The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-06
Hub Perdue Knocked
Out Of Box.
R0cKENFIElD FIRED
FROM The CONTEST
0'8rien Gives Home Crew the
Rough Ind.
Montgomery Had TO Play Much The
Better Bali To win-Lively
Was Roasted On Balls
40.
And Strikes.

That the Climbers got the long end
OF the count In the first Nashville
game yesterday. was due solely to the
gether with the sinsery backing. con-
sistent hitting and all round pluck and
grit OF the. team behind him, in the
face Of the greatest odds that ball
final score was to Q in favor OF
Montgomery, but that the result was
this way was most assuredly not the
fault of Umpire o'Brien.
brought against o'Brien and while
they have not been substantiatei in
Montgomery makes not the slightest
should have those Charges and the
occurrence at the ball grounds yester-
day thoroughly Investigated. One
thing is surer-oBrien from the be-
that he possibly could. to make the
Montgomery team lose the game. In
the very beginning of the game. he
pompously turned. so that the grand
George Whiteman. who was on the
home bench at the time, The first
time you open your mouth III put you
AS the game started he, time after
time, called balls on Lively. when as
pretty strikes as one ever sees, were
the plate or II the Nashville batters
did not swing at the ball. he was dead
sure every time to call balls
1t was Just the reverse with Hup
Perdue until he was knocked out OF
the box, Time after time O'Brien
would call strikes on Montgomery bat
ters, when the ball was wide OF the
plate. In the fourth inning, when PER FER,
Osteen on tiird base. o'Brien did not
give a decision until the Montgomery
players forced him to:
The browning event however, came
in the last half of the eighth round.
With one out. Rocky hit one that wal
ter East had to hustle to get TO.
Rocky had the hit beat out so plainly,
but o'Brien to the surprise of every,
body called him out. All in the world
that Rockentield did then, was to
naturally protest ana s. say eess ee pas
Rocky out of the game and ordered
him to the club house, Whiteman nav.
ing to go TO third, Osteen to SECOND
In the face of all this. 1t is greatly
to the. credit OF the Montgomery team.
that they won out, simply outpiaying
and outbatting the Nashville team:
was given yesterday Is virtually an m
suit 10 the fans OF Montgomery. such
thing as an official umpire turnihs
TO the grand stand TAN VITA ss sen Is
Something that the President OF the
southern League should not stand Tor
one minute. .oo,..on.
a crowd in the grandstand was roast
ing OBrien, when he dellpefately
Yelled to the grandstand that they
were nothing but crowd Of sore
there Is simply this about the whole
thing. Such an exhibition OF umplrinS
as was given yesterday VIII totally oe,
stroy the game hi In Neon INCONSISTENCIES gIVen the hot
end of it by the President OF the SOUTH
ern League and the local FANS are sick
and disguised. Once or twice TINS
teiisS In MONTGOMERY. Moran has been
here q little longer. but most or the
season the fans here have had 70 pe
inflicted with Rudderham, Fitzsimmon:
and Pfenninger. Now comes the limit.
and II Judge Kavanaugh don't wish to
KIM the attendance here entirely. hA
will order this O'Brien away from here.
To get back to O., ye este Es s fas
one by first base than vas good fer
two bags, scoring when Robertson hit
one with nobody covering first.
Tonnaman was hit with the ball in
the second and got to second on a wild
pitch. Noyes hit one that got away
from Osteen and Tonnaman registered.
making IT TO
Butler got Lively's hit and there was
quick double. With two gone. Daily
hit clean, stole second and sprinted
home on a wild pitch. making 1t to J.
Whiteman hit safe in the fourth and
Noyes made a horrible throw of Os-.
teens bunt, Whiteman sprinting home
and Osteen going to third. With one
out. Bliss walked and stole second.
Then came Perdue's balk. Osreen scor-
ing and Bliss going to third, Shan.
mons three-bagger scoring him, ma
king it to 2.
Perdue was chased to the bench in
the NTH, Kellum taking his place on
the hill and there was no more scoring.
the game winding up that way.