The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-05
HAPPY REUB GARDNER
MONTGOMERY PITCHER CUT DOWN
 THE GREAT LAJOIE.
In Last Game With Cleveland O'Brien's Team Made q Fine Showing They Look Good to
 Fans.

A happy man was Reub Gardner last night. Yesterday afternoon he made the mighty Lajoie go down before his delivery. True the terrific lombard ment of the Cleveland contingent was again consistently and conspicuously heavy, sixteen vicious drives being made by them.
 Both Gardner and Nolley had good control, Gardner striking out three men and giving two bases on balls while Nolley struck out two of the big fel- lows and did not give walk. The most encouraging thing. however, was the stickwork of the PretZels, and if they can hit such pitchehs as Joss and Hess, Southern League slab artists should by no means prove an enigma to them.
 Schwartz led the local hitting, Brouth- CTS landing on three long singles, Schwartz and Millerick each getting a two-bagger and single while Mullaney crashed out a couple of two-baggers, one of them being to the center fence and the longest hit made this season. Shannon pounded out three-bagger and Molesworth his regular hit, not getting but one base on it, however.
 Not only in batting was there noticeable improvement in the general all round work of the Pretzels, but in fielding base running and team work especially.
 In these two Cleveland games the team mas ulSplayeQ more neduWOTk anu teamwork than has ever been seen on a Montgomery ball team. The team seems to be thoroughly imbued with spirit of loyalty to the club. There Is not a man of them who doesn't perform everything in his power to help the club win, individual averages and the disgusting grandstand play that has so often been the bane of a Montgom- cry club being a distinctly obsolete quantity in the. baseball platform of these 1905 PretZels.
 The most pleasing feature about this years team is their perfect willing ness to work, work, work all the time. There seems to be the most cordial feeling between Manager OBrien and the bunch under him. No matter how hard the work Is every man of them jumps into 1t cheerfully and gives the best in the shop for the Montgomery team collectively, individual averages being relegated except in SO far as they go to round out the teamwork. As long as this Is the case-and certainly there doesn't seem to be the slightest disposition of any Of them to lag local fans may confidently look for a winning team this season, one way up in the first division anyway. In the two Cleveland games they have made creditable showing against hardest hitting aggregation In the world of baseball, and 1t looks like the 1905 Pretzels will do.
 Cy Swain Is expected to reach Mont gomery tonight and George Stultz in the next day or so.
 Tomorrow Manager O'Brien takes the team to Selma where they will play three games with the team of Indians that Lem Bailey has as an attraction there.
 There is only one more exhibition game before the regular season opens Collins and his champion Boston Americans playing at Athletic Park only one game, next Monday. In just two weeks from today the Pretzels leave for Birmingham the first road trip of the 1905 championship sea- son, playing Vaughns team Wednesday. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 19, 20. Fl and 22.
 The Cleveland aggregation left last night for Birmingham where they play a couple of games.
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