The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-06
NO MORE "OUTLAWS"
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE NOW IN
 ASSOCIATION.
Baseball Players Must Act Square or Give Up the Game Altogether. s.s ptss Other Gossip of
 Diamond.

Diamond.
 The fact that the Pacific Coast League | ls now a member of the National ASso- VVL.. interest to Montgomery baseball en- When, the, baseball season of 1905 was .aunched one of the outfielders of the hardest hitting man in the Southern Eeague. At that. time the Pacific Coast
 Sauonal, protected league. and the out saW concern on the Pacific slope were ngnIns each other for existence. The outlaw concern was paying fancy prices wnicn resulted in lots of ball players from minor leagues all over the country doing sne hangaroo act and landing in the em- ,rH TIace or one of, the clubs of the outlaws. 70 overcome this the organized leagues nau tacit agreement that if the Pacinc Soast National could, by any means. in uuCe a player from one of the outlaw c,ups 10 go with one of their teams the eiuos rom whom the player had jumped m the Fast would not make any trouble. some weeks after the Southern League cnampionship season was under way Ike Dnrett suddenly took French leave of the Montgomery. club and his wife took his trunk and Joined ~'The Farmer" in his flight to ''the outlaws"
 Just about the time that Durett jumped george Reed who was managing the seattle team in the Pacific Coast Ma tionals was doing some mysterious empowering through this section. Reeds business in the Southern League was m nSne plain when. few days after Ourett nad jumped to Parks Wilson's team in the outlaws. he gathered his long legs and jumped again this time to Reeds seattle team in the National where he nn1shed tho season.
 This summer there will be no outlaw league on the slope and no war meas- ure-that' is no club will be permitted to play man that belongs to another league or club. Durett still belongs with out any equivocation to Montgomery, and both the California leagues having pro- lection. in organized ball "Olcle Isaac Will either play In Montgomery this sum- mer or nowhere. There is not an out law concern in the United Sattes now and he will play here or quit playing profess sional baseball.
 St. Louis has secured Hussleman who jumped from Shreveport at the same time that Durett jumped Montgomery. Ed Pabst played with the outlaws on the coast last season and 1t is thought that he is one of the eighteen players who almost caused hitch in the peace treaty. Whether the Pacific Coast people have any real claim on Pabst or not is of course not known.
 Of. course as long as the Pacific Coast was an outlaw organization Pabst could leave them at any moment that he saw fit, but now that they are organized of they have contract with Pabst for the coming season 1t puts an entirely diff ferent phase on the situation.
 Pabst himself made the statement to a correspondent of The Sporting News that he had signed to play first base with Montgomery and he certainly ought to know what he is talking about.
 second, fast. hardhitting m man on on third and Manager Stickney said yesterday that he is almost ready to land one of the fastest in. minor league company--Kid Busch at short, four good pitchers, Clark and MannQrc a 0fstHol6 of Ike Durett, Burnett Molesworth and Link Stickney.
 When the peace agreement with the out laws was made there were present Ban Johnson of the American League; Jas. A. Hart of the National League; Edward Hanlon of the, Minor Leagues Associa- ton. and Hary Harris, James Morley and Eugene Burt of the Pacific Coast League. The Pacific Coast people stated that no player who had made a contract on the coast for next season would be sur rendered. Hanlon could not agree to this until he had consulted minor league clubs, but he anticipated no difficulty on this score. The coast league will be put as class A of the minor leagues, with the privilege of drafting players, but l must in turn submit to drafts from the National and Americans. The only hitch l is over eighteen players who have signed with both minor and Pacific Coast clubs, | but 1t is believed this can be arranged.
 Portland entered a claim for Rube
 
 signed with Connie Mack and had accept ed advance money before he opened nego- | tiations with the coast club,
 The most serious hitch was over the l claim for the services of Captain Dillon of the Los Angeles team, whom Brook llyp wants. Dillon signed with the Brook lyn manager after promising Los Angeles that he would be there as captain this | year, and the coast club claims to have a verbal contract antedating the signed paper held by Brooklyn. One of the managers will have to give way.
 Before the agreement becomes final 1t will have to be passed on by the National Baseball Association, which meets in two weeks.
 Lefty Davis. who was a much sought after man in war times." says The Cin- cinnati Commercial Tribune, lis not want | ed by the New York Americans next sea son. He may land with the Tombstone (Ariz.) team unless the Cohoes (N. Y.) | club outbids that organization" This is an awful roast of the old Nashville play | CT. Davis left here Wednesday night for Hot Springs. He will warm up other things besides the water around there as tains an intimation that Lefty would have gray whiskers if he were to turn them out The Tombstone club ranks | with the teams that sometimes play ball | in SQueedunk Valley and at Babbling | Springs in Tennessee.-Nashville Banner It is reported that Manager Frank of New Orleans has traded Third Baseman Brouthers to Toledo for First Baseman Tuck Turner
 The birthday of Cy Young of the Bos- ton Americans, falls on February %. He will celebrate his birthday this month for the first time in eight years.
 Tom Fisher. the old Shreveport pitcher, has offered the Boston manager $500 for EI mt fo yNIax there. Fisher is star in minor league company, but thinks he would improve with another year there. and does not want a try In big company until he feels more certain that he will make good H isprobably pursuing a wise policy.