The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-27
Park Was Opened Under Favorable Circum-
 stances. ATTENDANCE WAS LARGE Ten Inning Game With Score
 10 tO9. Lew Whistler, Montgomery's Crafty Manager, Led the Remarkable Hitting of the Locals With
 Two Home Runs to
 His Credit.

When the announcement was made that the new ball grounds would be opened with the Chicago team, everybody thought that of course there would be a good crowd of critical, dyed-in- the- wool fans anxious more to get a line on the locals than anything else. But the throng that taxed to their utmost capacity the cars of the Traction Company, almost filled the big fan-shaped grandstand and made the box office people open their faces with tender. dreamy smiles, such as steins with foam at the top bring to one. was a revolutionary but it was the limit. If the weather had been made for the sole purpose of the day 1t would have been impossible to get a more aus pictous inauguration of the new grounds The day was simply ideal-just bit cool. kindly sun robbed the jealous. dying breath of winter of all venom. The grounds were almost in shape and the hundreds of people who had never seen them before were unstinted in their praise of the plans and general metro politan appearance of the grounds.
 As stated in yesterdays Advertiser. owing to the fact that the bleachers have not been completed and that there is no roof on the grandstand, that structure was used yesterday afternoon as the bleachers. Everybody that went through the gates went up into the stand, there being no extra charge for the reasons mentioned above. and the seating capac- ity of the big building was aptly demon strated by the fact that the 800 people in it hardly half filled 1t. The box office was In shape with -he smiling face of Bill Stickney at the window-inside the office hs has everything in ship-hape. d modern reel with a Jig circular bundle of perforated coupon tickets on it hav- ing been received yesterday morning from a Philadelphia firm. MT. Comiskey, owner of the whjte-leSged bunch from the City of Winds expressed the opinion that the arrangements of grounds, grand stand and all, was excellent, and he is not eternally shooting the pull, a la Teddy Sullivan, either.
 One of the most pleasing features of the day-outside of the hitting and vid- tory of the locals-w1s the street car service. At the hours mentioned in The Advertiser yesterday the Traction Com pany had every one of their cars in line down Montgomery Street and across Co1rt Square, and as fast as a car was filled It was sent on its way to the ball grounds, the seven of them going out in quick succession. At 3:1O this was re- peated. the cars having been brought back to Court Square as fas as they were unloaded at the park. and the big crowd went to the ball game with more comfort than was ever known at a sim liar affair in Montgomery. After that glorious tenth inning every one of the seven cars were lined up on the switch at the Ball Park and as soon as loaded they started for the city, everybody be- K. It is coming a bit of unnecessary words to say that the service was highly ap- preciated.
 The ovation was a distinct compliment to the local management and the two ball teams. and Lew Whistler didn't do thing but show his appreciation by smashing out the choicest variety of long hits seen in long time. And what A gingery article of baseball he put up He got fourteen put-outs some of inc chances difficult at that. without an error, while out of five times up he got four hits, driving the leather over the fence for home runs on two momentous occa- sions and smashing out hits that netted two sacks twice. Whistler was not the only thing that ever happened, however, Lynx Sttckney cracked out a three baR- ger while old Hoss' Burnett and Spratt hit for two bags each, Spratts opportune hit clinching the game for the locals in their half of the tenth inning To show what sickers the bunch that Whistler has rounded up are, 1t is only necessary to cau attention to the fact that Chica- go got eleven hits. Montgomery sixteen. Chicago three earned runs and Montgom- cry six The local team made a favorable impression on the crowd that will roast them over the hottest fires outside of Sheol and praise them to the giddy heights this summer with equal nicety, discernment and on-partizanship-nit nit, Pauline. Spratt over at third seemed to have several bad nights. three of the