The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27

for Burk went out on a hit to Bih SUCK ney and Keenan struck out. -
 We'll, the game rocked along until the
 fourth inning, both pitchers working Ike
 Jack Dunn opened the fourth with a fly
 to Hill at short who muffed, but recoV-
 cred in time to get the runner at nrst.
 Couley hit to Hill again. Hiil fumoleo
 and the long first baseman of the 4ocais
 made the bag, going round to third on a clean hit of Weikart's both of them SCOT
 ing on a two -bagger by Bill stickney.
 Gillen was sout. on a hit to Hill Stick
 ended the Inning with a hit and out to
 The score wassnow.5 5 and Q in favor of
 the locals. and the crowd was pretty well
 pleasedswith Itself. while Ted was looking
 sick. fls a,f yi
 No more runs were made on either. side
 until the sixth when George Clark drop
 ped a long fly of Keenan's. he afterwards
 scoring and saving q shut out. The. game
 ending Montgomery 5. ChAttanooga4Js Both pitchers did good work, neither
 giving a base on balls, Csilien hitting two
 batters. Phillips having 2A wild pitch.
 Gillen striking out seven and Phillips
 There was but one more day and as the rain had prevented the first game
 there was to be q double header on Wed
 The first game was scheduled, for 2 o'clock. but q good bit before that hour the streets and roads between here and the ball park were choked with a block ade of vehicles, while sdodgfng in and out between the horses feet wTe pedestrians The street car system-as inadequate in those days as 1t is. in this good year was literally swarnped.
 By the time the first game was called the scene inside the grounds was a curi- osity-beth the main grand stand and smoking sfand were crowded to suffoca- tion, people sitting in the aisies and on the floor. 1ss.s ast< Out on the, bieachers-that paradise of the true rooter-every available inch of space was occupied on the extreme top digniffed men. lawyers. business men. etc, in the blazing rays of a June, nearly clinging to their giddy perches, but as
 happy through all the precipitation and discomfort as children with a new toy. I remember sitting in the grand stand next a celebrated Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabanna. He had a s10 silk umbrella in his hands, and before the end of the second game the eunshade was
 shattered in a hundred pieces by means of blow after blow on the unoffending bench in front of the learned jurist. Frank Behne was to pitch the first game for the locals. and Keenan. 'the phenom." for Chattanooga The lineup was the same as Tuesdays with the ex- ception that Baker was in the outfield in
 the place Keenan had played the day be- fore.
 That game was easy-7 and in favor of Montgomery-Behne outpitching Keen
 an all through, but not getting the sup
 port that he deserved, the bright par
 ticular feature being the lightning work
 of the local infieId-Stickney, Weikart and Conley, making four fast double plays almost in succession.
 The crowd was on edge now-Gillen and Behne had done their duty nobly, Montgomery had taken two games from Chattanooga and the leaders had com menced to see their finish, the standing at the end of the first game on that We'd nesday being:
 Chattanooga. .. .. .. 61 70 21 .655 Montgomery .. .. .... 60 38 g .633 When the second game was called only narrow margin of twenty-two points separated the two teams and the excite
 ment had reached the heart-breaking point. ro
 Artie Agan was to pitch the second game. Baker doing the slab work for Chattanooga.
 Everybody on the grounds looked like they were trying to masticate green per- simmons when Agan filled the bags with bases on balls in the first inning, Hill and McCann scoring on hits, nothing hav-