The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-22


 In an intensely exciting eleven inning ming the first of the Nashville series in the last half of the eleventh inning.
 scores of people have not yet recovered their breath. Two were down when Will kie Clark, with his fourth hit of the game. tied the score and Link suckney. with his third hit, united 1t by. sending Lew Whistler with the winning run across the plate
 From the very beginning the game was quiverine with excitement. while hearts beating like trip-ila mmers forced the ner- vous tension up to the. sizzling, white of hammers on the grounds. however, for never on a ball field has such a gritty, uphill game of ball been played as the p!sSm Some sDn marvveiousRy vit S brilliant work was done during the eleven innings of hard lighting. the most notable being a superb stop that Childs made at second base. Whistler and a long running catch by Tracks" Parrot out in Nashviiies center lot.
 with a rush. They played ball, brilliant championship baseball, and at times the enthusiastic admiration. of the thorough ly fren9ied spectators passed all restraint; 1t would be impossible to say. Childs had eight chances without an error, Kid Busch had the same. Whistler had four, five chances without an error, and Pol chow had six chances without an error. Eight put-outs with one error were made
 But 1t was the stickwork that won the brilliant. uphill struggle. Clark getting four hits, Stickney three. spratt, Pol eSss sGw and and %sSsr one e9S sSeR TSsS went after Wild Bill' Johnson, espe- cially in the third, fifth and eleventh innings. when the Black sox seemed to as to who could hit the ball the hardest:
 The hitting and brilliant fielding of the team did a whole lot towards putting end of the tally sheet, as Polchow was two S for ''Wild Biii,' while Johnson were sixteen hits off Johnson and nine off Polchow. Polchow flelded his position admirably and got two of the hits, one or Lowmey sSem SSopksssd who played brilliant game for the Fishermen. opened up the very first Inning. by getting a good, clean sin was one out. Then Moss struck out. "Tacks" Parrot waited and walked. but Punch Knoll ended 1t by striking out. striking out "Old Horse" Burnett and Childs in succession, Molesworth retiring the side on his hit to Moss.
 Then came that monstrous second in- ming. Kid Busch had pulled down Bobby Cargos fly, Molesworth had done the same with Kennedy's fly and Nnen Bus sey sent q fly. out to right field there having the trademarks of one, two. three for the Fishermen. Link Stickney drop ped the Bussey fly the Fisherman first baseman tore around the bags and scored on Andy Roth's smashing drive for two bags. Johnson walked and Lowney did the same. putting Roth on third, John son on second and Lowney on first. Moss was up and there was a crashing. sick ening noise. little piece of horsehide was describing some graceful stunts over right-field fence and before the star tied spectators knew where they were ''Wild Bill" Roth. Lowney and Moss were doing the Rogue's March around the bags, finally pouring in compact mass over the plate, five runs being chalked up on the score board in left field.
 Then began the uphill fight. and a gamer piece of work has never been seen. With a lopsided score of to staring them in the face the Black Sox started in to win.