The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-11

the controlling interest in the Washington Club, a writer in an Eastern paper says: MT Dwyer is the identical man to give Washington winning teans For an en- terprising. original and clever up-to-date hustler of the get-there-type, William J. Dwyer part owner or the Washington Baseball Club, easily leads all others in this section of the country. MT Dwyer, eventful career and slngularly success full one as well. As boy he entered the local office of the Associated Press and was tho first man in Washington to report the professional games pfayed here. More over, he was the only newspaper man at the Capital who understood how to score game. For this reason he did a good bit of extra work for many newspapers besides faithfully serving the Associated Press at the same time.
 "As a newspaper correspondent, VII liam ]. Dwyer topped them all, his scoops being so frequent that 1t was ask one another how in the devil Dwyer Tas able to get. the most important news sa far ahead of anyone else? 1 have talked with MT. Dwyer myself regarding me how he managed to score several 'beats," yet I am still Ignorant Of the clever manner In which he brought about many more "scoops."
 He was the first newspaper man to se- cure detailed account of the Supreme Court decision in the Geary exclusion law affair. And it was to MT, Dwyer that Justice Field first handad his decision in gnashing of teeth down in newspaper row, when every paper in the country was urging their correspondents to get news concerning this important matter and Dwyer had corner on 1t all. An, that was. indeed, a famous 'scoopr
 MT. Dwyer was the first press man to receive the news of Blaine's death and also that of Mrs. Harrison. He was also ten days ahead of all the pencil pusfers with the news that Carter was to 5e made chairman of the Republican Ma tional Campaign Committee. It was also Will Dwyer who made Roswell P. Flower. then Governor of New York, famous throughout America by headIining Flow CTS sensational utterance. delivered to MT. Dwyer by the qovernor during the some years ago.
 During the time he spent doing repor- torial work the brain of Mir. Dwyer was busy with an original idea. the evolution of which has been in the issuing for the past several years by this gentleman of news sheet, called the Bulletin. This Is in size somewhat larger than the page of daily paper and 1t makes its ap- all the local and telegraphic things of in terest in a condensed form. Besides his Bulletin, MT. Dwyer is interested in many other local enterprises. For some years
 
 bia Theatre, a show-house that books nothing but frst-class attractions, on the Mansfield, Hackett and Skinner-Rehan order. He is also the vice president of large bank and a director in several other business institutions.
 fBut like all eminently successful and brainy men. MT Dwyer has had a hobby for years and that is base ball. As a known as one of the best, if not really the finest, amateur catcher in Washing ton City. He had them all beat at play ing this difficult position and while I was talking with him the other night about base ball, he warmed up to the subject and with an enthusiasm natural to the man, he expressed the belief that with a few days practice out at the park that he would be able to play the game as lieve to be a fact. E.G
 ,"No one today understands any more about the game than Mir. Dwyer as he has been close student of base ball the main portion of his life He was the first man to telegraph a game inning by in- ming This he did for The New York Sun when the Giants played In Wash ington City during the latter part of the idea of receiving telegraphic reports right from the field during the progress of the game and by the aid of the latest stereoptican methods he delighted the vast audience in his palatial theatre by
 
 as 1t was flashed on the big screen which covered the stage"
 A Shreveport fan perpetrates this about Bob Gilks pitching staff:
 we've a bunch of battery Lulus,
 The best in the country about. With ridiculous ease, whenever they
 please,
 They fan the batters out.
 ba,y an t,a kIxa fro,
 That the bell taps off. to begin it, And with all, sorts of shouts they fan
 the galoots .4t
 Who think for second they're in it."
 The poor fellow was struck by gar. bage cart at this point, and after it had passed on his note book containing this verse was all that was found.
 Henry Chadwick, the Father of base ball' has this to say about base ball brains
 You may talk of pitchers "cycione"
 But the main thing after all, Is not the pace or the '.in" and "out" But the "brains" behind the ball. And when you're facing the man in the And you want to know where you're It's not the strength in your arms that
 tells,
 But the '"brains' behind the bat. In the field support of the pitching. too,
 When the batsman his bat Is yielding: It is not the catches" nor 'pick-ups''
 that tell.
 But the "brains" behind the fielding. And lastly, in trying to make z good
 score,
 And the runner for bases "goes run
 hing
 It Is not the speed of the runner that But the 'brains" behind the running.
 In regard to the trouble in Nashville. Manager Barrow, of the Detroit team, says
 q was not prosecuted for the affair at Nashville. Nobody could regret the in- cident any more than I do. When Carr was struck by the pitched ball the crowd around our bench yelled to the pitcher to serve the next batter the same way They sent a volley of objectionable and told them to move away from our bench and threatened, If they did not. to throw the water at them. They became more abusive and I threw the water The gentleman upon whom 1t fell chanced to step in the way just at that moment and got the full benefit of the water, which was not intended for him. So far as re- sisting the officers Is concerned, such a thing never occurred to me, as still fail to see whether there was necessity for violence on the part of the police Carr will not be out of the game for any great length of time through the accident to his nose He suffered considerably with the member, but was able to he about