The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-15
Fierce Contest in Montgomery
 Ten Years Ago. Score Was (ix to Nothing in the Ninth When the Evansville . outfelder Hit for r x. Home Run.

"A biz bunch of fans watching some fa- Vorite twirler shoot balls over the piate, hurtnnR past the rubber with the speed of a catapault, that singing sound that afyes such ecstasy to the hearts of the dyed-in-the-wool rooter, the opposing pat ter swinging franticaly at the hylns globuies, shattering the atmosphere nothing more-and walking sullenly Dack fo his players bench in disgust to the hccomp1 niment of shrieks and hoWls from the bleachers, that is pure, unsul- lied joy. But after all 1t is the batting that makes the game-there is species of sympathetic electricity between the crash of a stick for .ong single or double and the nerve point of rooter, When 1t is the home team that is doing the swattng this electric sympathy touches a secret spring and by magic opens the throats and lungs ana mouths of the fans-a long, loud roar of delight being the inevitable result. When visit ing hitters have the unequalled enront- ery to line out a bundle of hits off of the holy head of the local here in the box ah. that is a entirely different matter. There is nothing funny about 1t, ana the aforesaid here ShriVels to a periect rep resentation of 30 cents of cancelled coin
 Al game of ball played in Montgomery fin 1895 gives a practical luustrauon or this Jack Hays was in charge or the local team that summer-he makes week Iv trips to Montgomery as one or the ott1cers on the river steamer City or MO bile. Bill Armour, who has gone up Tn the baseball world and is now manager of the Cleveland American League team
 was playing right field on the local team that year Tip O'Neil was second base
 :tBats'' Mcfarland first base, Tommy Morrison, one of the fastest helders Tn lhe business third; Kid Peoples, the fastest heIding shortstop that ever wore a local uniform. short; "Blondy" Joe Neal, one of the pitchers. alternating Tn the out field; Jack himself In center anu fIeu Ciausen pitcher. Clausen was the star nitcher of the South that year ana not withstanding his surly disposition fa- yortte in Montgomery The game Tn question was with Evansville mo- on the 13th of June and the number l3 certainly nroved unluCky for the Indiana bunch that day Ollie Beard was manager ana shortstop of Evansville with sam Mllis at second. George Blackburn, atterWarus in Montgomery, one of the pitchers, ana alternating in the outfield. 'Jocko tlelos behind the bat, Burnett, who played with the semi-p professional team here last sum mer and is now an engineer on the Lou isvilie and Nashville Railroad, Tn right; Burke third base; Ryan, first; Charlie Dexter last year with the Chicago team, left and Mcfarland, brother of Al, pitching. Never in his career had Fred (lausen pitched more beautiful ball than he did that day. He had them shut out until the last half of the ninth, only four very scattering hits being made off him. Burnett was hitting in great shape that day. He was the only one of the Hoosiers with ability to locate Clausen
 and he got three of the four hits, two of them two-baggers and the third q home run which saved the ignominy of a shut
 out. His first tWO-bagger came in the second inning, tn C only hit until the
 sixth, when Ollie Beard got a single In
 the seventh Burnett smashed out an
 other two-bagger and in the last half of
 the ninth with the score standing to against them he caught a swift one on the end of his stick. There was one of those sickening thuds that you hear so