The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-12
BASEBALL WEATHER
RAINS INTERPRETED WITH FIRST
 GAME OF YEAR.
Pitcher Gardner Joins O'Brien's MOnt- gonery Players and Gilbert Comes Today-Grifiith Lets
 Metcalf Go.

has not arrived, forceful and thor oughly convincing illustration that the baseball season Is on in good, sober earnest was given yesterday. A ball game was scheduled for yes- | terday afternoon and it rained stead- | lily all day. Of course the season has | begun.
 Grimth and his Yankee outfit put in most of the day. hard at work doing ! nothing. Some of the most energetic | ones Killed several hours trying to | learn how to fall gracefully at local l skating rink.
 What do you think of it?" asked one of the New York newspaper men ac- eompanying the team. Those fellows get S'ore' on ''sS skates" anu Then the Gotham scribe rushed out into the cool air. | Dave Fultz did not reach Montgom- | cry yesterday. He Is expected this | morning. Nothing occurred to break the monotony or shatter the general air | of gloom and depression.
 | Tt reminds me of the foot of 125th | Street. remarked Allen Sangree. That is where the morgue Is located in New York.
 If there was a dark brown taste in | the mouths of the rest of the Gotham gang there were great black hunks of Bronx Wonder" Manager Grifith, as gently as possible, broke the news to Metcalf yesterday morning that there 1 would not be Yankee berth for him this summer .Iq In plain UTtsd rs. 6s stafes tss bunch to have tin can attached to | him. He will be sent on a journey, or | words to that effect. Last year when the Yankees were | playing Sunday ball at Ridgewood, N. J., Metcalf was pitching fer the Ridge | wood team. He was touteu so strongly that Griffith brought him to Montgom- cry last week. He would likely be a good man in MontgoGery or with some Southern or other minor leasne club. but the fascination of the lights on Herald Square will probably lure Met | calf back to Gotham.
 | only one of the Pretzels dropped into | camp yesterday. Rube Gardner fell into the Union Railway Station at II o'clock yesterday morning. This makes three pitchers here now, Brandt, Hale and Gardner.
 1 Big Gilbert, who will arrive this | morning, will make a quartette of box artists. Charlie Schwartz, shannon, possibly Brouthers, Mullaney and Mo- Donald are looked for today. While the postponement of the game yesterday afternoon was a disappoint- ment 1t is possibly good thing for the Pretzels, as it will give them day or two to work out before the next game is scheduled for Wednesday.
 Nearly all of the locals should be in Montgomery by then and a more we'll balanced game can be put up: Four games are booked with the Yankees this week, Wednesday, Thursday, Fri day and Saturday.
 The improvements in the grand stand at the park have been completed and beginning tomorrow morning the big scoreboard out in left field will be re- built. Arrangements have been made by which the score by innings of every game played in the Southern League this summer will be received at Attn letic Park and put on the scOreboard.
 After the rains of last week the in- field was rolled and packed, so that now it is in excellent condition. The grass in the outfield is beginning to come up, and in a week or so the grounds will be in fine shape.
 The ladies season tickets are now in the hands of the printers and will be put on sale at the same place as last season by the last of this week. The tickets will be just as last year, ad- hitting the holder to the grandstand every day and in the grounds on Tues days and Fridays.
 A New York Suggestion. A very novel and extremely rare brand of dope has evidently strayed in | to the baseball room of The Brooklyn Eagle The baseball man up there has | filled his pipe with it, from which the following has come:
 vannah and the Highlanders at Mont | gomery, a splendid opportunity is af- forded the rival New York teams tc get together at some central town ir | the 0Ouln, say AlldHtd, pldy friendly game if for no other reason
 than to show the baseball fans of the country that the hatchet has been real ly buried by the two big baseball or ganizations.
 Tn order to prevent any appearanct
 of test of strength between the two
 teams and the loss of any prestige that
 defeat might cause in the battle fol
 patronage in Manhattan during the
 championship series, it Is suggested
 that McGraW select four members oi
 the New York Americans to play witt
 live of hiA Giants as the Nationa
 League team and that Manager Grif
 hths select four Giants to play witt
 five Highlanders as the American
 League team.
 Such an arrangement would un
 doubtedly meet with popular favor ant
 attract attention throughout the coun
 try. while the effect on the South would
 certainly prove beneficial. The na
 tional game has been gaining in popu
 larity below the Mason and Dixon line
 and the opportunity of witnessing ;
 game of scientific ball between two o
 the strongest teams in the country
 would be hailed with delight among
 the fans down there. They know O.
 the intense rivalry that exists between
 the two Metropolitan teams and hav'