The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-21
TEAM IS IMPROVING
eoor, RECORDS MADE IN EVERY DEPARTMENT.
..,, \. prtuwiug the Climbers n.s.rd In Fine Shape. Great Hitting Record of Sam
 AnDerfOuR.

Tbe hasAball horizon is brighter 1use how than at any time, since the EniS IEaais- nomenal. cyclonic finish or the Eiii'i'
 erT For 1rs the first time since the opening ot The 1908 season, the local team IS rounding to In good shape Mi,1,snev.s m 1sis Saivthfui incessant work is beginning 70 tell. There is a marked imp1oNsnike.n kn . in tbe inside work. the battin9, n%as % gone up by leaps and ooghns Sesn % %splsn- sid is if anything better than ever:
 The team batting has gained To Peitthes tes oyevr Ia st week, an average ot '1Eo .To day against .2OS last M1nS MIS ,r TJtfie Pock pse and two in Shreveport-they won
 The most remarka ble improvement Ih individual batting goes 10 SasS 1,sde eiev- an hits and his individual vesan ga z
 inmns up 63 points tielng Cns .l ha 2 Schwartz for leadership. SchWaIe1 sro rSo tve tNrsn h, more hits in two less games than Annerious, but being twelve mo.e s..,,rs s..,.e. at bat than the latter. Arthur no svi;, :, :, has a batting average or eSe' s, in his ome omo same. Just 27 points and three hits sSy of Apperious is the hardwohs has . ine nnananer of the Climbers Wno has ds been hitting like demon Rte St T,hree of these hits were pinch two ,oasgeLs oL oL the ISoraa one Or more men every time His average is up 4S polnHs' n1oDo this morning as agalnst Ino ta,1 noints day Hsusen is batting only four Potr-S Psnr.s, Lagsird Schwartz and Apperious Ferry bss four hits in the five games Ei.a Esin e ing "A points in his average .raaS Busch is keeping up p1oW ms ue't Ssyins i've bits in inc five games, one TWO pass
 ger raising his average 50 polnts, anu tu
 nutttng him third on the nst, n ,,,e z PHd fa9r hits. in the four games ne was
 lad i5 iast iguI week 247 today over .2SS last Monday A gain of nine points
 Sam Apperious still has the only
 tomerun, Houtz having toer eHLT TTilsney
 gStns g and md, Apperious five two baggers; ui1t u.,,,g stiIl leads the stolen base record with nine Hausen running sood DIV ond with five. ,.iece hi+s with | A,,e Schwartz next with four and Alp perious next with three. .t,ovys q
 The team fielding average sH9wSS t1f a
 gain of two points MaXweM hsmees wit witho1t out
 an error, but Mullaney really leads the 6elding He is playing a supeIp kalus ne and in 275 chances, IT or mem asslste , st trst base. he has only three errors,
 In i45 chances Hausen has only one
 error while Kid Busch is ftItn Wltn oniy five errors in l27 chances; McAIeese
 fifth with three errors m - arrnre in
 e1 chances, Houts sixth with two CT
 odrs ol in as chances, Schwartz seventh
 ..L 1ine errors in 134 chances ana
 Berry eighth with seven errors Tn Il Hale is showing the best fielding ot the pitchers with one error m ~ chances Not quite hVe mus sdh!e bava been made of Malarky while ms nontroI has been splendid, not two bases .,, haI1s a game. and a fraction over . otri[eoIlts a game A fraction over SIX Sits a game have been made on Max i.s5I ubile he has given exactly three hasas on balls d game and struck out paarTv five men d game. In the game ho y,if,hed in Little Rock nNe hlts were n'ade off him while he struck out SIX hatters and only gave two oases on paiIs fraction over five hits a game has bee made of Hale while whlle ne h5iis ms even 4 fraction over two bases on oalls ean,e and struck out nearly tour a game Tn the game that he relieved Sfainrkv in Little Rock only one hit 1,at 1SSde eff him in the five innings tbat he nitched while he struck out 6Ia men. Tn that great game Tn
 shrevenort Friday five scattering mus were made off him and he struck out five men, giving four bases on palIs. Tn Arthur Goodwyn's game m Lietts ,1S Rock he gave i've bases on oalls ana made of him and he lost by score oI three to two, though reports rom Ttttle Rock say that Buckley was pret- ty hard on him on balls and strieks
 Taken on the whole the work or the team IS decidedly encouraging ana II they come any " here near holdins tht | fast gaIt of the past two weeks they will have no trouble in cEnching po- | Eitinn up near the top of the heap