The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-30
BARONS HIT
 BALL HARD Molesworth's Crowd Hit
 Juul Easily. THAT WAS THE STORY Robertaille Pitched First Class
 Game. Damage Was Done in The Fourth In- nrng--Murray went in And Made An Excellent Showing in His
 First Game.

Had every man on Molesworth's ag- gregation been told that something dreadful would happen to him if he did not hit that ball yesterday they could not have slammed 1t to the four quar- ters of the compass any more deftly, the consequence being that they yanked the first game of the series by a score of 6 to 2
 Something was wrong with Juul-- that was very patent. Last week In Birmingham he had the Birmingham outfit buffaloed from the first shot out of the box. Yesterday this same Birmingham aggregation latched on 10 him as If he had been sent into the Southern League for the sole purpose of boosting their batting averages. handler pretty hard all the way. six hits and two runs having come across in four innings. Had Juul been taken out at the of the fourth the result the Climbers rounded up eight good long swats off Robertaille in the next four innings. driving home a couple Of runs. On the other hand Birmingham who relieved Juul, Lou Walters in the seventh getting the only hit made off him in the four innings that he worked.
 But Juul was left in too long, and III tue IlII0 lnnlnK that blEnltnEu8tu gang went after him like a swarm of angry bees that had been run out of their hive.
 A two bagger, singles and a base on balls put over four tallys and killed the bill. making the score to, agin us. True they never scored again after the fifth, but the damage had "been did and 1t was useless to weep over the cream that had been spilled on the ground. But that is baseball.
 Herbert Juul was in grand form and had everything in Birmingham, while yesterday he was woefully out of con dition. The one streak of brightness in the dreary afternoon was the show self like conner, had good speed and sharp break to his curves and best of all was admirably cool under fire and had perfect control It showed that Ryan has a quintette of pitchers that he can depend on, for Juurs work last week proved that he has the goods even If he did get in bad yesterday. His first game on the home grounds.
 Robertaille was pitching sensational ball right off from the start, and 8 scratch infield hit was all that had been made off him up Lo the sixth in- ming, when he weakened and eight hits were rained on him in the next four innings.
 Spike" Shannon pluckily went in with a game leg and caught a beauti- ful game until the pain of the leg and In6 HeTNOuSnGSS caused Dy the rear or getting hit on 1t caused him to leave in the third inning Hub Hart who had been playing first went behind the bat and Whitey Guese went to first base
 Molesworth drove one to left in the first inning that was good for two bags but moment afterwards, Shannon by marvelously quick throw caught him off second. Ryan got Demont's fly, Raub hit safe, Douglas got one over Juuls head which Perry got after a hard run, fired 1t to first, but Douglas beat the ball there. In the meantime Raub was hurrying round the bags and headed for the plate, but Hart whipped the ball to shannon in time to stop him at the pan.
 Reagan got to first in the last half when Douglas fumbIed his hit, but Holmes threw him out stealing second. With one out in the second Henline nit one that Pope made magnificent stop of. but the Chicken had it beat out. Downey hit to Perry and Henline was forced at second, Downy stealing second and going to third on a wild pitch. Holmes walked and stole second but Juul got out of the hole by getting Robertaille's hit.
 Molesworth hit past Juul In the third and after hard run, Pope got it and | throw was wild and the runner went to second Demont bunted and Juul tried to throw Molesworth out at third but the Chief of the Barons beat the throw
 
 ming was wound up by a snappy double Douglas hit to Perry who threw him out at first, Guese snapping the ball over to Greminger who whipped 1t to Hart in time to get Demont at the plate
 There were two gone in the fourth when Downy sneaked one past Pope stealing second and counting on Holmes drive to center Robertaille ending 1t by striking out, but the score was to 0.
 With one out in the fifth Demont hit clean and went to third on Raub's hit Douglas walked and then there was a chance for a doubled an the side retfr- ed. If 1t had been pulled off this story | would be very different Walters hit | one that Perry got and threw Douglas out at second, Pope firing it to Guese 10 stop Walters, Whttey dropping the ball and Demont counted.
 Then Henline smashed a two baRRer. Raub and Walters scoring, Henline scoring on Downy's drive to left Holmes was out on a fly to Juul. but four runs had come over and the count was 6 to o.
 Murray went in at the beginning of the sixth and one hit was all that Birmingham could do from then until the finish.
 Guese hit one past RobertaIle in the last of the sixth. Murray struck out Persons hit to Downy. Ryan drove one to left and when Reagan hit one in the same place Persons scored. In the last of the ninth. Perry, Hart | and Pope hit safe in succession. Perry scoring, but Greminger hit into q got, killing Pope at second and Gremin- ger at first. Murray ending it. The score was: