The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-07
BREAK EVEN IN DOUBLE BILL Hub Perdue Redeems Sumner County. PITCHED TWO GREAT GAMES Malarky's Men Unable to Touch
 Him in First. Despite This Great Ninth Inning Rally in Which Piteher Participated
 Was All that Saved
 His Hide.


 back in the sos Captain A. c. Franklin invaded the Blue Grass regions of Ken lucky and purchased three mares.
 Nevada and Arizona were two of them, and these matrons, through the veins of which flowed the best 3lood or the thoroughbred produced horses that afterwards made Sumner County famous. For years and years 1t was known as the home of the blue-blood- ed equine.
 Many have been the horses that trod It's soil. but almost as quick as It came scurity, through the everlasting work of reformers, its fame slowly ebblng away because of adverse Legislation that 1t was no more to be referred to by the p"@~le of the land.
 But comes forward, not a horse, but a lad. who hopes to keep the old coun- ty back before the sporting world. Hub Purdue is the boy. He is not working to regain Summers prestige as thor it on the map through his ability to whip benders over the plate that the great batters cannot solve. It is base ball. ball nov, and ,nd. not horses, thst will win
 This lad who of late has been crit icized for his cratic ways on the slab, yesterday afternoon stood on the rub the greatest article of ball in his ca reer. Montgomery was his opponent, but good batters as they are, MT Ma thing with his curves and had Hub been accorded half the support he was entitled to another double header would now be to the credit of the
 It required Perdue's own hit in the ninth to win the first. while he lost the second as a direct result of a mis- erable error of MT. Hardy.
 The score were: Nashville, 4; Mont. gomery, ?, first game; Montgomery, f. Nashville, B., second game.
 By rights, Montgomery was entitled to one run in each game, errors alons giving them their other taIlies.
 To win the first 1t required one of these great ninth inning rallies. THe score stood two to one against the Boosters. McElveen opened, but went back to the bench on an infield out. Carr followed, smashing a beautiful drive to the bank w.-ich netted two aseslinldtntairioniacu fn m bases. Hardy came up and scored him with drive to right. Perdue was on deck. Rat for Perdue,'' yelled Dobbs to Elme rDuggan, but hardly had he got the words out of his mouth be- fore echanged his mind, telling Hub to go up.
 An error of Yves allowed Hardy to reach second, while Jack was stealing. hill to relieve Maxwell after Hardy hit The college fad from Album whipped two to Perdue. Hub missed the first. but the second one he landed square in the shoot, the ball just pas sing to the right of Ball. Hardy coming home with the winning run Hub was given an ovation and well did he de- serve it, for in the nine innings but three hits. one scratch, came off his benders.
 With the proper support Montgom- cry would have scored. passed ball by Wells and a hit of loose fielding, with Carr's error giving the Leglsld- ever had an assortment of curves that fellow is .Perdue. Especially so on :his occasion. He had everything; he also Kid Wells could do to stand in front
 Maxwell was almost invincible up to the final round. when the. two hits dog house." In the second, Perdue was just as strong. but errors, three in number. allowed two men to score
 A single, a base on balls and a bin gle by Houtz scored another in the fourth.
 It began to look like shut-out, for Mir. Malarky was pitching great ball. but in tine eighth Nashville started the famous wind-up rally. and by. hit- ting hard sent three men over, tfeing 1t up
 McElveen opened in this round with a three-sacker. and scored on Carr's Texas leaguer. Hardy was issued a free pass and Perdue followed with a sacrifice. Wiseman's two bagger to the dump scored both the runners. Neither side could score in the ninth. Montgomery opened the tenth, the first two men up being outed.
 Hausen dre wa free pass, Malarky came up and hit one to the dump for a single. Hardy in returning the ball .threw 1t to the middle of the dia- mond. No one could get near 1t and Hausen took advantage of the wild throw and completed the circuit from first with the winnin grun. Outside of the pitching of Perdue there was not a feature of the game. Both were void of excitement and listless.