The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-15
SOME WEEKEND GOSSIP
 AT THE STATE CAPITOL
BY HERVEY w. LAIRD.

Montgomery, March 14.-(Special.) )-With a presidential year upon the people and & number of delegates to the national conventions of the two leading parties to be chosen, along with a few state of fees, there is not as much apparent in- terest in politics as in baseball. Even 2 red hot city campaign in Montgomery has not stopped the fans from carrying off the banner for the most enthusiasm. Blk Baxter, ready and fit to give Mont gomery the best first baseman in the league attracted more attention when he got off the train yesterday than half a dozen candidates who were in the same throng on the streets.
 Political End of It.
 But there promises to be q political end to the baseball talk, however, as If to show that after all politics is eyer potent to get back it's own if it loses for awhile. This will be in the proposition to play the great national game on Sunday. Mo- bile has openly prepared to play league games on that day, having a number scheduled. As if to test the feeling in Montgomery there will be practice at the Capitol Heights grounds tomorrow by the
 
 there is no great kick it is thought an eff fort will be made to play the game regu larly on Sunday from the opening of the season.
 Then Will Be Protest.
 It is presumed that with this will come a protest. Mobile preachers have let Mayor Lyons know that the game cannot be played without racket, and the same is certain to the case in Montgomery. Then will the wiley poIitican, ever scent ing the fever of reform that Is upon the country, have his chance. It will be very easy for him, too. it is against the lava good state law that is said to be constitutional. But--there will be lot of buts--why have the golfers been let alone? The same act that prevents base ball is as rampant against golf But golfers have been allowed to run along on the idea that no harm has been done. Aaitators Are Wiley.
 ! Those who would have the great game played in Montgomery on Sunday have been watching the lay of the land and are talking about golf and its adherents good and hard. That Is a game of the bon tons,' they say, but the game of the classes-all classes-is cut out. What is the harm? Is one worse than the other? What about the fellows who can not get off to see a game during the week Hasn't he some rights? And the talk goes along. The belief of the writer and of many others is that baseball will not be played in Montgomery on Sunday until the law is repealed because there is q very great sentiment against it.
 Coming Primaries.
 l But to the primaries. March 23 is the date for the voters of Montgomery to se- feet a candidate for Mayor, several al-. dermen and two police commissioners. The fight is warm right about the candi- dates but outside there is not much of a row. The state is interested only to the extent that one of the aspirants Gaston Gunter, was chairman of the municipal code committee of the legislature. He is attacked on this work by friends of J. C. Tyson, his opponent asserting that it is a bad business. MT. Gunter, on the other hand, is rather proud of the docu- Nment and of his connection with it. He