The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-07
ENS[EY TEAM WINS OPENING BALL CAME Meeting of Stonewall Chap
 ter Called INITIAL SERMON TODAY High School Students Prepare for Annual Debate-Fraternal Notes
 and General News
INITIAL SERMON TODAY

A large crowd attended the opening of the Industrial league in Ensley yesterday afternoon and saw the Ensley steel plant team defeat the By-Product team by Q score of 10 to S. The game would have been a pitchers battle between Harry Roberts for Ensley and Horace Robert for the By-Product had it not been marred with errors on both sides, as each pitcher struck out nine men, and the former al- lowed eight hits while the latter was touched up for only seven. The game was a tight battle until the fifth inning when the By-Product showed across their first run. When the Ensley boys came to the bat they knocked in four runs,. due to Ramage who knocked a home run with two men on bases. Neither team scored In the sixth, but in the seventh the By Product boys made three more runs. Two of the runs came in when Reese, catching for Ensley, let ball pass him and did not recover it until the two men had scored. Ensley failed to score in their half of the seventh. The visitors came back strong in the eighth and scored their last two runs. Tn the last half of the eighth the local boys started after their opponents and by timely hits and aided by errors they scored six runs. Harry Roberts held his opponents help
  The feature of the game were the hit ting of Ramage and the pitching of Harry Roberts for the local team, and the hit ting and pitching of Horace Roberts for the By-Product. Score: R. H. F. Ensley .................. 900 040 O6*-10 f By-Product ............ 900 010 320-6
 Batteries Ensley, Harry Roberts and Reese; By-Product, Horace Roberts and Stewart.
 The majority of the prizes offered by the Ensley merchants for the Ensley players were won by Andy Ramage, who won a pair of $S trousers for the first home run from Keller, The Tailor; pair of tennis shoes from A. A. Lovett, for the first run; $4 silk shirt from T. G. Mackey, for the player responsible for the most runs, and a box of cigars from the Bes- semer Grocery company for the first stolen base. Hamilton won the solid gold pair of cuff links, offered by Smith Brown Jewelry company for the first hit, while Harry Roberts won the 20 tickets to the Franklin theatre for the player making the most put outs. The $5 hat for the player making the most runs for the local team offered by Dupuy-Burke Realty company ended up in a tie between Ram age, Roberts and McMurry, each making two runs.
 Music was furnished throughout the game by the Tennessee company's band under the direction of Prof. s. Costa, and which was very enjoyable.
 The Ensley High school baseball team will play the scrub team of the Howard college on Monday afternoon, beginning at 3:30 o'clock on the T. c. I. diamond. The batteries for Ensley will probably be Sherlock and Blaylock. The game was to have been played last Monday, but owing to the rainy weather it was post poned until this Monday. The Ensley team defeated the Howard boys on their home grounds when they first met and are determined to do the same thing on the Ensley grounds.