Montgomery, Alabama

2 clippings from Montgomery, Alabama.

Newspaper cartoon and story headed Believers In Signs Bet On Sure Things. In the top panel three grinning men in hats trade shouts of fifty bucks he walks the next batter and let me have part of that bet. In the lower panel a pitcher winds up while a hand in the grandstand tips a hat, over the caption a baseball scandal was once started by pitchers and gamblers working together with the aid of a set of signs, signed Al Demaree. Below, a story by Al Demaree recounts the Pacific Coast league gambling scandal after 1919, in which pitchers colluded with gamblers in the grandstand over whether the batter would reach first base, signaling with a removed hat or crossed legs, until one pitcher missed the signs and the gamblers squealed.

Believers in Signs Bet on Sure Things

The Montgomery Advertiser
Montgomery, Alabama · 1927

Tall newspaper column headed Jax Goes Seven Frames Without Hit Off M'Phaul, Brewton Schoolboy Crumples In Eighth And Visitors Start Scoring, reporting the Jacksonville Tars' 4 to 3 ninth-inning win over the Montgomery Lions in the Southeastern League, with T. D. McPhaul holding the Tars hitless for seven innings before crumpling, Bear Cat Cantwell surviving seven bingles, subheads Narlesky Shines Afield and Start Fine, homers by Danny Seremba and doubles by Shorty Long and Butch Simons, and a final frame in which Goat Walker and Joe Untz collided trying to field a bunt, closing with a note that the Saintly crew from St. Augustine arrives next.

Jax Goes Seven Frames Without Hit Off M'Phaul

The Montgomery Advertiser
Montgomery, Alabama · 1927