The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-20
SHREVEPORT SHUT OUT
REvIvIFIED PRETZELs DID SOME
 GOOD WORK.
welch Pitched . Remarkable Game for the Locals and Spectators Were Kept Nervous in Their
 Seats.

Whether 1t is that a malign inhu- ence had been cast upon the PretZels when under the captaincy of Ed Paost or that q magical revivifcation has come to them with the. leadership or Charley Schwartz remains mystery.
 Certain it Is, however. that the team does not seem like the same outnt tnat has been cavorting around the local ball lots for the past agonizing sea son Yesterday they seemed thor oughly impued with energy. vim and dash They pn1 up baSeba and only in one inning did Shreveport even have a look in.
 welch, the South Atlantic youngster pitched a game of ball that proved him to be able to move in pretty swift company. His control was marvellous. not a base on balls being given during the entire game. while he struck out six batters at times when the least little blunder would have resulted in disaster That blunder was conspicu- ous by its absence. He was cool and steady all through-as cool with men on bases as when he had the game in his hands-as he did absolutely most of the time.
 That seventh inning showed what stuff Welch is made of and never will | thrills running through the.r several anatomes in consequence. Alexander was down on foul fly that Womble pulled down back ot 
 | clean hit and Schwartz fumbled Dono- vans hit. Then Henley hit one to- wards Schwartz who, in his eagerness scooped it up and tried to stop Dono- | to Busch, however, and the bags were full, Gilks on third, Donovan on sec ond and Henley on first. Things To- | cally began to wear smile. sickly and silly while the enemy were getting chesty and wearing a Sunny Jim vari- ety of smile.
 With only one out. the bags full and | Bob Gilks doing stunts on the real es- tate about third base thae would have made Buster Brown take to the woolly woods. it looked like a lead pipe cinch that Welch would have his shutout punctured. Right here was where the | wonderful nerve of Welch demonstrat- | ed itself and saved the day. Schwauh | swung viciously at the small piece of 1 horsehide, and swung himself out of | business. No called strike business in this but 1s-karat strike-outs. Schwauh | swinging as If he was bent on the to- | tai annihilation of the tribe of Welch h. | Things looked pleasanter, softer now l With two down there was a chance and men got busy pushing their Adams | apples back into their natural posi- tions.
 Heneger made a vicious lunge at the | ball, met 1t. and Gilks was tearing like | a runaway automobile down the line to the plate. Just before the Pirate chiei reached the coveted plate a tall, grace ful figure on first base stopped scoop | ed up the ball that Henerger had smashed. stepped on the bag before the runner reached it. and the side was retired, Welch and Mullaney having saved the day, Gilkss run. of course not counting.
 Wagner pitched game that would win nine times out. of ten. but yester- day happened singularly enough to be the tenth time, hits being punched or
 him in only one inning, the first. | Molesworth led in the first inning with one of his patented hits scoring
 on Charlie Schwartzs crashing three. | bagger. Then Wagner threw a re. | markable feat. striking out Frank Del.
 ehanty, Mullaney and Clark in the or
 der named.
 In the fourth inning Mullaney wa:
 safe by the grace of Gilks's error. get
 ting to second on Wagner's poor throw
 to Smith and scoring on Micke!
 O'Brien's long drive. This was tho
 sum total of the scoring. the game
 winding up to in favor of the Pret
 gels.
 Considering the fact that the Shreve
 port team is just about wornout iron
 a series of double headers in Birming
 ham and that the Pretzels only reach
 ed the city yesterday morning after al all night ride from Memphis. the gam' was remarkable. None of CmpIr, Woods decisions was close and he hat an easy time of 1t.
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