The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-21
POLICE PERSONS COULD NOT PLAY BALL;
WERE EXTINGUISHED BY TIE FlREMEN

tain Taylor promised each man on the
night force that he might sleep for d
week. CarfiSan pulled out tnree nalrs
| on the top of his head in his ecstasy.
oscar McDade threw out his chest DIS
| he went to the pitchers box.
The Firemen in their half Of the first
| hit the ball consistently, but could nor
put but one man over the rubber.
In the second inning. the run getting
prowess of the Policemen failed to ma
| terialize. They scored blank.
This time the Firemen got busy:
Bryant, the first man up, hit one and
to get to it. Arthur Calm was pre-
scented with pass. and big o Connor,
who was doing things around first,
| soaked one into the pastures green for
two sacks. Cap. Griffith hit safe and
Mac Sykes followed suit. Der Cap
tain was caught between third and
home, however. but Rhody, the third
baseman, slammed one of McDades
Blenders to the tall timbers for tws
bags. Four runs were netted that la
ming.
IN. the third inning. Red Downs, aft ,r
divers troubles and tribulations. cross
ed the plate. but he was the only MEM
Der of the force to co the trick
In the Firemen's half. Roberts fell
down when flies were knocked his way
Lon Taylor had the etiquette to look
B. OTIS Carrlgan tried to throw the ball
to first and got 1T nearly as far as the
pitchers box and Red Downs actually
caught fly. Three runs were made.
The rest of the game was rapotirIon
OF what had gone before The Police
men. with q brilliant squirt. would
sometimes am1ss three runs to an in
ming. but the Firemen would come
na ", with Few more blue chips and
Those ladies were natural sons of
swat. Oscar McDade claims to have
bee been a pitcher but he never tackled
pipeman. Boatwright. landed on a
twister for one that sent Ed Graham
lying across the green grass and be-
fore the ball was returned to the in
field. Downright had made the
rounds of the bases
If the Policemen had a bright par
ticular star. it was Jim Smith. who
played first base. Smith did talk a
lot and on one occasion caught a pop
fly. He was presented with a boauet
of dog fenneL
For the Firemen, Captain Griffith
actually played base hall In one in
ming every policeman, who was put
out was put out by the second base
man, who draws money for being
Captain of the Truck Company crew.
OConnor on first. Rhody at third. Mac
Sykes at short and willy goat as
mascot all did good work Searcy of
the Scott street station was put in
right field the last inning of play and
did something that no other outfielder
had done. He caught n ny.
Both Glider. for the Policemen, and
Egg for the Firemen. caught good
games. In the eighth inning Egg was
hit on the bare hand by a fast ball.
injuring his forefinger and forcing
him to retire in favor of Calm, who
went behind the bat. Boatwright went
into the box
Manager w. H. Taylor of the Police.
consented to be interviewed:
OF course l am disappointed" he
said. Il don't know why l should say
that but every defeated manager does.
os Ill say so. The fault was-Did
you actually ask me what the trou-
BILE was? Make 1t plural. What were
the troubles? Why in the first place.
the Firemen had better uniforms
The Chief had promised to furnish us
with uniforms and until today we had
counted on him. When we went for
them. he told US they were old con-
Wet stripes. What do you think of
that? Well then look at Carrigan
Who can play ball with a face like
Carrigan's and Lon Taylor. He was
elected captain because he caught a
sneak thief But that's no sign he
can catch a base ball. But don't ask
me to rehearse the narrowing details
My cup is full"
Captain Griffith was too excited to
talk intelligently last night
DO you know that / got seven put
outs and an equal number of assists?"
he shouted out. I'VE beat them in
good shape, didn't we? Please say
that I made four scorte and don't for
get to mention those put outs"
Judge Arlington. who umpired the
game. said: at was beautiful con-
test and for tho first time in the his
tory of Montgomery base ball. there
was ample police protect for the
umpire. l am eatirely without in
jury"
Oh yes, 1t was iine game
Rome Sentenced to Death.
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