The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-23


 | was effectually dIspelled ty the crowds thet fiocked out to the practice of tue local ball team at Athletic Park yester- day afternoon.
 I were. about two good esr loads of them. | and in pure, unafloyed joy they swung I their feet from ceats in the grandstand. perched on seats on the bleachers, sat Il on .he infieid fences and induiged to the l rtnlost the privilege of fandom--exhaust- i've criticism of the local team. The anvil chorus was conspicuous by | it's absence, for if there were any kIpck- remarkably well closed, and the general I verdict was, .'Tfey'il do"
 | Admiration in great big sluices was pulled out of the crowd by the work reveiation. They were hitting them to the outfield, big Ike showing how it should be done, ~.
 Local fans, win never forget the bat ting of "Uncle Isaac with the local ftean. before he did the marvellous pyro- technic stunt that landed him on the Yesterday there was the same nonchai- the same bin and meeting of the bali | that made sdch af impression on the fans last summer. It all looked so easy. and yet that ball would go sailing into ter would have counted for one of the iong- | est kinds of extra hits. It was more l than good to see Durrett in Montgom- l cry again with a stick in his hand and the fans husged themselves in congrat-
 After the hitting to the outfieid stop ped the boys lined up this way: Link Stickney. first: Schwartz. second; Jam si9g; third; Delehanty; short; Durett outtsld and Carter and Lucas hitting I them out.
 sOh. look at that fellow on third" was the exclamation from score of lips.
 trenched himself in the hearts of the backbone of baseball--the rooters.
 Schwartz on second made every whit as fine an impression as lansing, and his graceful work on the bag was about
 the cleanest ever seen in Montgomery. He scoops up the hottest kind of line hits with the ease and grace of a past master at the business, and the way in which he swings his arm around and jabs at an imaginary runner shows that a man has got to be lightning fast on the sprint if he gets into second base before Schwartz tags him. He throws well and the way in which he handles
 Penney played first when he was here las. year with Boston.
 Frank Delehanty did his work at short as if he had been playing that position all his life. smothering sizzling ground hits and shooting them over to Stickney on first, throwing himself in the way of balls that surely looked safe and ] fielding his position generally in man. ner that eiicited the admiration of ev- erybody cn the grounds.
 As yet the fans have not been able to 1uoge any of the pitchers, for of course
 there is grave danger of being sprain-
 cd, muscles getting too sore and stiff, and that bete noir. glass arms" The pstching stan will probably show up for the first time in the game with Manager
 Halls Auburn College team Saturday
 It is expected that before Saturday
 Wilkie Clark and Harry Manners. Kid
 Busch, Louis Polchow and probably George Stultx and Roach will be here and in that event, a full team, with the exception of Hacker and Pabst will show
 up against the college lads, Kid Busch and perhaps some of the others being locked for today. .H
 The Auburn lads will reach the city Saturday morning, and the lineup of the
 teams will probably Be:
 ktali. Second base..s Schwartz
 McEniry.........short stop. ..Delehanty Steele. ......... Right field. .stickney
 Bailey. Center field. .Molesworth Ttague. Third base. . Jansinr
 Webb. Left field. ..... whitaker Lurton or Perkins. '0ee Clark or Manner.
 Wecms or Hunt Denver, Garter ,l .-t Lucas
 The game will be called at s:sO o'cloci
 skarp, the location of the grounds not
 having been decided yet, though if the Highland Park grounds are in shape by Saturday the game will be played there I Rupture of Big Leagues.
 The rupture between the American and National Lague may come at any mo
 Manager Clarke Grifith of the New York Americans announced that if the New York Nationals persisted in their American League would revise thei. schedule and that the Nationals would be fought with conflicting dates all along the line the entire season. says The Att
 The New York mogul stated that he did not anticipate any serious trouble be- tween the rival leagues, but that the Americans were tired of getting the worst | of it everywhere and that they were pres pared to fight to a finish. Grif. 'N ' ~ AOs"
 The impending trouble has arisen over American League granted McGraw open ing date in Gotham. This season this choice plum was to be awarded to the American League club as per agreement. | The two schedules were drawn up and after their adoption the New York Ma l tionals were changed to meet Hanlon's team in Brooklyn, virtually New York opening. This was a decided breach Ot l faith and drew out the above remarks from Manager Griffith at the Aragon last night
 Sporting News editorially discusses the | affair as follows:
 President Johnson will vigorously resist a change made in the schedule of the Ma | tional League after It's submission to the representative of the American League