The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-22
JOHN MALARKY'S PLAYERS
 JUST FULL OF GINGER

being played and helping in the frs, run. Twice the squeeze was tried and once 1t failed. the lightning like work ming putting the Nashville team com Pietely In the air. Friday, John Ma larky, went in against Atlanta and for th nWe innings had them shut out, only In the sixth they began hitting him ana put over two runs which tied the score. To his credit the local mana ing. the game and only one hit was made off him. the locals getting the winning run on Houtz's hit In the sev- saxnr sasn ana ending the game 3 to 2 Tn mum started in against Zellers and while the Cullman boy pitched a. nice fame fSs oos,s of bal zellers Was too much for day. Maxwell finishing the game and not being In shipe. Malarky's men have four hard games ahead of then, Atlanta and the remainder of the week with. Birmingham The local fans are banking high on them.
 Noticeable Improvement.
 noipta Mhiie l., there re, is ga drop of twenty one ne last week over the week before. the improvement Is noticeable. In the Q games last week 29 hits were made to 23 the week before, an average of a fraction under hits game. while last week to II in the games the week before, an average of runs 8 game. Andy Anderson and John Ma iarky have the highest batting aver ages. Malarky having hits in games ana Andy hits in games. Fred Houtz really leads the regulars with ID hits in games. among them . couple of 3-baggers and a 2-bagger
 BIT Nye is second with z hits in ! games, Sam Apperious has hits in games and Clayton Perry hits in games, but Sam was at bat more times than Perry giving the latter the highest percentage. Houtz got hits in games last week, Apperious and Ferry each, while the improvement In the round work of Hatchford was noticeable, he getting hits in the 5 games, and putting up Q fast game.
 The fielding game that the locals put up last week is the fastest thing Of the kind ever seen in Montgomery genuine championship baseball. In the games they had 146 putouts to IS In the games the week before- nearly 29 game-31 assists, over 6 a game, and only errors in the 5 games to in the games of the week before.
 Apperious. Hausen, Anderson, Walk CT and McCann still have clean sfates Bill Hausen is playing a great game with 5S chances perfectly accepted. Sam Apperious has 22 and Anderson 12 without pebble. In 53 chances Perry has l error, Ratchford having error in 63 chances while in 20 chances Houtz has 1 error. Nye has errors in 2s chances but he seems to fit in second base like a glove. The team fielding average is 33 points higher than last week and the work is a decided improvement.
 Record of the Twirlers.
 Walker leads the pitching staff with game won and lost. though both of them should have been won, Swee- ny losing his game for him in Atlanta. In the two games 10 hits have been while he has given bases on balls. average game, and struck out batters--nearly { a game. Maxwell has won one and lost one of the games that he has pitched the third game being the one in which he relieved Burnum Saturday. An average of 5 hits a game have been made off him while he has given not quite bases on balls a game and struck out an average of nearly men game. A fraction over hits a game have been made of Walsh. his third game being the one in which he relieved Malarky Friday and won.
 Malarky is not in his old form yet. over hits game having been made off him while he has given nearly 4 bases on balls a game and struck out over batters a game. In his one game ' hits have been made off Burnum though his control is good 1 base on balls and strikeouts-he seems in good shape and has one of the most perfect floating balls going.
 The batting. fielding and pitching averages for the last games are: