The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-24
ANVIL CHORUS AT WORK.
Knockers Were Busy at the Tele-
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noon. and the knockers used hatchets in- stead of hammers and thoroughly dis membered every one of the Pretzels.
 Poor Jack Roach had the distinction" of getting away with the Hons share of the long distance abuse and his ears must have tingled. That Roach was hit pretty hard seemed evident. but if those reasonable" knockers will look back they will remember that George Stuitz, the most reliable pitcher in the South ern League. was hammered by; Nashville last summer lots harder than Jack Roach was yesterday. T.
 The only consolation there Is in losing these games lies in the fact that the gambling element dropped a goodsized wad of coin This betting on ball games was what did more harm to the sport than anything, else last summer. Two thoroughbred sports bet on the game and the one who gets the short end rosts everything in sight. < Of course betting on games canont be stopped. but if bet is made in the gra9d stand while game is going on the participants in the bet will be snmmarily elected from the inclosure. There Is a strict rule in this regard in the league and 1t will be enforced to the letter in Montgomery Yesterdays game from the wire went like this:
 Never was the old rule, "a good begin ming makes bad ending" more aptly demonstrated. for Smith walked Moles- worth and Schwartz followed with a safe
 
 the bags. Clark lined out one past third Molesworth and Schwartz scoring Stick ney tried to sacrifice. but Smith ran in on the bunt and threw Clark out at second. Durrett getting to third on the play. Lansing hit fly to 3Crozier, but that worthy fielded the ball in and Dur rett was caught at the plate a-t
 Roach started out just as Smith did by walking McCay. Crozier sacrificing him to second Mellor sent a fly to center which the operator in Atlanta described as booted" Now whether Molesw0rth dropped the ball. whether it was hit that he let get through his legs was not known. but McCay got around tn, thrid and Mellor to second. Krug sent a fy to left which the ticker said was dropped, It may have been a hit, but at any rate McCay and Mellor scored. Krug getting to secondson the play. Then the beef the entire Pretzel team fired. Morse hit to lansing and was out, HolIngsworth going out the same way.
 Both halves of the second were short hit to Krug, Manners to Morse and Roach struck out.
 koehler was out on a hit to Lansing while Roach struck out Clark and Smith in the order named
 Molesworth struck out in the third Krug handled Schwartzs hit and Dur rett struck out.
 Then began a series of bunts that proved to be the most effective thing that ever happened. McCay started off out, Crozier beating out a bunt to first Meilor sacrificed a neat bunt to first, Mo- Cay getting to third and Crozier to second. Krug struck out, but Morse lined out a two-bagger. McCay and Crozier scoring, but Delehanty handled Hollingsworths fly.
 Clark walked in the fourth, hut was forced out at second on Stickney's hit to Hollingsworth, lansing smashed one that was too hot for Hollingsworth Dele hanty hit hot one to Morse. lansing getting caught at second, Stickney get ting to third and Delehanty to first. With Manners at the bat the prettiest piece of team work that the Pretzels have shown yet followed. There was a double steal. Delehanty going to second and Stickney scoring. Manners was out on A fly to Crozier.
 Koehler walked in the last half Clark struck out, Smith planted one between second and first that got by Stickney and went for a three-bagger. Koehler SCOT ing. McCay got two-bagger to center Smith scoring. Crozier hit a two-bagger Mellor was out on a hit to Schwartz Krug hit safe to left and Crozier scored Molesworth getting Morse's fly. Roach was out on a hit to Smith in lingsworth. Schwartz hit for two-bags cong to third on Durretts hit to right, but Clark was out on fly to Morse Clark got Hollingsworth's foul in the last half, Koehler struck out and Clark was out on a hit to lansing. Stickney was out on hit to Hollings- worth in the sixth, lansing struck out and Delehanty was out on a hit to Hof- nngsworth. Smith was out on a hit to Manners in the last half McCay on a hit to Jan- sing and Crozier on a bunt to Roach Manners was out on a hit to Morse in the seventh, Roach on a fly to Koch Ter and Molesworth on fly to Smith. Mellor struck out in the last half, Krug hit one that was too hot for lansing to handle going to third on Morses two bagger and scoring on Hollngsworths fly to left. Koehler hit safe. Morse SCOT ing, Koehler going to second on Clark hit and scoring on Smiths hit. Delehanty fumbled McCay's hit. Clark getting around to third and the bases were full, but Crozier ended it by striking out, Roach pulling himself out of a nasty hole.
 Schwartz was out on a fly to Crozier in the eighth, Durrett on a fly to Mo- Cay and Clark on a hit to Smith
 Mellor opened up the last half with a o-bagger. Krug going out on hit to lansing Morse on a fly to Durrett and HollingsWorth on fly to Stickney.
 Stickney hit safe in the ninth, but was forced out at second on Jansings hit to Hollingsworth, Lansing being forced out on Delehanty's hit to Hollingsworth and Manners was out on fly to Koehler.