The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-18
CLIMBERS' RECORD
OF PLAYERS FOF
 TWELVE GAMES.
Dominick Mullaney Has Made Grea' Impression at First, and Me- Maxim Leads the Pitch
 fnn Staff.


 There has been a marked gain in the batting of the Climbers in the tweiVe games at home, eight with Little Rock and four with New Orleans, the team average gaining points.
 During the twelve games they have made ninety-eigh hits an average of eight hits a game. Included in this are a home run. one three e-bagger, eight two-baggers and seventeen sacrifice hits. The pleasing feature of the games has been. the inside team work. the with twenty-two stolen bases in the twelve games. nearly two game;
 In the twelve games Molesworth has Schwartz eleven, Brouthers eleven. Mil in twelve games, Mullaney twelve in twelve games, and Thornton twelve in
 Although the fielding. of the team for the past few weeks could hardly be i'm proved on, still there Is gain of , the individual fielding 1t Is the long and the short of It. Dominick Mullaney, the tall, good-natured first baseman, sna Thornton; the SpSsdy rd nt,te neck oH, for the lead, the latter leading by one point, though he has had Atty eight chances to HOO for Mullaney. Out of these HOO, chances Mullaney has made only twenty-one errors. Ninety of these chances have been assists and 1t Is very doubtful if any first baSeman in this or any other League has ever saved his infeld IS many errors as this same long Mullaney. By his great heiRhc he has saved more wild throws than can be counted now and his quickness and dexterity in reaching out after low throws almost on the ground have cut off equally as many wild throws on the other extreme.
 Out of 4s0 chances Pat Millerick has fourteen errors, and this conscientious. ha I'd working backstop has most as suredly given to the Montgomery club Ss Rss ePr,s Ths fsss ssy whe ter dsS realize that there Is not a catcher in this League who. excels him in all- around work.
 Schwartz at second base. Out of ITO chnnces-344 of them assists---he has only twenty-five errors. He has played r eysrs Ea t1 nsh sHa sue more e in the game than probably any man on the tea n, With the possible exception of Williams of New Orleans he has been easily the best second haseman In the Southern League this season.
 At third base Brouthers stands with out a peer. In .451 chances he has only throwing and seemingly easy way of running in on a hit and scooping it up that has given him the deserved rep utation of being one Of the fastest third UGSoIEtNl ttiot OENA PAos Su si' SAaO DO-S''
 oldrins has played some reniarka ble ball since he has been here and he bids CTS. good part of his twenty ne errors were made during that inexpli- cable slump he had on the road. Dur make a better outneider than short stop. He Is certainly playing light ming game In the fiefd now but his work at short has been little short of p5s Out of Ss5 chances Heine Busch has thirty-two errors and he ts playing a great game at short. The. beauty about neither of them has a rival as utility
 MoIesworth has only nine errors in SasHoss and in slSFg 6s . SasaS as bs snd the most consistent outielder in this League. This makes his third year with Montgomery and It would leave a in center. while the. local fans would ''Ss Yeager ger has s only seven errors in IFS chances and always plays a hard, earn
 John McMakin Is leading the pitching staff with eighteen games pitched. thir- teen won and i've lost. a fraction over yer him. a fraction over two bases on balls a game with an average of over one strlke-out a game.
  this season, winning twelve and losing six, while not quite seven hits game have been made of him, a fraction over two bases on balls a game, and nearly three strike-outs a game.
 Hale has won thirteen of, his twenty five games, about seven hits a game have been made while he has not given out fraction under four men same.
 Jack Lee has won eleven of the twen ty-three games pitched this season, a fraction under eight hits game made off him. not quite two bases on balls a game and struck out fraction under three men a game.
 Before McCoy's health broke down last June he had pitched seven games for Montgomery. winning five and los Ing two, and since he has been back he | has pitched eleven and won eight, mak- | ing twelve won and six lost out of l eighteen games this season. A frac- ! tion over three hits a game have been made off him, while he has given an average of two bases on balls a game. A study of these figures will show pretty clearly how the Climbers have won twenty-four out of twenty five games at Athletic Park and won niHe ! out of twentyone on the road. On the l first trip after Durrett- took charge they played nine games on the road, win i road trip they played twelve, winning six and losing six. Out of forty y-s;x l games they have lost eleven and won l thirty-five, a remarkable average of .759.
 The batting, fielding and pitching averages for the twelve games, includ- | ing the double-header with New Or leans Saturday, are:
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