The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
TALK OF BASEBALL
ARRIVAL OF aKID" BUSCH BRINGS
 IT UP. :
Tue sqIid'' Has . Montgomery Job- Forecast Taken of Coming Events in S0uthern
 Baseball.

Looking like ready money Kid Buscn dropped off a southbound Louisville and Nashville train yesterday morning the picture of health and general pros perfty. Heine looked good for sure.
 T have been working hard" said the popular little shortstop. having Just about the best time l ever had In my life, but I am here to stay until the training season opens next spring. Busch has secured a position witb one of the local phosphate works. nak- ing three members of the 1905 team wintering here--Molesworth, Brandt and. himself The two former also look to be in splendid condition. both Of them, however. being bit too heavy. Cruising work in March and April will, however. materially reduce their averdupois and cause a radical shrinkage in their too solid flesh"
 These three ball tossers will have a great advantage over the balance Of the 1905 aggregation as being right on the ground all the time they can be- gin to get into condition from one to two months earlier than any of the others of their team mates.
 Busch said yesterday that Clark Is on a hunting trip ou. west and 1t will be some time before he gets back to this section. Gardner, he said, Is in business for himself up East. but he did not know anything about any Of the others.
 Just one week from next Thursday the annual meeting of the Southern League will be held in Memphis. and then things baseball will begin rn sizzle and boom, in the coming events that cast the shadow of "the good old summer time.''
 It IS presumed that Manager Tom O'Brien will come down from his home in the East to attend the meeting though the gentleman with the Graeco- Roman cognomen has not stated deti- nite1y his intentions. O'Brien Is in the thick of that country where ball players are born. not made, and the natural supposition is that when he hikes down to Montgomery next March he will bring a cluster of fast ones with him. f-1
 ThesonIy holes in the makeup of the 1905 team is at third base and in the 4outfieId. For the last two years third base has been an eyesore and stench in the nostrils of the local fans. During the season of 1903 Bill Spratt held down that position for Lew whistler's 8 aggregation. The Tarheel was a good. fast man, a. hardhitter and held down the third corner of the diamond most acceptably until he was hurt. That unfortunate collision with Flanagan , during one of the games in Nashville seemed to queer him completely. While he played the season out still at times he looked daffy and was never the ball player thath had been at the begin ming of the season. He seemed to be all right last summer, however, and felded and hit in his old time form proving a valuable man for Augusta.
 Last season Heine lansing, one of the California recruits who came to Montgomery, was put at third base. At times his fielding was so sensation al as to be spectacular, bur his health went back on him and with the combi- nation of too much booze" he was completely knocked out.
 O'Brien already has a candidate for the third sack-a hard-hitting, swift