The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-26
THE BASEBALL BOOM.
Interest is Increasing Throughout
 the Country.

Interest ts lncreasing Throughout
 the Country.
 The boom that baseball is on this season Is something extraordinary. North. South. East and West. the peo- pie are wild over the National game.
 In the Southern League the enthu- siasm Is at such a pitch as to make the managers of the box offices go into spasms of delight. The beauty of 1t is that so far there are no signs of abatement.
 The people of Selma have just cause to be highly delighted with the aggre- gation of ball tossers that Bob Fender has provided. The team is. playing clean, hard ball. hitting well and is well up in the per centage. They have been playing some of the hardest clubs in the league and making a fine show ing. This week they get up against three of the teams that they havt not tackled so far-Memphis tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday. New Orleans Thursday, Friday and Saturday and Shreveport Monday, Tuesday and we'd nesday of next week. After that they will go home opening in Selma with Shreveport on the 9th. 7th and Sth of June followed by Little Rock on the 10th, 11th and 18th; Memphis on the 18th, 14th and 18th; New Orleans on the 17th, 18th and 18th; Nashville on the goth, Fist and 22 and Chattanooga on the 24th, 18th and 18th. These fif- ten games will complete the series at home after which they will go on the road again.
 In the two big leagues the American has been getting the best of it in gate receipts although from the ball games that the National Clubs are putting up they ought to draw well. The Eastern circuit has been at home and has done fairly we'll, New York leading them all by winning steadily.
 George Davis must have been born under a lucky star. Mathewson IS find that he picked up out of the woods somewhere and he has turned out 10 be the most sensational pitcher ever shown, not excepting Joe McGinnity, nor big Amos Rusie, the former star of the baseball world. Strang was an- other find and he is playing the fastest infield in the league. They nave been playing some remarkable games up there. Last Tuesday and Wednesday New York won a couple of games from Pittsburg by the close score of to in each game. Mathewson pitched the first and allowed six hits while Clark's gang got but eight off Phyle in the other.
 Thursday Doheny pitched and had the Reds shut out until the ninth ln- mining when a rally with the stick got man over the plate. Friday Matn- ewson pitched another of his marvel ous games and the Reds managed to get two entire hits off him while he shut them out notwithstanding the three errors behind him. Phillips pitched great ball also and the Giants were only able to get one man over the plate.
 The Cincinnati team has been hold ing its own better than any of the Western clubs during their invasion of the Eastern territory, and Noodles Hahn and Henry Peitz have been their mainstay. BotE these are old South ern League men. Leitz having been in- troduced to baseball in Montgomery and Hahn at Mobile and Nashville.
 There will be no Sunday games in the National League today as none of the towns in the Eastern circuit play Sunday ball. Tomorrow Cincinnati, Chicago, Pittsburg and St. Louis fin ish their series with New York, Brook lyn. Boston and Philadelphia. Tues day. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week Chicago plays in Boston, Cincinnati in Philadelphia, Pittsburg in Brooklyn and St. Louis in New York.
 This will wind up the Eastern se- ries of the Western teams and June 3rd the Eastern Clubs go West, New York opening at St. Louis. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. Boston at Chicago and Philadelphia at Pittsburg.
 How the Eastern clubs will hold their own in the West 2emains to be seen, but the chances are that Cincin- natl will be back in the lead before the Western series is over if they keep up the fast ball that they are playing. The Eastern clubs have -our more games on their own grounds before taking the road and New York at any rate, should be able to greatly increase her per centage fin the standing as they are playing decidedly the fastest ball of the lot.
 In the American 1t Is pretty fight between George Stallingr Detroit az. gregation and Clark Grifith's Chicago gang for the lead. Both of them are playing good ball. but the American teams are so evenly matched that the slightest advantage is liable to give any of them big lift.
 Keene's 4-year-old colt. Conroy that captured the Brooklyn Handicap yes- Lerudy, cdH Clalm as much credit as Kinley Mack did when he won 1t last summer. Last year the race was run in the mud. and the same thing was done yesterday. only Conroy ran it in 2:09 yesterday, while last year Kinley Mack did it in 2:10, there being a great difference in the weights and ages of r the two horses. Three 4-year-olds fin- lshed this year, Mrs. Roche's colt Standing third and Rollines colt. Her bert, second. last year Mitchell finished third with Herbert and this year he landed second. On the 31st of August Spencer landed Conroy first in the Sapphyr Stakes at Sheepshead Bay, the five and one-half furlongs being done in 1:06 3-5. Croker's colt, Bel lario. ran second. with Danny Maher up. and Six Shooter, with Turner up. third. Yesterday Sidney Lucas beat Canister. Mackay's horse. finishing in seventh place. It looks like the fates have decreed that the Brooklyn Han dicap cannot be run on a good track. Squire Brown
 ADJUSTABLE WASHSTAND.