The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-10
THE NEWS OF THE
 SPORTING WORLD
A THINNING GAME
BUT MONTGOMERY LOST TO
 DETROIT AGAIN.
Score Was 8 to 8 Until the Tenth When Black sox Went Up in
 Air-Baseball Cha6.

When Black sox Went Up in Air-Baseball ChaH.
 playing an uphill game, despite the han dicap of a decision of Umpire Mahoney that looked decidedly chrome-colored, the Black Sox yesterday afternoon play ed those terrible Detroit Tigers to prettiest game of ball of the season The score was Il to 8 in Detroit's favor. With the store standing to 0 against them up to the fourth inning. the iocais, l by punching hits in the last half of that inning, put a run over. punched hits m the last of t>e eighth putting two more | over and tieihg the score.
 half of the tenth inning, when fusiIade | of hits by Detroit, with some yeiloW | work on the part of the locals. put eight runs over, leaving it Il to 3.
 The box work of Jack Ely and Rain l ing was admirable. five hits being made | off Ely up to the sixth inning. when he l retired, while he gave only one base on balls and struck out the hard-hitting | Crawford.
 From the sixth to the first half of the tenth inning only one hit was made off Raining. while he only gave one base on balls and struck out Clements.
 It was not alone the pitching of the pair that drew the admiration of the | crowd. but the way they fielded their positions. watched the bases and their I general behavior in the box. The work improvement on anything that they have done heretofore as to be remarkable. For the first time since they have been here, they put life and ginger into their work. all in all making the Tigers go up against the fiercest proposition that they have struck since coming South.
 As long as the Black Sox put up such I -xxtlp I-A.r "A backing of the local fans. and it Is an | odds-on bet that such work as they did yesterday will win far more games than 1 they will lose.
 terday. the batting order of the Tigers having been changed, but he died. Then Smith hit, Kid Bush fielding the ball to Whistler. Mahoney called the runner safe. claiming that Whistler did not t he was out easily.
 Crawford got a single, Carr got to first and stole second Barrett got base on balls sas, clemsi .s ts sir single: Crawford and
 While Lew Whistler opened Easons eyes in the last half by smashing out a two-bagger. he was left on the bag. the side being retired without tl ., run 1T, .,. ..o end, the only. feature of the first half being Molesworth's long running catch of Eason's fly ball. d luck, intermingled with some poor base. running, the locals lost chance to gel a run over the plate. Stickney had dtec
 when Clark landed on one that had al the trademarks of good, safe single al least. That gigantic man on first, Char. lie Carr, jumped out of his six feet oi bone and muscle and pulled down the hit
 Kid Bush lined one out for a single. bu
 Eason caught him mapping on first anc [ Carr got the putout.
 In the third, Sam Crawford's two-bag
 ger and Barrett's single put CTawfor'
 and the third run over.
 | In the last half with Ely down, Ma
 Eason hit Kanzler with the ball. Kanzlel
 started to steal second but Lilley go
 the ball to Smith in time to cut him off
 Kanzler would have had the steal easil,
 if he had slid into the bag instead o going in standing up. Spratt struck out retiring the side.
 In the fourth inning nothing was don,
 by Detroit, Ike Durrstt pulling down two
 long flies out in .iis garden.
 In the last half Molesworth opened III
 on Eason with T single. going to second
 on Lew Whistlsr's beautiful sacrifice
 Eason then struck oIt two of [ha local
 heavy hitters, Durett and Stickney, bu
 Molesworth got over the plate on Clark ) long single. And the shut-out had beei
 saved again. :,
 Nothing was done by Detroit in thu
 fifth, the feature being Ely's strike-ou . of big Sam Crawford. 1t is question
 who was more surprised, Ely or Craw
 ford.
 While Kanzler made another beautiful
 sacrifice in the last half and Molesworti | got his second hit of the game, the rul
 could not be pulled over.
 Manners went behind the bat III ln'
 first half of the sixth and Ralning sue sue
 ceeded Ely in the box. Not a nit wa
 made ofr Raining but Manners mis1udee'
 Carrs foul fly and the ball fell harm
 lessly to the ground. oo
 The feature of the last half was nea | douhle that McCallister, Smith and Car
 made out of Manners hit to short' get ting Stickney and Manners.
 Nothing was done by either side in tn seventh and the first half Of the eaghtl ! was barren of results for the Tigers. Tn the last half of the eighth Georg Mullin, the Ft. Wayne twirler or las wear started the ball by making Sprat gift of first, Moleswortn a,sor saTtino Sit b, D,rrett put Spratt on third and Stickney A single scored him. This made the SCOT 5 to , in favor of Detroit, only aaHs one TS TS rootine of the bleachers was somethin that reminded one of old times. o Right here was where the Detrolts go the closest call that they nave eApeIi L enced in their career so far, and TOT tn I nayt few moments there was that tenslo X that makes baseball such d supreme W ue ' light to the fans. Harry Manners we ! at the bat. Suddenly there was s one SG ing sound as Manners landed on one one \ M1llins's shoots for clean two-oasse ' Ike Durett was tearing past third an an A on to the plate. And the score was tie' In inc first of the ninth while Barre connected with one for two sacks, RaiI ing struck Clements out, and the othe tWo t went to the bad in the outneld ,o. Mullen struck Bush out in the las haIf For the second time during tn game. Kanzler was nit by the pitcne A Sat inc side was retired and the crow nerved itself for ten-nning nIss1 game; e;o rte tbe hail with a single. The entire lne-u
 of the Tigers went to bat. some of theI lI
 twice Lew McCallister getting two hit
 in that inning. Taken with the oent
 that seemed to demoralize the Black SoS
 there were eight hits in the tenth, whicf
 with some dumb playing on the part c
 the locals, put eight runs over, winnin
 the ten-innng game by score or Il 10 !
 The locals did not recover in time |
 sully the tally sheet in the last half.
 The score was: