The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-14

Anybodv who believes that the wiio enthusiasm and the intense interest
 a batting rally of nome team ta, baseball game can't be stoppeu on seconds notice. should nave oen AtbIetio Park yesterday afternoon. would have been conVlnoe"
 idea was erroneous ,. .ov, Saees of this day and time have con +an5ed that in comparison with the entbusiasm of baseball fan, when tne home team Is winning, the uevo' ~ Sanaticism of the Roundheads or C[on aid tha Crusaders of Occur de Lion, and the legions of Oyama snrink ih'o
 Don't let the fans see snakes or rooa haseball game will be broken up' Now, nothing stronger than sooa pop, ginger ale and the like IS serVeu as Athletic Park and when the ians ot snakes yesterday afternoon 1t was not tba assinine idea of the liquor lodueo hro;n Business is business and snakes
 T1et your minds eye observe these conditions. Sixth inning. Home team ahead. Playing leaders. Leaoers as s bat Home team in field. Captain or ,;,'a, oHu +eem smashes out single. Nobody out Plavers nervous. Fans crazy. Tirst baseman of home team Jumps three feet in air ana exClaiIns SWhoopee! Suffering Saint Pathrick' save this son of Oireland rom 'Ae HUI rid reptiles!' rbo Mont .,onoerv and Atlanta ball teams hao Rean struggling for supremacy Tor SIX innings and during those six lnnlns D. away out in right field, lay SIT Snake of the family of Coachwhip.
 Sir Snake was unobseryed by the o. 900 people present. Sir Snake nao no, maid his half dollar to enter the pan rrounds so like ye penniless urcnln and astute small boy, he hld III the grass and eluded the watchful eyes or one William Stickney, gate keeper yea of one Patricius Sweeney, patrolman.
 But a snake Is an animal Al Ieas1 if a snakes not an animal, t1e sa at that. An animal cannot resist the excitement of a ball game. 80 Wnen the splendid Stultz, the glorious Iaro ner. and the shimmering Snelpech filled the bases. the snake moved over nearer the scene of action. when tWt runners scored, the snake moved SUI! nearer. The snake was Montgohe[ reptile, you know. When the Atlanta manager called the umpire something that wasn't nice and was evlcted Iron inc grounds by Bill Thrasher and Bll Hall, Sir Snake was plainly In view Just as the Montgomery team LOOK tns field. s fan woke up from the ecstaue dream of leading the leaders and saw the reptile. The fan was George La mar. well known to Montgomerlans The snake was then within easy strlk- Ing distance of Dominick Mullaney. Al least that's what George Lamar anc Hoe Madigan say. They saw the snake and 1t was only fifteen yards from Dominick and Lamar and Madigan say inc snake was at least fifteen yards long. It Is necessary to repeat tnal Lamar and Madigan are responsible for this last statement
 A post-mortem examination proVec that the snake was about two yards long. but Lamar and Madigan saw II when it was fifteen yards long anc Lamar is not to be disputed nor IS II to be insinuated that Madigan hasn' two good eyes.
 The first thoughts of Lamar and Mad igan were to save Mullaney. mt Monteomery team needs Mullaney.
 sea sarpents. sea sarpents." yelled
 "Chicken snake, chicken snake yelled Colonel Bill Whiting. as h. armed himself with a soda water bottl' and began climbing the right heit fence.
 well. my names Dominick an' pominick is chicken. so l guess It's m! move" cried Mullaney. So saying tn elongated guardian of the initial sacl