The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-18
PELICANS BY A BEAK
FRANKS MEN WIN OUT IN THE
 NINTH.
Poichovs Sent on nm Aerial Voyage by the Rooting of the Fans and
 the Tells of the
 COachers.
LEAGUE STANDING.

New Orleans, La., May 17.-9Spectal.) Franks Peiicans made 1t a nose fin, ish this afternoon, winning the second of the series by score of to 4. For two hours and over it was pitchers battle between Polchow and Lee, the latter named winning out in the very last inning when his adversary took a Santos Dumont flight to the clouds. not coming down until the Pretzels were defeated. Up to the ninth inning, Pol chow had clearly the best of the twirl- ing, and if he could have held his head there is no doubt that victory would have perched on the Pretzels banner, but m he "ao cond not ho cheered lustily for the home team to win.
 With the coachers of the Pelicanss in pandemonium. Polchow was com pletely taken off his feet. For the first eight innings the Pelicans could do nothing with his delivery except to register a miserly trio of singles and a solitary run. With Polchow pitching masterly9 ball, the team behind him were playing fine fielding game, not an error being made by them during first being of the gilt-edged variety. Nothing was too hard or too difficult for him to handle.
 In the third inning. with Dowd on second, Genins bunted to Polchow. It | looked like Genins would reach first, as Polchow threw badly, but Manners scooped the ball out of the ground, making the put out. Again when Fox flied to right field, Manners made l great run, managing to make the put l out. The Pelicans in the first inning sent Dowd to first on four wide ones and was advanced to second on Gen | inss sacrifice to Polchow. Dowd, by a daring slide. reached third and scored l worth.
 I The Pretzels failed to score in the | first. In tho second they managed to put two runs across the plate. Dele l followed with a sacrifice to Lee, ad- vancing Delehanty to second. Manners dumped a slow one along the third base line, beating out the hit. Stickney was passed filling the bases. Polchow sent a grounder to Rohe, who fumbled, all lowing Delehanty to score. Molesworth scoring Manners. Stickney tried to | score from second and was thrown out at the plate by Rickert. Schwartz ended the inning by flying out to | Genins.
 Not until the eighth did the Pretzels | manage again to cross the plate. al- though they scored a few hits, but not
 nnnsg n1s 20Ts was soaked o e6e wtS fshta pitched ball. Durrett singled to right l center. sending Schwartz to third. Jan l sing followed with a sacrifice to Stew art; sending Schwartz across the plate, and Durrett to second. Clark sent out a high fly to left which Dowd failed to get under Durrett scoring. Manners grounded to Atz, forcing Clark at sec | ond, retiring the side.
 ninth.
 With the score standing to 1 | against them in their half of the ninth the chances for the Pelicans to win | were thin, but they managed 1t in this manner: Turner opened with a high fly back of center. Molesworth made a dHGnRFlfa effort f fVR h..t failed, the ball falling just beyond his out-stretched hands. Stewart landed g a hard one to Link Stickney, which was nicely caught on the run. Atz walked
 Fox followed with a hard grounder tc right center, Turner scoring French
 was sent up to bat for Lee, Clark promptly obtected as French was wear ing black socks instead of white Um- pire Mullane sent him away from the plate, calling for another batter. Man. ager Frank beckoned to Durham who to come up and bat. When Dunhan reached the plate it was found that inc did not wear uniform shirt like the balance of the players. and he was
 In the meantime. French had put on a pair or stockings in conformity with those of his team mates, and marched 10 the plate. When he arrived there Clark discovered that French wore 2 black belt and not a white one, and another delay ensued for him tc I SndHBe, dI Wnlcn, with the noise ir the grand stand, had a bad effect on Polchow, for he immediately walked French to first. filling the bags.
 Dowd followed with a hard drive tc left center out of Durrett's reach ii was good for two bags, scoring Att and Fox and tieing the score. Genins at the plate.
 The winning run was scored bv Dowd when Rickert lined out a single The official score:
 Montgomery. ABRBH DO E Molesworth, C. Q