The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-18
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''Basebail ls today the greatest American influence exerfed on other impatientiy awaiting tin ssiss'aSs the opening of the Southern League season.
 Baseball has spread more than any riik unlike. the constitution. ias does more fol low the flag. It precedes the flag. The 1 White scx.. the worlds champions, are shs anssnt captsi of Hsxs Ssz sas ana Ia. 1ns ss,asd shs republic. It is played dtnow not only in Panama. but in practically every south American country. The Cuban and is it las developed q some 'ii players wRo, are fast enough to play professional ball in America, they like the game. It is played in so,ne of the seaport cities of China The ziilpinos hava learned the. game fessionai ball has appeared in our. is- land possessions. Porto Rican hines have been organized and applauding thousands have cheered them on to vic- .Even England. so long welded. to cricket. has taken up baseball and last league league in the largest city M in the the world. The r:ngiish colleges are beginning to play the game, due no doubt in maRs Rs Ssedes ssds scholars 9 @ irom the tinted States.
 in this connection it is interesting | lp note that Keith. the well known college pitcher who was with Nashville last season. has been awarded the Rhodes scholarship from Arkansas. T believe that in a few years the national American game will get fcothold in the countries of Northern Europe. for the Germans. like the irish, French. however. seem td take more to the coon cakewalk than to the great game of baseball: so much the worse S:But il looks as if baseball was go- ing to gird the world and that in a few years we will have great international seI ies.
 "Ammuricans are All Oirish."
 Nobody cs,a can dou6t t5at ,r, lf is aag now os masculine coat. yesterday that did not have about 1t somewhere q splotch .ot green whether in iphSn sbsr noMs of aT,i ais Erin. The women wore similar patriT otic. embiefns and some wore green courrse," said an Hibesnian person last night Just Ioike they have shtole iverything ilse from oIid oiEeiandt;n tn.t there were more wearers of the green named Schwartz or Smith or Meinnaus Jones than Fla sssT or oId annsa tions of that Emerald Isle, which. as Thackeray said. has so often been de- cared, by no doqbt imPsrtthlai ths andsess es the Ocean. He had bought more than wan duzen of thim green plnks' ne said, and giyen thim & all to a,aSs young per then concluded that perhaps 1t wasn't sS ebd thsE hsg s that snse e the the Amurricans should become Oirishmen."
 Aside from his sophisIries. however 1t was plain yesterday I that atJ tne m peopae aae thing worth while. Whether 1t was because the American dearly loves a ton of ang w9n GT s peop that forms so considerabe g component part of the population of this country. 1t is unnecessary and futile to conJec- ture.
 "The completion of the five or SIX city will have a fine moral effect on the people of Montgomery" said well known business man yesterday. people s of the th city city a new faith in the growth and prosperity of the city: The people of the city as a general; thing widespread is the growth of the city. These buildings will convince them that Montgomery Is entering on an era era
 'The new buildings will be visible. material evidence of the city's remark able development and they will be the basis of repeated assertions. as to the city's developments, by people who are other words the new buildings will help Montgomerians. talk Montgom- cry. .o .... or. o. tu. lone vyava towards hundred thousand people in ; lslS." @
 'The skating rink craze seems to have struck Montgomery in earnest" said citizen of Montgomery the other dav Morning, afternoon and night there Is generally good crowd "mak; rink. The new orchestrina adds great deal to the pleasure of the skat- CTS and is much more convenient than at a certain hour and discourse melo-
 Some of the good people of Mont N, 9 ton Of the rink as dangerous and a nuisance, but 1t does not seem to cause any diminution in the crowds which daily attend x B %
 Hon. John Craft or Mobile, Vice President of the Alabama Good Roads Association, is a visitor to Montsom- cry.
 Messrs E. R. Merrill and W. c. Merrill of Blount Springs are visitors to Montgomery.
 MT. W. P. Lay of Gadsden Is regis tered at the New Exchange Hotel.
 MT. Cary O. Wright of Auburn is registered at the New Mabson.
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 MT. E. V. Robinson of wetumpka Is registered at the Imperial.
 
 pr. s. W. Galloway of Dothan was in the city yesterday.