The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-06
Three Home Runs Hit in One Game.  THE LOCALS GOT TWO;
 WILD PITCH DECIDED IT The Game Was Brilliant All the
 Way. Speaker Scored Two for, the Rocks With Homer and Collins Mag niheent FieIdins Robbed the Locals of Four Additional Runs.
 


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 or nerve left in the anatomy of man. women or children at the Capital heights ball lot the aforesaid nerve was effectually demolished when the Merry Widow day ''hodoo" was made to climb a tree. The Climbers in great exhibition of pure grit and never-say-die courage beat Little Rock out in the last half of the tenth in- ming.
 The exhibition of gameness on the part of the Climbers was splendid and something rarely seen on a hall field. With score of to staring them in the face in the third inning they start cd Tn to play an uphill game that by consistent hitting, fast fielding and base running and great headwork tied the score in the sixth inning. played the Rocks to a standstill and won out in the tenth.
 It was day of hard hitting--long nits galore at that--but for the first Climbers outhit MT. Films band.
 During the game there were three home runs. Speaker cracking out one and Baxter and Joe Pope one each. round and put in a couple of runs Baxter's was in the third and Pepe's in the sixth. nobody being on base in either case though Pepe's wallup tdHBiSu Lne LAliy sheet.
 The fielding was brilliant but it will have to be handled to MT. Collins in left field for the Rocks who knocked Montgomery out of -four runs and pos- sibly more. Steve Reaganwas the gent that Collins boldly held up in broad open daylight and robbed so neatly that it completely yanked the wind out of both the Climbers and the local fans. Clayton Perry made a sensa- tional play he got Pages hit that got finger made fast play and showed great headwork when he got East's foul in the first and doubled Page way across at first base.
 the one that Moose" Baxter put up Besides a swell fielding game nineteen putouts and two fast assists he got three of the hits. one a homer. Perry and Pope copped three hits each, Greminger getting two and Hart one.
 Bergman-who by the way was re- leased last night-was hit pretty hard in the first two innings-four singles and home run in the two innings putting over the only three runs that
 He settled down after the second inning and only six more hits were made of him in the eight Innings all of them scattered except in the ninth when they got a couple that proved to be harmless. Mir. Finn tried our ven- erable old friend, Colonel Willum Hart, but as luminary the Colonel did not shine. He lasted six innings during couple of home runs-were- made on
 In the seventh inning the string was pulled and the Colonel went to the Eyler, being runshe0 in to play the part of a human sand bag There was a sudden decrease in the matter or tne Climbers hits but during tne s,. neG. out five more. Two of them came Tn the last half of the tenth and with an unearthly chunk of MT. Eyler himselt put p,,, in the tna winnaanSsb sbe fsrst with drive to left and then Mr. Speaker, Who seemed to have an aversion to haVlns anybody on the bags except Montgom sfHfii1g out of the bail, sending 1t to inc corner of the club house in left field, both he and Collins gaiIy count ing. Page hit one just by Gremln. made great catch of. Page had started to second and nke nasn rSreuoinger whipped the ball to Baxter, the double. In the iast Ter @ and Grerninger hit safe and Perry bit safe fo center. Speaker got 1t and shot if to the plate in plenty of time to stop Baxter who should nave pesn sSa run would have been forced in but there were two out with the bags full. Pope ending 1t with 2, fly to Coillns.
 With one out in the seeoha ssfe pspe Hart hit one in front of the plate that Bergman should have handled. HaIt had to get 1t though, and threw Hart out at first Baxter fired 1t oack put Stark scored, making 1t 10 U.
 Then Bergman settled down and no more runs came, only six scatterlng hits being made. With one out Bax- ter punched one to deep center m tne inc inc. fourth MfS collins committed his first robbery. Perry walked and Pope beat out a hit. Hassett bunted and Hart making a wild throw Perry SCOT lit one to deep left that had the ear marks of a three-bagger. put sen sational catch of Collins wound IL up' but the score was to z. ,n .ba
 Joe Pope was the ftrst man UP m tns sixth and he> decided to Keep the pags clear by pounding ouk one or the lohs est hits ever seen on the home grounos, the g1sd hSnf gassetts rHn hit but Hart struck Hassett got to third. Steve Reagan hIt another one to left that looked ike robbed him with a sensational catch. : It looked blue in the ninth when Hess hit safe and was Sacrihced by Eyler. Baxter made q great running csfeh @ Pare Si ending iT with a fly to Pope
 Perry hit clean in the last of the tenth. Persons sacrlhced him. Pope hit to left and Jimmy Ryan grabbed Perry and held hin on third, biiss cious pitch of Eyler's who tried to hit somebody in the grand stand saved further trouble, Perry sauntering home with the run that won the game by score of 4 to 2.
 The score was:
 Little Rock AZ. H. B. PO'A-E; Collins, h.. ....-.