The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
HELLER WINS HIS OWN GAME Goes Up in the Air in
 Seventh. TOTAL ABSENCE OF KICKING Atlanta Pitcher Neatly Blocks At-
 tempted Squeeze, With McCann on Third. Ball Tries to Blunt, But Zellers Throws High
 One, Catching McCann At
TOTAL ABSENCE OF KICKING

To the wonderful control, nerve and steadiness of Rube Zellers. Is due the victory of Atlanta yesterday. when they got the second game of the series by a score of ( to 3.
 Zellers pitcher a great game of ball. There is no doubt of that. Five scat tered hits were made off him, and his steadiness and control with runners on base was feature of the game. In only one inning, the seventh, did he lose con- trol. and 1t nearly cost him the game, but in this inning he pulled off neat piece of headwork. Two runs had all ready been scored, and there was only one out with a runner on third and a good show to have the game tied up.
 Zellers saw that the squeeze was to be worked, gave Ball one so high that he could not possibly hit 1t, and Me Cam, who had dashed in from third, was caught at the plate.
 Burnum started Tn for the locals and was pitching nice ball up 10 the sixth inning. when a two-bagger, ihree- bagger and a single put in a couple of runs. One run had come in in the sec ond inning as result of a batter being hit and pinch two -bagyer The fourth run came in the eighth ming with Bert Maxwell in the box. A two-bagger and 6 bunt that nobody could get to. with @ fly to the outfield. did the business.
 Burnum stayed in the box a bit too long. If he had been taken out after the single and three bagger had been made in the sixth there Is a chance that the locals would have won the game.
 Malarky did everything in his power to get the game, but it looked as if the locals used bad judgment in the sew enth inning. Zellers was up in the air and had filled the bags by walking the first two men up and hitting the third If they had waited. the chances are that Zellers would have forced a run in they didn't wait.
 The locals played far better fielding game than Atlanta, Nye being the only one to break into the error column.
 A damper was put on the locals in the first inning when Houtz was tripped unintenttonally by Fox at first base and his leg badly sprained. Zellers had made wild throw to first and if Houtz had been all right he could have gone to third. This incident had much to do with Atlanta winning the game
 The crowd was one of the largest weekday crowds that ever attended a ball game in Montgomery. and the most pleasing feature of the game was the total absence of kicking on the part of the Atlanta team.
 In the second Dyer was hit by the ball, stole second and scored on Cas- tro's drive to left field for two bags Burnum striking out Fox and Zellers and letting Paskert down on foul fly to Perry.
 O'Leary hit safe In the sixth. Becker was out trying to bunt, and O'Leary scored on Dyer's three bagger to left Fox was out on long fly to Houtz, but Dyer scored. Paskert hit for two bags. but Castro was out on hit to Perry. the score being to o.
 In the last of the seventh Zellers went up in the air and the game was al most gone before he got back to eerth. Ratchford and Perry both walked and McCann was hit by the ball, filling the bags. Then Apperious was out on a fly to Paskert Ratchford counting, and Perry scoring when Zellers threw wild to Dyer, McCann getting to third. Then the squeeze was tried, but Zellers block ed it by sending Ball a high one. Me Cam getting out at the plate. Ball hit safe and stole second and Anderson was sent to bat for Burnum, ending it with a long outfleld fly.
 Maxwell was in in the eighth when Becker hit for two bags, Dyer dumping a bunt that neither Maxwell or Bali could get to, Becker going to third and scoring on Fox's fly to Houtz.
 No more scoring was done by either sode, and thet game closed 1 to in ia Vor of Atlanta
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