The Detroit times., 1908-05-28

|H On Friday, June II. the Detroit
4 Baseball CLUB, champions OF the Amer
Mean leagues season Of 1907, will hing
Ito the breeze the pennant which they
won in the strenuous battle OF last
year. accompanying the celebration
with the most remarkable baseball
demonstration In the history OF the
lefty.
h The proceedings will take the form
liof a gigantic testimonial to baseball.
ms exemplifed from the earliest days
|fof the national pastime In this city,
right down to the present.
II Each amateur club in the city aver
aging Is OF more years OF age and that
has been In existence prior to 1893.
Twill be the guest of the management
on the eventful occasion. Gray-haired
men will parade with their old COM
|rades of twenty, thirty, forty, yes fifty
years ago on the baseball diamond.
/. alongside them will be the present
generation of players. uniformed anu
marshalled by their various officers
|sAll will be on hand to do honor to the
Victorious Tigers and the management
will reserve ample space for them all
An the grandstand, freely inviting
them to share in the celebration and
| IN the details OF the flag raising.
The actual hosting Of the pennant
Twill be entrusted to Gen. Luther 8.
ITrowbridge. u. 8. appraiser OF Gus
ftoms, as the oldest exponent OF anna
&teur baseball in Detroit. At least one
kof Gen. Neurological old team mates
ION the early Risers" who player ball
ION the present site OF Cadillac-sq.
|away back In 1859, will. be at the side
kOf the white-haired oldt veteran when
|he gives the halyardss the pull and
|eends the pennant up the tall shaft
|of Michigan pine that has been erect
Xed out In center field to bear it. This
I1s r. H. Fyfe. who played short stop
ION the team for which Gen. Trow-
bridge pitched.
Ranged with them from side to side
VIII be the players of other mines, IA
1mous in the early days OF baseball In
fOetroit and Banking these the anna
keur teams with which the present gen.
eration Is identified and acquainted.
\ Catcher Bill Maybury, ,ssnce known
MayOI Wlllldu Os tue SJdT vi
the old High school athletics that
1ourished in the sixties will deliver
- short address, after which the anna
Eeurs, old and young, will paradeback
" their places In the grandstand and
potch the Champs-it Is TO be earnest
N hoped at any rate-whale the ever
Ioeting stufing out OF New York, COM
p1etfng the one touch necessary to
make the proceedings a complete sue
ceos, weather permitting.
OF course, the details OF the cele-
bfofton have not been entirely
UWked up as yet. But they are pro-
fessing steadily, Chairman Joe Weiss
g the Elks' baseball committee. him
belf one OF the best amateur pitchers
LIN his day that the city has ever pro-
fduced. being In charge. From now on
Ntill the date Of the celebration, Mr..
fWeiss' law office at No. IL Bull block
twill be the headquarters OF the affair.
THE chairman OF the committee Is
tanxious to get into touch with the
teams that will assist in the ceremon-
faf and accept the invitation OF the
management Managers and captains
- teams desiring TO participate are
asked to call on him with data and
llineups. All clubs whose members
taverage Is years or over are eligible.
provided they come in uniform and
the management is as anxious to have
IA fuff representation on hand as are
THE players to participate In the event
(which bears 90 much significance.
In the preliminary work which Mr.
weiss has done In the matter he has
compiled an interesting resume of the
early days OF baseball in Detroit.
He finds. for instance, that the Ear
ny Risers Of which Gen. Thowbridge
land Mr.. Fyfe are believed to be the
sole surviving members, but whose
roll also included such names as John
8. Ncwberry. Edwin 8. Barbour, Frank
Phelps and others since dead, tool
their name from the fact that all the
members worked hard during the day
and were forced TO play their baseball
bfforc the opening of their workins
taF Every pheasant morning or ths
+. year found them hard at Il at 4 q m
3 md lively pra( Ne Vas tbA rule ri
50 oreskfast tim 0en TroVbridg'
ilc'ieves that the 1arly morning wcr'
~a7 What hsls1 ~ 1sAm (6r 10 man