The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-22
Fans Tremb1e Until the
 Last Out. CRISTAL'S FINE WORK,
 EXCELLENTLY BACKED Allows Three Hits and Deserves
 Clean Score. schwenIx Fer Memphis Pitches Great Game, But it is UnavaIiIng-- Finish Affords Scare for
 Faithful.

Once again the Climbers landed a game In the ninth inning. nosing out Babbs Egyptians yesterday by the score of to 1.
 It is possible that Billy Cristal had never in all his baseball experience pitched as. neat a game of ball as ne did yesterday, when he went up against his old pals and made them look like a bunch of mutes. During the nine innings. three hits were made off him. Schwenk getting one in the third in ming, Donahue, the Central League re- cruit, and Heine lansing getting the two others in the seventh inning. He struck out seven men, some Of them at times when any kind of a hit would have meant a. run, and gave three bases on balls. none of them amounting to anything. He should have scored a clean shut out. Bliss dropping OLeary the chance for a double play, the only run of Babb's bunch coming in. His support was clean, fast and snappy, both in the field and with the stick, this latter fact landing the game.
 Schwenk pitched game of ball. that will win lots oftener than 1t will lose. His control was almost perfect He struck out eight men, some Of them al on balls. neither of which cost any
 The run made by the Climbers in the seventh inning was due to Jansing's nOTrlDle InTOW dLlcT IfC AIESI bHO AhNii had been struck out.
 The run in the ninth inning was due to a couple of punched hits. so really the score shoud have been l to in favor of Montgomery.
 Schwenks support except for the bum peg of the Swede was gilt-edged a couple of double plays being made. The long and short of 1t was that the Memphii were simply up against a bet ter team-a team that was fighting for its head all the way and was deter mined to win. oven though on the road and crippled at that-and they did win. ters had faced Schwenk and seven got in front of Cristal; not a scratch had been made and Cristal had struck out one man. and Schwenk. two.
 Tn the third, shannon hit safe with one out. but on Cristars hit to Schwenk there was a double play.
 Schwenk hit safe with one out in the last half but was forced at second on Collins hit to Pope. Babb ending it
 With one out in the fourth, Bliss walked, but on Greminger's hit to Lansing there was the second double play.
 Perry hit clean in the fifth and got to second on Persons sacrifice. Pope hit one that was too hot for Schwenk but he was afterwards thrown out stealing second Then schwenk show out the manager of the Climbers.
 Bliss and GremlngeI had struck out In the seventh, when Perry hit one at lansing that Heine heaved over past the bleachers and first, Perry scoring.
 In the last half Donahue and Jans- ing hit safe. Donahue getting to third. O'Leary hit a line drive at Bliss and if the latter had held 1t he would have thrown Donahue out at the plate and had the double. He dropped the bali though, and Donahue. scored the tie ing run, Bliss throwing his man out at second and Owens enaing 1t with a hit to Pope. wv
 Steve Reagan hit cleap in the eighth with one out and sprInted to third on Bliss drive to right. Greminger SCOT ing Reagan with a fly to Orth Collins Perry was out on a fly to Donahue, but the score was united. M
 CPanston walked in the last halt, Carey sacrificed him to second, Dona- hue struck out, but hereawas a groan when shannon let 1t get by him, Grams ton getting to third and Donahue to first. It looked bilious then; man on third and only one out. The steady nerve of Joe Pope and Spike Shannon saving the day. The double steal was tried, Donahue starting to second to score. shannon fired the ball to Pope and Cranston sprinted for the plate. The little shortstop was too quick for him and with a beautiful throw to shannon the runner was out at the plate, lansing ending 1t with a fly to Persons. and the game was oyer, with Montgomery getting the big end of a to l score. 4
 The score;