The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-22
AUBURN WINS FROM MALARKY Weems Hands Lemon to Future Team Mates. LEAGUE CLUB LOSES GAME Montgomery Men Could Not Hit
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Auburn, March 21-- Especial. --Lber- al libatfons of leinon were literally law ished on Manager MaIarky's men by the awful Auburn aggregation when the aspirants for the pennant position In the Southern League of Baseball Clubs drew the you're it, assignment by the painful score of three to one. after eight innings of sure enough baseball with the Polytechnic people
 But there Is balm in Gilead, yea there Is some rejoicing In the Auburn vict- ory. For the defeat of Montgomery was a one man affair and the man that turned the big hole card for the De- serted Village lads, will wear a Mont gomery uniform during the champion
 The youngster in question was Sam Weems, who for three years has made Auburn formidable in the collegiate baseball world, and as soon as he re- ceives q piece of sheepskin which en- titles him to sign B. s. Bachelor of Sciencel, after his name, he will re- port to Manager Malarxy and get the second degree. that of B. B P-, which means. base ball pitcher.
 Weems was the whole show as far as both clubs were concerned. Mike Donahue's squod played clever amateur They showed ginger and careful train ing. but there were no bright shining stars except Sam Weems.
 For the Montgomery team, except fin WASiAAIlS tug WilAoHs tlio ChAli0 ds r- gation showed ability and but for poor
 baseball luck, Auburn would never have scored The fielding was fast and certain, but the soaking section had an off day, and with the exception of five binglets, the outfit showed lack of knowledge of the use of the shel- lalah.
 Sam weems was cause of the dis comfort and Malarky still smiles. Lefty Houtz was the only man who seemed able to consistently solve his delivery, while men with tall batting averages such as Sam Apperious, Sweeney and Connors, did but poorly, Ind Biggers, the giant first baseman. was complete- ly buffaloed, and Weems, with some slight assistance on the part of the umpire. made him draw pictures on thin air, three times with his blud-
 Another encouraging feature of the game was the work of Burnum. the southpaw pitcher. During the time the CuIlmari boy was working. the Au- burn batsmen appeared to have bat ting brain storms and punched the air everywhere the ball wasn't He used a wide curve with a beautiful change of pace, his slow ones being es- peciaily effective.
 The Montgomery prayers had much to complain of from the umpire, Ed donbtediy conscientious. but his judg- ment was bad on balls and strikes when Montgomery was batting.
 Malarky refused to kick, but Fred Houtz, after being called out twice when attempting to pilfer second, grew ioouacious. Each time Houtz was paIpably safe and each time, 1t was at a crucial point of the game.
 The good -natured left fielder turned the matter into laugh however when he asked permission to run Tor Swee- ney, and again attempted the steal. This time he was out by three feet.
 The day was ideally warm for base hall. and was played on the sandy Au- burn field in the presence of R fine gathering of students and townspeopie.
 Montgomery opened the battle by se- curing Its first and only run on several wterd plays by the Auburn infield. Hcutz was safe on an infield error, went to third on @ passed ball ana scored On a similar mtscue. Secono Baseman Steele endeavored to see nov and the little short stop went to tniro. Corners fell victim to the dazzling speed of Weems and when sam Apper- ious tapped one to third base, sweeney sttempted to score and was promptly nailed by Churchill Marks. Montgom- arian. .
 the Leaguers ana for two innings the Auburn batsus~n walked right up and turned around and walked right back again, Tn the third inning, however, corked a hit that Houtz failed to get on account of overestimating his speed in the sand.
 With two men or bases, Walsh at tempted to catch Burgess mapping at second. Sweeney let the bali get away from him, Apperious backed up the rlay and had Burgess an easy cut when false bound caused the ball tn go into the crowd and a couple of runs
 The Following inning. Alexander un- corked a long fly ball which dfsap- peared down a steep eusbankment m right centre field and the young left fielder came in with the third run
 Brandt was then on the slab and while tne youngsters touched up Btils pen l ders for several safnties 1t was appar- | ent he was not exerting himself No more scoring resulted,
 Auburn was justly jubilant The hand played and the students cheered 1 For the first time in Southern League | history a professional sIlae had met l defeat at the hands of col!+gians ana | Auburn drew the lucky number Malarky In discussing the game said: 1 eve simply couldn't locate sam. l | guess I've a find in that bey. He has | lots of steam and a nice curve ball. 1 Al, he needs Is a little knowledge or | the inside workings of the game and he | WI! star in any company, ] believe.
 The club meets Mobile tomorrow at l Capitol Heie nts: