The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16
.NOLLEY WON HIS GAME
AND PITCHED A REMARKABLY
GAME.
o'Brien, the Former Jasper Pitcher,
Did Fine Box Work for Visitors.
Score Tied Twice, Locals Win
ming by Batting Rally in 9Th.

Fast, snappy baseball. gingery, sensa-
tional field work and pitching on both
sides that was way above the average of
any professional game is a weak descrip-
ton of the SylacaugaM Montgomery game
yesterday afternoon.
O'Brien who pitched the first game of
the Jasper series here did the slab work
for Sylacauga yesterday and did 1t in "A
manner that defies any criticism. While
ten hits were made off him he kept them
well scattered except in the eighth inning,
only gave two bases on balls. did not hit
o man and struck out nine of the best hit
ters on the local team. Motley pitched
remarkab BILE game. His control was Won
derful. only giving one base on balls,
not hitting man or having a wild pltch
and striking out four men. Hobbie. Moore
and Pettus of the local infield did brilliant
work. Hobbie having four assists ana
two puouts with only one error Moore
at second base having four assists and
eight putouts with one error and Pettus
at first having ten chances without an
error. Hobbies error was wild throw in
the early part of the game, the ball sail
ing way over PettuSs head and landing
among the carriages by the bleachers:
After that he played a perfect game and
a brilliant one. Besides his work on the
infield bag Pettus did most of the hitting
for the locals. getting three hlts-a two
Dagger and a couple of singles out OF
four times up. Motley got a couple of
long singles out of three times up. While
Fritz only got one hit it was a corker-a
home run that put over couple OF runs
In the Ist inning hits by Weaver and
Stickney and that unfortunate wild throw
of Hobbies scored Sorrell and Weaver.
Hobbie was the first man UP In the
locals half of that inning and OBrien
sent him to first on balls. he stealing
| second and getting over the plate on Pet
tus's two-bagger.
It remained this way until the fourth
| inning when a wild throw put Fritz over
for the locals, tieing the score-2 and 2
Motley was shooting EN- over the plate
with the speed of a rifle and the regulor-
ity of a steam engine "a single by O'Brien
in the third and a single by Andrews in
the fourth being the sum total of the hits
made by Sylacauga since the first inning.
not tally having been made since the
| first inning. In the last half of the fifth
| Pettus had singled and was playing
around first base. Wallace was up and
| there were cries OF ''Oh. that's all right,
he can't hit it," from some of the Syla-
cauga people Before the words had been
| uttered good. Wallace was leaning for
ward to meet one of the twisters that
O'Brien sent in. There was sharp,
| rending sound, a look of dismay on the
| faces of O'Brien and the Sylacauga peo-
pie, shrieks Of delight from the crowd.
Ward. the Sylacauga left f1eldsr, was
staring blankly at the fence over which
| at that moment the ball from Wallace S
| bat was disappearing while Pettus was
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| lace, two scores resulting and the game
| standing and in favor of the locals.
| In the first half of the sixth came the
| only hits that were punched on Motley
| during the game-singles by Sorrell, Stick
| ney and Andrews with a little off color in
| field work put Sorrell and Stickney over
and the score again. and 4.
1t remained tied until the last half of
| the eighth when single by Pettus. Fritz.
| Creekmore Patterson and Wallace, max
| ing the score and 4 in favor of the To-
| Gals.
In the first half of the ninth Motley gave
| the first base on balls of his beautiful
| game sending Tom Finley to first Sin
| giles by Ward and OBrien scored FINLEY
and Ward and left the score and in ia
| vor of the locals. AS Sylacauga was shy
| three runs Of course the locals did not
| play their half of the ninth and the game
| closed that way.
| The crowd yesterday was another rec
| rd-breaking one. being fully as large as
| the enormous attendance of Wednesday.
| This is the last of the Sylacauga games
| and the baseball loving people of Mont
| gomery are sorry it is as never before
| has such consistent. high Gloss baseball
| been played in Montgomery.
| OBrien will be in the box again for
| SylaCduga today while Lee Kohn, the
| crack pitcher If the Falcons-the boy
who pitched and won that and 5 game,
| twelve innings. against Sylacauga,
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