The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13

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 Way out in left field a white -clad | figure darted and with the speed of the | wind it fairly dashed over the ground on dead run towards the line that marked the limits of fair territory. l Running from third base back into the l foul ground in left field was another As swiftly as the two figures were moving ball was falling out in left | in from deep left was Curtis Gardner. The one running from third base was | Arthur Brouthers. The ball was With ners were within a few feet of the ball, but to the thousands of eager eyes runs, but the ball would fall into the With $ superhuman effort. the flashing 1 figure coming in from left held liter | ally leaped over the space between him self and the ball, hurled himself close enough to reach far over oyer & on dedd te1f Almost falling, so powerful was the l effort, he showed out in front of ms flying body the. hand that had the
 The excited people in grandstand and i on the bleachers were every one on their feet now: As the tl flying srda figure re | their breath so sharply that there was ! a sudden something sounding almost like a sibilant hiss resultant irqm pm l the veriest heartthrob the outstretched 1 hand touched the ball The init closed | on it, and Curtis Gardner had made the most marvelously sensational catch | ever witnessed on a Montgomery ball field. Then the tension was released | on the huIsreds of people in the stands and in grdat waves roar after roar of applause thundered out In recognition of the superbly successful effort. l Outside of this brilliant feature-and if ever there was a headliner Curtis l Mathewson Mccoy as well as the bril- 1 the making of a delightful afternoon for the fans yesterday. ,..
 The most noticeable thing about Mo, control he showed. In his last game 1 against BirTpinS Sham he gave ten bases on balls while yesterday he only gayse four and only five hits were made of him. the hits so widely, scattered that
 The only scores made oy the Crack | CTS were the result of an error by the man who furnished the spectacular feas ture of the game. Garoners mum or Krugs fly put runners Srn on decisTSn secend ana nn Jordan at the plate was pretty close l but Gardner had shot the ball back to the indeld in record time After this | they never scored again, Mccoy shut | ting them out with great regularity.
 Tn. the last half punched s hits by bunt that was not handled in time with Archer's with threw put in two for the Protzels and tied the. score, the on Gardner's hit, shiebech's sacrifice. McMakin's wild pitch and schwartz's hit to McMakin. ~ or.or this and it was pretty swift baseball on both sides. the Pretzels outplaying the Crackers in every department.
 would win lots oftener than lose, only | six hits being made off him, while he only gave two bases on balls. The fsuftiess with the exception of the one outfield error in the first inning.
 Again the attendance was IS s,ea! surpris- ITS, and the PretEels responded to the hearty roofing by working with their whole hearts in the game. The result | was a natural sequence.
 The details of the game were as fol- lows: ~-,.- Krug's fly, Mckay going to third and the Dutchman to second Morse dropped a neat bunt that A4-coy could not get to in time to head Mckay off, the latter steaminG over the plate like A whirl- wind but Mccoy got Morse at first: Jordan hie safe to left aN Mckay Scored Stafford hit oneI that sldebeGh ,l1 and throwing 10 the plate as Jordan was sprinting down the line from third. The ball reached the plate just about the time that the Cracker man ager reached the plate and the decision was n desperately close one. the um- pire calling Jordan out. There was a strenuous howl from tho pack or FireCrackers but the ruling of his umphs" went
 last half. Shiebech hit one past third that would have taken Krug's pins from under him if he had been In the way. Schwartz dumped bunt that MCMakin ran iu on and threw to catch Gardner at third but the runner was too quick for him and everything was safe with the bags full of Pretzels. Brouthers hit to third and Krug threw Gardner out at the plate. In trying to make a double and stop Brouthers nt first Archer made a fearful throw. the ball going way out in right field. Molesworth and Barry ended tho in- ming.
 Archer tried to sacrifice and Brouthers pulled down his fly, McMakin was out on a fly to Molesworth and Croz- fer struck out.
 MuiIaney was out on hit to Jor- dan Millerick on a fly to the same place and Mccoy on a fly to Mckay.
 Schwartz got McKay's fly in the third. kruS was out on nlt TO Rrouthers Morse nit safe Nnut Miller ick caught him trying to steal sec ond.
 Gardner smashed one in the last half that struck McMakin hand and bound ed off, Shiebech sacrificed him and he got to third on a wild pitch and scored on Schwartzs' nit to McMakin. Brouth- CTS was out an a fly to Jordan and Schwartz was out stealing second.
 Jordan walked in the fourth. Staf- ford bunted and Mccoy threw to sec ond to catch Jordan but the latter was safe. Anderson bunted. Archer hit to Shebech and there was a fast double.
 Morse in the last half. Barry hit safe. Mullaney was out on n fly to Mo- Kay Millerick hit safeN Barry going to third. The double steal was then tried but Barry was thrown out at the plate.
 McMakin was out a fly to Schwartz in the fifth. Crozier nn fly to Moles- worth and Mckay struck out
 Mccoy was out on a hit to Morse in the last half Jordan fumbled Gardners hit Shiebech was out on a fly to Anderson and Schwartz on a line drive to Krug.
 Krug was out on a A.. to Shiebech