The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-31
Important Matter to be ConSid-
 cred in Montgomery
WEIGH GOES TO BAL TlM0RE
Montgomery Mourns the Loss of Jim my Tamsett, Who Is Claimed by Memphis-6irmingh
 Silent on Subject.

gomery in February several matters of importance are to be considered by the magnates. It will be recalled that Presi- dent ". M. Kavanaugh at the recent annual meeting of the association held in Memphis made his annual report a feature of which was that hereafter a player put out of the game for back talk to the umpire should be suspended without pay for at least three days. In speaking of this matter the Atlanta Journal says:
 This will put an end to all wild bees- ing and squawldng all right. And this is about the only way the trick can oe turned. Fines are not worth the atmos- phere they are bawled out in for in the main they are remitted or paid by the mogul in charge. But this three-day sus- pension minus any pay will weave the trick beautifully
 This thing of constant npping at judge of plays heels all through a hard fought game is getting too common and low bred and all that brand of rot. It's no longer good form among the best peo- pie The league will be forced sooner
  1 every battle fought without such a run of grand opera on the side for the cranks care not for the barking specialists be- tween acts. Legitimate melodrama on the battle field Is all they gather for.
 Not only is President Kavanaugb in favor of this ruling which Is used with deadly effect In the National, but ma jority of moguls figured 1t would be l tip top procedure. However, so much time was taken up pruning down the juicy pay rolls for next campaign that this last affair was overlooked Every mogul in the league should go after its passage at the next gathering and see that the end in view is accomplished. The ruling Is one of the best yet made during the four-year reign of Dixie's l major.
 Goes to Baltimore.
 It is announced that Con Welch, the | Birmingham boy who made such a rec ord in the South Atlantic league last season. has signed to play with Balt- | more in the eastern league next sea son. Con has only played in professional company one year, and he is considered
 
 | produced by the South in the twirling line. Welch was raised in Birmingham end he played on the commons here. Charley Frank wanted him for New Or I leans this season.
 Montgomery really wanted Jimmy | Tamsett real bad. And they are badly disappointed down there because it is l announced that Memphis has secured the services of the fast little infelder for next season. Birmingham, however, Is saying nothing.
 special from Montgomery says: The bad news has been received that Jimmie Tamsett has not been secured by Manager O'Brien to play third base on | the Montgomery baseball team next sea son. O'Brien has written Major Winters that he could not make the deal with the inhelder and that Tamsett had signed with Memphis. It Is thought that Whis- tier must have offered him more than | $500 per month, 1t was known that | Birmingham offered him that much ] O'Brien was hopeful up to the last of landing the ball player, and it was source of disappointment to many fans | that he could not be secured
 O'Brien has his eye on two more in- fielders and should he get them there will have to be some hustling for infield positions on the Montgomery club. The names of these prospects cannot yet be oivulged.
 South Atlantic League.
 The South Atlantic League Is going to l n cl1fa hot 1t around the corner; that is, If Ed Ash enback carries out his first New Years resolution. says the Enquirer. Last year one of Eds principal diversions was choking umpires. A close decision given to the other team affected him like tick ling a mules ankles. The result was that he was suspended so often that 1t | got to be bad habit with him. | Tt was a bad habit, too," said the manager of the coming champions yes terday, and l have cut 1t for good. It doesn't pay any better than common stock in the Shipbuilding Trust. Last l year every time an umpire didn't look good to me I got livid in the gills and threatened to treat him the way Jeifries would Frank Catch if they ever got in | the same ring. Then President Boyer would yank me out of the game for a day or two until I had calmed down. This year I am going to start calm and grow calmer as the season progresses. l saw the Reds play in Boston once when Kelly was out of the game, and they worked Ike a chicken without it's head. That l helped to convince me that 1t doesn't pay manager to get sidetracked.
 And don't you think for a minute that the umpires don't lay for the bad actors. They get their heads together and one of them says. Say. that Ashenhack is a big kicker Look out for him Sure we will, say the rest. The first peep out of him and to the bench for the rest of the game So l don't any more than get my face half open before it's Ye're out O de game. Scoot! No, 1t doesn't go with me any more Any one who wants to see l an exhibition of a lamb combined with an oyster should just take a look at the manager of the home team when the sea- son opens at Charleston"
 1 Gaeolene Stove ExpIodes.