The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-03

Games Today.
At Montgomery-New Orleans and
| At Blrmingham-Little Rock and
AT acknowledgements and Nash
Vile.
AT Atlanta-shrevepor and Atlanta.
The Honorable Theodosia Breitenstein
should go off somewhere out Of the
jostling crowd and present himself
| with huge, silver tipped horseshoe.
He did Some stunts yesterday that, be-
sides making damp rags opt OF the be-
| dragged Pretzels. threw Charley Frank
| into such paroxysm of delight that
the famous scarlet blazer nearly pop
ped.
This Is merely preliminary to break
| ing the news to you that our own team
OF ball players was shut out by New
| Orleans.
Once upon a time Brit" was the fir
ing end of the celebrated Pretzel bat
terry, our own Henry Peitz being the
| receiving end. Perhaps pitching
against these poor Pretzels yesterday
recalled those halcyon days of auld
| lang syne and inspired him. At any
| rate he pitched a great game OF ball
| no matter what the complaint was, CIV
ing only one base on balls and shutting
| the local combination out with only
/ six hits being made off him.
He received magnificent support too,
| only one error that was not costly, be-
| ing made, while his team mates hit
| like fiends. sixteen hits in which were
| included three two-baggers and a
homerun.
There is no doubt that Charlie Frank
has rounded up just about as swift
bunch of ball players as ever gamboled
on the green of a diamond in Dixie.
Such a thing as loafing seems to be an
unknown quantity with them. They
went into the game yesterday with
gingery snap and vim that made 1t
delight for lover of baseball to watch
them. There is no amateurish bust
ness about them. At the bat, on the
paths and in the field they are on the
aggressive every moment. Instead OF
standing up and waiting for the ball
when they are at the bat they invaria-
bly, take the full step forward to meet
it-not the half hearted I'm afraid"
| mincing step, patented by certain ball
players. And big majority of the
| time they met the ball with a decided
bling" On the paths they bring out
| forcibly that quality termed "heady
| ball players" running bases not only
with Judgment and discretion, but with
| freedom and daring. with the reckless
quality cut out entirely.
If the local fans who went out to
welcome the Pretzels home had been
impressed with the fact at the start
| that they were going out to attend a
convention of deaf mutes they could
not possibly have desired anything
more than the performance spread out
| before their tired eyes. Never has
| anything more closely resembled
cluster of Egyptian mummies or the
| ossified man at a county fair been por-
| trayed than the exhibition of those
| Pretzels yesterday. From the start
they seemed to realize that they never
| had the ghost of a show. This much
intelligence they seemed to possess
| Breitenstein and his crew evidently
had them hypnotized, for in a pitiful,
J halfhearted. timed. mechanical kind of
way they reluctantly spoke their plain
| tive lines.
Polchow started the game but after
| six runs and bundle of hits, includ-
| ing a couple of wo-baggers and a
home run, assisted by Stickney's expen-
| sive error in the third inning, he grace
| fully abdicated in favor of Deaver. The
fusilade still kept UP. however, and six
| more runs with a sunburst of hits stay
| ed with Beaver until the ninth inning
| had YEARLY wendell it's homeward way.
Stanley was out on a foul that Pabst
pulled down off first base. Genins was
out on a hit to Delehanty and Rickert
on hit to Polchow.
| The last half was equally as short
Robe got Molesworth's hit. Schwartz
struck out and Fox got Durretts foul.
Robe smashed the ball in the nose so
hard in the second that 1t never stop
| ped rolling until Durrett found 1t way
down at the centerfield fence, Robe
having made the circuit of the bags
| Cnarlle
Franks bench by that time. Durrert
got Turner's fly Stewart walked. but
Clark threw him out stealing second.
Wordsworth getting Atz's fly
Stewart handled Pabsts hit in the
last half. Rickert got under Jansings's
| fly, Delehanty hit one that was too
much for Stewart to get to Turner in
| time and Clark smashed out drive to
centertield that ordinarily would have
| been a clean Dagger. These Pei
lean persons are by no means ordinary
| ball players and while Delehantv got to
third on the play that fiend of a Cen
| ms out In centerf1eld returned the ball
| to Stewart in such marvelously quick
manner that Clark could get no fur
| Their than first base on his crashing hit.
| Rickert got under Stlckney's fly, how
ever and ended the inning with Dele
hanty on third and Clark on first.
| Luck broke pretty hard for Ed Pabst
in the third. Fox smashed the ball d.
rectly over the bag at first, Pabst play
ing his position too deep, and the re-
suit was that the Pelican backstop got
Breitensteins foul. Stanley pushed the
| ball out in left field for two bags, Fox
trotting over the plate. Genins walked
to center. 'Rohe sent fly to left
which Durrett dropped but recovered
In time to make an accurate throw to
d droppdd out IN
right. Rick scoring. If Stickney had
held Turner's fly there would have been
| three out, Dut Digger imam u mont
| gomery policeman, that 'if" gummed
the game. Stewart hit safe to center
scoring Turner and Robe. Atz hit safe
| but Schwartz handled Fox's hit.
| Beaver had been warming up to go
! in in the fourth and Harry Manners
hit for Polchow and landed a beauty In
| left but was forced out at second on
Molesworth's hit to Stewart. Schwartz
hit safe. Atz got Durrett's fly and with
Pabst up. Wordsworth was caught be-
tween second and third.
Beaver went in in the fourth and
made a pretty play at the start Brett
enstein hit towards first. Pabst going
| after the ball and Deaver running over
and covering the bag. Wordsworth got
Stanley's fly and Genins went out the
same way
Pabst was out on a fly to Robe. Jan
sing hit safe. Delehanty was out on a
foul. Turner making a great run and
catch, lansing being forced out on
Clark's hit to Atz
Rickert hit safe in the fifth. but
Clark threw him out a second. Dele
hanty got Rohe's fly, Turner smashed
one that Schwartz stopped but made
bad throw TO Pabst, Deaver backing up
first base and holding the runner.
Stewart hit safe, Turner going to
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