The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-14
CLIMBERS AND COASTERS
 TIE UP IN 13-INNING GAME
Game Called at Dark
 With Score , and 2.

In a remarkable pitchers battle Roy Hale and Zellers fought for thirteen innings yesterday afternoon in Atlanta. the game being called on account of darkness at the end of the thirteenth with the score tied, and 2. It was a game of ball such as one generally is fortunate enough to see once in a season, bubbling over with intense interest and excitement and thrills than ones anatomy can be
 The Climbers started ofr in the old run as' in the first inning. % ps then Atlanta Hsr
 tied the score and got one run to the good in the third. In the fifth the Climbers Hint ITS s tied it UP in hard knot ting the run over. From then until the end of the thirteenth inning it was as impossible to loosen the score inch armor plate of a modern battle
 Hale outpitched zellers, in the face nineteen. Hs of zeIiers. shf this 0ea statement e looks incredible. but a close look will confirm the statement. During the thirteen Innings. only three hits were in the third and one in the eighth. the runs in the third inning coming in on 2 couple of infield errors. base on punched On him during the game while his control was superb, the only base on balls coming in that fatal third in- several of them at critical moments when any kind of scratch hit or even a long fly would have meant run. by hitting a batter. offsetting Hale's made of him one was. the pinch that Rs in S ths nnnr in the rse fgs n9ns ha wers 1s punched on him tieing the score. In the sixth there was one hit and two pcsed wscs Sunsh ss bali. n nr ths tWfe tse bsss Hss inning. while zeliers pitched 157. . Traction over twelve an inning. E In the first inning Hale pitched twelve balls, average of four to bat ter; in the second eleven balls, average of one less than three to batter as pitched nineteen balls not three to a batter as there were seven men up; in the four ten balls. three men up; in the fifth; thirteen balls balls three ftal men up and md sixth he made the record of the game,
 there were three men up and retired
 the side on six pitched balls, average there were four men up and he retired
 the side with fourteen pitched balls. not four to batter: in the eighth he up, average of four to batter; in the ninth he pitched eight balls with three
 men up, less than three to batter; in
 the tenth fourteen balls, with three
 men up. In the eleventh. nine balls with
 three men up; in the twelfth fourteen
 up. showing that he was finishing as strong as at the start.
 Zellers pitched seventeen balls in the
 first inning with five men up, not four to a batter; twelves balls in the sec
 ond inning. three men up, average four
 batter; ten balls third inning, three
 men up; thirteen balls fourth inning. three men up: twenty-two balls fifth inning, six men up, not four to a bat ter; nine balls sixth inning, four men up, fraction over two to batter; ten i sixteen balls eighth Inning three men up. over five to batter; thirteen balls
 ninth inning. three men up: twelve | balls eleventh inning, three men up. | average three to a batter; seventeen
 balls twelfth inning; four men up, over
 thirteenth inning, three men up, nearly | five to a batter.
 | A glance at these comparisons will
 Hale and but for the two unfortunate errors in the third inning he would
 have shut Atlanta out easily. Both
 Schwartz and Perry led them all. The
 story told over the Higgins wire was | like this:
 Things began coming the Climbers l when Houtz the first man up, was hit l by Zellers: Thornton was out on a fly | to Fox; Schwartz drove to center: Ap- perious hit to Jordon and Schwartz was l out at second; but Houtz sprinted over | the plate; Mullaney hit one at Fox.
 who threw Apperious out at second. Hoffman was out at third in the last half: Crozier on a hit to Perry and | Curtis was out on a hit to Hilley. Perry and McAleese struck out in
 the second, Hilley going out on hit to | Morse.
 | Morse was out on a fly to Hilley in
 the last half; Winters hit safe, but
 Jordon was out on a fly to Apperious,
 and Fox struck out.
 Hale and Houtz struck out in the ] third. and Thornton was out on hit to Jordon.
 l Perry made grand stop of Evers's 1 hot hit in thc last half; Mullaney let Zellers's hit get away from him: Hon-
 man walked: Perry dug up Crozier s
 hit and threw Hoffman out at second.
 This should have retired the side but for l