The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-01
IN FAST GAME BLACK SOX
 WENT DOWN BEFORE BOSTON
Pitcher Streit Did Excellent Work in His Debut and Won Admiration of Montgomery
 FanS-ScOrr 12 to ,.

devise plan whereby batting could be increased, and instead of the foul-strike rule helping the batter, 1t is a detriment to him. in my opinion. There may be times when an umpire would be justified In calling a strike on a foul. btft 1t Is wrong to call a strike on a long hard drive which drops just outside of fair ground. Nor does the rule shorten the which really cuts down the time of the game Is the one which makes it compul- sorry for the catcher to stand close be- hind the bat all through the game. The man in a hole-that is. after having hit two fouls which are strikes. he cannot afford to have another strike called on him. and this Is where he is handicapped. The rule may be as good as its advo- cates say 1t is, but I can not see it"
 Oscar streit Is an Alabama boy. He was born in Florence, but lived the great CT part of his life in Birmingham.
 In 1897 he began playing professional nant winners.
 In 1897 he was with Columbus, O., the pennant winners of the Western League. In 1898 he played with Dayton, O.. the pennant winners of the Dayton League. In 1898 he was with Newcastle, Pa. the pennant winners of the Interstate League. During the season of 1900 he was again with Columbus, o. In 1901 he played with | U League, and played the latter part of the season with Atlanta in the Southern League.
 The Memphis team might we'll be dub bed the Antiques" this season. If sea soning counts in favor of a team Mem- phis Is likely to take the whole count. Perry Werden is probably the most ven- erable on the Memphis list. He is B, and so venerable--in fact-as to be nearly ob n LaRoque. He is 70, Next in order come a bunch of three-Charley Frank. Brett enstein and Red Ehret who. though mere children compared with the others. have seen 36 summers go by and fully as many winters.
 The Black sox will have three days of hard practice now. the Detroits opening games. Sis Hopkins will be turned over to Whistler Saturday morning, and the local manager says he will pitch one of the opening games against Detroit.
 streit. Brennan and Hopkins. the locals
 will not lack box staff in the Detroit games.
 The only missing members of the team now are Roth. Roach and Chilts. Roach Is expected any day. making the pitching staff number seven. Whistler has Child s | contract in his pocket and says there is no QOuot that the Tat second DaSeman Will
 matter will be settled by Judge Kavan- | augh in the next few days. If Montgomery only had some coach
 CTS of the Fred Penney orderl Why, that fellow is worth his big salary to the Bos- l ton club for his voice alone. There's a | tip If Whistler would get some of his 1 team to open the faces on the coaching
 lines. everything would be lots more in-
 teresting. Try 1t, Lew.
 | One of the prettiest things of the game | outside of the snappy work of both teams
 in the first three innings, was a long l running catch that Charlie Dexter pulled down off Lew Whistler's stick in the | first iEning.
 | Abbatichio has not forgotten his hit.
 ting lessons in the Southern League of
 last summer. A three -bagger, a two.
 bagger and long single yesterday was
 what he did out of five times upl
 Notwithstanding the great reputatio of Willis, it was the universal opinion
 yeste- day that Malarkey is the swiftest
 pitcher that ever put a ball over the plate
 In Montgomery.