The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-12
BASEBALL IS ASSURED
INVESTOR SAYS HE WILL PUT TEAM HERE. N,
It Will Be the First Professional Team Montgomery Has Had Since the Days of
 1896.

Montgomery win undoubtedly be a member of the Southern League of the "A few days ago a gentleman-I am not ] at liberty 10 give names as yet-was in the ecity, and in The Advertiser office eSM ts me me he intended to put a team in At5is plan is to place the team here as an investment, putting up the money and standing the expense of the venture. l n1s week, probably Wednesday or Thursday. the committee appointed at the last meeting of the Southern League to feel the pulse of the different towns e mprising the circuit, will be in Mont Alb Powell of New Orleans, Charlie Frank of Memphis and Newt Fisher of Nashville. It is understood that they are all in favor of getting Montgomery There is no question of the fact that the investment will be very profitable one. and at .hc end of the season the dollars to the good. In the first place, this town is baseball hungry-not since 96 has there been professional ball | hero. The transforming aggregation or Pop Smith and the noble band of misfits that Tedric Sullivan had in his bare faced deal do not count.
 | What a team was that of Dick Cor mans in 's6-far and away the fastest that has ever been seen in the Southern | and possibly any other minor League with the exception of the Western | League. Through the influence of John McCloskey, who had charge of the Lou | isville team that year. the Colonels did their spring training, and sundry other | stunts, in Montgomery. Tommy Morri- sen was playing third base for Louis | tho pennant in the National League with his Pittsburg aggregation this sea son. the former Louisville team of 1900, was in left field and Big Bilr' Has. Sa R@ a " ri Of stars that had been prime favorites in Montgomery. every one of them having played on the local team some years be- fore. st
 And when the first exhibition game between Montgomery and Louisville was called in '96 there was big crowd out. Germans team was composed of Russell at second, Dick, himself, on third, Mike Kehoe with Chicago. National, during | the past season., behind the bat, Big Deadee in center field, Wiley on first and rotating behind the bat, Kid Peoples at short. the fastest man ever seen in that position in Montgomery; Elsie Mangam | in right field and afterwards at second, when Jack Meara was signed in the out posed of Lem Bailey, Kellum, who did the star work with Alb Powells Peli- cans during the past season, Drinkwater and McDermott.
 games, but he and the entire gang of l locals were afflicted with a species of stage fright, the team making five errors behind him. Louisville hitting him for | twelve good ones and winning out by Il to 2. McDermott pitched the next game and allowed Louisville only three small hits-the team supported him al- most fauitlossly, Russell at second max ing the only error. Louisville landed by the narrow margin of and 2. The bril- liant playing of the locals during the balance of that season is matter or local baseball history and the magnifi- cent average attendance evidenced the fact that Montgomery is one of the best ball towns in the South with first
 That was the last of baseball in Mont gomery, except for the wind-Jamming gang of gumsuckers and dilapidated punches of has-beens headed by the fes- sils mentioned above.
 But to return to next season. As Is we'll known the peculiar geographical DO sition of Montgomery makes 1t almost a necessity for the league to have this city est tyro in baseball politics is aware of the fact that the leng railroad jumps are what saps the vitality of the pecu- niary end of the game, and, after all, that is the bone and sinew of a successful league Never before has this axiom been made more apparent than during the past season. when long jumps crip- pied some of the towns-the railroads made good all right but 1t was case Of fun for the boys but death to the frogs.
 Now with Montgomery in next season the longest jump would be from Nash vile to Birmingham. From the MagiC City a short easy drop to Montgomery would put the teams in shape Tor the trip to New Orleans. It would also make an extremely compact circuit with New Orleans. Montgomery. Atlanta ana BIT Bir' Chattanooga, Memphis and Little Rock II the East.
 Then, again, there would be the intense rivalry between Montgomery ana Slr, l hov rixT Ia results WniCh | would almost make baseball a prontaDle venture here of itself. "A.
 The local baseball horizon is aglow with dashes of golden colors of promise that ; makes one almost hear the crash of { batter's stick meeting the ball, the thuc of the ball striking a catchers mt ano the roars of a delighted bleacner anC grandstand, as some favorite baserunneI dives into the grimy dust of the lnfeld and under the very arms of baseman slides headfrst to the coveted bag Football is about as uncertain quan- tty as baseball. After defeating the Uni versity of Pennsylvania and holding ; Yale down while scoring against then
 Columbia was defeated Saturday by Syr acuse Il to 0.
 :. The naval cadets at Annapolis slaugh tered the Indians while Harvard gav
 Pennsylvania the worst beating that teaii ever experienced. .,
 Last season Daly was captain of thu 1 Harvard team and the best man they hat this season that same Daily is at Wes Point and the work of the Soldiers show
 what a mammoth pillar of strength ne IS
 West Point played Yale 5-o game tw'
 weeks ago and last Saturday they playe
 Princeton a 6-6 game-two performance
 never before heard of in a minor tean = against members of the Big Four.
 In the South the magnificent contest De
 tween Tuscaloosa and Georgia here Sat n urday was the event of the day Tn thl = section, the teams playing each other [ s a standstill and the final score being o-I . It was a grand illustration of the won = derful development that Mike Harve y has made with Alabama. After weak
 awkward team of last year 1t Is now on e of the fastest in the South. A pluck a game was that of Georgia's S. The t teaf
 was not exactly in the best condltio
 and Coach Reynolds in a conversatio 0 during the game told me something aoou
 his team. , 1. n They had played. before coming her 1T O four of the hardest. fastest teams III tIl
 South-Vsnderbilt, Sewanee, North Car :. ollna and Clemson, The Georgia oe line tSas
 rather weak and after each one or thes l. games, MT Reynolds says, the men Wel s naturally a bit disabled and would scare