The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10


 king of the South in baseball circles, and all Montgomery fandom took its hat off to him yesterday afternoon.
 Such a superb game of ball as the crack Birmingham twirier worked has feat of yesterday breaks all Southern League records. Only twenty-seven batters faced him and not a man got to first base, not even a scratch being made. while he had the Climbers as helpless as a chicken in the grasp or a hungry hawk Only one game even approaching 1t has been seen in tnc Southern League. and that was when Jack Lee shut Shreveport out on the only twenty-seven men faced Lee, put two clean hits were made on him Miller hitting clean in the third in ming. Kennedy in the fourth. the men doubled in both instances Red Fish. CT was bombarded for eleven hits and final score was 5 to 0.
 Yesterday, while twenty-seven men faced Wilhelm, not man jack of them got to first base, not q hit was made, so that his grand performance over shadows the feat of Jack Lee. May 5. 1904, Cy Young shut out the Phila- not one of the Athletics reached first base. Tannehill of the same team Boston-shut the Chicago White Sox out in Chicago on the 18th of August. Not hit was made of him. but run ners got on base during. the game
 Last season four no hit games were pitched in the big leagues, threc in the American and one in the National. June fs Christy Mathewson of the New a Ii hit, and July 2s Weldon Henley of the Athletics, shut out St. Louis with out a hit. September 6 of last year Frank Smith of the Chicago White Sox, shut out Detroit while on septemnlb,esr nl,.s cago without hit
 Erwin Wilhelm yesterday and Cy Young in 1904 have the distinction of being the only pitchers to keep the perfect fielding game put up by the Birmingham team made it possible for Wilhelm to do what he did. Waugh ans outfit worked as brilliantly as the hesitancy was shown during the en- tire game Every man handled every thing that came near him in manner that was perfect, while the throws were as rapid as they were true
 did Mullaney's bunch stand the slight est chance
 Maxwell was in the poorest form that he has shown since coming to iy, palpabiy wrong with the silver topped lad and he got his bumps for keeps. A couple of two baggers and eleven singles were. punched on him in the second. fourth. fifth and ninth ed. Of the four bases on balls he gave three of them in the seventh in- ming. when he lost control altogether and forced in run. His support was ball and ground were both wet, mak- ing clean fielding pretty hard, but Vaughan's men had to use the. self same ground and selfsame ball, so Al. t.~A fuf of it all narrows down to this. both Wilhelm and the Birmingham team were in superb fornl--on edge so to speak-while the Climbers and Max well were in anything but good form It was not Montgomery's day and it was Birmingham day. Wilhelm more than played even for defeat given him by Maxwell July 1.
 After two out in the second Lew Walters landed on a two bagger and scored on Montgomery's two bagser.
 AIlcock started the fourth with sizzling drive to left-center; Matthews in, running in on it. slipped and the Vaughanite backstop was safe on fi.st with Allcock on second Dale Gear hit one to Mullaney and was out, out All cock got to third and Matthews to sec ond. Walters hit fly to short-center that Apperious had to run ike 2 good one for. He got under If In time tc- squeeze it and py 2 great snort steao leu ulluScIt FO llldt lN EtOuA3 ttqfAC Ntis throw if Aileock tried to score. be: Allcock didn't try. Then Montgomery hit clean to right, Allcock and Mat thews scoring, great throw. of Mike getting the ball back to Hausen in time to get Meeks at the plate.
 Tn the fifth Matthews hit long fly to left Houtz was playing In too clt se and misJudged 1t. Matthews getting to second on 1t and scoring on Wilhelm's drive to center. Molesworth nit to Maxwell and Wilhelm was thrown out at third Smith hit one that .harti, Schwartz fumbled instead of maktne the double. Schwartz made A Eiee catch of Allcock's fly but Molesworth scored on Meeks's hit, Hausen catching Smith playing off third.
 Mo1esworth walked in the seventh smith dumped a bunt Tn front of the plate and Hausen got it and threw to second to stop Molesworth who got the bag all right Allcock hit to Maxwell who threw Molesworth out at third Meeks was out on fly to Houtz, bl. Gear walked and the bags were full Then Walters walked and Carlos Smttb was forced in, Montgomery ending il with a fly to Schwartz.
 Allcock hit safe in the ninth. Mecks hit safe, both going up base Hr Cearss sacrifice, and both scoring on yyalters's drive to center. Montgom cry went down on fly to A2perioLs and Walters was forced at second on Ma.thews's hit to Busch.
 Perry was out on a hit to Montgom- half Hansen 0n n hit tO