The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-21

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 during these days of winter: Some remarkable games or oali nave been played in Montgomery. but 1t Is mooted ouestion if the fans of this or any other city ever witnessed as remarka- ble a series of games as were the TOUT between Montgomery and Nashville 'at | Athletic Park on the Fist, 22nd, 2rd ot last August Of the four Saihes-a doubleheader played on Saturoay-ole was an eleven inning game ~hich nonl romery won by one run and one twelVe 1 inning tie game which was called "lth the score standing and 7. whhe tne locals made 16 runs to NashViiles . III | the double header. Montgomery made | forty-six hits in the four games while | Nashville made twenty-eight. Mont gomery made twenty-six runs in the four games and Nashville twelve runs. Ot inc twelve runs made by Nashville six Of them were home runs. Moss getting three of them himself The three runs made in the two games of the doubleheader were brought in. by three home runs.
 The first game of the series was such an exhibition of pluck, dogged determina- ton and sheer grit that 1t Is rarely equalled on the ball field. Had the locals played in anything like that form dur ing the season it's a season ticket to a
 
 would have finished much higher in the standing.
 Louis Pochow was on the slab that day against Wild BilP' Johnston, the Pennsylvania wonder who may be watch ed during the coming season. If the terrific hitting of the locals had not been so much in evidence Johnston would have won his game hands down. for Polchow was abnormaly wild, giving seven bases on balls to only two for Johnston.
 Both teams played a brilliant fielding game, Polchow being much superior to Johnston in this feature, having six as- sists without an error.
 Cupid Childs that day demonstrated the fact that he is a great infielder when he wants to play ball, having three put outs and five assists, one of his stops being sensational, without a tumble. Kid Busch had four putouts and four assists without an error. Whistler had thirteen putouts and one assist. a marvellous stop. Clark had four putouts and one assist and Spratt one putout and four assists, though he made the only error in the infield- forty-six chances with only one error in the infield.
 In the outfeld Burnett accepted perfect ly his only chance. Molesworth had four putouts and Link Stickney had three put outs and one assist though he made the only error made in the outfield. Wilkie Clark led the hitting with four long singles while Stickney got three hits, one of them a two-bagger. Clark's fourth hit tied the score In the last half of the eleventh inning and Stickneys third hit united 1t and won the game by a heart throb.
 It was one, two, three with clock work regularity in the first inning. and with two down in the first half of the second it looked like there would be nothing doing for Newts gang again. Bussey was the third man up and he sent long fly out to right field which. by some incom- prehensible manner Stickney dropped. Then there was something doing. Bussey got to second on the error and scored on Andy Roth's two-bagger. PWild Bill' was up next, waited and walked. Stick |neys error seemed to have rattled Polly and he made Doc Lowney a present of four bad ones. Things had bluish tinge now. Roth was on third. Johnston on second and Lowney was flirting around first. There were two out, though, and if the next man could be disposed of Links error would not be so expensive after all. The next man up happened to be Moss, a man who was destined to make the local fans cringe when he step ped up to the plate with a stick in his hand. Moss got busy with hls stick at once. Polchow shot a speedy one at the plate. Moss swung and met it with a crash. The ball was sailing over the center fence and Roth, Johnston, Lowney and Moss with demoniacal grins were pushing each other over the plate.
 Then began the uphill fight. With one out in the last of the third Polchow push ed out a rattling single, Burnett drew n lIx pnlNhnu cnnYpd ThiId'a d-iNro and Burnett scored on Whistler's long fly to the outfeld. Spratt hit safe and scored on sizzling two-bagger by Pol chow in the fourth, and in the fifth Whistler and Clark scored on Stickney's two-bagger. tleing the score.
 Polchow had been pitching great ball, but an unfortunate balk let in a Fisher man and united the score again.
 In the last of the eighth Spratt hit safe. was sacrificed by Polchow and scored on a long fly, tieing the score again.
 The game stood six and six mntil the first half of the eleventh when Kennedy hit safe advanced on Busseys sacrifice and scored on Johnston's hit.
 It looked like Wild Bnl' had won his own game. But something was going to happen. Molesworth hit safe !n the last half of the eleventh. got to third on Whistler's two-bagger and scored on Clark's hit which tied the score again. Link Stickney smashed out a fierce one that put Whistler and the winning run over, ending the eleven inning fight with the score standing and in favor of the locals.
 Otis Stockdale pitched the first game of the dougleheader against Hermann. who was pounded for eleven hits and five earned runs, Stockdale having them shut out except for home run by "Tacks'' Parrott in the first and one by Hermann in the third inning. The two hits pro- duced two runs and the only ones made by Nashville.
 Oscar Strcit pitched the second game of tho doublehcader against Russell who was knocked out of the box. streit having them shut out until the last Inning when