The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
CLIMBERS DROP ANOTHER GAME The Unlucky Thirteenth Proved Too Much. sTUBBORNLY FOUGHT CONTEST Guese Hit Hard, But Worked We'll
 in Pinches. krebs's Helped Some in the Defeat of the Climbers by His Two Cost
 g Errors-Umpire Also
 Assisted.

Mobile, Sept. I.-(Speclal. )--It took a game and half for the Sea Gulls to beat the Climbers this afternoon. It took just trifie more than that.
 Mir. Krebs. who holds down the third slab for the Montgomery team. helped some with two errors and Umpire Wheeler helped again when he called Reagan out in the third at the home plate. There Is not the slightest doubt but thas gne Climbers's right fielder ought to have been out, but was not. Umpire Wheeler evidently gave his de- cision on what he thought ought to have taken place, and not what really happened. Garvin mad the ball all right and got 1t in plenty of time to catch his sman but ne just overlooked the plate or tagging the runner. Out" said the umpire, ard even the official scorer smiled.
 This tally. although it clearly would not have been earned. would have done chalked up two runs in the first, both of them well earned. Fishers men failed to score until the iifth, when Fisher. running for Garvin. went across account Of bad throw from center. In the next inning, the home team scored another when w atson, who had started the trouble off with 2 two Krebs had dropped q foul fly off Sa. brie's bat. and minute later. badly fielded the Mobile first baseman's drive T d9ED eSs rsss if EsTe donbt ss soGS that should have been out chad Krebs been alive. Daley had already gone out on a fly to second base and had Sabrie been retired on that foul of his. 1t to score on Wheats fly to center.
 With the score tied in the sixth, a fine exhibition game of ball followed. Both pitchers steadied down somewhat nA resf lnnEa6 he nfff nf the business. Not Q single man of the Montgomery team was struck out after that time, but with the exception of the thirteenth inning. he second bag didn't do much better. Guese struck three men out after the sixth and from the ninth inning out. he repeatedly got the team out of some dangerous situas
 The death blow camo in the thir- teenth. The Climbers had done their level best to win the game. Never did team fight harder to beat it out and would in the first half of the thirteenth. Hopkins started 1t off with a drive that was a trifie too hot for Becker to handle safely on first. Reagan sacri- Greminger came along and Becker was clearly afraid to allow him to hit 1t. He therefore put in four. high ones and Greminger walked. krebs caught one anu SCAL AS N.A ~.ay " Shs ett.AN forcing Hopkins. being safe himself at first and putting Greminger on the second sack, Rockenfield finished up the chance by forcing Krebs at second.
 Then came the blow. Garvin went to the bat and picked out good one. He sent it down to the center field fence for two bags. Fisher again went in to run ~for him and big Massing came up with a stick to swing for Becker. There were already two men out and Umpire Wheeler had been kind enough to announce to the scorers that ''In the event of a tie in this inning there will be a double-header tomor- row." but Massing found the ball. Fisher was half way to third wbeu he cracked 1t and the sphere was just a trifie too warm for Pope to handle 1t. He stopped it. though, and returned 1t as quickly as possible to the plate. Fisher and the ball appeared to get there at exactly the same time. It was a mighty close one, but the Sea Gulls took the game away with them.
 One of the features of the game was Hopkins's splendid return of Beeker's long fly to center in the eleventh. It came so directly and with such speed that it robbed James out of the chance of scoring. Two double plays on the part of the visiting team, one In the fifth and another fh the seventh, gave the fans 2 chance to see some fast fielding.