The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-01-18

there win be no grabbing Of players in
the future without some corporation
The agreement On the reservation Of
closely follow the old old National agree.
ment. with the important exception that
for the first time In the history of Ameri-
can baseball there will be two leagues
with exactly equal rights.
With an agreement Including the minor
leagues, It win be absolutely impossible
for any baseball player to And situa-
ton except In the California League, OUT
side Of the agreement Pressure win be
brought to bear on the California League
TO bring II into the National Association.
President Powers will 50 to the coast in
a short time, and will then try TO bring
the recalcitrant members into the fold
Among great baseball meetings the one
held lsst Saturday is the third In lSsl
the National League and American Asso-
citation met and made a ten-year agree
rnent Then came the brotherhood war
In 1880 and the consequent disorganiza-
ton OF the game. This was followed by
the famous amalgamation at Indiana
polls in 1891, between the National League
and American Association, which nrst
saw the misfit twelve-club league In
power. 1nis circuit was reduced to
eight clubs in 1889.
President Shepard, the newiy-elected
head OF the Birmingham club, il far more
OF q veteran in baseball than people in
this section have any idea of. II am not
mistaken. he controlled the famous De-
troit club in the American Association IN
1881. when they defeated the National
League and everything else that played
with them. If Mr.. Shepard gets together
as fast an aggregation for Birmingham
this summer as he did for Detroit In 1881,
Lew Whistler will have to move pretty
fast to get bunch Of ball-tossers that
can hold the Magic City aggregation
and Montgomery must beat Birmingham
out II they lost all the other games in
Mike Finn of Little Rock, Newt Fisher
OF Nashville and Alb Powell of Atlanta,
VIII meet In Memphis this week to SUBJ
init a schedule that will be presented to
Orleans during Mardi Gras. The season
VIII open on the 9th Of April, but, of
course, IL IL too early to say what the
Montgomery team will draw.
Fischer has completed his list of ex-
hibition games which win be:
At Nashvflle--Miiwaukee American As
ISOLATION, March 30. 81 and April /, 2
and 8.
Nashville and Evansville. Apri IA 8
At Nashville Boston National League.
Aprils7 and 8.
At Nashville-Cleveland American
ASd6ucp april ., ~ ana IL.
Nashville at Louisville. April 70 and
AT Observation-Disclosures. April IA, Is.
16 and II.
Nashville at Terre Haute, April IS
and 10.
At Nashville-st. Paul American Assoc
citation, April 20 and 81.
At Nashville-Evansville. April q. %
and "a.
Nashville at Evansville. April Is and
President Kavanaugh has sent instruc-
tons to the Merchants Bank of Nash
Vile, which holds the guarantee fund, to
mail checks for the 5000 balance to the
eight clubs Of the League. The other
1000 was paid out some time ago. This
fund was tied up by Frank ct al. several
months ago and was only recently re-
leased. Each of the clubs, including
Chattanooga, will in q few days have re-
ceived their 1900 paid into the fund last
season. Drafts were made last month for
the first installment of IS, 600 on this years
guarantee fund. and it is all in the hands
of the trustees.
Clark Miller has been appointed Pri-
vato Secretary to President Kavanaugh.