The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-30

Many baseball games have been played in Montgomery, but for feverish excite ment, heart-breaking. nerve-straining en- thusiasm, nothing approaching yester days Nashville Montgomery contest has ever taken place on Montgomery ball field.
 With the score tied up in the ninth inning, the two teams battfed for fifteen inning-innings in which men and women held their breath while one could almost count the pulsations of his neighbours S heart As inning after inning went by and the Black Sox went down with pain despondency in grandstand and on bleach CTS made the brilliant sunshine seem very much out of place.
 It was a magnificent game of ball. quite the most brilliant ever played in Montgomery-and the people who missed it deserve sympathy.
 The Black Sox should have had the game won at the end of the ninth inning, but they didn't, the Fishermen tieing the score instead of fighting 1t out in a game manner that made a mans blood run faster.
 The Black Sox had started in on the Andy Roth made 1t so plain that 1t was too dark to see the ball that Umpire Sor- Der called the game st the end of the fifteenth inning with the score tired and 2.
 Both George Stultz and Russell pitched great games, though Russell had lots of luck intermingled with his box work, his support cutting down many long. hard ones that looked good for safe hits.
 Both of the runs made by the Black Sox were earned while only one run was earned by the Fishermen, showing the difference in the hits made off the two sell, even if the score does show that sev- en hits were made off Russell and eleven off Stultz. The control of both of them was superb. Stultz only giving two bases np hal puaGaIl only fhraa rhfIa Stultz struck out three men and Russell two.
 The Black Sox began getting busy with the tally sheet in the second inning, when four games. lifted the ball over the fence for a home run.
 In the last half Punch Knoll singled, advanced on a neat sacrifice by Wiseman and scored on Bussey's hit
 Nothing more was done until the first half of the ninth, when Molesworth lined out a long single. advanced on Whistler's neat sacrifice and scored on Flanagans o-bagger.
 This left the score and in favor of the Black Sox. but the Fishermen had their half of the ninth to play. Could the Black Sox hold themT' was the mute brains. When Wilkie Clark pulled down the foul fly popped up by Moss, the fran tic, joyous shouts fairly shook the build ings. When Andy Roth smashed out his
 
 down into their owners shoes. Russell, the next man up. hit to Whistler and was out. This made two down and men began tumbling off the bleachers with beeining countenances and a feeling of generous peace with the whole world.
 Peas. Alb Powells cast-off short stop, at this juncture hit down to Bill Spratt. who scooped 1t up. but threw wide to Whistler, Peas getting the bag and Roth sprinting over the plate with the run that tied the score.
 With tense, drawn faces men hurriedly climbed. back to their perches on the bleachers and for the next six innings watched. with bated breath, the fiercest battle, fhe most magnificent game of ball ever witnessed in Montgomery. As stated, the Black Sox had started in on their half of the sixteenth inning when Andy Roth made 1t plain that 1t was too dark for further play and Sorber called the game at the end of the fifteenth in- ming with the score tied, 2 and 2 The score was,