The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-20
Greatest Baseball Race Known to History of Game Ends in Victory for Bernhard's Vol unteers.
There Were l0,400 Paid Admis- sions and Many Witnessed Contests from Trees--Hits Off Old Man Breitenstein Respon- sible for Loss by Pelicans.
BY WILL R. HAMILToN.

| league has ever known was decided here this afternoon when the Nash vile Volunteers won from the New Orleans Pelicans. winning the game. to o. and the Southern League cham pionship by one point.
 The game was witnessed by the largest crowd that has seen a ball game in any Southern city this season. There were 10.400 paid admissions and hundreds saw the game from the tops of fences. trees and every possible point of vantage.
 of organized baseball that a champion- ship hinged on one game played be- tween the two leading teams. It was shc eb nrse n time 1s in baseball history that and by one run-in the case the only ,,ss Nashville wins the ehampionship Bernhard Won Fairly.
 tboneb olS ,s. TS1 the gs5ms clSsaniy feet ball or even up to their form on the road trip the score would possibly have been reversed.
 and lost on four hits off Breitenstein. which came in the seventh Inning. after two Nashville players went out.
 down on an easy fly to Dexter and a grounded to Tarleton, Hurlburt laced the hrst clean hit of the game to right ond and then came the one break In the Pelicans team work which lost them the pennant.
 territory and the second baseman was set and ready to receive the ball. but Bobby Tarleton, first baseman, went after the grounder. The only possible spoil the play for Dundon. He could not possibly have ielded the ball and when Dundon got # there was nobody covering first and Sitton cantered over the bag. Hurlburst going to second.
 Bay. next up. bunted down the third base line and was on first before Breit- WitR sGqa tS1ss gst to o the ,Ss Ss base and Huriburt scored. sitton tried for the plate but Lord chucked him out.
 wisenan Gets a Watch.
 Wiseman's hit came In about i've minutes after. he had been presentei admiring Nashville fans.
 The only time that the Pelicans got man to third base was in the Sec. ond inning and all ehanees ;sa.s Eoula ,1 Tarleton had not over-run the bag.
 Bobby. who has been hitting in great form, led off with a single to short in Dexter's out first. Then Rickert. hit a hot one to McElveen. whose quick thinking and action possibly saved the
 Seeing he had little chance to throw Rickert out at first, McElveen turned his attention to Tarleton who was fast rounding the SGrnsr nn,v osSg ssg. tbsn Syst him 8 chance to score. He ran yard or two over third and McElveen touch ed him out
 would have been out and as the next hit was a grounder to deep short by Dundon the fleet Tarleton would doubtless have scored.
 ming of the championship. There were no close decisions for umpires to be blamed for and every play was os clean 1' 'o " WeiI Behaved Crowd.
 In many respects both the game and the crowd were remarkable. The ten SeSs a1d os fSs ssssmS.sa ssmonstration m of vioisncs @ @ Was made: Eysry Ssra for aH he fHS SoSs ssS and there was not a minute that old Sulphur Dell was not ringing witn ihe voices of the t,tia9 th9ussnd san,riYsnces tne ee the craziest ball bugs on the contl- nent. t1en' t%o men who faced him. Lord and TarletOn, that the nervous teusion -tV which all Nashville had been worked up to for three days broke loose into inc great demonstration ever witnessed on a Southern ball held; .A,..
 simultaneously with Tarletons third whiff at the wind the seven persons who were huddled up. on the bank in rieht field and on ''the Bottoms" in canter and left field and on the fences and in the trees. broke for the
 sittOn is Kissed
 In a fraction of second Pitcher Vedder Sitton was surrounded by thousand men. Six policemen were kept away like so many feathers. Sit- ton fought bitterly and even reached for a copper's billy to keep the crowd to his bad humor over the situation They lifted him, into the air. women kissed him and several hundred men tried to shake hands at one time
 Thase in the grand stands would not be hell back by such things as wire and boarding. They tore through the wire and in a dozen different places broke through thes tanl. tearing down blanks and anything that ag In their lars damage was done to the Nashville ball clubs property,
 The demonstration lasted fully ten men throwing their hats in the air and everybody singing songs of victory.
 There has been but one demonstra- tion like 1t. and that was when Christy shut-out against the Athletics in that notable worlds series in New York on the Polo Grounds in 1905.
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