The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-15
THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE
DIRECTORS TO HOLD MEETING
IN ATLANTA TODAY.
Montgomery Will Have No Profess
sional Ball Playing This Season
on Account of Poor Street
Car Accommodations.

In less than one month from today the
strident calls of the umpires play balf
will be heard in nearly every city of any
pretensions at all except Montgomery,
and the fact of the horrible nightmare
yciept street railway system. Is the sole
reason that there will be no professional
ball in Montgomery this season.
This morning in Atlanta the Southern
League will hold it's final meeting and
everything will be shaped UP for the sea-
son of .1902. The schedule committee will
draft copy of their work today and
Sunday morning it will be acted on by
the League as whole.
The American League has given. out
their schedule for the season and they
are all ready. but the fight in the ranks
of the National League keeps the waters
muddy in that direction. Speaking of the
trouble in the National League The New
York World says:e - - =
Whether Justice Truax decides that A.
G. Spalding is legally President Of the
| National League or not the League will
hold meeting in this city, probably
March "A. and carry out an. agreement
that exists between the Spalding four and
the Freedman faction.
There, is no evidence that the Brooklyn
Pittsburg. Philadelphia and Chicago
Clubs have weakened in their support of
Spalding But, owing to the closeness of
the baseball season. the magnates want
ia get together to Tx UP a schedule and
begin their season as usual .,st5
Following is the plan that has been
agreed upon between the factions. In
case the decision of the court is against
Spalding the clubs that have supported
him will again place him in nomination
for President OF the League. The Freed
man-Rrush four will name Nick Young
Then the League will go on balloting Just
where they left of at midnight on the
night or December 10 last--four votes for
Spalding and four votes fer Young.
When the Spalding four have sufficient
" demonstrated their loyalty. the plan Is
to have each side name a man who. with
Nick Nounk. Will comprise schedule and
managing committee. The election of Il
President will be put aside and the COM
nittee will prepare a schedule and take
complete management of the affairs OF
the League for the playing season.
1t Will Of course. be impossible to car
nv ont any legislation If the two factions
remain solid and, in the opinion Of many
baseball men legislation is not needed.
In case Justice TruaX decides In Spald-
ing $ favor. the suggestion made by John
r. Brush in a recent interview will be
carried out. Brush remarked that even
il Spaldin~ was sustained in Ibis eonten-
tion he would not have any power over
the League, the position of President
Secretary-Treasurer being purely clerical.
The magnates can still apneint their COM
mittee. get UP their schedule and go on
and play ball.
Barney Dreyfus announced in Pittsburg
Yesterday that his team will go South on
March Is. whatever the decision of the
court may be. Ned Hanlon will take the
Brooklyns South on the same data Some
OF the PHILADELPHIA pitchers are already
practising in the South. All Of which
shows that the Spaldine clubs are going
on with their prcparations to be ready
when the season onens.