The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-10
NO SUNDAY GAMES
SOUTHERN LEAGUE WILL RESPECT
 THE LAW.
Teams VIII Not Be Scheduled to f'as in Any Town on First Day of week--Sporting
 Gossip.

There will not be a single Sunaay
 baseball game scheduled m snosnt tns having been reached at the peceMOer meeting of the league in Memphis. Major E. E. Winters of Montgomery says that instead of scheduling g,,sS gamsS day and Sunday, the schedule will .read Thursday. Friday and Saturday. Insn if Sunday game is to be played, tne two. clubs have the privilege or an vn day. either Thursday, Frioay or Sa'ol day.
 This is an excellent arrangement as it will give all the teams chances or playing off many postponed, ram sarnsess s ? ? and tie games during the season: .Ihe daseo of last season when sunday games were scheduled here in direct opposition to the law prohibiting them passed by the State Legislature VII, never be forgotten not only by local A gabfest that would make couple ot modern prize-hghters look cheap was indulgedY in, a measure even Delng put th tugh the Montgomery City Council diving the municipality 1uris- diction. After all the threats and big talk. however. not even an attempt was made during the season to pull en q Sunday game. Team after team would come to Montgomery, be held here oy the local management with assurances that the scheduled Sunday game would be played. Players would kick their feet against chairs at their hotels make numerous and sundry visits to the dining room. Only this, and nothing more. After losing big punches of good United States coin, the club would fold up their bat-bags, hike down to the station, and, with some pretty hard but just words against the local manage ment. take train for the next town. Now, this summer the schedule, as far ss it affects Montgomery, will be made strictly on the level with not even suspicion of Sunday games. The stumbling block in the way of the adop- tion of the schedule in Shreveport We'd nesday was because of Newt Fischers opposition. the Nashville race meeting opening on the same day that the Fish, ermen were scheduled to open in Nash vile.
 The schedule will be adopted finally at the meeting here this month, and everything will be smooth before then. The date has not been fixed for the meeting, but 1t win be held probably
 It would be a real act of charity if somebody would tell the baseball man on The Nashville American that this is up. After all the trouble that Tom O'Brien had in landing Dan Brouthers, the following from The Nashville Amer ican is amusing:
 manager NauSnn or 6lrmlnEnam has landed Brouthers for his Baron club. He purchased the release of the fast outfelder from Mike Finn. Brouth- CTS was with Toledo in the American Association last year. but previous to joining the Mud Hens was with Shreve- port and New Orleans. He is a good man with the hickory and should strengthen. Birmingham considerably"
 Dusty" Miller. the star outfielder of the Memphis team last year, was asked pick the winner in the coming pennant race, but, says 6 Memphis paper, "Dus- ty," shook his head and said:
 You can't tell about teams at this keeping their best players under their work.
 T believe that New Orleans will not have quite such a good team as last year. guess that Dutchman' will have a pretty fought fight if he wants the pennant, and the other teams will keep him busy.
 q am not at all certain that I shall be in Memphis during the coming sea- son. Nothing has been said about it and there may be quiet deal on foot to switch me somewhere else. How eyer l shall be glad to stay in Mem
 Jack Ryder. the baseball expert of The Cincinnati Enquirer writing of President kavanaugh of the Southern League, has the following to say:
 In the midst of a session of the Ma tional Commission and National Board at the Laughery Club last month. where every effort was being made to induce Ban Johnson to withdraw his persistent opposition to the proposed drafting section presented by the mi- nor leaguers, short, sturdy man, in- telligent of face and genial of eye. arose in his place and caught the eye of the Chairman. And this is what he said: T gather that some of the op- position to the proposed, new rule arises from the fact that there had been an increase in the number of Class A leagues. That increase is brought about by the promotions of the league which I represent from Class B to Class A. In my section of the coun- try the people are proud, and 1t has been an important matter to them to feel that their leading base ball organ ization was thought worthy of place in the first class. But I wish to say this: If the promotion of the league which have the honor to represent is to place the smallest kind of a stumb- ling block in the path of legislation which we all feel to be for the better ment of base ball conditions, we are ready to back down from the high place for which we have striven, and resume our former position in Class B. It will be blow to the pride of my people, but know they will all gladly stand by me in such action if they can thereby secure improvement for base ball in general"
 The speaker was warmly applauded.