The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-01
COIN WINS HIS GAME
TOOK TEN INNINGS TO DECIDE
IT.
Fourth Game of sylacauga Series the
Most Brilliant, Creekmore and
Pettus Playing Best Fielding
Games Ever Seen There.

Lee Cohn did it. but the margin was so
narrow that it had the germs of heart
disease.
1t was the fourth game of the remar-
kable series between Sylacauga and Mont
gomery, and the victory of the locals yes
terday gives them three wins to Sylacau-
gas one. Victory only perched on the
banner of the locals after ten innings of
the most brilliant and intensely exciting
baseball ever seen in Montgomery. The
crowd was perhaps larger than the record
breaking crowd that saw the famous
twelve inning fight Wednesday, and the
excitement was higher, for both teams
were playing brilliant games and it was
a case of the best in the shop from the
first to the tenth inning.
The box work of both pitchers was
above the average, their control being
something marl -lous-neither one giving
a base on balls, Conn only hitting one
batter and Roberts two, Cohn striking
out two men and Roberts striking out
eight, while ten hits were made off Cohn
and seven off Roberts. Creekmore at
short played a remarkable game. ac-
cepting eight chances without an error.
Pettus at first having eighteen putouts,
one assist without an error
Bleachers packed to the top with mass
of wildly excited rooters, grand stand
filled with enthusiasm rampant in the
shape of throngs of pretty girls and in
tensely interested men-this was the scene
presented when big Burnett started the
roars in the first inning by smashing out
a homo run with Stickney on the bags.
1t was and until the third inning when
Lane tailed on his two-bagger and some
off color work, making it 2 and l in favor
of tho locals In the fourth, however,
singles by Stickney and Cade with Opp S
two-bagger put three runs over 1t was
now and / in favor of the locals and
both pitchers and both teams settled
down with grim determination to make
the fight of their lives-and they made
it all right. In the seventh Weaver's
single and Andrews two-bagger with an
error, put Lane and Weaver over, maxi
ing it and 3. There were two more in
nings to play and Sylacauga only needed
two to tie and three to win
Could they make those tallies?
The pregnant question was destined soon
to receive decisive answer and the ex-
cited yells of the crush of people on the
grounds degenerated into hollow groans
while blanched. scared looks spread over
faces that had hitherto been wreathed
in more or less beautiful smiles.
The locals had been unable to produce
since the fourth inning and the score at
the end of the seventh was and 3. In
the Sth neither side was able to show,
but in the ninth singles by Lane and
Weaver with the help of some errors, put
Lane and Weaver over, tieing the score,
) and 5. The tension was now something
frightful, and it was a most stoical in
dividual who was able to sit still. Reid,
More and Roberts. in the order named,
each hit to Creekmore, that plucky play
er with beautiful, clockwork precision
firing the ball to Pettus ahead of the
runner in each instance in their half
of the tenth. In the lCcals half, by a
combination of errors on the part of
Sylacauga, Creekmore was showed over
the plate with the winning run. A steam
foundry would have been a nice, quiet
place in which to take a siesta in COM
parison with the outburst of frantic. de-
| lighted shrieks that in waves rushed over
the big crowd.
A singular coincidence is the fact that
the last three games SyIacauga has made
the same scores-fve in each event The
second game was won by Starr Q and 5,
the third by Seals, and 5, and yester-
days by Lee Cohn, 6 and 5.
Starr will pitch todays game with Sor-
rell in for Sylacauga, Sylacauga saving