The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-27

thankfui for. even if prohibition has got going here. for If Mir. Edward Pay son weston and his Rip Van Wrinkle face steers in the direction of Seattle stand for him.
 Johnny Hayes and Dorando Pietrl VIII meet !n St. Paul. Minn.. in nf. sssn wile % rage on Esbrgary ss; II bsns ,ns one to the Italian It will be an appro, the Father of Ills Country
 Abe Attell and Eddie Kelly will meet in lten-round bout h New Orleans or the 4th of next, month for the feather-
 weight championship.
 The annual meeting of the Southern Golf Association has been called fol Eehrqary 20sto decide the location ol 'thes.ttiext tournament. The meeting
 wilrr6e in Birmingham.
 Just whether the thoroughbred game out on the coast will take the count or not will be known this morning when the California Senate hangs up with the Walker-Otis anti-race track bill that was passed by the House some days ago. The provisions of the in New York. in suppressing pool sell ing, but the California people give The bookies and others sixty days to wind up their affairs. Running races without pool selling is like Hamlet with the Dane cut out of the game. The people of Montgomery have a feel ing or recollection of this same. for some fifteen years ago. when about in the West wintered at the old Riv- erside track. the anti-pool selling bill, giving them the hurry-upS signal to mousIy. The case of the Latonia peo- pie against the Kentucky State Rac- ing Commission will also come up this week. At the last meeting Of vile, the Pari-Mutual system of bet ting was tried and proved such a failure that the racing commission revoked the license of the. Latonia track returned to the bookmaking sys- lucky.
 M. Hereford and P. D. Haughton, of Boston won the championship at the. tournament of the Tennis and Racquet Club of Boston, 2 few days lay
 gS Sg eo1s winning earns fssT straight j aad ga%Hfs H b. Scott, who held the title during the years fsO5-0e and 1908 The scores were 1S-17, 1855, l5-6 and 15-S.
 2 Johnny Lynch, the boy who met Willie Jones. in New Orleans few weeks ago, will be matched with Tom my LavIgne shortly. Lavigne was in Young oorbetts corner Fern last ouf sunTh Ths latter Is the boy that offered to bet $500 that Abe Atten couldn't put him out in ten rounds. AtteH raised the snesk snes to but qUe he ssys aSS tsat if he Lynch he will raise the s1,0o0 and make Attell fight. The little Hebrew seems to be. getting as much noto-' riety as Jack Johnson nowadays.
 Charles w. Boyer. who has been the president of the South Atlantic League since its organization. is out looks ike "Cap" Joyner. the former vice president of this league and for mer mayor and former chief or the fire department ,oyner Of Asiansai msds min great sIiccess as president and owner of the Atlanta Baseball Club and he has lots of friends Nin Montgomery who nope he will get what he wants, for ne de-- serves 1t.
 Kid Busch seems to be in the class with Pug Bennett and George Capron' The last heard of Heine, Chattanoo- ga paper had him signed nt TSa Tien AlS"s1s Don9 Chronicle has him signed Witn M9i- cry friends would like to hear from the Kid. weston in April. The mother of "Mr. Johnsing' is indignant and .siy.s says that hat the smoke does not r,, use nagrnss ais ama nmt there are @ getting chesty and say that none of. the high-toned "cullud peo- pie" use that kind of language seems to us that we have heard language like the above from the negroes in Montgomery. t|s
 Now we feel relieved, Frank Moi fett has come to the front with the organization of his<annual new base bali circuit. Moffett Is in class by himself in this respect. For % q score The Advertiser have heard of the "promoting'' of Moffett, and they have been pained year after year. to learn that his "promotings' have taken Ine nessee promoter" to come out with his serial story, but this time he Is a little more ambitious than usual. as the following from a Knoxville paper
 SPlans are now on foet for the establishment of six-club baseball league, which will embrace four i'm, portant towns in East tennessee anu
 ."The league Is being backed by Bristol and Knoxville capital The actual plans for the formation of the circuit are being w0rksd Ssseb out oy FTanK pLn moter. who is probably more familiar with this section of the South than any other amusement man.
 towns Viii be in the league: cieye- land. Knoxville. Johnson City. Bris- tol, Asheville, N. C., and Salisbury, N.