The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-01
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Philadelphia. Sept. so--In one of the rreatest base ball games ever seen In thix city, Detroit and Philadelphia. who arc making sensational fight for the American League championship to- day played each other to a standstilf. \ The game went seventeen innings and was called by the umpires because u was too dark to play any longer. There being no result. the positions of the teams remain the same, Detroit having a lead of seven points Each team has seven more games on its schedule be- fore the season ends.
 Rouxnsan strfikes Crons.
 The multitudc within the enclosure was well controlled. except in the four teenth timing. when First Baseman Rossman. of Detroit. nearly caused a riot. In this inning Davis hit to cen- serf1eld. the fielder dropping the ball in the crowd. Crawford claimed he was interfered with. and the whole Detrolr team came in to back up Crawford's claim.
 h the confusion that followed, Ross- man struck Monte Cross. who was coaching. Cross went at Rossman but the other players stopped hostilities. The crowd surged on rne neId and for a few minutes matters looked danger ous. but the excellent work of tho p0- lice prevented further disorder. and the crowd fell back Davis was declared out and Rossman was put out of the game. Killian took his place.
 The honors of the game undoubtedly belong to Donovan, who after being hammered for fourteen hits in seven in- nings, pulled himself together and the more he pitched the better he semed to get. In the last ten innings he held the home team to six nits. He only gave three bases on balls in the sew enteen innings. Dygert lasted only a little more than one inning, when he was relieved by the famous Waddell. The latter pitched remarkable ball for three things. striking out six of the first eight men that faced him. but he later weakened and was replaced by Plank in the ninth inning after Cobb had hit him fer home run, tieing the score. Plank pitched his usual steady game and was seldom in trouble.
 Philadelphia looked like an easy wfn- ner up to the seventh inning when they had lead of ' to i. In the seventh, score to 8. Detroit made four runs on poor fielding, added one in the eighth ana tied it up in the ninth. Both teams scored in the eleventh and from then to the finish neither side could get the ex-
 Gamc in Detail
 First inning: Detroit--Jones out Coilins to Davis. Schaeffer flies to Oldring. Crawford beats out infield hit and Cobb files to oldring. NNo runs.
 Philade1phia--Hartse singles and steals second. Nichols sacrifices and seyboid walks. Davis's drive was toe hot for O'Leary and Hartsel scored Seybold sson second. Murphy singles filling basee Collins flies to Jones and Seybold scores on the out. Old. ring doubles and Davis tallies. O'Leary throws Schreck out. Three runs.
 Second inning: Detroit Rossnar singled Dygert made q bad throw oi Conghiin's gronnder. Schmidt sacri- fices and O'Leary hit to Dygert Schreck drops pygert's throw to plat, and Rosnnan scores. Dygert taker out and Daddell goes in. Jor1s struck ouf and so did schaeffer. One run.
 iiade1phia-Waddell strikes out Hartsel flies to Crawford. Donovan gets Nicholls. No runs Score, De troit. 1: Philadelphia, 3.
 Third inning. Detroit-Crawfort