The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19
HOT WEATHER
 A GOOD TONIC Ball Tossers Work With Snap and Ginger. FANS LIKE THE PERFORMANCE Ma1arky's Bunch Shows Up Ex- ceptionally Well in Practice. Members of Team Bat and Field in Red Hot Manner--Day's Work Makes
 Smiling John Look
 Happy.
FANS LIKE THE PERFORMANCE

good and proper out at the ball lot yes tsrday and Malarky put his squad through the stiffest days work they have had so far.
 bit cool. but before o'clock every Gf 95rns tss s 9 Int ola ss ss conss quence was that when the afternoon work started about 2 o'clock. the crowd of fans watching the men hunt,
 The hot weather was like a tonic to the ball players and the ginger that manager to grab his own hands and shake them with a congratulatory grip.
 Bill" Nye went to the lot. where he at t'S short, lts sweeny @ H working the short field The boosts that have come to Montgomery regarding this chap. are nos one ra Dit nG tbg ner with which he knocks down a red- hot liner and shoots 1t over to Perry on second brought joy to every fan on
 connors on third, Perry on second and BiGgers on first showed up in way that would seem to indicate that to make that famous outfieId hump it. self to hold it's reputation of being the fastest thing of the kind in the south
 Whether the hot weather had any thing to do with 1t is a question. but each one of the bunch certainly hit harder than he has since the beginning
 A good deal of Malarkys time was spent in coaching the boys. He work ed hard with yogsnE Leslie. M who csteninr ls ae- like a veteran. throwing well to bases and hitting the ball hard. Andy An derson took his place when Malarl<y them over the plato with lots of that same speed that made many batter look like punches of dried prunes last
 Pitching stan Does Fine.
 John was afraid to keep gp the fast s Brandt Bn aI has s@is all of s his old time speed and seems to be finding the plate bet ter than he did. If he can last an en- tire nine innings like he does the nrst three, he is going to make great pitcher this summer.
 Burnum and Walsh are also round ing to nicely. and the box staff cer-
 Biii Hausen got in on a late train last night, and a telegram from Walk CT says the southpaw will be here sometime today.
 yesterday morning saying that his father had died at the family home in Sandusky, Ohio. and the fast right fielder left for that place last night McCann will probably not get back to Montgomery until the latter part of next week, and Nye or Busch will possibly be worked in right field dur Busch was laid up yesterday and Max we'll could not get out 1t prevented the scheme of dividing up and play ing a practice game.
 Two Mere Practice Games.
 Malarky received a proposition from Auburn yesterday to take the team to that place for game Thursday. The proposition was to give him s15 aI anA rained. The local manager declined with thanks and there will not be a game with Auburn unless they make a better proposition
 uled by Malarky yesterday morning. Perry Lipe's bunch of Macon South Att lantic League people will play here son game this year, the championship season opening three days after that, on the following Wednesday. April 10th.
 When the flag does fall for the breakaway, no team fin this League will be as fit as Ma1arkys. They are aleady gettting hard as nails and by the 10th of April should be in the pink of condition.
 One of Last Summers Great Games.
 Some great games of ball were pulled off in this league last summer, but one or the most reulaTkaDl0 COD- tests was a game with Birmingham at Athletic Park on Wednesday, July Ii. John Malarky and Rip Reagan were working and. while MaIarky outpitched the Vaughnite, sharp, clever fielding kept the score down.
 The game went ten innings without a score. Pfenninger calling 1t by agree ment at the end of the last half of the tenth with the tally sheet reading. "O-O." Both Malarky and Reagan were in magnificent form. Each was keyed up to the limit and went ahead at top speed during the entire ten in
 Only two hits were made off Ma larky, Roy Montgomery hitting clean in the third and Dale Gear getting a scratch in the eighth. Malarky struck out five men to Reagan's four, while each of them gave only one base on balls. Malarky's gift was intentional and demon strated the clever general ship and cool head of the man who will guide the destiny of the local team 'hif If Was in the eighth inning when. with two down. Harry Mathews was up. Mathews had been stinging the ball pretty hard during the two pre- | ceding games with Montgomery and | Malarkv did not intend to take any l chance. He deliberately gave Mathews | four wide ones and took a chance on | striking out the next batter who | chanced to be Rip Reagan. It was a Malarkys superb control carried the 1 day; and the scheme worked perfectly. The locals came pretty near break | ing up the game in the second inning, when Mullaney hit safe and got to | third when Mike McCann punched a