The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-08
Crackers Played Very Poor Ball.
 -->---- LOCALS AELASS TEN
 RUNS ON SIX HITS -----s--- Wild Heaves Were There in Vast
 Numbers. The ciimbers PlsysA Gilt-Edsea BsIl Not n Erser Beins Made Be- hind Last Year's
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Just what was the matter with that Atlanta bunch of ball tossers yestsrs day Is something that an expert would have the time of his lie figuring out. There Is no question of the fact that something was radically wrong and Col. Billum Smith put in pretty in the woodpiIe. A majority of the local runs that streamed over the plate. were the result of ghastly errors on the part 9s the fesvi ties were concluded the count stood 10 10 In favor of the Climbers.
 Doctor Forest Thomas was working Ss fs tss sas for the .ss roan he had the Atlanta people standing on their heads. He had that same superb control of last year. not giving q pass that was harmless. while the great speed and curves. possibly wider than any that the Montgomery people ever saw hm use. struck out three nss.srs'
 In the second inning, Atlanta buncn- ed a couple of hits on him, but after thatlshe frightened up and had them osgstsdg sSs dgy.oFePa hslPssIs n lh Rs fe m the punched a couple more hits. getting run No. across. .oathpa% HGx Sssslss9Rh Ss the M RsiaSss ontit was bad--horribiy bad--and he received support that was even more horrIpls; The eft-hander at times had the speed s,i that used to make him famous n this league, and while he struck out. rour battsrs; he walked three men and we of them counted. With the excepuon ok McMurray and otto Jordoh, every that were not only costly. but showec them up in bad light -
 Jake Hem was the man that ds- served lot @ of symps.ny, pau y,na9e a1E % 10 him the crazy house Kirkpstrici. in the lirst inning, made weird neave @ doina da1n the the same thing in the fifth that cost one Rnore. Castleton made fear. fui throw to Henp in the fifth that let In couple of runs. Weii, Mr; |, hsnn gas SastIeton. esssIs hopever, in the fifth who is responsible for the big score of the ciirnbers. Tn that inning he made wiie RIscn wild aS,sa shTGw tSs bass sxs swics We
 And during the entire melee, Doctor Thomas 3ust pitched that same steRdy ccnsistent game. the gang Sacm s,nora. 0s nm
 The Clsn,bers started after Castieton in -the last half of the nrsts inning With one gones Archie rerspns srs. ha. by WhiteFnan's smash over third base sor two haKs. Then Greminger hit to third and Kirkpatrick smade the first of his cslsbrated threws to Hem. z,as Whase. Tbs next two were down on the Str Isaac Newton theory--but they were two runs 10 the good.
 with a drive to right, and was sacri- Aced by Moran, scoring on Newton's hit that went between third and short. Newton got to second on the play; Hem out S on ,S,rs hit so ht Moess ssr. Nsws1e Tcue Nave fled the score, but Thomas opened the throttle, and kirkpatrick struck out with only one run in.
 Tn the iass of the nth. the e. fiasco n,sss which ,i that worthy dropped. Hub nev- CT slowed up and slid into second be- fore the bah got tack. Then Castie- men seemed to go on nis nn,r feet; nittsng on n wild pitch. Thomas hit long fly to center, but the sacrifice was wasted, for by a magnifcent throw Bayless got the eaii back to McMugray win hit a iong fly to winters and Hart counted. Manush going. to third. Per- sons walked and stole second, and when Castleman got Whiteman's side with one run only. he throw hor- .ribly to Hem. Manush and Persons .scoring and Whitaman going to third Then Gfemtn&6T niI one that was 700 far out for Newton. and whiteman scored. Rocky hit clean and Pope walked. filling the bags The batting order had gone round and Hart was up again-he just cleaned up with a drive to center that scored Greminger and Rocky and sent Pope to third. Pope scoring when Kirkpatrick threw Ma nush's grounder high to Hem. Thomas walked and the bags were filled. for the second time that inning, but Kerwin's fly to Bayless ended the farce with three hits and seven runs. making the score Q to 1.
 Tn the last of the sixth Persons beat out an fnheld hit--Whiteuan beat out hit to Caatleton, though the latter threw high to Hem! Hem made q magnificent running catch of Grerii- inger's foul. gettbig 1t near the grand stend. Rocky grounded to Jor- dan and Persons counted. leaving the score 10 to 1
 With one gone fin the seventh Moran hit safe and scored on Henn's two- bagger leaving the score 10 to 2. Nothing more was done, and 1t ended that way.