two bags. Larsen struck out, but Manuel came up and lined a swift one out into center field, which sent Marcan across the plate, and through a succession Of wild throws and errors by Berry and Flood, Manuel also scored run.
 The Barons scored two more in the sev- enth Gygli singled to center and Raub, who had succeeded Yancey in right after Marcan had been injured and taken out, hit to the infield and forced Gygli at second. Larsen followed with an infeld hit and both men were safe The mighty Moxie Manuel did not disappoint the fans in a pinch, but lined out juicy two- bagger to right and sent two runs across tha nlate. Kane and Fleharty finished the inning with easy outs.
 In the ninth inning, with the score 5 to 4 against the Barons, Gygi made his third successive hit and scored on a sac rifice by Raub and single by Larsen Interest was at fever heat when Manuel again came to bat, but the best he could do was long fly to center upon which Larsen tried to score, but Berry naoe mighty heave and Casey caught Larsen at the plate. retiring the side on a double play.
 The Travellers scored their first run in the third inning on a couple of hits and an error by Kane. In the fourtn inning two more runs were added by Little Rock and three safe hits and a couple of stolen bases aided by wild pitch. The Trav- elers got two more in the seventh with only one hit, but an error by f1enarty and base on balls was the cause Of the trouble.
 After the Barons had tied the score in +ba ninth the Trayslers were a little dis- co,raeed but came up determined. Col lins fouled out and Flood got first on an error by Larsen. Perry singled to left and Flood tried to get to third, but was caught by Fleharty and Larsen The mighty Casey settled the business with a three-bagger to left field which scored Perry. as Birmingham failed to score in its half of the tenth, details of which are given above.