The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-08-23
JUSTICE TO ATLANTA
SHOULD HAVE SAME SHOW AZ
OTHER TOWNS.
Southern League Seems to be scram-
bling for Dollars Instead OF
Pennant-Unfnirness
to Atlanta.

The championship race in the South
ern League has degenerated into a
most disgusting farce-the element OF
sport so dear to the hearts of the av-
erage baseball fans has been very ef'
fectually eliminated.
1t Is now simply a mere matter OF
dollars and cents-the penant, instead
Of being won on its merits. 10 being
Commodity. Instead Of making a road
trip during the closing days of the
Southern League season in September.
New Orleans will play most of the
games in the Crescent City.
They will not take their medicine on
the road as the schedule of the South
ern League calls for.
The three games that New Orleans is
asle to play a5tS
will be played in the Crescent City In
stead. Four, IL not more, games will
be played down there. This arrange
ment was made at the beginning OF
the present 1904 season-but what fol.
lows hereafter was not made then.
Shreveport has transferred the games
that New Orleans was to play there,
and in consideration of guarantee of
$3.50 day. will play them in the Cres-
cent City. Nashville has done the
same thing with the New Orleans
games to be played there on the 18th,
18th and 18th of September. and on
consideration Of that same guarantee
of $3.50 day from the New Orleans
management. will play them in the
Crescent City instead of Nashville.
The games Of the 18TH 18th and 18th
of September that Memphis is scheduled
to play In Montgomery have. for finan-
cial reasons" been transferred and will
be played In Memphis instead. Now.
nobody is so senile as not to know
that without a pretty good accounting
from the box office baseball cannot be
a brilliant success; but there are a lot
OF other things to be taken into con-
sideration during the closing weeks of
this Southern League struggle and just
at this time those reasons are not only
very patent, but peculiarly significant
The great city of New Orleans is n
mighty place BY the same token. the
these two 'lordly" towns are not the
entire works by any manner of means.
There are others.
Over in Atlanta Abner Powell has a
team that is supposed to have some
rights in the Southern League. This
team has always been as natural an
enemy of Montgomerys as even Bir-
mingham, but for the game. plucky
and sportsmanlike manner that Gene
DeMontreville has shown with the
Crackers, the people of Montgomery
VINO love a sense of justice and fair
play. sympathize with them. Atlanta
has a splendid chance of making
fighting finish-they have played cham
pionship ball and are still playing 1t.
They have not had any games trans
ferred. but. like thorough sportsmen.
have faithfully played every game on
the road that was set down for them in
the Southern League schedule, winning
a big majority of them.
After all their hard work 1t will be
the heighth of injustice for Memphis
and New Orleans-their rivals in the
pennant race-to be given the tremen-
dous advantage of playing games on
their home grounds that were scheduled
for the road.
Next Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Atlanta is scheduled In Montgomery,
the local club laying off until the fol-
lowing Friday, when Nashville plays
here. An old maxim more expressive
than elegant holds that what is sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gander,"
| and Atlanta has just as much right to
| have those three games played in At
| lanta as Memphis and New Orleans has
to get them transferred to those cities
Atlanta is only IL points behfld Menu
phise in the race for second place,
place by Wednesday or Thursday. If
1t is revenue that the Montgomery
| management is after. surely they wilt
| not be inconsistent enough to assert
| that they would get several hundred
dollars a day more If the games are
| played in Atlanta than they would II
Atlanta plays the games here. The
say anything about the rights of the
| local patrons of the game-for the
| Montgomery lovers of baseball surely
has a right to witness the Memphis
and New Orleans games scheduled hero
| next month.
| A word to the wise is SUFFICIENT. and
| this article is respectfully referred to
| President Kavanaugh OF the Southern
League and Abner Powell of the At
| lanta team.