The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-18

same fellows at the close of the cam palgn. As you Journey from town 70 town with the men while the regniar season is on you will be wearied to deatn of their incessant howls for better things. ana it will annoy you greatly to near tot or fellows who used to chase a muie through the cornfield for A week ana mess of salt meat demanding the fare or 2 millionaire.
 Ifsyou put them up at g day ho- tels they kick wildly for s lodgings: Tney must have sleepers with the nnest Dertns and the most obsequious porters, They must have a cushioned bus If they have to go as far as three blocks from the hotel to the ball park. and they must nave this and that and the other thing, all the time. of the finest and most expen- sive quality.
 Wait till the season is over and they are starting on their transforming expe. aiuon. Do you hear any howls for swell hotels? Do you hear beefs about sleep CTS and buses7 Nix. This is the line of down oonbv,sy ssy dsaS adle cbean cb by the x. q p. Wen sit up in the smoker and save the sleeper money" Alright, Tom. Let's stop at the Muggs House. Pret- " good eatin' there for $1 a day. Might as we'll save that bit of money" Sure And. say-the ball parks only two miles from the hotel. We can hoof 1t and fool the bus guy.
 That's the difference in ball players when some one else is paying and when sney are out looking for extra money on their own hook.
 There are few people who understand the real power of the National Associa- ton and realize It's full growth. In the South. baseball fans are concerned with the Southern League alone, and know a little Of the two big leagues. Outside of this. baseball is a sealed mystery.
 Organized baseball includes and controls tWGntV-On4 lea in this country. AVCr- aging eight clubs to the league, and sixteen players to the team, or, in all, about l6S clubs and 2,500 players.
 The business feature of baseball will be more fully appreciated when 1t Is known that the average salary of these players reaches the sum of $1.5O0 year. or q total or $3.750.O00. Outside of the CalifoT- mia leagues, baseball lasts but six months. making monthly salary list of s6OO,OOO.
 The amount of money paid to railroads Is an enormous expense. For instance, in the major leagues the trips made Ly amount in mileage to about y6,6OO during one season. When the jumps from Boston or New York to Chicago are considered. 1t will be seen what plum baseball IS over s?,ooO was paid to hotels by visiting teams. or total of over $100,0O0 year for the hotel fare. of two big league teams.
 
 ed his team by the signing of big Ed Lau- zon for left field and change catcher. The wisdom of this acquisition remains to be seen. Lauzon has been a good ball player and splendid hitter, but hls work for the past three years has stea6- lily retrograded. However. Gilks believes that the big fielder will do fine work for the Pirates. It is notorious fact that Powers is hard man to get along with, and Lauzon found him particularly so Gilks is nothing if not popular with his players, so amid congenial surroundings Lauzon may again shine as a star. He will bring his family here and start ln in dead earnest. While Gilks could pos. sibly have secured a better outfelder, he was compelled by the salary limit to get a man who could also catch. and signed the only one in sight. The new man is also a good first baseman, which increases his value to the team.-Shreve- port Times.
 It Is not generally known that Charley Frank, the Memphis and New Orleans manager. began his professional baseball career in Nashville. He did his first work here, pitching for the old Nashville Maroons, an independent organization. This was in 1891, says a. Nashville news-' paper.
 with John F. Kelly's combination which went to Cuba and tourned the island, giv> ing exhibitions in the principal cities. The club had a most successful tour, and Franks work in the pitchers box con- tributed considerably toward the result In 1892 he was with the Mobile team and finished. the season as 6 member of that aggregation. In the fall of that year he again went to Cuba with baseball team.
 Memphis got his services in 1893, when the Southern League began its season, and he pitched and played left field until the organization threw up the sponge He finished the season with St. Louis fv.k kA,. Mo .,n I .rsA wtr-r and played there In 1894.
 The formation of a new league in the South brought him to Memphis again in 1895, when he was rendered a splendid sented to use his best resources for the benefit of the Bluff City team. However, the league did not last and he went to Minneapolis, where he finished the sea- son. This was Franks best year in the swatting line. He reached the magni- fleent average of .47S.
 In 1896 he was again with Minnea polls under Wilmot, but the two could not get along together, and Frank was released to the Columbus, O., team as a member of which he remained through the bal ance of that season and also the seasons of 1897, 1898 and 1899.
 again, this time as manager of an inde- pendent team. which was really the foun- dalton of the Southern League that was organized the next year and which has CS ouCCCoolNC years UT pTOS- perity. the last season being the most successful.
 Official scorers of the Southern League will not be appointed this year by Presi- dent Kavanaugh as heretofore. Instead paper in each city in the circuit will be selected by Ir. Kavanaugh to attend to the work, and the editor of the paper chosen will have the authority to apoint any one to the position he chooses The salary for this service. will be 8 for SCOT ing each game. The Advertiser will rep resent the league in Montgomery.
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