The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-01

| Never Tn the history or DaSeDdn udS lhc prospect for the success of the national game been as roseate as they are when | the infant 1908, in Its swaddling clothes. peeps timidly into the strange world this morning.
 The herculean work of Judge Kavan- augh has been to give the dove of peace l a whiri in the Soouth, and while the bird | is not flying very high in Montgomery
 just at present. still 'there'll come a time" Speaking of Judge Kavanaugh, the base 1 ball scribe of The Atlanta Journal says: The Southern League will face the sea- son of 1903. which year bursts into bloom and fragrance on Thursday with a lead- CT. man of backbone and judgment and not figurehead of putty or clay. And hereby hangs its chief chance of futu.e success and prosperity. v
 Following the National League, the Southern League elected Kentuckian to lead its destinies during the season of 1908. Although Judge w. M. Kavanaugh now halls from Little Rock in the land of bogs where the hu moi the rabid mosqui- to is heard by night as well as by day. and the firefy fits and fiutters over the lagoons and swamps that surround the city, he is not native product of Ar kansas soil.
 "He was born at covington, Ky, and his early baseball days were spent on the diamond of the Kentucky Military Insti- tute. He took part in games against Gen. tral, Kentucky and many other blue grass | K. M. l., he moved to Little Rock. Ark; sidestepping the rolling region of blue grass and booze, where bourbon flows in | never-ending quantities for the land | where the boot of the screech owl, the song of the mosquito and the sharp call of the whip poor-will mingle in one never | ending cadence.
 His first office was sheriff of Pulaski 1 County, which position he held for sev-
 eral years, making a big name by the | speedy manner in which he rounded up ! the law breakers and fastened on the ! criminal the keen beak of the law. And | about that time there were one or two criminals or crooks anyhow, in this dis Il trict.
 After presiding over the eriff-ship he 1 resigned to assume control of The Ar
 cession he was then elected Probate Judge
 of the Pulaski County Court, which posi- | ton be holds today. As Probate Judge he | gave c. Frank and MT. Ewing a number
 of unhappy moments when they were on
 trial before his tribunal Judge Kava- naugh is now looked upon as the next Democratic candidate for the Governor | ship of the State and 1t Is singles to hom- CTS that he tallies the winning run in this geme.
 'Judge Kavanaugh is a statesman, poli- tcian and newspaper man.
 'In letter recently to The Journal he
 gave out the following statement which shows the acuteness of his judgment: The differences between the old and
 new leagues have been adjusted and there
 will be but one league or association next
 year, in the South. and that the old
 league. We had made up our minds to | fight the new league with all the vim
 there was in us, but we found where a just and honorable compromise could be
 made and we made it for the good of
 the game in the South. We expect the
 season of 1903 to be the best in the his | tory of Southern baseball
 With the National and American
 League masnates and promoters still l waving the bloody flag of war at each | other, fanatics who dwell in Dixie can sit back and watch the struggle from afar,
 knowing that the dawn of the new year
 will come when the baseball heavens of
 the Southern sky are unclouded and the | outlook is the brighest in the history of
 the game in Dixie land"
 It Is a bit of a coincidence that both | the President of the Southern League | and the President of the National League
 are Kentuckians. and both at one time
 in their careers were slaves of a news paper.
 l Ban Johnson, President of the American
 League, is another old newspaper man,
 having been sporting editor on a Cincin-
 nah paper for number of years.
 Harry Pulliam, the new President of | the National League, was formerly a re-
 porter on The Louisville Courier-Journal | Barney Dreyfus of the then Louisville club of the National League persuaded | him to accept the position of Secretary of | that club. That is how Pulliam broke
 into baseball and now he Is filling the | office of President of the National League
 and incidentally drawing large punches | of money at tho rate of N0,000 a year. | He is well remembered in Montgomery, | having spent some months here when the Louisville team did it's spring training at Highland Park in lS93 McCloskey had the Montgomery team that year-the same
 John J. who had the Tacoma team last
 summer and started the St. Vrain cpl l scde
 ] That is all thing of the mast now, , however, as tho following Little Rock special shows:
 ''The Memphis Baseball Park Associa- | ton is once more in good standing with the National Association of Minhr League | Clubs President Kavanaugh of the
 Southern League is officially notified that
 the Memphis check for payment of the | protection fee has been received, and this
 may be regarded as the final chapter of | the famous St Vra1n case, which started
 July last when Manager Powell of New | Orleans and Manager Finn of Little Rock
 refused to. play in the Memphis park when
 St. Vrain was trotted out in a Memphis | uniform.
 Manager Fisher of Nashville has noti-
 fled President Kavanaugh that he has | signed the once famous twirler ''Bumpus" | Jones' and Red Ehret and l. " Bagswell
 To i'll Abbaticchlo's place at second base Fisher has signed J. J. O Connen