The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-23
Thomas Was Master of
 Situation.
BREITENSIEIN HAMMERED
 FOR THREE EARNED RUNS
Locals Had TAinss Their Way From the First and Hsd We. by the. End er the Fourth--Pepe
 Was the Star.

(oiu dnoi drlzziy the ram that IS fall- ing. but inside the little cottage every thing is warm and bright. The lamp
 on the table is lighted and a savory
 aroma ;of broiling steak and "a pot of
 coffee is occasionally waited through
 the room. In the bent form by the nreside one would hardly recognize our old friend Jimmy Ryan, but bent tho
 ne ne e.da is, the ua.s score of, years that have
 with him and his eye Is stIil bright and his skin rpddy. Lazily. he sits before
 the fire, his slippered feet on l. carpet s5Soi siS ol,ss and long pipe stem caressing Jennie and baby Moose" who are
 waiking around, the table occasionally pinch Ing af the bread ahd playing with the the knives and forks but his repri-
 In the bowling of the wind the ,ln- mates, Of the. cozy little room, hardly near the first knock of the portly visi- let him in. and his great coat dripping ana the tips of his snowy. mustache icy, a great man enters. The smile of greeting he receives assures him of his comtortabie rocker on the other side or the hearth. A moment later the simple meal IS served and when it is oyer the two old cronies light up and with something in a bottle on the cor- ner I Of the table. start talking over old
 @Lst's see" says Jln., do you re- member some eighteen or twenty 1907. we had a couple. of teams in a league down In the southern States. the year before T took over the Cubs, as rns chicago team was then called7"
 Charlie scratches his nose.
 Kes. have faint (?) recollection: Ses, yes. indeeds that reminds me of a pecullar incident. 2 Why, to be sure, Temsm Der distinctly. Yes. had that lteve it was; anyway one day we were playing you in MontgOmery my team et the top of the league and you, am sorry to remember, were somewhere
 well. the game was rs spsakinx Q, Mas slne just after you had taken on a couple of new men, you beat us one aay s ay,sln \, q wnlrlWil1d finish, then the sefth et t,. II @ naa told the men they had to
 .'rhings Joeged along rather inter- estingiy for a while then in the third llasnine. 1T Il mistake not, a chap named Was tumbled, then big guy named Greminger slammed one out to center 9rter Reagan had stolen second. and scosed nm. The next Inning my men though one ball bounced of the sthird sackor, a little chap who was pIayfnr short nabbed 1t and Killed the runner sro se rEsL S1d A It was pretty work and the pexter, man had playing first. slarn- med three-sacker to the fence gbut 1lli. the man who followed, was rob. ,3s Ssu s,sst o.f 2 single 6y one-hand scoop Eepe, was his name; the. same boy that led the Cincinnati team in 1912. in hit- ,,e1s; mnE He @ Jed the league, too, for that seemed to be your day, in yoari hssif of f me fourth this same Pope slams one over short and your pitcher had the nerye to score him from second. which short. That pitcher. Thomas was lis name. was certainly beaut
 the ter asxsnth tnat ,t tthings were quiet until over sscona tnen, ta pextsr sent single sent him on another base with a crisp slngleA Huer, a fast little chan I had sn s snort. sacrificed the others on a seemed to forget ali about the men on on pase, for the, pitcher scooped up the bunt, tossed 5it to third and Dexter Y vas as caught between third and home. bst for my etwirlers and I was glad of 1t, for he lifted one over secoTld that scored i'll. The next man up Eot pesy sntnsd iittIs .ags sge Sssn single but the
 It wasn't any use. your team ad set out to win. and although put in nay pest pitcher, chap named Brett at will, why Thomas, your pitcher Vst started the inning with a 'beaut right over second He was sacrificed on a pdS paSe ny Persons. and then after Hop gut to the catcher, leaving two men down and one on second up waltzed that Dig chap, Reagan Britt thought him. but he made mistake in doing 1t. He was followed by a seven foot midget Griminger. who p1astered one through my centerfeldsr's legs, scoring sacker. think 1t was, singled and scored Grimingeri
 Tn the. eighth. your doggone old not content with this. when your @ side came in they waltzed into my star Breitenstein. again and fixed him. As usual usual 2. man was walked and as very Is as good as a score. The part that was beginning to get on my nerves was that It was Pope who was walked. that was muffed by the shortstop cov- ering second. and then that pitcher. sacrificed This put Pope on third. and. to finish matters my first Pepe sailed in Thank goodness. the last ia |, man H., ID had the decensy to fly out
 Then the most trying e3oer,ence of my fife took place Tn my half of the ninth every one of the three men who came up hit, things that looked like hits. to that everlasting Pope and so helped me, he copped all three in 
 But say" broke in Jimmy; ''how do you remember all this? That was a ong time ago.
 How do I remember? Why dog gone 1t, I kept a copy of the score Of that game; I Found 1t in an old. coat pocket this fall and chanced to pick 1t up tonight. Here Is it, and its the ofi. cial score, too" r
 New Orleans AB R BH PoA F Rickert. If. :. .. .... 3 0 0