The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-29
RAIN KEPT THE
WHITE SOX AWAY
No Baseball Game at West End
Yesterday
CHICAGO HERE TOMORROW
National and American League Teams
viii Be Here Every Day This Week
and World Renowned Baseball
Stars viii Be Seen.

A slow, drizzlng rain loosened up the
mud too much for the White Sox yester-
day, and Manager Comiskey, on advice
of Secretary Jackson, kept his Chicago
champions at Picket Spring, near Mont
gomery, where they will play Whistler's
team today.
Many of the Birmingham cranks who
had a yearning for revenge were very
mucn disappointed over the turn of affairs
and they had to content themselves with
calling at baseball headquarters and ex-
planning how 1t might have been.
The Coal Barons had no opportunity to
practice yesterday, and as this is Sunday
they will have to take another days rest.
Chicago arrives tomorrow ana will be
here for two games. They will be fol-
lowed by Boston and the Cleveland teams.
In fact. the entire week will be taken up
in teaching the big leaguers how to play
the game and incidentally taking on
little work for the sake of limbering up.
The fans who felt sore over the defeat
of Friday cooled off yesterday and de-
cided that the local team did about as
well as could be expected under the cir
cumstances. The New Workers. went to
Memphis and defeated Charlie Franks
team yesterday by a score of to 2 They
succeeded in getting three hits off Taylor
and Miller, while the Coal Barons land
ed on Mathewson and McGinnity for four
clean ones, including Browns two-bag-
ger. OF course 1t is almost impossible and
sometimes foolish to get line on a minor
league teams strength when playing the
big leaguers for the first time In week
we will be able to have an idea OF what
O'Brien has gathered together, and UNI
til that time opinions are purely theo-
retical and to large extent guess work.
The Practice Games.
From the showing on the first day the
practice games will be well attended.
Nearly all of SSe stars in the baseball
world will hav%appeared in Birmingham
before the regular season begins, and
though Birmingham will probably lose
all the games the fans can have an OPP
portunity of seeing the National and
American league teams work. Out of the
six games played the coming week the
fans are expecting Birmingham to win
one of them and if they do this will be
encouraging.
Comiskey has gotten a strong team to-
gether for Chicago and the infield con-
sisting of Tannehill, Isbell, Daily and
Green is one of the fastest in the coun-
try. Tannehill and 1sbell are especially
strong at the bat He has a crowd of
young pitcher, many of whom are not
well known to the local enthusiasts.
Boston will bring along two players
who have on many occasions sickened
the hearts of the Stag Pile cranks. These
men are Abbatichio, formerly with Nash
ville and Stanley, who was played as
headlner by Alb Powell when he ran
such a hard heat for the pennant. In
this connection it might be interesting
to note that several Southern league
players are now in the fast company.
Among those who have gone to the Ma
tional and American leagues are; Will
helm of Birmingham, Hill of Nashville,
Hopkins of Chattanooga, Abbatichio of
Nashville, Sanders of Nashville, Stanley
of New Orleans, Babb of Memphis, 1len-
ley and Krug of Atlanta, Billy smith OF
Birmingham. The report that Frank
Smith, the pitcher. has signed with Wash
ington is untrue. A telegram from him
says he will be in Birmingham on or
about April /. 1t is true Lotus of Wash
ington tried to get the big pitcher, but
"Smitty" decided he would rather play
one more year in Birmingham.
Stars Who viii Be Seen.
Cleveland will probably furnish the
Birmingham public with a glimpse at
more national stars than any other club
scheduled. They will have with them
Lajoie, the great hitting second baseman.
By the way, his name should be pro-
nounced "lazh- u-ay' with the accent on