The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-14
BLACK SOX SHUT OUT.
WARMLY CONTESTED GAME ON
 BALL FIELD lUNDAY.
Series With Detroit Comes to Close and American Leaguers Leave Montgomery--Next Series
 With St. Paul.

By combination of hard luck inter mingled with bad judgment the Black Sox received the first bunch of goose eggs of the exhibition series Sunday and the
 It was an ideal sunday morning, trifie warm, perhaps. but dazzling sunshine, the rays softened by fleeting, f1eecy clouds, an occasional cool breeze murmuring among the trees.
 Shortly after , o'clock in the afternoon ugly, ominous looking clouds began a battle royal with the sunshine for mas tery. By 3;30 o'clock. when the train left the union railway station black clouds! spreading over the heavens had com and won decisive victory over the now vanquished sun.
 Notwithstanding the fact that rain was certain crowd of about l, 4o0 people were present to see the last game of the De- tr oit series and taking into consideration the rain and wet grounds, they witnessed a fast game of ball.
 Louis Polchow started in to pitch for the boy who pitched such good bali in his last Detroit game. A drixxling rain
 was falling when Detroit went in for it's half of the first, and two bases on balls. . wild pitch and a man hit by the ball filled the bags. Lew McAllister sent q long fly to right. In the rain and high wind Stickney misjudged 1t and three runs poured over the plate.
 In the last half of the second a base
 on balls. a stolen base. sacrifice and
 home run by Crawford added two more runs making the score to O. Right here the rungetting of the Tigers was
 brought up short. and Polchow's work
 is considered The score should have been | 3 to o, 'Stickney's unfortunate error let | ting in the other three runs.
 While the locals were playing the first hAVA A.A k1-a | = a--
 sheets. driving the two teams from Sthe | field and hurrying the packed bleachers into the grandstand. The Tigers went out ir one. two. three | order in the fifth. At the beginning of the sixth Eason relieved Muffin in the box, while George Stultz relieved Pol. | chow in the last half of that inning For | the three innings that he pitched Stultz might as well have been down in Mobile | as far as the heavy hitting Detroit perfect, not single base on balls or | wild pitch did he give, while the Tigers
 were unable to locate his delivery at all
 not hit being made during the three In the sixth inning stultz struck out | Gessler ana Barrett, Clement striking out | in the last of the eighth.
 The work of Stultz was remarkable. and
 he undoubtedly made himself solid witf In the first of the ninth it. looked like the Black Sox were destined to snatch the coveted shutout from the maws oi the Tigers. But they had another guess | coming. With one man down Moleswortf
 smashed out rattling single. his second | hit of the game. followed by Whistler | two-bagger. Lew thought that Moles
 worth would certainly go on to third ant | kept on to second. but Molesworth beins l evidently afraid of the quick fielding o 1 the Tigers, went back to second O. 1 course two base runners could no nor, l occupy the same sack than two train. l can pass on the same track. And tn. l game was. over with the score to c ir favor of Detroit. The score is: