The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-08

At the rooms of the Falcons over Leh- man Durrs on Court Square at o'clock tomorrow night there will be a meeting of the managers of the -four teams com prising the City League-the Falcons, In" dependents. Invincibles and Gersts. At this meeting the organization will be thoroughly perfected and the league for mally launched on a firm business basis.
 The plans are to elect a financial man. ager or secretary who will have absolute control of the conduct of the league. He will buy all balls and bats, see that the grounds are kept in order-in fact he will be the ne plus ultra, the Nick Young of the City League. A sinking fund of 10 per cent. of the gate receipts of every game played by the league clubs will be slowed away for emergencies.
 At this meeting regular schedule for the clubs will be adopted. The financial manager will have entire control of this and all that the managers of the differ ent teams will have to do will be to have their men ready when notified. An agree ment will be signed by the managers of the different teams not to let any member of their team play on any other team Of the City League. The necessity of this is apparent system would be nil were men allowed to jump from one team to the other at their pleasure. A rule will also probably be made to admit ladies free at all games whether accompanied by escorts or not, for the heads of the league realize that nothing gives tone to the game SO much as the presence of ladies'
 Following is the present list of the four teams :
 Gersts-Creekmore, ss; Fariss. 2b; Stickney. p. and of; Andrews, 1b; Burnett. 3b; Molly D; Lewis, of; Linstedt, c; Simpson. If; Roper. If
 nvincibles-Finley, 3b; W. Patterson, 1b: Pettus, p; Apperious, 2b; Patterson. of; Harwell ss; Hannon, If; Lamar, c; Barnes, If.
 Independents-Kilgrow (Capt.) c: W. Patterson, 1b: J. Patterson, 2b; Stakely, ss; Finley. 3b: Hannon. If; Hobbie, eff; Rutledge. If; Moore. sub.
 The Falcons-Joseph Seeman, mana ger; Theodore Lobman tCapt) 3b or p; Lee Calm. p. and 3b; Fred Colomon. c; M. c. Hall. 1b: George Creighton. 2b; Julian Gibian, ss: Fordie Finch, cf; Mort Meyer. If; Johnson, If; Sam Apperious, c; j.. Flames, D.
 This week there will be two games be- tween the City League teams and both will be highly interesting. Thursday afternoon the Gersts and Invincibles will play, and Saturday afternoon the Falcons and Independents will tie up. The Gersts and Independents will tie up. The Gersts by the Montgomery people and the fast work that both teams are able to put up has been shown. The game Tuesday will be really the first championship game of the City League, the Masseys and Invin- cfbles having consolidated. Of course both teams will give the best that they have as the standing of the clubs will be- gin Wednesday morning. While the Fall cons and Independents have not shown so far this season yet their reputation was made by the fastest article of baseball ever put up by amateur teams in Mont gomery last summer. These two teams are the hottest kind of rivals and the game Saturday promises to be intensely | interesting.
 Sandwiched in between Tuesdays and | Saturdays league games there will proba- ply be one or more games with the fast Brewton aggregation who won two out of the three games from the Mobile Loyals last week. Frits, one of the Brew ton pitchers, made great record in | these games, allowing only five hits in his first game and but seven in the second. Frederick also pitched good ball for Brew ton and if he and Fritz keep up their work of last week some of the locals will be up against a hard proposition this week.
 The Columbus team which beat the Gersts so on Friday in that town will also be here in the next few days, and the Gersts will try and get revenge in large chunks. The Falcons left last night for Pensacola where they play the team in that town this afternoon. The Massey team returned today from Luverne and Gersts get in from their Columbus trip this morning.
 The Suburban next Saturday bids fair to he an open race. and it now looks as if the favorte in the future books lies between the 4-year-old cold. Gold Heels and Great Toms 5-year-old son, Advance Guard. The Watercress colt, Watercolor. was declared out Friday, the