The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-16

came from Birmingham. with shower bouquets of slag. and the smell or coke ovens in their handkerchiefs, scurrieo out of the Union Passenger station, smiling the tired. happy smile or sne thirsty desert-man as he tumbles rom his camel into the verdure of the oasis and in stages did, afoot the long jour ney from the Station to Court Square. that there began to exist the real crowd
 The Montgomery Traction Company operates a schedule of just very lew minutes from the Union Passenger sta ton to Court Square; it takes a birm- ingham man sometimes as long as two hours to walk it.
 Drink while you drink--we're long time dry" was the cry; don't skip any thing; its the long jumps that ruin a team"
 There weren't any long jumps yes terday On Commerce Street the man with fifteen cents and more In ms pocket is like the Jumping & frog ,dn ia much weight to leap more than half | a block. And of course after the first salutation the leaps are of less ana | lesser distance.
 All the Birmingham men carried | grips. valises, cases, bags, shawl-straps l and such. They were just coming to see one game; still, they may have sroS nspsy wSs sSsns oil so6tsss tG rsin for ana change" as the waiter in the ten- | twenty-thirt-re says when he l brings the canned peach pie. And how powerful they were. those Birmingham things around like anything! It was | only when they started home that they ] grunted and sweated under their weary | fardels and told porters to be careful! Birmingham Boys Below. And when they got to their hotels and other stopping places the Blrming- ham boys emitted yells, just like col. SI- |. wl.KT H<.A time tinnePuntii i'' the game 1 started. Some of them had megamhones and said very saucy things indeed through them; said things that would have had point Ensley or Sand Mountain. And they were all very good-natured before the game and after it began to rain.
 From Selma there came about one hundred men. They were divided pret- ty evenly in their sympathies. Some of them came on the early morning in special coaches attached to the through freight that arrived in Mont gomery at 2:s0 o'clock yesterday aft. ernoon. From other cities round about and nigh Montgomery came large parties until the visitors, of them selves. would have made very credit able throng to see Montgomery com. immemoriaI year in baseball.
 That part of the crowd was notable on the streets. At the backgrounds Il | that almost filled bleachers and grand. stand. The imminence of rain kept many away; with clear weather the at tendance would have broken all rec ,. pecially to give rain checks to. And never was there such enthusf asm. From the time they started iron the city they were cheering like mad Birmingham now and again was abl to raise Its voice so as to be distinc tive. but it was. only. for a moment and after that 1t was all Mont gomery. There was band and 1t played jus as loud and long as the law allowed It was good band and obeyed the laV | Rain Expected and Feared. The rain naturally made the mos fun. Every body knew 1t was going did. There were premonitory iashe cold that said 'storm" and then tn betting rain. and MT. Brown, the lem | hire" stood very valiantly indeed an let 1t beat upon his mask and his pro tector and upon the players. too. Ite me and the spectators went to the bat.
 There were a great many wone present and they didn't like the storL | curtains in the rear of the grandstar carried away and the fine sprink
 of spray from the beating up
 
 | An umbrella was blown out of tl
 hands of its owner and was driv'
 trough the air upon the heads of spe
 tators lower in the benches. The GU tains Tapped. the stand creaked. tf crowd tittered and giggled and groan
 and squealed according to its sever
 temperaments
 1t was a hard rain. The players tn
 impatiently ran to their club
 ran ankle deep in water. The ra
 made little rivers everywhere the
 was trench. It came through the TO-
 It battered and tore. Those in the u
 covered bleachers took the grandsta
 by sudden attack.
 Most of those who came back we
 wetted well. But most of them we
 happy H. R. Baxter had done hon
 run. Thomas had drawn neat circl
 around three men, Jimmy Ryai
 men had shown they were not or
 eager but altogether prepared to WI
 Weekly Cotton Statintics.
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 the weely cotton statistics: Total sa
 ali kinds 29,0O0 bales: total sa