The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-08

The. class of baseball that is being played by the Pretzels Is refreshing and exhilarating.
 Out of five games played last week the Montgomery team won three and the two lost were both extra inning games. The first of these extra-inninG games was the eleven-inning game tha, Bussey pitched against Nashville last Monday It was Bussey's first game, and but four scattering hits had been made off him to the tenth inning. making the five hits off Bussey during the eleven innings Even then Nash yille's scoring is a mooted question. threw to Brouthers to catch him. The most assuredly struck something. claimed that Norcum blocked it, but Umpire Black thought differently and Norcum scored with the winning run. ractineg 9 otiegr ten- innins eame with Rirmine- ham Friday. Hale had received wretched support all during the game, but at that the Pretzels had tied the Hale and Bussey pitched the tenth in ming. He had not warmed up at all was wild and couple of hits won the game for Birmingham.
 It is the general teamwork, batting. fielding and baserunning, that is such a gratifying feature of the work of the Pretzels to the. local fans The stick work has been consistent and terrific during the past week. the team bat. ting average being .2S1 now as against .250 last week, a gain of 31 points.
 Inadvertently, two of MoIesworth's hits were left out of The Advertiser averages last week, and he has IS hits in his II games, an average of .42S, two of his hits being for three bases and seven for two bases.
 Jack Lee is next with six hits in his four games, one of them a three bag ger. Brouthers is next with sixteen hits in fourteen games. and Mfllerick with fifteen hits in fourteen games. Barry has eleven hits in ten games. but Mccoy really leads the team with two hits in his one game making SIX men out of the sixteen on the team batting over 300. Dominick Mullaney has In teen hits in his fourteen games, but was at bat fourteen times more than Millerick, four of his hits being two baggers. Schwartz leads in sacrifice hitting with four successful bunts, Mill lerick with three and Shtebeck with two.
 Nothing shows the fast game that Brouthers is playing more than the fact that he had ten stolen bases, nearly an average of one game while Lynch mas four, Millerick. Molesworth anu the game that has been neglected by local teams in the past. and the gin gery, heady work of this years bunch of Pretzels on the paths is a source jI gra tification to local fans.
 In fielding, there is gain of twenty. eight points in the team average, .94S as against .915 last week. An error ot the types last week gave Molesworth two errors, whereas he has had thirty SIX chances so far without an error
 Pat Millerick and Mullanev really havn the best records, the latter having only six errors out of 126 chances, and Nit lerick With three errors out of los chances Schwartz runs them pretty chances at second base, next to Shl- bech's post one of the most difficult
 points in the infield. Shiebcch has chances. Brouthers has only five CT TOTS in fifty-one chances, thirty-one O!
 them being assists. Jack Lee is doing
 the best fielding in the box staff with one error in eighteen chances. sixteen being assists, though Hale has ten as ] sists.
 ing. In his four games he has given 1 thirty hts, an average of something 1 over seven game. He has given eight
 bases on balls, two a game struck out 1 almost an average of five game and won two of them.
 Hale has splendid control, giving only
 four bases on balls in his three games
 and striking out an average of nearly l four q game. BusseC has given OniY | ,wo bases. on balls. both of them when
 he went in without preparation Friday. | four of the eleven hits charged to hint | being made in that fatal tenth inning,
 so that really only seven hits were
 made off him in his game, and he did
 not give a base on balls.
 McCoy's lack of contrGI Saturday
 cannot be taken as a criterion, for the
 indications are that after he becomes acclimated, the yourg college pitcher | will make scores of Southern League | batters tremble this summer. The improvement that George Stultz | showed in his last game was wonderful,
 and everything would point to the fact | that the PretZel box staff is composed | of at least five who are the equal of anything in this league. and Mcdonald | has not had a showing yet.
 Gardner's batting and fielding aver | ages are compiled from the two games | in which he filled in, as he has not
 pitched a game since the disaster in 1 Atlanta.
 The batting, fielding and pitching