The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-16
HIGHLANDERS SHUT OUT
COULD NOT OVERCOME RED-LEa
 GED BREwToNITEs.
Burnett's Montgomery Team Worked Hard in the Interstate League
 Game, But Score Was 6 to o Against Them.

The Highlanders were white washed yesterday at the Oak Park grounds, the Brewton Reds of the Interstate League doing the trick with score of 6 to 0.
 'Oh we'll make that crowd of dress parade players look like 30 cents" giee, fully cried Highlander as he watched the snappy gingery practice work of the Reds" before the game began. Right there was miscalculation. The dress parade work of the Turpentine Distillers was kept up until the locals defeat had been doubly cinched.
 The way the nine Reds fielded was enough to discourage any aggregation They dug up grounders out of the sand, they snatched grass cutters out of the weeds and grabbed fly balls out of the Reds yesterday.
 The score was not so one-sided because Montgomery couldn't hit the ball. The locals rapped the leather all right. but if they hit fly in the air there was al- ways a red-legged player under 1t when the ball fell. If line ball was hit out some red-ciad player was certain to head
 it off and slam it down to. first base. There was not place inside the fence where 1t was safe to hit ball when the Reds were gambolling on the green.
 The heady pitching of Smiling Char ley" Wheeler contributed no little to the general result. Wheeler had plenty of steam and sent them hot over the plate, Ahpct SpcISco lioW dfu tIcl WitH aSSH' vating little low ones. Still the locals hit him hard enough to have scored runs if 1t had not been for the almost faultless fielding behind him.
 The battery. arm for the locals was good. It is always good. but good pitcher and a good catcher unassisted cannot win games. Burtle pitched a game that deserved to win and Rampo' s back stop work was up to his usual stand ard.
 Tbn scora shau,a that eieveu hits were made off Burtle, but if he had had per feet fielding behind him half of then would not have been scored against him.
 The field of the locals was decidedly off, but conditions were largely responsi- ble for 1t. The entire outfield was changed around and there were changes in the tn- field. The outfield was not as rapid as it has been and fly balls. which should have been taken in easily, turned out two and three baggers.
 Steele at third was off in his playing and two errors were chalked up against him.
 Sanchez. the new man at second, ffeided his position splendidly as did Burnett at first. Creekmore. who was in right for the locals, is new to the game this sea son and, while first-rate player. he has not yet gotten his eye on the ball.
 Dugan, the reliable left-f1elder. has fol lowed in the footsteps of Isaac Durret; and set his face to the setting sun. He is now with Pine Bluff (Ark) team in the Cotton States League. Dugans departure was responsible for the shake-up in the outfield.
 Brewton acquired four of their runs in the third inning. Moore. who singled scored on a two-bagger by Fritz. and the latter came in on O'Brien's two-basc hit OErien scored on a fielder's error ant Leighton. who came behind O'Brien got home on a hit by Wheeler. Tn the last half of the sixth Wheeler and Wallace. who had both singled. came home on three-bagger by Hickman. The attendance was small. The score was as follows: