The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-08
WET GROUNDS; NO GAME
DETRoIT-MoNTGoMERY TEAMS
 PLAY TODAY.
Lineup Will Be the Same at Ball Park This Afternoon as Announced for Yes
 terday.

The bad weather prevented the game of baseball yesterday afternoon.
 Colonel Pluvius took "a hand in base ball affairs and very effectually cornered Tigers from the beautiful city of Detroit and our own Black Sox were in need of a good rest, and what he said went with a great big damp W.
 The players of the two teams sat around their hotels listening to the batter of the rain drops on .he roof"
 The game this afternoon will be just as yesterdays was intended, the same batting order and pitching stan, Kissinger and Deering doing the slab work for De- calls.
 The lineup of the two teams this af- ternoon will be: -- a
 Detroit-Barrett, c. f.: Smith, 2b.: Eibefield. .. g.: Leager, sb.: Brulow, c:;
 Montgomery-Kanzier 2b.; Spratt, 3b. i; metesTortn. Mol s;,o.v S; l.; Whistler lb: Dur. Manner. C.: Busch. s. s.; Hopkins. D.; Ely, D.
 It is only a matter of few weeks be. fore the championship race will be on in full blast in every league in the United States. One week from today the Ma tonal League championship season opens with Al Buckenburger's Bostons who were in Montgomery last week, playing in ina Philadelphia ,ais on t the 18th 18th. l7th 18th. 17th, 18th and 20th; Pittsburg in Cincinnati on the 16th, 17th, 18th and 18th Sunday, and Chicago in St. Louis on the same four days as Cincinau and Pitts burg.
 One week later, asd two weeks from today, the championship season opens in two leagues-the American League and American Association.
 Bill Armour's Cleveland Blue Birds,
 who are now showing Birmingham how to play ball, will open the season in De- troit with the Tigers, Manager Barrows $ fast aggregation, which plays the Black
 sox here today; Thursday. Friday. Sat
 Detroit @ the End. ard. ssth and ssth. nav Wed. d
 nesday Thursday. Saturday and Sunday; Comiskeys White Sox, whom the locals
 beat out in a ten-inning game, in St. Loui,
 on the same dates; Clark Grifflth's New
 22nd, 23rd, Ath and 18th. and the Boston
 Americans with the team that won the pennapt in this league last season; the Athletics in Philadelphia on the same dates as the Washington-New Yorl In the American Association Minneap oils opens at Kansas City April 22nd, 23rd ath and 18th; St. Paul, the team tha, indianapolis at Louisville and Columbu. at Toledo.
 Six days later. on the 27th, our owr Southern League season opens witt Montgomery In Atlanta on the 27th, 2Stf and 29th, Monday, Tuesday and Wednes | day; Nashville at Birmingham on the | same dates; Memphis at Shreveport or 1 the 18th, 18th and z7th, Saturday, Sunday and Monday; and Little Rock in New Orleans on the same three dates. There was a little misunderstanding in cident to the running of the Wester trair to the ball ground Sunday. The Unior Ticket Agent at the depot. having no in structions to the contrary, began selling tickets as usual, for 15 cents the round trip. Just about that time 1t was an nounced in the waiting room and at the entrance gates that no tickets would b. sold, a fare of cents each way beinl paid on the train. number of people | had already bought the 15 cent tickets hence the misunderstanding.
 The New York Americans pulled out crowd of 1.5O0 people in Mobile Sunda! | in a game with the City League team O l the Gulf City. Speaking of the openin, | of the City League season there mex | Sunday. a Mobile special says: "The City League of Baseball Club! | will open the season at Monroe Park or