The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04

from his Indian Territory home to reach Montgomery, where he was breaking into professional baseball-he has broken up lots of games since that April day.
 With barely time to take bath and get bite he hurried out to the grounds and started in to pitch his first game. Mickey was pitching for Nashville that day and he had nice team and lot of pretty heavy stickers behind him. Well. the game started and the rooters, rather skeptical at first, were soon yell ing only one -name-McGinnity. For four innings. those :'heavy" hitters got one for them getting that-not a base on balls and not a man getting to second base.
 In the fifth inning, with a man on base, Miller hit a lucky home run, putting in two tallies for them, and in the sew erth Mack. the Nashville second base man. drew a walk and a cluster of in- field errors finally put him over the plate. O Brfen got another small hit in the eighth, Mack another base on balls and Vickey's sacrifice worked O'Brien around over the plate. These four runs represented the sum to- tai of their scoring. only five hits being made off McGlnnity. while Montgomery inspired by the masterly work of McGin- Inity-slaughtered poor Mickey for sev- enteen hits, four two-baggers. a three eagger and a home run. representing tell scores, seven of the runs being earned.
 From Pea eock's Tract to Riverside from Sunrise to West End, Joe McGinnity owned Montgomery that night. and he richly deserved it every bit. After that h. pitched for four consecutive days. opening the eyes of the local fans and visiting teams He was too good to be true, however, and before long ic was in the big League.
 Ills subsequent career Is well known to every baseball fan in Montgomery, for everybody here loved the cheerful, whole. C.N fall has been the star pitcher. the feature of New York in the National League where he is known as "the iron man..
 The first man that dropped off a Lou morning was this bright-faced Joe Me GInnity. the first time he had set foot on Montgomery real estate in eleven years. He was immediately surrounded by group of his old Montgomery friends who triumphantly took complete posses sion of him. Not one whit changed and not one whit spoiled by his wonderful career in the baseball world he is the same jolly. good-natured chap that made firm friends of the Montgomery people eleven years ago.
 Good big town you have here" he sci0. lots bigger than in the old days and they tell me that one of my old friends is one of your prominent Alder mer now. But you don't look day older tan you did in the old days" he said t1 the writer
 Behind him trooped that bunch of ball tossers who are "touted" to land the rag in the National League this summer-John | MCGraws New York Nationals. The outfit included besides McGraw and l MCGinnity. Christy Mathewson, Ames
 Dummy Taylor, Nops and Mill!gan | pitchers-Minnehan having been turned
 over to Birmingham-the old stars Roger | Bresnahan and Jack Warner with Bow erman Tor the hackstop department Dan | McCann. Gilbert, Dahlen. Lauder Dunn
 and Devlin in the infield. "Sandow'' | Mertes and Browne in the outheld Har-
 rY Mccormick, outfelder, is said to he
 a conner. He was with Jersey City which
 won the pennant in the Eastern League last year, leading that league in batting 1 with 172 hits in 122 games representing | eight sacrifice hits, twenty-five stolen | bases and lOo runs, batting average of l .36l. He was taken sick in Little Rock | and went right to New York but if is
 thought he will be in shape long before | the season opens
 | our team is in good shape now" said
 the little manager of the Giants. Harry l Mccormick being the only one on the | sick list l look for the most prosper
 ous seeason ever known in baseball all | over the country. Ban Johnston has
 changed the American League schedule | SD that there will not be as many con
 ricung dates in New York and l think that there will be no chance of friction between the two big leagues.
 The veteran sam Crane of The New l York Journal and American and Howard | Of The Evening World. came in with the | team yesterday and will stay with them
 until the Giants land in Gotham tOwl. ] once more.
 Joe McGinnitY will pitch the opening | innings for the Giants this afternoon with | probably Carter and Roach for the Pretz-
 els. New York is here Monday. Tuesday
 anI Wednesday. so all the pitchers or