The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-24
BASEBALL NEXT YEAR
TALK OF A NEW LEAGUE HAS
 BEGUN.
Montgomery Would Gladly Join { Leagne Organized on Correct Business Principles-Forth-
 coming Races at Riverside.

Already the talk of a Southern League for next season is being agl- tated, and some of the wind -jammers' are using the quintescence of fabricated hot-air.
 There is no doubt that there will be a League next summer, but for the sake of successful Southern baseball, 1t is to be devoutly hoped that there will Enot be a repetition of the League now struggling through this summer. Mont gomery is more than willing to enter a properly constituted League. In fact. the people here are eager for the game. But this town will never go into a League of the character of the one of 1901.
 When the League is organized next summer, there should be no credit business about the guarantee, reserve fund or anything of that kind. All or these funds should be strictly cash. If a club has not the money to pay those agreements on the spot-that is, at the specified time-why, let that club or town drop out and flock by itself. IT all these things are done in business like manner and not in the loose way things have been run in the present Southern League, 1t is safe to say that the venture will be a success and dis graceful incidents of the Sam Mills variety in Birmingham will hardly take place.
 The Atlanta papers have already be- gun war on New Orleans being in the next League. Now, the objection that Montgomery has had to New orleans for the past seasons was the liability Of a yellow fever epidemic breaking out In the coast towns adjacent to New or leans and thus breaking the circuit. Of course 1t is beyond the power of human ken to tell when an epidemic will occur down there. but from past events, it will be several years before
 yellow fever is heard of in that locality
 True, New Orleans has never paid very
 well in the week day games. nave seen week day games there when the
 guarantee was barely put in the gate.
 but the Sunday games more than make
 up for the losses during the week. An other thing: Henry Powers, Ao fowei' and company, have always managed to
 hold up their end-no weicnlng pusi naas New Orleans playing out the,r
 st-iro Atlanta cannot say as much
 e, seyeral times in the past they nave
 welched. ,o At,.rta has deliberately jumped the game-quie ns like the yeriest selling platter that goes ags,nst a thoroughbred. The summer that bie nondescript, Baby knowles'
 had charge of the Atlanta team the crowd became involved in tnanclal oil- ficulties in Montgomery. The eentie, man back of the local team advance
 a sum of money to krowles, tahllls-.n ,l lstter's note, as representative ol .ne Atlanta ball team, for 1t. This was aooJ many years ago. That note is still held in Montgomery as souE never having been paid. ~ Now these facts have simply oeeH stated because an Atlanta newspaper
 said the other day that MontgoHery
 has always been controlled by New or
 leans. The man that wrote this shoulo
 know that that statement IS untrue Montgomery has never welched. ana
 has with two exceptions paid It's men
 every cent due them and piayeu as long as the League lasted The eAceP- tions to this rule was in the cases ol Pop Smith and Ted Sullivan neither of them having had any local capitaI in their transforming aggregatons.
 Rnt to return to next summers
 League. A combination that ought tc nav handsomely would be New or leans, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta birmingham and Nashville. With League of this kind there would be nc railroad jumps, some one Of the towns breaking them all. The towns are wei
 punched and being a six club league each team would be kept on the road so much that interest would be kept up all season.
 The indications are that the harness races at Riverside next week will be the biggest things of the kind that have been held in the South in long time.
 Speaking of the Macon horses, The
 Macon Telegraph of yesterday says; "Fourteen of the fastest trotters and
 pacers in Macon, if not in Georgia, will leave in a special car Monday for Mont gomery, where they will race against some of the fastest horses in Alabama
 The following are the horses that Ma
 con will send:
 "DeCoy, Bessie Wilkes, Belle of Ma con. Narcissa, Night Hawk, Yarrow | Minnie. Bessie Simmons, Tampico l Darkness. Mamie Hatch, Ben Butter worth. c. F. and Dan M.
 Bessie Wilkes will race Brookside the fastest horse in Alabama. for the | championship of Georgia and Ala | bama.
 "Decoy. the well known pacer. will bt entered in one of the fastest heats, ant the local horsemen say he can defea any horse in Alabama. MT. Newell president of the Mont in a