The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-01
DEFEAT FOR PRETZELS
 TERFOURTEEN INNINGS
Ball Game Stretched to Nightfall When ShOrtStOp Johnson of Little Rock Broke Hearts of
 Fans With Home Run.


 those apparently intending innings with great hopes tugging at their heart strings. But this man Johnson com mitted the act of malfeasance and left | a feeling in the hearts of the fans that was akin to what the Czar Nicholas has been experiencing in the past few days Yes, 1t took fourteen innings. Four sesn innings m of .bs nafG eaa State wfn @ l cials screamed cordiality and the ordi- nary fans boosted and bolstered. But It was not written down In the books that Montgomery was to win It might be worth while to jot down just here the unimportant fact that the score was to with the proud Pret~ gels on the wrong side of the scoIs. 'Whitey" Guese has probably never pitched a better game in his nfe--not a single base on balls did he give while up to the last of She fifth not hit had been made of him and not a Pretzel had reached first base.
 Starkell also pitched a great game. and barring that fatal first inning n1s | was game that would have won even as extraordinary contest as the one of
 The fielding of the PretzeIs was bril- | liant and perfect and had they display ed the ginger in the first past of the humble chronicles of the press might have told a different story. But they didn't.
 These are the narrowing details: Blake, the first man up, walked. Hartman hit one between first and sec- ond. putting Blake on second. Taylor dumped bunt and by the quickest Kind of work, Starkell seooped It up, shot 1t over to Brouthers and Blake was out at third. Gear was out on a the fans began to breathe little easier. Hartman, was on second and Taylor on first when Reading drove to left and they both tal1ied, McCann end- Ing If wifi htf f0 Schwartz
 It was one, two, three, with the Prezels in the last half. Lynch striking out and Shiebech and Schwartz going
 In the second while Garvin got ono of those sneaking Texas Leaguers back of first base. the other three men were retired. Johnson striking out.
 In the last half Guese went ahead at full speed. Brouthers and Shaughnes- sey striking out and MoleSworth going out on an infield hit
 got hit by the ball and then MT. Bas- sett most beautifully called a bluff of the Travellers. Starkell shot one over the plate which Gear made no effort him as he intended 1t should. Gleeful- ly he started for first, but. his umpns" said nay and, while he was decidedly ayerse to the proceeding, the manager up the bludgeon once more, this time going out on hit to SchwartS
 The Pretzels went out in rotation again in the last half, not nit having been made off Guese up to this time and not Pretzel having located first base.
 In the fourth Brouthers made per haps the most sensational play of the game: McCann hit a slow one just out of Stnrkelrs reach. Brouthers dash ing in, scooping up the ball and get ting 1t to Mullaney like a shot out the seven wonders, but the play was made with rapidity and precision that drew thunders of applause from the big crowd.
 It was three up and three down with the Pretzels in the last half. The thing was getting decidedly monoto- nous.
 In the last half tof the fifth the first hit of the game was made off Guese, Brouthers lining one out to center The hit and run game was. worked ball. The drive went to left field. Then Shaughnessey dumped bunt that Guese grabbed up and fired .over to third to stop Brothers. Brouthers was too quick for him, however. Get- ting to third ahead of the ball by a slide that drew shrieks of delight from the crowd. Shaughnessey got to first and filled, the bags. Any kind of hit now would have scored a couple Of runs and tied up the game. How the fans prayed for that hit. Tnere was young IelIOW Dy the name or GueSe in the oetner of the diamond wno had something to say on the subject. He did not say much but he kept up "a divil uv a thinkin' and the result of those thinks were very unsettling to the oonstitutiVns of the crowd. Null laney smashed ont an infleld hit but 1t was shot back to the plate just be- bore Brouthers dashed in. that young Millerick struck out and 1t was uD to Starkell to win his own game. Those thinks 6f young Mir. Guese got busy again and Starkell was out on fly to tho outfield. And Guese had ex- trlcated himself from probably the ug- Hest looking hole that a pitcher ever got into.
 There was nothing doing on either side until the last half of the ninth when, with one out, Brouthers pounded out two bagger scoring on Moles- worth's drive. Gardner was down on fly to the outfield and Johnson threw Mullaney's hit to him wild, Mullaney and Reading falling in collision at first base. Mullaney got to third and Molesworth scoring with the run that tied the score. The fans were frantic now and the excitement was something heartbreaking. Millerick ended it with a fly to Taylor And the tenth inning was started.
 Blake hit safe in the tenth. Hart man was out on a fly to Millerick, then Taylor bunted towards first. Mullaney sweeping 1t up and shooting 1t to sec Onu Tn time to stop bidht, ouleDeCu who was covering the bag, firing 1t back to Schwartz who was covering first In time to stop Taylor and com plete the double. In an animated dis cussion with Mir. Bassett in which he tried to convince the umpire that his decision was wrong Taylor got himself put out of the game. Cy Watt relieved Guese in the last half of the tenth, Hurley taking Readings place at first. Reading getting his eyes full of sand in the collision.
 Lynch hit safe in the last half of the tenth but the next three men were retired
 In the eleventh there was nothing doing on either side and the same thing in the twelfth.
 In the thirteenth Starken arose to the occasion by striking out Beck who was in Taylor's place. Gear hit for two bags and there was a pained ex- precision on the faces of the fans. But light broke over those faces when Starkell struck out Hurley and Mc- Cam in rotation.
 Schwartz hit safe in the last half, but the inning was ended without a run.
 Nothing so horrible happened In the naval engagement the other day be- tween Togo and that 'Vensky chap as an occurrence in the fourteenth inning. Johnson, the first man up lifted the ball over the fence for the first home run of the game. Then Garvin hit safe.