The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-10
Sam Weems Comes in to Pitch
 The Best Ball of His Career

Looking At and trim. Sam weems walked up Commerce Street and annex ed his autograph on the guest book of Jack Ciancy's house at II o'clock yes terday morning. The boy looks good, perhaps a bit lighter than he was last summer, but wiry and active.
 He did not do much work out at the grounds tn the afternoon, acting on the advice of Ryan to take 1t easv . There is not much surplus flesh upon sinew. and ginger. Sam Weems is an Alabama boy whom the people not only of Montgomery and Union Springs. but ot the entire State. would like to seq succeed. He is no unknown quan- tity. Not for minute must anybody take him for a "hamma teur." for wh0- ever does that will draw a healthy box of lemon drops in the thinking game He first attracted the attention of pro- fessional baseball men by his superb work with the Auburn team. of which for several years he was captain and the star pitcher. In 1906 the Mont gonery team began deal with him, but as he had not finished his college course at Auburn, he would have been ineligible unaer the rules of the south Intercollegiate Association If he had gomery team.
 Therefore he remained "an amateur until he graduated at Auburn, so that he could pitch for that team during
 
 his graduation at Auburn. he came to Montgomery, started regular work with the Climbers last year and was not long in showing that he was one of Malarky's star pitchers. He pitched lots of good games, but probably the best of his career was on the 18th of June oyer in Little Rock. In Mike Films own back yard on that Tuesday afternoon, with Pop" Eyler. the star twirler of Finn's outfit against him, he fought the Travellers to a stand still in a thirteen inning battle of just about the fastest ball ever seen in the South.
 Weemss control in that game was amazing. He gave one base on balls and struck out four batters During the thirteen innings eight hits were was the only one in which two hits came together-one hit each was made in the first, second and third, three in the seventh and one clean hit and a scratch in the thirteenth. Up to the seventh inning he was complete master of the situation and had Little Rock shut out, 3-0. Bill Hausen was pay ing first with Moose Baxter in right by Seabaugh's weird hurl to second started the trouble. Then the three hits came together and three runs came in. mixing up the score: This was the only time that Little Rock was able to push man across the plate. and at the end of the thirteenth the game was called with the score tied in knot.
 In the twelfth inning Weems laced out a corking two-bagger. the first man up. Instead of sacrificing. Fred Houtz went down on a fly to right field. Nye sent Weems to third with a hit to short, but there were two out. Neal Bali. one of the surest hitters on the Climbers. was up. but he lost out on a foul tip and the inning and chance of winning the spectacular game had went"
 Weems got two hits, one putout. three assists and no errors-his sup port was almost perfect, Hausen's bob ble being the only one error of the game.
 Sam Weems is all right. and his friends sincerely hope that he will go his record of last summer one better.
 There will be no trouble about dust in the diamond this summer, as yester- day 15O feet of hose were sent out to