The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-20
LOCALS TAKE INITIAL GAME Win From Atlanta by
 Score of 3 to }. WRANGLMG SPOnS AFTERNOON Umpire Rim Proves Too Lenient
 With Kickers. "Smilins John" Malarlky starts Fitch ing for Montgomery, But is
 Batted Hard and Leo Walsh
 is Called In.
wRANGLMG SPOnS AFTERNOON

By a score of 3 to 2 the locals nosed out the Atlanta team and captured the first game of the series by a narrow
 margin.
 The game was marred and lots of enjoyment taken from it by the con- stant wrangling of the Atlanta team
 who at the very beginning started their tiresome kicking and adhered re-
 ligiously to it to the end. Umpire Rim made the mistake of being too lenient with the beeting tactics of the if he had put Manager Billie Smith and one or two of the others out of the game and grounds at the start he would have had far less trouble.
 Just as the crowd was leaving the grandstand after the game, Smith made use of some offensive remarks. A big crowd of ladies going out of the grand stand were within a few feet of him words. This feature, together with an inadequate car service, robbed the af- ternoon of its pleasure. But Montgom- cry got the and Atlanta the ? after John Malarky started in for the To- calls with Baxter Sparks for the other people and for five innings the local manager was pitching great ball. three hits being made off him. while he gave three bases on balls and struck out four batters.
 In the S1AIn a IhTe6-Ddkkefs tW0- bagger and single were punched on him, putting in couple of runs and tieing the score. Malarky promptly took himself out of the box and sub stituted Leo Walsh, one hit being made off the faxen haired Texan.
 Sparks pitched nice game of ball. eight hits being made off him. two of ! them being punched in the fifth i'm ming. The official score gives seven hits, but if ever hit in the world was made the one of Fred Houtz in the seventh inning was a hit; He hit q terrific one to right field which get the tips of his fingers on. Houtz sliding into third. The oficiaa score, however, gives Becker an error and fails to give Houtz the hit; The hit dividual averages of The Advertiser. The nearest that Atlanta came to scoring before the sixth inning was second when Houtz let it get by him. going to third on Becker's bunt to Wye. Dyer then walked and Nye made l one of the fastest plays of the game when he dug up Jim Fox's hit and like a flash fired 1t to Anderson in time to stop OLeary at the plate.
 With one down in the last of the fifth, Malarky hit to right for two bags. Houtz was out on a, fly, to Pas kert, Nye walked and Andy Anderson put one in the far corner of the left field fence. It was a clean three-bag- ger ana DOIn Malafky anu ENyo eCOIeo' O'Leary started the sixth with three-bagger. scoring on Becker's drive to center. Dyer sacrificed Beck CT, who scored on Fox's two-bagger, | tieing the score. Then Malarky came out and Walsh went in and nothing more was doing.
 With the score tied. Houtz hit terrific jolt to right field, Becker mak- ing a great run and getting the tips of his fingers on the ball. Becker made a great throw to Dyer and while the play was close Rim called Houtz safe after sliding into third. A mo- ment afterwards Sparks threw wild to Dyer and Houtz tallied with the run that won the game
 Nothing else was done by either side and the game closed with the score 3 to in favor of the locals.