The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-16
BASEBALL GOSSIP
FORECAST or TODAY's MEETING
 OF LEAGUE MAGNATEs.

OF LEAGUE MAGNATEs.
 New seheduIe to Be Arranged snd Major Winters Has Some. Idens | on the Subject.
 | southern League be held In Montgom- | That is the problem that Major Win fers. holder of the local sontnern - the December meeting of the League in Memphie tomorrow. Major Win ters and Colonel Barry S. Holt will phis. and both viii watch 3eaiousiy the interests Of this sity sas regards the
 Montgomery Is not. only the logica, but the most central point in the Southern circuit fori the holding of the February meeting. and strong effort will be made to have 1t held here. The held In Birmingham. The League was then just beginning to recover its breath after the strenuosity of the Tse masnF of sSs Sas ssa in New. Orleans. the tangle of the Montgomery franchise which was held jointly by Msssrs; Ragland of the of the Montgomery Street Railway. be- ing strengthened out by the Semmes interests being sold to the Ragland l
 held .in .Atianta. colonsi Holt beinG elected one of the directors of the League then. The February meeting schedule giving Montgomery a number of Sunday games. A bill had previous ly been passed by the Alabama Legts- lature prohibiting Sunday base ball. and there was another entangiement. A hot fight was made by the baseball people to get around the prohibitive State law, one of the schemes being an passed by the Ssy eou9S power and jurisdiction in the matter. Nothing resulted from It, however. Sunday games were relegated and a. auesa, % loss loss of f money honey both to the other teams in the League and the local club was the result. Now the December Memphis, that town having won the
 Beyond formally awarding the pen nant to Memphis and throwing a few erys old 1903. manager. not very much will be done at the meeting tomorrow. In grateful appreciation of the inesti- mable services of Judge kavanaugh- walton of Southern baseball for num- Der of years, a diamond emblem will be presented by the League to the most popular executive officer that baseball in the South has ever had.
 There will probably be something of fight made on the placing of a team for second place, When Montgomery New Orleans-and transferred games. by the way-Arlie Latham was refused admission to the New Orleans grounds. He was the regular league umpire de- tailed for those games by President | Kavanaugh. and while the games were played anyway, players from the Mont- gomery and New Orleans club umpir- I prnc l. oh out. The Pelicans at that time were just neck ahead of Atlanta for sec ond place, and these Montgomery games would have landed them safely
 sseooa oa RhlaSs Xanta nr sSas the place by the figures of the League President. and the Pelicans were set morrow. and will perhaps be the only incident of the meeting to Snake a rip pie on the waters. There promises to that the ruling of Judge Kavanaugb will be upheld and Atlanta given sec- ond place.
 Another question that will be spruns g tomorrow is in regard to the transfer ring of games. q practice that proved inimlcal to the interests of Southern baseball during the past season. Be- ing an injustice to other towns in the League the. plan is a discrimination against the local patrons of the game. and the slogan tomorrow will be, Let every tub stand on it's own snlD bottom. ,,; :" mittee will be made at the meeting. and thls is a matter in which Mont gomery is vitally interested.
 l Mike Finn of Little Rock has always been the man to draft schedule and as he is not in the Southern League this year somebody will have to be se- lected to take his place. Dale Gear is the manager of the Little. Rock team for 1905. but whether he can fill Finn's shoes in the matter of making sched- ule remains to be seen.
 | Major Winters will make a fight at the meeting against the practice of such wide. discrepancies in the series Of at home games and those on the road series of eighteen games on the road almost month away from Montgom- cry. This was pretty bad as lots of the local fans almost lost interest be- the other hand a full month of base |, ball was put in Montgomery. This was equally as bad as the local fans became satiated before the series was over. A series of nine games on the road and nine at home would make the conditions of things vastly better all possible to adjust the schedule this way all of the time. but if the makers of the schedule will work on the line Sf & nine ;,s games se at none ana nine abroad |. i in attendance. No Sunday games will . be given Montgomery this time. the season Will propabIy De materially cur tailed and the schedule makers will, have fair sailing until they report the result of their labors in February which 1t is hoped will be in Montgom- cry.
 Local fans will have an opportunity next spring of judging for themselves and ones own opinion Is always the correct one-which Is the best third baseman. Jimmie Collins. the famous manager of the two-time champion Boston Americans, or Bill Bradley, the fast fielding. hard hitting third base man of the Cleveland Americans. Yesterday morning Major Winters received a letter from LaJoie, who will manage the Clcvelands next sea son, asking for dates in Montgomery on the third and fourth of April This will be the first visit of the CIevelands to Montgomery, Bill Armour. the old Montgomery player. who worked ip left field here in 1S94. who managed the Blues last season. having been compelled to give Mon tgomery the go- by. The feature" of that club will be LaJoie himself. the famous French man who has lead the American League in batting for so many years that it has come to be looked on as a matter of course. Last season LaJoies bat ting record was One hundred and forty games, % runs. 21l hits sac