The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-22

settled, and everything was in readi-
ness for procedure to the scene of 40
tiyities. The boys were ridden through
the principal streets of the down.
town section of the city and were then
taken to East Lake.
Upon arriving at the lake the news
les, every mothers son Of them, made
a dash for the bath house, having been
informed that they would be first given
a swim. Now the reporter attempted
to get few names of youngsters pres
ent, but every fellow who was ap-
preached was too busy to be inter-
viewed. However, the reporter knows
Nine Ninety Nine" -Four Fingers"
Red" Jake" Buck" "Chauncey," and
skinny" and they were all present
and very much so.
AT the bath house Mr.. Fisher, one of
the park officials. Joined hands with
Fred Fletcher, and together they man
aged to keep the youngsters from show
ing the bath house away from the
shore. The crowd all finally got into
the water and as a result so much wa
ter was splash ed out on the banks that
1t Is stated that the lake was two feet
lower than usual last night. Buck"
gave a great exhibition of aquatic
stunts. His first was to jump into the
water from the top Of the bath house
diid oH iAii anu oilOlc ny Nik6hA6 ilo
ears alone. He showed his companions
how to part their hair by diving. The
premier stunt, however, was pulled off
when he jumped into the lake, picked
up a pebble with each of his little toes,
then stood on his head in the water
and juggled the rocks with his feet,
finally throwing them up, turning and
coming out of the water, catching them
in his hand and making his bow.
I~1s 4..r 4.
skillful performance of Buck" about
half the crowd repaired to the base
ball diamond. Now the famous Cream
puff team was backed Off the board
by the formidable appearance of the
'Mudswipe" aggregation. The last
that was seen Of the nine they were
hiking 1t away over the hills out to-
ward Huffman. However, the remnants
of the famous "Highpocket" team were
scattered about and they pulled to-
gether. 1t will be recalled that the
"Highpockets' were organized by one
Blackburn two years ago and took
their name as a team from their man.
ager "Highpocket" Blackburn. This
team was SO ANONYMOUSLY defeated by
the "Mudswipes' on its first appear
ance that 1t was feared that reorgan-
ization would never be effected, but
they got together yesterday, and while
they did not win they put up an ex-
cellent game, which fact was due large
ly to the absence of the errors and bad
plays of the erstwhile manager, who
is now. located somewhere out in the
tall and uncut timber.
The game went for 10 innings and was
finally decided In favor of the Mudswipes
on very fine point. Nobody had even
gotten a hit when, in the last half of the
thirteenth, Red" hit for three bags, a
beautiful smash. He was followed at the
bat by "Chauncey'' and 'Four-f1ngers, )"
both of whom hit the atmosphere with
great force but never connected with the
ball. skinny" followed and dropped a
beauty over third and Buck scored,
after which Skinny was thrown out try
ing to steal second Now, here's the inter-
esting point The "Highpockets" contend
ed that Buck" was only big enough to
count for half score and they insisted
that half a score was no score at all.
Umpire Nine Ninety Nine" agreed with
them that Buck" could only count for
half a score unless he encircles the bag
twice on one hit, but he declared that
half a score was enough, and tho "High-
pockets got sore and quit the game when
somebody hollsred dinner" II u charged
that Nine Ninety Nlne~ was sbought''
for 20 eents.
or an the dinners ever cooked, whsre
OH whore. was there ever one LIKE that