The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-30
CLIMBERS
 WON EASILY Thomas Was Invincible Against Volunteers. PERDUE WAS HIT HARD Climbers Played Their Usual Fast
 Game. They Hit Perdue All over the Lot Persons Continues His sood Work at the Bat and on
 The Paths.
 

Forest Thomas was one too many for the Nashville people yesterday, the Climbers copping the first game of the series by a score of 4 to. l. His speed was working In great shape, striking out five men and giving two passes. neither one costing anything.
 Only once during the nine innings was he In the slightest trouble. a eou- pie of hits and stolen base resulting in Nashviuss only. run.
 The first and ninth innings were the only time that two hits came together on him. the others being one in the fifth. one in the sixth and one in the eighth.
 He received swell support both in fielding, base running and hitting. Archie Persons Continuing his good work led with three hits. one an in- field hit that he beat out, and three stolen bases, almost duplicating his three runs, three hits and three stolen bases in the game that Johnny Du- gan pitched. Thomas himself got two hits and Baxter, Greminger and Perry
 The fielding feature of the game was sensational stop that Moose Baxter made of Shannon's throw to first in the sixth inning, and the all round en work of Pope. the Kid having nine Moose had sixteen chances. two of them assists. his play in the ninth inning when he threw Hunter out at second on Daubert's hit, being as swift thing of the kind as one ever being when Perry messed Daubert's hit in the seventh inning, Perry mak- ing up for the pebble by a neat sac- rifce. a stolen base and two of the hits.
 Perdue. while being hit hard. re- cetved support that was on the bum, McElvene dropping Henline's foul in the nrst inning after a hard chance the fourth inning, Mccormick fum- bling Henlines hit fin the sixth and Thomas's hit in the eighth, these four errors being the mfscues oe the Nash vile bunch.
 Jack Hardy, the first man up in the first inning. gave a frightened look at the bolts of electricity that were shooting over the plate and with a helpless expression. struck out Little Doc Wiseman poked one to center and but Wiseman counted on McElveen's bingle to left. Greminger making e last play when he got Seabaugh's hit and threw him out at first.
 Perry and Persons hit clean in the second inning, but thera was nothing doing. Thomas and Henline hit safe in the third inning. with no result. In the fifth inning. Thomas and Bax- ter hit clean and Henline's neat bunt helped Thomas in, tieing the score. Greminger soaked a two bagger, but Perry was out on a hit to Mccormick
 Persons beat out a hit to McCor- mick in the sixth inning. but was forced as second by Pepe's bunt to DaubertsN Then came some remarkable base running. Pope scoring from first base on Shannon's drive to. left, mak- ing the score to 1.
 Perdue gave his first base on balls in the seventh, Baxter drawing the walk, Greminger hit clean and Pope sacrificed both men up a bag. Roth counted on a horrible wild pitch that Perdue made, making the score | to l.
 Hunter and Butler hit safe in the ninth and Johnny Dugan went to bat in Perdues place. Thomas striking him out and ending the game by a score of to 1 in favor of Montgomery. The score was: