The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-21
CLIMBERS WON BATTING FEST Beat the Seagulls, Score
 10 to ]. CLAYTON PERRY'S HOME RUN Ball Was Knocked All Over the
 Lot. Van Anda Was Hit Hard But His Con- trol and the Heavy Hitting of
 His Own Team Saved
 Him the Game.
CLAYTON PERRY'S HOME RUN

The fans that love the old ia ashioned game of ball with lots of hits. runs and ed fer anything else when in a swatfest or purest ray serene the Climbers beat the Sea Gulls by a score of 10 to [.
 Van Anda was hit pretty hard, and but 1t was the control of the Climber pitcher that saved hlm, and the lack or control together with the fact that the Climbers pinched their hits that proved the downfall of Gaskill.
 Elmer Bliss played a neat game on nrst and got three of the hits, Reagan, Persons and Hassett getting a couple each, Perry and Messett one each, Per- rvs being home run that scored three of the runs. Woodte Thornton: starred In the hitting for the Guils with three hits. Sentell and Benson getting two each. There was a combination of good ball and bad ball, the fielding features being the quick work of Archie Per. sons, who threw Paul Sentell out at nrst after the latter's clean hit to right-Pepe's stop of McIver's hit. in of Greminger's hit in the fourth in- ming. Perry's home run in the second really won thJ game, as Mobile played a stiff uphill game and in the seventh to fast finish.
 The Climbers began hamniering MT. Gaskill in the first Inning and broke into the run colmn. Reagan and Bliss hit clean and Gremlnger sacrificed them. Perry's. fly. to Thornton scoring
 It was in the last half of the second xiii, and the game was cinched. Gas kill seemed to have absolutely no con- trol. Pope, the first man up. was hit on the al m. the lick making the fast little shortstop vince. Hassett bunts one that falls just too far out for Cas- kill and too close in for James, and when the latter finally got it he tried to stop Pope at second, the ball hitting the runner in the back and rolling off in the field, Pope getting to third and Hassett to. second. Both counted on Tom Messett's drive to center. Mes sett got to second on the throw in and to third on Van Anda's sacrifice. Rea- gan walked and started for second, Gaskill waiting too long to watch Mes- sett on third. Then Gaskill put him. self a',, in an ugly hole 5E waking s,s Bliss Gremineer hit one that almost got away with Massing, Messett scoring. Reagan going to third and Bliss to at the bali. sending 1t out to the club house in left field and making a clean home run of 1t, Reagan and Bliss SCOT ing in front of him-six runs had come and a hit batter. making 1t ' to Q.
 Tn the third the Gulls sot busy. Cas- kill started 1t with a wo-bagger, counting on hits by Thornton and Sen
 
 order-but the score was I to 1.
 Thornton hit to Greminger in the fifth and got to third on his bad throw soFao sS nss SSns ssnS ba S tsr.ds sS rsa' by and mafvelously quick throw got Sentell at first, making the score to 2.
 In the sixth Benson smashed out a three-bagger and scored on Garvin's hit, making it ' to 3.
 In the last half of the sixth the Climbers got the run back when Cas- kill lost control again, walking Van Anda and Reagan, Van Anda scoring on Bliss's drive to left, making 1t s
 In the seventh Thornton beat out, a hit that Pope made a great stop of scoring on SenteIl's three bagger, Sem tell scored on Dasy,s fly to Persons, making it 8 to 5. -..
 Sentell dropped Perry's fly in the last half, Persons beat out a hit to Sentell, both scoring on Hassetts three-bagger. Messett hit in front of the plate and Garvin threw him out at first, Massing returning the ball in time to get Mes- sett at the plate and complete the dou- ble, but the score was 10 to B..
 James beat out a sI1t in the eighth, Benson hit safe and both scored on Thornton's three-bagger, making 1t 10 to z.
 With one out In the ninth .Massing hit safe, put on McIver's hit Grem- finger threw to second and Pope to Bliss, doubling Massing and McIver and winding up the game.