The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-17

 If one were to take the finest of toothcombs and use 1t as dragnet on all the uncertain ball players in this
 that more cratic fielder than Curtis Gardner could not be located. Something was radically wrong with
 either his eyesight or his hands yester- day in Shreveport, and both In the second inning when he dropped Hess's | ny and when he did the same thing for | the same inning he was responsible for the run. In the seventh inning he
 dropped Smiths fly and the runner af- Hale pitched a game of ball that, with anything like decent support, would have won His control was
 splendid. He gave only two bases on seven men, while of the eight hits credited on the official score. two of them were scratches, only six clean hits being made.
 To illustrate Hale's luck, the first
 run scored by Shreveport was the re- suit of Gardners dropping the two 1 flies, not a hit being made. Tn the very There was base on balls and three bagger put both runners over. The base on balls would have scored any way but the first man up in that inning should have been out. Here were two runs caused by errors in the outfield when neither of them should have come m. me other run III the InITu
 was single that put the three bagger
 over. Only two runs should have come in with that inning but three scored.
 In the fifth inning with two out Henley's fly. Neither got 1t and single and a two bagger punched
 scored two runs when only one should have come in.
 The run in the seventh was caused
 primarily by. Gardner's dropping an-
 other fly. making four runs the result
 of errors when with the right kind of support only three would have been scored.
 The efficacy of we'll placed bunts and speedy base running was never more half fthe third inning. Swann is one | of the best fielding pitchers in the l league and yet three punched bunts- | which the runners beat out by the way put him completely in the air, Hales | two bagger and Shiebech's long single completing the demoralization and put ting three of the Pretzels over the
 With the exception of Hale's low throw to Manners in the seventh an almost perfect game was put up ex- with it's usual snap and barring the errors in the lots, the score would have | been three and three at the end of the ninth.
 The details of the game were as fol- | lows:
 Gardner drove one past Hess and out | i1IO leIL Helu. lie ITIcu to SLEeLCn
 into a two-bagger and Miller got the | ball back to Abstein in time to catch | him at second. Shiebeck was out on hit to Abstein. Schwartz hit safe to | left, but Brouthers was out on hit to Abstein.
 Smith struck out in the last half,
 Kennedy was out on hit to Shiebech and Handley on fly to Barry. | Molesworth was out on a hit to Hess | in the second. Barry struck out. Mui- | laney drove one that struck Weikhart ha lrn nd hnn lad fA hs. bleachers, Mullaney going to second
 but Millerick ended 1t with hit to
 Hess hit fly to left in the last half
 Gardner dropping it Weikhart bount-
 it and Schwartz covered the bag. The
 struck out. Grahius sent fly to left
 that Gardner. dropped again. Hess scored and Abstein went to third, but ond.
 Hale open the third with a two-bag-
 to swann Shiebech hit safe and Hale scored. Gardner getting to second
 Schwartz sacrificed and sent Gardner
 to third 6 For the the second sen time in bn that | Brouthers beating one out to him and
 Gardner scoring. shiebech scored on
 swann's bad throw to Graftiuss ns Brouth-
 In the last half, Barry dropped Swann's fly and the runner got to third Smith walked, Swann scored and Smith
 scored on Kennedy's drive to right. | Kennedy scoring on Han!ey's drive to right. Hess and Weikart were out on infield hits that put Hanley on third.
 but Abstein was out on hit to | Schwartz.
 the fourth, Lynch going in. He drove one at Hess that was entirely too hot, and went to second on the play, getting
 to third on Mullaney's hit to Smith,
 Millerick ending it with a hit to Swann, Miller was out on hit to Shiebech | in the last half, Graffius on hit 70 | Brothers and Swann struck out. Gardner was out on ?, hit to Swann in
 the fifth. Shiebech struck out, and