The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-25
LACK OF HEAD WORK COST
 MONTGOMERY THE GAME
Atlanta WOn--ScOre Was
 1 to 0.
o'Brien Sat on Bench and Absolutely no Intelligence Was shown in Management With Rum
 ners on Bases.

I more thoroughly disgusted and out ragged asemblage of people been togeth CT than the fans at yesterdays pase- | ball matinee.
 and sizzled and seethed until every electric fan in the hall was put out of business. The cause of 1t all was tns seniie stupidity of this ,n man Sbn q 6rie,i; s, since April been the bete noir of local baseball. In the last half of the llnt1 inning with any kind of Judgment at all the Pretzels would possibly nave won the game True the game might have been lost just the same, but there was always the chance that was not With one out Brouthers had hit safs and got to third on Andersons wild throw to Jordan-with man on third and one out, the squeeze play would us Brothers. If the squeeze play Tad fallen down, why then there would have been two out, and the score ned, that's all, with Molesworth stili left on second. or possibly getting to third on the play. Lawler, who was next up, had been singularly unfortunate In the swatting line, having been at bat three times and going out on easy hits 70
 On this trip Yeager has played in three games, and his pinch hitting mas been responsible for nve of the runs needed to tie the score and possibly win the game yesterday was d hit, a song fly, or bunt, and Yeager. by be- ing sent to bat in Lawiers place, may have gotten that hit. or at least u long fly, and tied or won the game, or he may not have. st
 It was bare chance and good base ball judgment would most assuredl~ have taken that chance, but 1t was the same amazing lack of managerial abil- ity which has cost Montgomery so many games in a past that one would
 
 is utterly devoid of the very rudiments or d baseball manager. So many times in the past has O Brien's sit on the benon and do nothing thoroughly an1 completely disgusted the local fans that any mention of even one of his nume-- GUS breaks would be tiresome tautolo- gy. Up in Toledo the other day the baseball directors had the good sense 10 see that Mike Finn was not only of no benefit to the team but that his bench warming policy was a positive case case to the o'Brien one. nf Finn i" had a ten months contract, but the Toledo people were not so blind as to see that in paying Finn his salary and getting rid of him it would be money in their pockets in the matter of winning games and the logical sequence-gct- ting better patronage So MT. Finn was told to make Himself scarce and steadi!y-pla ying ibetter ball all round. Friday playing q eleven inning to 1 game with Columbus. Now the people of Montgomery are too loyal tc the national game to deserve this kind of treatment. They have every righ. to demand a manager who will at least attempt to show some discretion in- stead of the disgusting dumb article that has been in vogue all this monot" onous summer. As one of the baseball directors remarked, so much mon .y has already been paid OBrien 1t would not take very much more 10 ill out h.s ten months and let hlm go, and 1t would most assuredly be the wise3t thing that the Montgomery Baseball Association could do.
 You can fool sll the people some of the time. and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" Pretty foxy remark that, the man that made it was certainly wise 10 his Jot. and if the read, mark and inwardly digest the axiom they will prevent baseball being rank failure in Montgomery.
 Some time ago there was a marked games, but with promises 1t was smoothed over. Things have gotten in the same old rut and it looks like the only way for the public to get justice IS to step going out to the games, and if this thing keeps up that's what fhey will do.
 Starkell pitched a magnificent game of ball, considering the wet grounds. iCks passed ball in the sixth inning, the other hits made off him being widely scattered. Jackson was steadier in emcrgencies-in the fourth inning with man on third with two out, Millerick not being able to bring in the run. however, and retiring the side. Again in the ninth they had a. chance to win. but dull, mechanical management knocked the chance into. a thousani pieces. The score was: