The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-18
SOUTHERN LEAGUE SEASON
 OPENS FAIR WITH PROMISE
Pretzel Play Atlanta Game in Montgomery Will Be Played Next Sunday Other Sunday Games are
 Scheduled--Wil Test Sentiment. ss


 August 1. f, g., Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday,: with Little Rock. August 5. | 6. z, Friday Saturday and Sunday: with | Atlanta. August 2s, 9. 30, Sunday. Mon- tember 2. 3. {. Friday. Saturday and Sun day; with Birmingham September g. 10 Il, Friday, Saturday and Sunday; with Little Rock September 12. 13. IA. Monday phis September 16, IT, 18 Friday Satur- day and Sunday; with Shreveport Sep tember is. 20. M. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday: with New Orleans. septem- day.
 On the Road.
 In Atlanta. April 21, p. g. Thursday, Friday and saturday;.. in Birmingham. TsSr.s.x May 5 T1esday WgsanesSay; vgf,,s . g. 10. Il. Saturday. Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday; in New Orleans May Is, IS, n. IS, Sunday. Monday. Tuesday and wednssday; v rs in ,a Shreveport May is. % 2i. day; in Little Sock. May 25. ;26, g. B. Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and Satur- day; in. Memphis May 9. 30. .si June 1. sagaiy aH g NssSss MensS Tussdsy and fSns day. Friday and Saturday; in Atlanta, July two gafnes) s. and S. Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday,: in Birmingham day: in Shreveport, July 10. ii. F, Sunday. Monday and Tuesday; in Little Rock, July 14. 15. 16 Thursday, Friday and Saturday; in Memphis July IS. 1s, 20, Mon Orleans. July p, 8. 4, Friday. saturday, and Sunday; in Memphis. August 8, and 10. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; in in Little Rock, August H. 12 and B. Shreveport. August IS. 1s. n. Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday: in New Orleans August fss 1o q. Friday. Saturday and Mnndsg sMInday; in ..aan Atalanta; A Augus. s ss A. Nashville August 25, 2s, 9, Thursday, Fri day and Saturday; in Birmingham Sep tsmber {. 5. 6. Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday. t+.ts The Amefican Association season al- so opens this week and day earlier than the Southern. Next Wednesday,. the 20th LSsviie hsso S. Fa m MlF Min, ln neapolis in Toledo and Kansas City in l Indianapolis. St. Paul won the pennant last season and Montgomery shutout 8. Paul one Sunday, in the exhibition ! games, Sis Hopkins doing the trick. The Louisville Courier Journal says: T guess Louisville will have something to say as to who will win the pennant. We look forward to the opening series | with Milwaukee with much eagerness and | the desire to get at them. There was | great rivalry between the two teams last | year, and without doubt the fight will | be taken up where it was left off last l fall when Joe Cantillon took his team off | the field and refused to play the second | game of a double header. Louisville will ! not be satisfied with anything less than l taking a majority of the games of the | first Series from Milwaukee,
 l When Tebeau makes such a statement as this he must think highly of the local | club as the Brewers are much stronger | than last season. While 1t is true that | Milwaukee lost several valuable men. Cantillon has more than replaced them | by the addition of such star players as | O,Brien, Stone, PenneI, Bateman. Mc- l kay and Schaefer, and with the players that the Brewers expect to get from the Chicago American League Club they will
 have a better team than last year.. Pres ident Tebeau says that the usual cere- monies will be observed this season on oppening day. While the parade has not yet been decided upon it will consist of
 the players in carriages and bunch of l rooters in automobiles and tallyhoes, cts.
 Eleven of the sixteen baseball leaders have fought with pennant winners.
 Nine of them are sons of St. Patrick.
 Five of them are playing managers viz. Charley Nichols of the St, Louis Ma
 tionals; Joe Kelly, of the Cincinnati Ma Nationals; Jimmy Collins of the Boston Americans. and Clark, Griffith, of the | New York Americans.
 In McGraw, Duffy, McAleer, Comiskey and Nichols. the majors win havo men at the head, who, but short time ago.
 were phenomenal ball players and nat | ural field leaders. r
 l In Clarke, McCSraw, Nichols and Duffy. the present parent body has managers | who will smart under defeat, and lay
 awake nights to figure out winning combination
 Of the asy-going managers who will
 bear watching, Connie Mack, Frank
 Selee, Ned Hanlon and Will Armour will
 be the most conspicuous.
 The managers who will have diff1cult propositions before them are Buckenbur- ger, Barrows, McAleer and the man who handles the Washington Senators.
 Detroit fans claim that Hanlon should l not be sorry If he loses Dillon. They say l he was once Tiger, but very tame one, | and that Brooklyn will be much stronger
 with Jack" Doyle at first base.
 This is the month for the baseball crank l to go crazy and dream great things about l the home team. All would be very nice l were 1t not for the sad awakening which usually comes about the first of June. Pitcher Pat Flaherty of the White Sox l has been nearly all winter at Winter | Park. Fla. where he has been attending Rawllns College, playing with and coach- | ing the baseball team representing that institution of learning.
 The Auburn boys seem determined to
 have one of the fastest football teams in
 the South next Fall. Some weeks ago 1 they put sum of money in Billie Will l Iiamss hands with instructions to get the best coach possible After making thor ough investigations, be landed Donahue | of Yale, who will report to Auburn on the day that the college opens next Fall. | Donahue has been playing sub-quarter | on the Yale team, being too light for the 1 Varsity team. and Is said to be one of | the best men in the country in his line. l Several Southern colleges were after him. | but Auburn put up the biggest price and | got the plum. Here's hoping that their | team will be all they hope for. I
 ] A telegram to The Times Democrat last night from Boston brought the news that Harvard would not take the negro short
 stop Matthews, on the tour through the
 Southern States, which Is soon to begin.
 This action on the part of the manage l ment of Harvard baseball affairs will be
 received in the South with some peculiar
 feelings. Matthews has played in several l games with Harvard already this season, and on each appearance there has been | much comment, favorable and unfaVor- l able regarding the benefits to be derived
 by the association of whites and blacks
 in the game.
 Matthews is said by such baseball au- thorities as Tim Murnane. Walter Barnes.
 Fred O'Connell and Cy Tanner to be one | of the best inhelders and all-around ball players that ever played with any college. He has done more for Harvard this sea- | son and last to win games than any other