The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-12
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 By consistent hitting, fast baserun- ming and all round gingery, heady ball playing otto Jorian's Firecrackers smothered the PretZels in the first game of the series yesterday by score of In every inning except the first the visitors scored. and the fact that four of their eight runs were earned is a forceful example of the punched hits
 Archer lot the hitting for the Fire crackers with three nits out of four times up. his hit in the ninth inning being the first home run of the sea- son at Athletic Park and decidedly the longest hit made on the grounds this year. Except Jordon and stafford everybody on the Atlanta team got clean hits. Mckay and Ely hitting for a single and .two-bagger each. Krug and Stafford getting a couple each and Dick Crozier and Whity Morse getting one each.
 In the last half of the first, a base on balls, Wick Crozier's muff of a long fly and Brouthers's two-bagger put in couple of runs for the Pretzels. Af- ter that InR plate was dDSOluIely dn unknown quantity to them, In the third the Crackers put in a run on a long single and a two-bagger punched. In the fourth wild throw in the in another run fn the firth Haies wild pitch and couple of bunts put in another. two punched hits and a sacrifice adding anothes- in the sixth a couple of punched hits in the sew enth adding still another while a homcrun, a two-bagger and a long single in tho ninth was the straw that broke the yertibrae of the dromedary and scored the last three runs. Jack Ely pkched one of the games | that he invariably does in Montgomery and kept his eight hits scattered. On- | ly in one Inning. the seventh, did the Esretzeis succeed lh buching two hits In this Inning Umpire Bassett made the only glaring yellow decision of the game when he called Gardper out at second. The only way his decision af- footed the final score was to knock | the Pretzels out of at least two runs. Atlanta hal the game on velvet any way.
 | There Seemed to he a total lack of | life on the Pretzel coaching line, at least one run being thrown away by 1t. OBrien sat on his bench and never game. of course he could not get on the lines without a uniform The Pretzels played fast game, an errorless one. yesterday with the ex-
  lack of coaching. was appalling
 The detailed game was as follows: | Crozier was out on a fly to Shlebech 1; Mckay on fly. 10 Molesworth. and | krug on hit to Brouthers. Gardner was out on hit to Krug in the last half. Sniebecb walked. Schwartz hit a long fly. to left that | ing to third and Schwartz to second. | Both scored on Brouthers's drive over first base for two bags. Moleswortn | and Barry ended 1t with hits to Jordan. | Morse was out on fly to Molesworth in the second; Jordan was hit by the | ball: Stafford was out on fly stO stop of of Anderson's hit. ~
 Mullaney walked in the last half; | Millerick hit to Morse, and there was a double. Hale struck out.
 Archer struck out in the third. Ely hit for two bags and scored on CrO- ziers drive to left. Mckay was out on a hit to Brouthers. and Hale ran in Gardner hit safe in the last half. but | vas forced out at second on Shiebech s hit to Stafford. Schwartz walked and stole second, but Brouthers struck out. | Morse struck out in the fourth. JOr' | dan hit to Shiebech and went to third on his wild throw to Mullaney Stat- tieing the score. Anderson hit to | Brothers, and there was a fast double, Brouthers throwing Stafford out at second and Shiebech throwing Ander'
 Molesworth hit safe in the last half. Barry sacrificed him to second. MuI- laney was out on hit to Ely and Mil
 Archer hit safe in the fifth to right and went to third on wild pitch; Ely was was out on ount to Hale; CrozieG aSG | ball and Schwartz covering the bag Archer scored and Mckay ended 1t WTh | a hit to Shiebech.
 Hale struck out in the last half. Stafford made great run and pulled down Gardner's foul fly, and ShIeUec' was out on a fly to Crozier:
 half. Stafford got the ball and Ely covered the bag and dropped the ball. | Brouthers drove a vicious one nat, by Knocked down and got Schwartz al | second. Molesworth lined one out [" right and lightning baserunning put ting caught off first. Barry struch
 Archer hit safe to left in the sev- | enth. Ely bunted towards third try ing to sacrifice, but Brouthers was toe quick for him aud he threw Archer out at second. Crozler hit to second, and to left and Archer scored. Krug hit to Shiebech and there was another fast double.
 Mullaney was out on a hit to Jordan a fly to Stafford. Hale hit safe and went to third on Gardners safe hit, but Gardner was forced at second on Snle' bech's hit to Jordan.
 Morse hit safe in the eighth. Moles- worth got Jordan's fly. Stafford was out on a hit to Brouthers, and Ander- son or a fly to Shlebech.
 Schwartz was out "n line fly tt Morse in the last half, BrOuthers on 6 fly to Anderson and Molesworth on I hit to Krug
 In the ninth, just to put the finishing touches on the Cracker victory, Archer lined out a fearful swat getting tho ball on the nose and lifting it square!S over the centerfield fence. making th' score to "agin" the Pretzels. Ely hit to third and Brouthers made th' throw all right, Mullaney dropping th' ball. Crozier struck out. Mckay hi to left for two bags. Krug hit safe tC left Ely and Mckay scoring. Morse struck out but was forced at second CT Jordan's hit to Shiebech.
 In the last half there was notn'as doing for the PretZels and the SaE' closed to in favor of Atlanta
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