The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-01

For the first time this season, Mont Southern League championship contest tnis afternoon, and to lend spice to the occasion. the visiting. club will be the aggregation from the town that never Ialls to stir up the keenest good-natured rivalry-Birmingham.
 < Col. Thomas O'Bricn of Birmingham will burst upon the devoted heads of poor Montgomerians with his Bailyhoos, when the southbound Louisville and Nashville train arrives at II o'clock this morning. The next two hours will be used by Colonel OBrien in a very dark, mysterious manner. In certain room at his hotel, which will be locked and bar red. with ceiling wax in every crack, he who will listen with strained attention to the proverbs that trickle from the mobile O'Brien lips. He will be instruct ing his bunch just how to shut out those Black Sox who did things to Uncle Alp ner,s Crackers over in Atlanta.
 After. this executive session, the gang from the city of steel biliets will be whirled out to the prettiest baseball park m the South, where they will do stunts with their willows and incidentally have a chance for the first time this season of gingerly. eyeing the swift lot of young sters who will be sprinting around the lot.
 After a light lunch and short rest, the two teams will meet at the Capitola Ho- tel, where the parade will be formed, and move at 1:3o o'clock. The parade Will be headed by a platoon of mounted police, followed by a brass band in tally-ho drawn fly four black horses. Then will come Mayor Joseph and mem bers of the City Council in carriages, members of the Montgomery Baseball Association in carriages and the. mem bers of the Birmingham and Montgom- |ery teams bringing up the rear. After ariving through some of the principal buainess streets of the city. the parade wilf1go straight out the Lower Wetumpka road to the ball grounds.
 Headed by the band, the two teams will march on the field, making the cir cult Of tAe field and returning to the plate and the outs will scatter to their respective pesitiars.
 Mayor Joseph will toss the first ball over the plate, and the Southern League season of 1905 in Montgomery will be on.
 Brennan will pitch the game for the Black Sox and either Campbell or Frank Smith for the BaI1yhens, probably the latter. as he pitched Monday the Nash
 The lineup of the two teans will be:
 Montgomery-Kahzler, 2b, ,N Spratt, 3D.; Molesworth. c. f.; Whistler, b.; Durett l. f.; stickney, r. f.; Clark, A, Busch, s.: Brennan. D
 Birmingham-Duffy. c. f.; Law1er 2b.; Mitchell. r. f.; Vaughan, h.; Millah i. f.; i; OBrien, 3D.; Mcguire, s. s.; Brown c.: Smith, p. ~ IN IN . Manager Whistler put in a very, btisy day yesterday, his mouth being glued to a telephone for the most part of the day In spicy conversation with President Pat Powers of the Eastern League. Ball timore is a member of that League. and | they are tearing up the earth in an ef- fort to get Childs. Pc vers. talking from Baltimore. said that they could hardly | get along without Childs and that Ned
 Hanlon; who owns the Orioles had au- I 1nd tn Afp lal hundyed dollars for Chiids. Whistlers reply was that he wanted | Childs more than the money, and that he
 would certainly insist on the second base | man coming to Montgomery. C- Just before this message Secretary Far
 rell of the National Association had wir- ed President kavanaugh of the Southern
 League and Manager Whistler of the To-
 calls that Childs belonged to Montgomery
 and that he had instructed him to report
 at once. This settles finally the Childs
 case, and it is probable that Fatty will
 show up in Montgomery in the next few
 days.
 Now for the other matter. A telegram came early in the day from President
 Palmer of the Nashville Club offering $5OC
 entirely in the hands of Manager Whist
 Ter and he very promptly turned MT. Pal mer's offer down.
 after" said Whistler, "as 1t is trying to give Montgomery good'club. Five hun dred dollars is lot of money but need
 Roth. need him badly, and most assur- edly intend to have him. Money consid-
 erations are out of the question, as | told MT. Palmer"
 Fisher has not played Roth in any of the championship games doing the catch ing himself, and Roth has simply got | to come to Montgomery. quit playing | baseball or go to an outlaw league. Baseball Chaff.
 The transportation question for today
 is settled. The Traction Company has | leased a number of cars from the Mont gomery Street Railway and no matter | how large the crowd is this afternoon ev- erybody will be comfortably seated. l Old Subscriber-There is absolutely nc
 similarity between an Atlanta fan and an
 electric fan. One huns gloomily: the oth-
 CT huns merrily. according to the lam guage customary to newspaper reporters, | Whistler, Whistler. I've been thinking 1 What you did was mighty fine; | Keep it up old champion Black Sox. | You have got the winning nine.
 l Our Atlanta correspondent denies the | report that Alb Powell's team is to be | transferred to Social Circle Ga