The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-01
CLEAN WIN
 FOR LOCALS Climbers Take Game from Birmingham. BAUER AwALKS. TOO MANY Chance on Pope Proves Very Un-
 fortunate. In Neat Contest Montgomery Drives Ladies' Day Hoodoo Out of Lot. Gssse Pitches Great Ban
 For Locals.
 

Mrs. Ma.aprop. in her palmiest days, never made anything like the huge biunder that young alr. Bauer was lea into Iailing into yesterday when. wltn two hands gone and a runner on sec ond. he walked Hub Hart and took chance on one Joseph Pope.
 The young man from tne untamed jungles px the Bronx so resented the. ss,d saving .n n the s' isft field fence. This was in the sixth round, the count then being 3 to 2 in favor of the Climbers. Pepes smash making 1t { to and to 1t hung untll the curtain was lowered at the nnish.
 1t was a nice game of ball all around. and for the second successive time the ladies, day noodoo was driven from the lot. Not since that day that he beat the Climbers on the last trip of the Pelicans to Capitol Heights, mas Whitey Guese pitched as good kaiiie of bali as he did yesterday.
 Never once did Birmingham buucn two hits In one inning. Molesworth heat out an inlield hit and In first and fourth Tom Raub hit safe In the fourtn while Helmes got two-bagger in the ing dye hits off him. He struck out elght men, the one in the fifth and eighth with men on base waitins LoI the hit that never came HIS cont.oi ts,l drawing inc onIy base on balls Neither of the two runs was earned the one in the fourth being helped in hy his own wild pitch and the base on halis scoring in the fifth. Bauer. MoIesworth's newest recruit from the Cotton States League, pitched nice game of ball himself. only four n,ts being made of him and only m tne . rether. HIS control was. good and the two bases on balls that he handed out were given to get rid of heavy nit.e.sS. His Intentions were Eooo ou. a r,,rs poo came over. While he only struck out two men. still his control was sooa.
 The feature stunt of the game cam In the fourth inning when AIcn,e an near the foul line way back m leIs ne.o .. and fred il with a lightning throw 10 aecond doubling Raub.
 RIrmt Run on BumtGs
 qshA 6rsf run came in on series or bunts that had the Birmingham inneia .s, gr0ffry Perry started 1t with q SLOW Rit f9 Walters, tho silent one maKin4 ls btaEn chunk to DougissssS B. snsn men ..T r,,,,s ning in on 1t threw wild to Doug ass. Perry getting to third. The squeeze came into play then. Pope laying , gown a nice bunt towards nrst n anu hsek. scorinr. Downey made a nice pack- ward Fun of shannon's fly and Bauer struck out Guesa.s x,,.,. t,
 Persons drove one past Walters sn the third and stole secona. s ns cs,isS 
 out at third, though 1t looked cLoso. Ryan stole second and got to tniro on ReaRan's hit to Downey--tnen naHex walked Greminger, being afraid 70 let him hit 1t, the double steal was put in motion and while they were ha,,t chnaS in9 Crerninger Ryan was flirting anout on the line between third ana tns plate. Finally Ryan started m ana @ there was horrible throw 70 tne plate, Ryan scoring and Gremlnger Retting to third, scoring moment aI- ter on a wild pitch, making it 5 10 v: fourth and beat it out before Spike shannon could get 1t. Moleswortn get ling 10 second on wild throw. Guese struck Defnont out, but RauD nlt clean and Molesworth scored. Then Persons made that sensational double that put a crimp In their chances of doing any '' HenIine walked with one down in the fifth and got to second on Downeys hit to Perry, scoring on Holiness two" bagger, making t to 2. Reagan hit clean in the sixth and the hit get away from him. Gremin- ger and Perry were out on files to Henline and Bauer walked Hart: Tnen Pepe tore the cover off the ball with a smash to left for two bags. Reagan scoring and making 1t to 3.
 The only thing that looked sSs .,nS,n iike a Holmes had hit safe and there were two down when Molesworth took vicious punch. Holmes scored on what they thought was a two-bagger. but Billy Carpenter said that the ball was foot or so in foul ground. and Moies. worth had to bat over, going down on
 Nothing more happened and the game ended { to in favor of Montgomery.