The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-16
Won the Game in the First Inning. Hard Hitting Drove Johns From
 Box. Guese Landed Another Game-Resgan Drove Out . Home Run and Jimmy Ryan Smashed Out
 Three-Bagger.

be1ore one Of the best Monday crowds ever seen on the local grounds the Climbers trimmed the gang from Blowyille yesterday by score of 4
 The combination rung up against
 oo o'Os s smn for and tSsm his Rsopss seSa gas wa6 Whitey Guese was working in great form, six hits being the output gath cred by the Georgla cohorts. Then Jimmy Ryan was in centerfield him self for the first time in a month or so and he not only injected a lot of gin- ger Into his team but drove In one of the runs and did some brilliant field ing. Another important cog of the combination was the fact that for the first time since that winning combina- tion of April and May Archie Persons was leading of in the batting order. Last but not least. every man on the home team was applauded every time he came to bat. The roofing was pret- ty noisy and with such encouragement, why, the. team just went in and licked the Crackers. that's all.
 Guese was given snappy support, only two errors being made behind him. The first error was Pepe's losing Castro to score The other error was when Archie Persons dropped Hurl- burt's fly in the sixth inning. but for tunately 1t did not amount to anything.
 Billy Smith started off with his left handler. Johns. in the box, but he last ed about as long as a snowball would on a red hot stove. retiring to the bench to think 1t over after the Climb Inning. Al Cummings, right-hander. went in In the second and for the eight innings he worked magnificent ball. only three hits were made off him.
 ond while Steve Reagan's home run and Guese's drive. both in the fourth, made the three hts, one of them a scratch. He was given splendid sup nH4 hA anTx hof fffF ble of Shannon's hik In the seventh.
 Moran nit safe with two down in the first but Baxter got Winters fly,
 Then came very bad few moments up in the last half. was walked and a man in a snow white suit of clothes walked up and looked at MT. Johns. That man was James Ryan, manager swing and vicious pinch he pushed the ball out to the left center field fence. Persons registering. Castro made. fast pla- in getting Baxter's. hit. Grem- inger struck out and MT. Johns tried to dent Perry. Perry started to second with Ryan on third looking as If he would not have any scruples about coming home Hurlburt thought that discretion was the better part of valor and let Perry steal without being both cred. Then Steve Reagan drove one just over Johns's head to center field, Ryan and Perry counting. Reagan be- Ing forced at second on Pepe's hit to Castro. But three runs had come across.
 Mr. Johns went to the stable and Mfr. Cummings went to the box In the second and one scratch hit was all th could be made off him until the fourth when Reagan drove one to the center fence for a clean home run. Pope was thrown out stealing second shannon struck out but Guese hit safe, Persons ending 1t with 2 Ay to Fox-but the
 Castro and Fox hit safe in the fifth. Ryan got Cummings fly and Will1s hit one that Pope should easily have turn ed into double and retired the side. Instead of tossing the ball to Perry and letting him fire 1t to Baxter and the bag by outrunning Fox and shoot ing 1t to Baxter in time for the double. He did beat Fox to the bag but Wilks beat the throw to first ana Pope only got Fox at second, Castro going to third. McMurry hit one that Pope missed. the ball bounding bad though It looked as If he should have gotten it, Castro scoring. Moran was out on a hit to Pope but the score was to 1.
 There were .wo gon~ In the seventh when Wilks hit one in front of the tried for. neither getting it and a hit going against Guese. McMurry walked and Wilks scored Cn Moran's drive to center. Guese had Winters struck out but Fitzsimmons let him walk and the bags were full-Jordan hit a long one to left that Persons made great catch of. but the score was to 2.
 Nothing else was do~ and the game ended that way. The score was;