The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-30
Guese Has Climbers at Mercy.
  HOME TEAM SCORES BY COURTESY ONLY.
 -----e--- New Orleans Has Batting Streak
 That Wins.
 - coussss !. Eeplsss with Fast sna Bril- iiant Fieidins- -CIimbers Given ovutiea by Crowd Of Nsarly Thres Thousand Persons.

yesterday with marked degree Of nicety when the Pelivans landed the first: game of the series by the lop-
 The 6rst precedent was that lts was ladies day and from the time that Keliunt shut Dick Merryman onk by Of the season. the Climbers have stead faetly held to that record. There Is titne-honored saying In baseball that when ball player gees to bat and is ks fiiiS1 ssfIkss out as Th2s % was varied just hlt in this case Thursday night the Climbers got home from ziortously suecessfua Western trtpi they were farday they lost with a great big l.. {
 The crowd was tremendous one, about 2.s00 people being in tine grounds, shs ssan clinesFs ssg sys aosnss oya for he fans was the fact that the car ser
 The game was not q bad one. thoHgh, Brilliant balE the 5 sscrst sas of the whole thing lying in an individual by the spotless nomenclature of Whitey Gqese. Mir Guese--and he fits in well. with the feathered tribe that Charlie Prank has coralled-was a swan of the 1urest lineage yesterday. The gent seemed to have left the village down at the mouth of the Mississippi River the insult that Van Anda handed Jack Ryan when he beat him by q score of to 1 down Pelicanwilie way.
 Not q human being tn Montgomery not do the averaging hero stunt yester- day. One very measly bingle repre- scented the number of wallups made off of Mir. G1ese up 10 the ninth inning while he had Eiven one base on balls and stricken dead three athletes of the Ryan persuasion.
 The one little bing1et however. was the means of saving the Climbers from a shut out This lonely swat was made by Moose Baxter after an error by young Mfr. Huber--who. by the way. had somswhee os .s Ssa aay. ME 1r this session had decided bearing on the plunge of the Climbers Into the tally column. after that the heart tof Guese hardened and not another man
 Tn the last half of the ninth Colonel Guese let down a bit and there were two small hits that did not amount to
 And n those three hits were all that the Climbers amassed during the scrap.
 That crew of Charlie Franks got pretty close to Van Anda to the story of nine hits and four runs .Diamond Joe'' Rickert punched out two drives and stole bases with the abandon of a child who sees a lot Of jam with nor from Connie Mack. copped two of the swats one a homer. Hohe and Dun don--the recruits from the Chicago White SOx--each pounded out thFee- baggers. Mfr Guese hlfnsa1f got his and Eddie aabrie swipad two-saclser
 One of the runs scored by tho Peli- cans was the result of q weird hurl by Joseph Pope to John RaxteF, the three others being legitimate.
 Beyond the hitting of the PeIlcans the feature plays were stab that Pope made of Matthews'a h It in the second down % % when Lord hit one ans s by Van Anda In the first, and Sabrle's hard running catch of GremipRer's foul fly over near the bleachers In the first inning
 Mir. Guese had struck out in the third when Rickert drove one to left and a moment Afterwards started to second Messett threw the ball siI right but the runner bumped into Perry and he drop ped the ball, Joseph promptly stealing third and counting on Lords hy to Persons.
 Huber missed Hassett's hit in tho last half Messett was out on a fiy to Huber. but Van Anda got Hassetts to second. Reagan walked and the Moose smashed one to center that scored Hassett. Reagon going to third and Baxter to second on the throw in. Things looked ambitious now. but the light went out when Harry Matthew's got Greminger's four. But the score was tied.
 With two down in the nfth. aicksrt hit safe again. stole second and scored when Pope made bum pes of Rohe'e hit. ts
 Lord punched one to deep left cen ter in the sixth. for home rum. SabFie got tyvo- bagger with one out. bat tho next two were easy. and the score. was 2 to l.. tss+
 Rohs opened the eighth with a three baKger and scored on Lords hit Dele- hanty sacrificed and Lord got to second Sabrie hit Eos Pope and Baxter dropped the throw. but when Dundon hit to third Greminger stepped on the baR. threw to irst and doubled Lord and Dundon. but the score wat q to l..
 There were two gone in the last of the ninth when Perry and Persons hit safe but it was all over with Pepe's hit and out M
 The score wast