The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-18
Locals, Damaged Nash ville'S Pennant
 Hopes Much. SITToN'S MOIST THING
 WAS SPANKED BADLY Thomas, on Other Hand, Was a
 Very Steady Lad. Explosion Came in FrightfuI Third, When InaeId CrumbIed and the Pan Rattled in Horrible
 Cadence.

With rush at once resistless and cyclonic, the Climbers swept the lead CTS of the league off their feet and in a walk-away copped the first game of the series by a score of 8 to 3 yester- day.
 Just how much of the future of both teams and possibly of pjxie's entire yesterdays diamond scrap. was shown by the way that every man on both teams started on. Every man of them was on his toes from the tap of the gong, and for the first three innings it is a question if as gingery. hotly been seen in Montgomery.
 Both Thomas and Sitton were in magnificent shape and both were pitch ing championship ball. Thomas had his usual superb control and grand speed with some wide breaks on hts curves that most of the time during the fest ival had Big Bill's bunch running close race in point of resemblance to them Dubs as were down here last week.
 Sitton was using dazzling speed and for a while he had the Climbers locooed His splitter was what got him into trouble. As he got a little deeper in the game he was unable to control the damp fling, the pesky thing dragging him into holes over his head several times. In the meantime, Thomas was
 
 only warming up, and the backing that he was getting was efectrifying to the local fans and at the same time made Sitton and the Sulphur Bottom bunch
 The Volunteers realized that they had gotten up against the toughest propo- sition that they had ever struck in their lives. Their slender hold on the top of the heap was tottering and to hold it they were acutely aware of the fact that they had to play some pretty swift baseball.
 while Thomas was wonderfully cool that he was on the hill, the aggressive rushing fight that the Climbers were putting up was taking all the fire out of the South Atlantic recruit. He started it all with a fearful throw to second and then the entire combination back of him blew up.
 The rapid work of the Climbers seemed to stupefy the Nashville peo- pie, and together with the steady. re- morseless hitting of the Climbers, some plays were made by the Tennessee tn- field and outfield that looked rather rancid. Of the six hits credited against in the ninth. and the others were scratches Not a base on balls did he give and he struck out five batters.
 Besides losing control. Sitton was hit pretty hard. Five hits were punched in the third and a couple more in the seventh. while of the four bases on balls that he gave, three of thenN came in the seventh inning and two of them counted.
 How Runs Were Made.
 Rockenfield beating out a hit to East in the second and Butler beating of hits that had been made by either side up to the last half of the third Tn the last half of the third the pun ishment that the Climbers handed X0unR MT Sift0n nitifnl Pane broke open that session by sprlnting down to first and beating out a hit got 1t and in trying to throw Pope
 out at second fired the ball out to center field. Pope going to third and coming in on Thomas clean hit to Then the swats came, thick and fast. Persons drove Hart in with a hit to center. Hopkins hit to left and Thomas started in; The ball was re- the same time that Thomas slid into the plate. Carpenter calling him out. r Reagan struck out and then cana the, play that cinched the game and made the Nashville bunch look foolish. i Greminger hit a ball that was too close in & for Bay to get and too far t but couldn't get to 1t. Persons and | Hopkins scoring. Greminger had never slackened up and when the ball was fired wild to Seabaugh he also | counted. Perry struck out but five | runs had come in.
 Seabaugh hit safe in the sixth but was forced at second on Sitton's hit to 1 Perry. Persons got Bays fly but | Wiseman hit for two bags, Sitton going | to third. he and Wiseman scoring on | East's three bagger.
 1 With one out Tn the seventh Per. sons hit safe again. Hopkins walked l and Persons stole third. scoring or Reagan's fly to Bay. Greminger walk 1 ed and there was a double steal, Rea. ] gan scoring, Greminger scoring wheI