The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-14

A good many good peorle in this land Of ours are wont 10 scon at the. word luck" but after yesterdays game there was not human being present at the park who will not swear fealty to the Goddess of chance. case of pure. 22-karat luck Bob Staff ford of the Firecrackers drew the capital prize. After being shut out with the most beautiful regularity for eight gingery innings he got one of the swift out shoots of George Stultz squarely on the end of his bat. The swing was a powerful one and met the ball right in the nose, the result with tantalizing swiftness over the fence, the runner on base scoring with Stafford and shattering all hope of q shutout.
 Stultz had everything yesterday, SUI perb control and a steadiness and cool nerve that several times pulled nim out of ugly looking holes, The fact that stultz has a valuable set of demonstrated in the second Inning. when. with a man on third and only one out, he let the next two batters down on easy infield hits. The only was to Catcher Shea in the fifth in- ming after two were already out The first clean hit made off Stultz was by Jordan in the seventh inning; The hit that Krug is credited with in the fourth inning is debatable. It was a hot one and Brouthers did not have time to get his hands on 1t, but the fact remains that it went right through the Pretzel third baseman. Stafford's s homerun in the ninth was the second clean nit made by them
 The hit hitting of the etSI pretzes was that has won for thoIn big ma. jority of their games. Stultz and Gardner led in the hitting with q Mullaney getting a couple of hits and Shiebech, Brouthers, Molesworth and Millerick one each.
 In the second inning Mullaney and Millerick punched hits, both scoring on Gardner two- bagger, while in the sixth Mullaney's hit. Millerick's sacri- | flee and Stultzs drive put in a run Jackson's Iuggle uf Gardner's hit long fly to the outfield scored the other ono.
 No more scoring was done on either side until At!anta's ,Nueky ninth with nine chances, his one error not hurting. The only other errors were | by Shiebech and Stultz. neither ot them doing any damage.
 | The fielding feature Of the game were a running catch by Schwartz ot McKay's fly In the fourth inning and Millerick's run and catch of McKay's foul towards first base in the sixth | llIlllS IHu DICh 1foZlGT $ CdLcn Ol Mullaney's long fly in the seventh. l About the swiftest ba serunning ever seen in Montgomery was when Pal Millerick steamed home In the sec ond mining.
 The work of MT. Bassett was ex. tremely satisfactory as has been the case during the entire series. Oi | course he makes mistakes for he is only human, but on the whole his rul- ings are correct and just,
 The most pleasing feature of his work is his firmncss, and when he had the policeman to take Jordan out of the field he disl just what base. ball needs. and the people of Montgom- cry showed their appreciation in a very decided manner. If the game of base ball had more officials of the Bassett stripe It would pc very much improved in every way.
 The details of the game were as fol. lows
 Crozier was out on hit to Brouth. i CTS in the first, Mckay on a hit tC Schwartz and Krug on a fly to Gard ner.
 Gardner was out on a hit to Morse | Shiebech hit one just over second ant | afterwards stole the bag Schwartz was out on fly to Anderson. Brouth. CTS walked but Molesworth was out or a hit to krug.
 Morse was out on a hit to Rrouth
 CTS in the second. Shiebech made
 wild throw of Jordan's hit and tho l Cracker went to third. Things looked
 gloomy now runner on third and on ly one out. Stultz worked like a piec,