The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-10-21

Baseball fans in Mont merry were
highly amused at reading the following
telegram in certain papers Sunday morn
ing:
memphis, Tenn, Oct. 1s-1t Is an
nounced' here today on authority of men
identified with the Memphis Club OF the
Southern Baseball Association that the
new Southern baseball organization is an
accomplished fact all the arrangements
having been made at Montgomery Ala.
two weeks ago. The cities In the new
league are:
Memphis, New Orleans, Nashville Bir-
mingham, Atlanta, Montgomery. Chat
tanooga and probably Augusta. Ca. or
Mobile.
''The salary limit is to be $4,000 month
for each team The new organization is
intended to take the place Of the present
association and has been formed through
the efforts of Manager Frank OF Mem
phis and Manager Fisher of Nashville.
who were at outs with the majority OF
citation during the season just closed.
1.-The organizers of the new league claim
that President Kavanaugh cannot get a
quorum Of the club representatives TO
the association Of which he is the head Is
already practically dissolved, They also
claim to have secured parks in oil the
cities included in their league"
The absurdity of the thing will at a
glance strike anybody at all conversant
with the situation. 1t lis case OF BLUM,
| cold hlooded. intermingled with the most
| colossal gall imaginable. That 1t Is I'M
| which says that the contracts were all
| dawn up and fnal arrangements made
at a meeting held IN Montgomery two
weeks ago, or to be more explicit. on
not been a meeting of any kind such as
described above held in Montgomery but
the chances are that there will not be
until sometime in December-the 18TH
think.
Charlie Frank, who is the leading spirit
in the new league. has been TO Montg"Tn-
cry several times within. the past Few
weeks. The first heard of MIN after II
was known positively that he was work
ing up league in opposition to the
Southern, was when he organized COM
pany and secured SportsmaTs Park In
New Orleans. Then he came to Mont
gomery. Newt Fisher was here that day
with his Nashville team which played ex-
hibition games with the locals. A story
had a few days before that, gone the
rounds to the effect that Fisher would
leave Nashville next season and take
charge of the Birmingham or some other
franchise in Franks league. The morn
ing that the Nashville crowd reached
Montgomery asked Fisher about TINS
story and his intentions for next season
He emphatically denied tho Truth OF the
story and said that he intended to remain
IN the Southern League and manage the
Nashville team again next season. Fur
thermore. he asserted that he had not
seen Charles Frank in New Orleaps or
Montgomery, end that Frank had never
approached him on the subject of the new
league.
That night Fisher left Montgomery,
saving that he had to go to Memphis in
order to make some arrangements about
the cup games Nashville and Memphis
were to play. Frank also left Montgom-
cry that day and gt can be stated most
positively that he failed to receive even
the slightest encouragement here: A
few weeks after that Frank was In Mont
gomery again. II was one Sunday, ana
he kept very shady, leaving with the
magic woEds nothing doing again ring
| ing in his ears.
When the league meeting was held at
| Chattanooga last Fall, section was put
in thecharter making the franchises hold
| from yea to year. Whether coming
events were casting their shadows at that
| this was done Now the franchises will
| be up at the December meeting. and every
| franchise in the Southern League will
have to be renewed. OF course, the
sons thought to be of the most benefit
| to the league as a whole. Frank and
Fisher organized the Southern League.
! but the parent body now Is stronger than
| the franchises of Nashville or Memphis.
| combined or individually, and IL the
| league sees proper, 1t can take the Men,
| phis and Nashville franchises away from
| Frank and Fisher and place them where
| 1t thinks proper
The Frank rebellion began with the st.
| Vrain matter, and there is a story now
| to the effect that Fisher is in with him.
| The story further goes that the Southern
League is quietly laying plans to get rid
of both Frank and Fisher, the Memphis
| franchise to be taken by the Chickasaws
or other Memphis people, and the Nash
vile franchise, as stated in The Adver-
| tiser Sunday morning, to be bought up
| by some of the New Orleans people.
Caruthers Ewing the Memphis attor-
| battles for Frank, 1t seems, is engineering
| the new league, and he gives out state
ment to the effect that Ed Peter will be
| orsted from the Atlanta franchise and
Coffee Jackson from Birmingham, the
franchises in both of these towns to be
placed where the new league directs. Go