The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
RETURN HOME OF BACK SOX
 MARKED BY ATLANTA'S DEFEAT
Great Crowd Saw Heart-thrObbing Ball Game Which Resulted in Victory For Locals.
 Score to 4.

of runs followed. Stafford had walked and Bonnet hit a grounder that Childs got in the way of and scooped up. As would w start W the " double the he fall fell out out of his hand, both Bennett and Stafford being safe instead of both being out: Then Polchow showed them the real oKehler struck out. Markley hit safe and Stafford scored, Bennett scoring on Ma thews long fly te Burnett. Markley was caught off second, retiring the side.
 Whistler cracked out beauty in the half half, advancing on Burnett's neat sacrifice and scoring when Bridewell fumbled Clark's hot hit.
 It was a case of nothing doing on both sides until the last half of the sixth. when, with two down, Burnett walked. stole second with a beautiful slide into the bag, and tied the score when Stick ney's hot hit made a bad bound and went over Brideweips head.
 In the seventh Markley walked, ad- vanced on Mathews sacrifice and scored on Dick Croziers hit. putting the score and 3 in favor of the Crackers. Then came that famous home run Of Molesworth that cinched the game as 1t turned out, and incidentally brought everybody on the grounds to their feet in perfect torrent of frenzied enthusiasm Witt two down, Childs hit past first. Stafford went after 1t and Jack Ely ran to cover the bag. He was bit slow, and Cox gave the runner the bcnefit of
 
 out hit that went soaring over the fence so close to the right field foul line that lots of people on the grounds thought at | first that 1t would be foul. By just a few inches, however. 1t went over the fence fair, Childs and Molesworth pacing round the bags and making the score and in favor of the Black Sox.
 In the eighth inning Winters pounded out two-bagger, scoring on Koehler' s hit and tieing the score again.
 Clark hit safe in the last half and by the prettiest kind of base-running stole second, scoring on Kid Busch's long hit the run that won the game.
 Then came the supreme moment of the game. Could Po.chow but hold them | safe in the ninth the Black Sox would some Jumps as they mutely asked them selves the question.
 Mathews sent a fly to Burnett. which | was eaten up while Whistler got Jack
 Ely's fly. Radiant smiles began playing | around the faces that brief moment
 before had looked doubtful. Dick Crozier
 was the next up, and when he sent fly out over second, 1t looked bright for Montgomery. Stickney and Childs start | ed for the ball, but both hesitated. Both were lost and the ball fell harmlessly to
 the ground safe when 1t should have been
 the third and last out of the game. Bride well popped up fly which Whistler drop l ped, and catching the contagion, Polchow
 hit the heayy-hitting Winters with the
 ball, filling the bags.
 | Big stafford was up next and a groan | went up all over tlle grounds. A home ! run would mean four scores in that in- ming and probably leave the game 8 and
 5 in favor of the Crackers. Crash
 went Stafford's stick Men shut their eyes, dreading to see the result. Gro
 zier, Bridewell and Winters were tear
 ing like mad around the bags. A calm
 hgure out in left field stood patiently waiting for the ball and pulled it down. And Heck Burnett had closed the game
 with the score standing and { in favor | of the Black Sox.