The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-05
SHOWDOWN GOT BEAT.
Country Boys Could Not overcome
Railroad Fellows.

Showdown ): Western Shops II.
The Showdown baseball team with
some twenty five hackers drove up the
gravel road to Montgomery yesterday
bearing several buggy loads of hope
and expectancy. After a nine inning
argument with the nine from the shops
of the Western Railroad at Athletic
Park the Showdown fellows drove
back in the cool of the evening with
the bnggies filled with gloom and sor
row
If the country boys could have field
ed and run the bases like they hit
the ball the result would have been
different. but ifs" are the most COM
mon and the most useless things in
baseball. The Western shop boys were
agile wiry and quick and they played
rings around the visitors from Snow
doun. The country boys would lam the
leather far out in the field and perch
safely on first or second only to be
trapped and killed on the bags by the
confidence game of the town boys. The
Showdown visitors ran bases in a dopey,
uncertain manner and they could not
dig up grounders and pass the ball
around with the town boys speed.
But, for many days at Showdown 1t
will be told how Mills. the big. husky
fielder. slammed the ball over center
Ilclu renee LOT II uOHle II is the
first time the trick has ever been done
by an amateur. 1t would be no new
thing for the ball to be knocked over
right or left field fence, but to send 1t
over the center fence is n rare trick.
Only Lew Whistler and one or two
other Southern leaguers did the trick
last season. The batting of the big
right fielder was really the feature of
the game He not only sent the Snow
doun hackers into an ecstasy of delight
by driving the ball over the fence. but
the next time he was up he drove the
leather against the back planks for
a two-bagger and in addition he at
tached a neat single.
Mills for Showdown was quite the
thing. Once when he was called to the
plate his pet bat had become misplaced
in the weeds. AS he looked about for
it. an admirer in the grand stand call
ed out excitedly: Hit it wild yer fist,
Mills, Hit 1t wild yer fist"
W. Galloway. in center. bore off the
fielding honors for Showdown. In one
inning he retired the side alone with
three difficult running catches and in
addition throughout the game he an
nexed all the flies that came into his
territory. G. Pettus twirled a steady.
heady game and Middlebrooks met all
the requirements behind the bat.
The Western boys showed some fast
and glittering inheld work. 1t was as
pretty an exhibition as amateurs ever
put up Joe Brown, the diminutive
shortstop, was the best exhibit for the
railroad boys. Grounders or flies, hot
ones or slow ones looked alike to Jo-
seph. 1t was a matter of indifference
to him whether he had to yank them
out of the air or dig them out of the
ground. Hardly less commendable was
the work of McKim at second. Marcus
at first and Smith at third. The whole
infield played fast. sure ball. This in
field put up a number of mean Jobs on
the country boys. On II almost entire
ly rests the responsibility for the one
sided score.
The battery work of Morgan and job
was very steady. They did the sort OF
battery work that wins games.
The line up of the two teams was as
follows:
Western; Marcus. list base; Brown
s. s.; McKim, End base; job, c. Heating
r. f.: Taylor. l. f.; Smith Bird. base; Nor
rison c. f.; Morgan, p.
Showdown; w. Galloway, C. f.; F. Cal
loway. End base; II. Pettus. $. s.; Mol