The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-18


 eyer known in the South. Every team in | the League Is so much stronger than last | year that comparisons would be the |
 Here in Montgomery the difference Is more marked than anywhere else in the | League. Local fans have pinned ssthelr | faith to the fact that they have one of | League. and undoubtedly they have | an outfeid hitting over 300 and playing a l ,ts m the e. nS s,n the 300 mark and playing brilliant ban. | backstop department with To superiors and very few equals in the League. and l ly, the team unquestionabiy looks like a winner. The only thing that can approach the term, unknown auantities'i is the box staff. So. far, the pitchers have shown up remarkably we'll their mettle having been tested in some of the most bruising ball games in the world-those with the animal. man. sees how manifestely unfair and unjust 1t would be to even attempt criticism of the pitching stan as. individ- uals. Ed Pabst has a. difficult task on his hands in determining the best men to keep. A big majority of the games this season are a series of four in each town and in all probability i've pitchers will be carried. S After the 18th of May. with, a final limit l of June 1st, each club in the League is compelled, under League rules, to cut their roster down to fourteen men. With catchers, there is room on the PretzA stan for, five pitchers. one of whom could be used, as a utility man with an eye to his hitting. Pabst has exactly one month | out this abstruse' problem, and local fans | have .undoubted faith in his discernment, | discretion and judgment. Of course, the usual amount of Knock | ing will crop out in time Certain fans, | there are, who, under no circumstances. | could be happy unless welding the ham | is made right here that the steady job | given the anvil chorus last season will be l conspicuous by It's absence in Montgom- | cry this summer. s4 g.I - | being a record-breaker. Bright and early | this morning a force of carpenters will | begin work at Oak Park erecting addi- tional bleacher room. That heaven of the | almost. if not quite, to the right fence. | The usual rules in the grandstand will be l observed that were in force at Athletic Park last season--a certain part of the l grand-stand set apart exclusively for la | dies with or without escorts, and the | other end for the use of smokers. Eeglnr ming this morning, carpenters will put comfortable backs on the seats in, the la Il dies section, the smokers section already
 being as comfortable as any man can
 care for-his. cigar and watching the game | y
 l In the matter of the schedule. the com | mittee has been singularly kind to Mont l gomery. Of the sixty-nine games on the | road, Montgomery has six Sunday games 1 The Fourth of July games are played In | Atlanta and the Labor Day games In Bir-
 nfingham.- Opening in Atlanta on Thurs
 day, the Pretzels play three games with
 the Crackers. opening with Birmingham | at Oak Park next Sunday afternoon and | playing four games; then four with Nash
 vile. winding up on Sunday, May ist | Then they take the road for eight games,
 four each in Birmingham and Nashville Three games are played at Oak Park with Atlanta on Thursday. Friday and Satur-
 day Ss May 1,h tSs isth ssse and Ss raaa ls sdr s1 New Orleans, Shreveport. Little Rock and Memphis in the order named, Sum and Memphis. Coming home they have
 w..a. New Orleans on June snd and play ing four games with kthe Pelicans, Mem
 shis. Little Rock. Shreveport and Al ianta in the order named, Sunday games
 with New Orleans. Little Rock and At"
 lanta. Then they jump to Nashville for urday. Opening here with Birmingham on Sunday. June 26th, they play three games with them and three with Nash
 vile, then jumping to Atlanta for the l series of twenty games on the road with Atlanta, Birmingham, Shreveport, Little Rock. Memphis and New Orleans in the played in these towns with the exception | of the holiday games In Atlanta, only
 one Sunday game-New Orleans-being played. Then they come home for twelve games, opening with New Orleans on July 18th and playing three games each with New Orleans, Shreveport, Memphis and
 Little Rock in the order named. Sunday Taking the road again they have eigh- teen games. opening in Memphis on Au- gust Sth and playing three games each with Memphis, Little Rock. Shreveport. | New Orleans, Atlanta and Nashville, one Sunday game with New Orleans being l all on that trip Coming home they play | three games with Nashville Friday, Sat- urday and Sunday. September 2nd Sd and 4th. Then they jump to Birmingham for | the Labor Day gaTnes-two games on the 9th and one on the 9th of September returning home with fifteen games. | Opening at Oak Park with Birmingham | on september 9th three games each are l played with Birmingham, Little Rock, AE&mphis, and New Orleans, the Pelicans closing the season in Montgomery on Fri-
 day. Saturday and Sunday September
 Srd. Eth and 18th.
 | s,fhes season last, year closed on the Sth Of September with Montgomery in
 games lengthening the season. Whether Sunday. ball will be played in Montgom- | cry this summer or not has not been decided. The claim that the local base | ball people have iS that the recently en- acted law applies equally to golf and | teEnis and yet they say there has not I been Sunday that these games have | not been played at Cloverdale. In Mobile
 base ball Is played nearly every Sunday, public sentiment there protecting 1t and
 making 1t immune from any lnterfer- | ence.
 Whether there is as much public sem tircent in Montgomery as in Mobile in favor of Sunday base ball remains to be
 seen." said a base ball man yesterday
 but from the experience of last summer
 1t seems to be that public sentiment may
 he considered in favor of Sunday base
 ball."
 The games in full are:
 At Home.
 With Birmingham. April 24, 25. 26, 27,
 Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
 day; with Nashville. April 2s 29. 30, May
 l, Thursday, Friday. Saturday and Sun
 day; with Atlanta, May 12, 13, l4, Thurs day, Friday and Saturday: with New Or
 leans, June ?, g. 5. Thursday, Friday,
 Saturday and Sunday; with Memphis
 June 6. !, 8, g, Monday. Tuesday, Wednes-
 day and Thursday; with Little Rock
 June 10, II. l2. B. Friday, Saturday, Sun
 day and Monday with Shreveport June
 10, IS, l7, IS. Wednesday, Thursday Fri , day and Saturday; with Atlanta, June 19
 %, 2i, 2, Sunday Monday Tuesday and Wednesday; with Birmingham, June 6 21. 2s. Sunday: Monday and Tuesday; with
 Nashville, July 1, 2, g. Friday, Saturdav . and Sunday; with New Orleans July 9s 26, 2, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdav.
 with Shreveport July 9. 30. 31, Friday