The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-27
BREWTON'S PRIESTHOOD
THEY BEAT aERsTs IN FIIST
 GAME.
Fritz Pitches a Good, Steady Game But His Excellent Support Saved the Day for Him-Same Teams
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bunch of tired, but happy ball tos- sers returned to the city last night with the Scalps of numerous and sundry other ball tossers swinging at their belts.
 It was the first game of the Brewton- Montgomery series and to the Escambia County people belongs the credit of hav- ing taken q fall out of the heretofore invincible Gersts. 1t was the first game that Nolley has lost this season, but by no means can the loss of the game be charged to him-it was due to an un- fortunate combination of circumstances. In the first game played this season 1t will be remembered that Tom Lewis broke
 his collar bone-that was some weeks ago and he has not attempted to get in the game until yesterday. Yesterday Calcana was unable to play and Lewis took his place at third-he played the bag remarkably we'll considering, but of he would have done had he been well. For this reason lots of Brewton baserunners got to first on balls hit to third base, that would have been caught under other mortems don't go, however. Fritz pitched good game, but his success was due to l the team work and excellent support of Brewton While the Gersts got ten hits of Fritz still his control was nearly per- feet, he striking out seven men and not giving a base on balls. Nolley had bit of an. off day and while he gave but one base on balls he only struck out two 1 men and made three wild pitches. Starr relieved him in the sixth inning and only allowed two hits in the four innings. gtv- ing @ couple of passes and striking out one man.
 There was a splendid crowd-larger than expected-and everybody seemed to en- joy the game to the utmost. Long hits a couple of Gersts over the plate in the first inning Rankin and Wallace hit Nolley in the first. but good infield work prevented them from scoring. Not hit IL L IL NN-gk the second inning, but hit by Davidson and an opportune two-bagger by Wallace put a couple of Brewton runs to the good. making the score and 2. It was innings. Fritz's CE.) 2-bagger in the third and Opp's single in the fourth being the only hits by either team in these innings. The score was still tied up-2 and 2- their hits on Fritz. and Crekmoor's two bagger with singles by Stickney. Cade and Simpson put two more over for the Gersts, making the score to 2. It was destined to remain this way for a very short while. however, and the cheers and 2x4 smiles of the Gerst rooters were speedily changed to mourning. By combination of long hits and punched Rankin and Moore over the plate-score now 5 and 4 in favor of Brewton. Opp's two-bagger in the eighth was the only hit made off Fritz after this and the 1cTSA never SdW luc pidtc any more during the game. Starr went in at the beginning of the sixth and only two hits and one run were made off him during the four innings Wallace got a single and Fritz, C., a base on balls in the sixth but 1t didn't do them any good. In the eighth Fritz. F., got base on balls Moore a single, Fritz scoring on some of color work. This ends the scoring for both teams and the game closed and in favor of the plucky Brewton people. The score is: