The age-herald., 1898-03-31
AGAIN THE RAIN INTERVIEWED No Game at the Ball Park Yes
 terday. FIELDER REILLY RELEASED Was Adjudged To Be Too Slow for a Fast Town Like Brmngham-vaIIendorff
 Will Play Right Field.

Again did rain intervene and prevent a game of base ball at West End park yes- terday afternoon.
 The Heavens opened their water gates
 and a cold, drizzling rain fell throughout
 the entire day It seems that Jupiter Plu-
 vius has 1t in for Birmingham. or else
 would be sorry to see the locals make mon- keys out of the Bessemer aggregation. There is no game scheduled for today,
 and in all probability old Sol will smile
 beningly upon the earth and laugh to him. self when he thinks how he has outwitted
 the Magic City rooters.
 The first man who has drawn a release from Manager Haller so far this season, is Reilly, the right-felder. He was adjuds- ed to be too slow for fast town like Bir- mingham, and accordingly was yesterday given his walking papers. He left this morning for his home at New Albany, Ind. Manager Haller signed him on a recom- mendation, but after looking up his record and seeing him practice concluded that he wouldn't do. Vallendorff will cover right garden.
 Manager HalIer says that when he con- pares his team with those of Mobile, Mont gomery, Augusta and Charleston, he feels confident that the Greens will hold their own.
 Councilman E. s. Lumplsin has refused to accept a free pass to the Atlanta base ball grounds for the coming season, be- cause he thought the pass was sent nm because of his membership in the city council. He returned the pass with the ex- planation that as a member of the council he could not accept it. Several dime mu- scum managers are said to have entered bids for him to exhibit him as a freak. It will be fortunate for the new manager of the Chicago club if he can control Short stop Dahlen, who gave his predecessor so
 much trouble. Entrusting a team to the captaincy of a player, who has for years defied discipline, is rather hazardous, and that is what Manager Burns has done.
 "steve" Brode can never forget the let ter which President Young once sent to the umpires concerning him, and will not pass up a chance to hand Nick hot shot The players were discussing Russell Sages S generous offer to advance the government ] $10 900 900 at so much interest per. some ex- pressed a desire to exchange places with | the philanthropist. "Either that or get NICK l Young's job," commented Steve.
 Every writer of base ball will resent the brutal affront which Freedman has grat- uitiously offered the venerable Henry Chad-
 wick With characteristic coarsneSs, the
 owner of the New York club styles the
 Father of Base Ball' "pensioner' and
 an ingrate because, forsooth, he has seen
 fit to criticise the player-manager or the
 Giants and to condemn the impolite and despotic course pursued by the""Weyler or Base Ball'' toward newspaper men.
 The natives of Georgia all stand in awe | of Bill Lange's towering figure, and his | agility and fleetness amaze them still l more At first sight he is usually sized up | Nf hnp h. wieldiness. Bill started to steal In one of | the early games and an amused townsman | burst out: Look at that big, numbering | heavyweight going to steal second" After | seeing Bill tear down the base line he | didn't need to be informed that there l weren't any better base runners in the | league.
 In one of the Reds flaming fetes the | story tellers dwelt on the pranks of Me- Graw. 'He has got one of the wickedest | tongues in the league" declared Elmer | Smith, "and when he Is stirred up he can | roast you in fearfully cutting way. I | recall one occasion when he gave me the | shoulder. The trick aroused Denny Lyons | to comment, and, like flash, he turned on | Denny and snared: What ails you? You | are all swelled up because you haven't | been drinking for couple of weeks. Why, | if they'd drive a spigot mot you and turn | on the faucet the park would be foodedi' | That crushed Lyons, and he pleaded:' |
 Don't stir up the dynamiter any more!"
 Herman Long, of the Bostons' says: "I | look upon Bobby Wallace the wonder of | the league. To take a out of the | pitchers box and make star third base | man out of him in year Is a record | never before equaled or even approached. With another seasons experience Wallace will outclass McGraw and Collins.''
 Tn Chicagos were not the only uniformed bands on the streets of Waycross. The | Georgia convict gangs, sent out to labor on | the roads, are novel sight to the northern visitors. March squads in striped suits | and with jingling chains and guarded by a keeper with a good rife, were met every day by the players the road to the ball grounds
 Since the league meeting President Henry Powers has been hard at work sitting the applications of umpires for positions in the league. He has signed one official, Jack Pietz of New Orleans, who umpired r during the last month of the season of '96 Of the hundred other applications, Frank B. Jevne of Chicago, Vim. Ford, of Au- gusta, and William Stickney, of Montgom- cry, will probably be selected.
 Manager Haler is confident of getting Califower, the twirler, who signed with Oswego, N. Y. Haller has informed him that he would either play in Birmingham this season or take a year off. Another catcher will most likely be signed in a day or two.
 BlRMIhGHAM'S MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT.