The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-15
MONTGOMERY
 TAKES FIRST Fast Game Played by
 Climbers. SUGGS LAMBASTED A-PLENTY Maxwell Pitches Fine Game for
 Five Innings. With Memphis only Two Runs Behind, Bases Are Filled In The Ninth,
 But Maxwell steadies

The tally sheet was dented with some abrasions that when interpreted read:
 Montgomery, 5; Memphis, B."
 It was In the last half of the ninth inning, and with the bases full and only two out. that the thrills given by the first loop-the- loop at Coney were made to feel like ride inNan OK wagon beside the frenzied excl .ament of the fans at Jack Higgins place, who were breath
 Richards was up and a clean hit would tie, If not win. the game by a the runner out at first And the game, so exciting as to be painful, was over With Montgomery winning by a score
 Malarky sent Bert Maxwell in for the first Memphis game and Babb put up simon" SuggS, who had won both of his games against Montgomery this
 Maxwell was in great form in the nrst part of the game, and up to the sixth inning but two hits had been in the second. and Scoops Carey one in the fourth. In the sixth, however, three punched hits-one two bagger the. eighth a couple of punched hits the Babblers
 E., The Climbers hit suggs hard, ,bunch- three In the sixth. The rapid game they played had the Egyptians resem- bling their ancestral mummies. In the the squeeze missed. and in the sixth he squeezed Hausen in. All, of them played swift game and Babb's people went up in the | ir several times.
 It was horribly close in the ninth in- ming and many fans shut their eyes expecting to hear the hit that was to well steadied himself-and it was all over
 Suggs started in with a whirl, strik- ing out Houtz Noah Henline faced his olo teammate and worked him for a walk, going to second on Balls hit to Richards, but Baxter ended it with a fly to Neighbors.
 Jimmy Manning, the new man from the East that knocked young Wander graft out of a job, was the first man SR ana and was va & out on q hit to Perry. Babb put put he knocked @ 1t down and got his fly to Malarky.
 was esusht stean n ssne,d the second fS Rs being retired.
 Richards hit safe In the last half and was worked round to third but
 In the third the Climbers did ali sorts of things-strewed the frappied remnants of Mi. suggs all over the HNd0C AhOhhCy6 out Charlie Babb's ball team and broke into the run column. Malarky opened it with a 9rlye to center. Maxwell bunted and SSH5ggs; S5agg :bse gettti1g tin his dates badly jun trying to stop Malarky, and both run dumped 2 net bunt at Richards Ma larky getting to third and Maxwell to second on the sacrifice. Then they tried the squeeze, but Suggs shot in a ni:a.S high one ut that 1at,, Henline hit at and plate, and it was too late to get back to third. Richards and Owens tried to get him in chace, but Malarky slipped Work oaG'ed aenha mhknS n out, but Maxwell had scrambled to third on the play, scoring on Balls hit, Ball getting out stealing second-but ., It looked rather black in the last of ey hit clean Babb reaching third on one at Perry which was promptly re | turned to Hausen in time to kill Babb | at the plate. A double was made when ond. Scoops started for third and the l ball was fired to Perry in time to get Carey. completing the double and re-
 In the fifth suggs tried to stave in the left side of lIr. Yves anatomy. Wye reached second on Malarkys hit to Babb and coqnted on Houtz's drive to In the sixth the Climbers clinched it. | With one out Baxter beat out a bunt. | Hausen walked and Richards let the | bags get choked by messing Perrys hit. Nye bunted towards first but Carey was playing in on it and there was nobody there to cover the bag leaving the bags still full. Then the | squeeze was worked to perfection tMalarky dumping bqnt towards plate, Maxwell struck out. A double steal was tried. all kinds of chanches being taken. Nye started for third and Perry for the plate but Perry was thrown out. ending 1t. But the score was now to 0.
 With one out in the last of the fourth Manning and Babb hit safe 1 Carey pounding out two b. anC scoring both of them When Malarky couldn't get Babbs in the last o1 1 the eighth the Memphis manaeer was out on Carey's hit to Wye. Richard: hit safe and Carey reached third or Carters hit to Nye, scoring when Perry fumbled Neighbours hit, making tho score to 3.
 With one out in the last of the ninth Plass and Manning hit clean. Babt | was out on a fly to Ball, but Maxwell | got himself in the hole-seemingly | though it may have been gooC judg' ment-by walking Carey. Richards | ended 1t with a hit to Perry, and tho | game was over with the Climbers talk ing first blood.
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