The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-13
CRACKERS TOOK GAME
CRUEL STORY OF. THE PRErzELs'
 DEFEAT.
One Thousand Fans Saw Atlanta's BaseballT Team Do Things to Locals In First of the
 Series,
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
League standin,

Alb PoweIl's Crackers took kindly to Duke Carter yesterday afternoon and the visitors to the tune of 12 to 1.
 Fifteen safe singles were secured off the delivery of Montgomery's slabman from the Woolly West, home runs. three base hits and two-baggers form ing large part of the safeties. Att lanta tried two pitchers. The first was one Vasbinder. He is as long as his name and knew nought of the locality Of the plate. After passing three men Powell decided to allow Jack Ely the privilege of twirling. This he did in fine style, pulling Atlanta out of an ugly hole in the first inning and keep ing the nine hits of Montgomery well scattered.
 Only one error is charged up to the local team. but If dumb plays counted for errors the last column of the block score would be the largest on the Montgomery sheet.
 Stickney and Durrett found difficulty in standing on their feet. which allow ed Atlanta several tallies and lansing on one occasion made absolutely no ef- fort to get grounder over the third bag.
 ery's game was the work of Delehanty at short. The Crackers could never knock them through him. over him. or under him and the plucky fellow re- ceived the plaudits of the crowd.
 Atlanta's runs came in punches. In the second inning with the locals lead ing them one score, they managed by pounding Carter to put over four runs In the sixth they were able to get five and in the seventh they touched the Duke up for three more.
 Montgomery's scoring was in the first, second and sixth innings.
 Tony Mullane essayed to umpire but as the handler of the indicator he is a frost pure and simple big loud voice is his only qualification. Not that Mullane was unfair. His bad de- cisions were about equally divided. He shows entirely too much consideration for the players and allowed repeated beehng and personal allusions from them.
 A crowd of 1000 fans saw the game. detailed account of which follows:
 Crozier pops up to Molesworth. Mo- King lines out to Delehanty.
 Gladys Molesworth drew four bad ones Schwartz was up and Vasbinder tried to throw over the grand stand. wild one. Schwartz perambulated. Ike Durrett had fire in his optics but the Atlanta twirler wouldn't give him a afE the E aSs pdbe Fss and With rOtuna % long name. lansing hit easy to sec ond and Molesworth was forced out at | the plate. Delehanty hit a long fly to throw in Clark flied out to right. Then the second inning began. Morse hit safe to left. DeMont hit to Schwartz but the play was slow and both men were safe. Mellor hit safe to centre and Morse scored. Koehler | hit to lansing. DeMont was caught in 2 chase and was out. Clark flied to ,eft field but Stickney misjudged it and and Koehlers scored Crozzier hit safe | to centre and Clarke scored. Crozier was out on an attempt to steal. | wers eager when the Pretzels came in for their half of the second
 Manners hit a hard one but Heine krus made a magnificent catch of the safe over rst MolesWerth Mo sSle G1feeT few oat nut to- Koehler and Stickney scored. Schwartz hit safe down third base line; Durrett flew out to second.
 one to Delehanty but couldn't reach the bag, Krug hit safe to left. Morse mt to Delehanty and was out. DeMont lansing came up in the last half and famed thrice. Delehanty flew out to Crozier. Ely passed Clark The little oackstop pilfered second. Manners hit aesy to second and was out.
 The fourth inning began when Mellor nit easy to Delehanty. Koehler hit safe Mig Clarke was out on a foul fly to Clark. Ely hit bounder to Delehanty and was
 Stickney in the second half walked Carter popped out to first base. Moles- worth hit hard to Krug. He didn't hold 1t, but got Stickney on second. Moles- worth was out stealing second. Crozier outran an infield hit at the
 beginning of the fifth. Mckay sacrificed krug hit high to Molesworth. Morse did similar business.
 Schwartz walked but was out stealing second Durett was out to Crozier. Jan. sing flew out to DeMont
 In the sixth inning DeMont walked Mellor sacrificed. Koehler hit safe and
 DeMont scored; Clarke hit safe. Koehler
 stole third Ely hit to Stickney and