The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-16
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 An local fandom will be eager to Lajoie. however, there will be the three pitchers. Bernhard. Moore and Joss Harry Bemis doing the lions share Of the catching. Bradley at third. Hick- man, Turner and Pastor in the infield ging Flick in the outfield. Clark 0rif- ffth's New York Americans will reach Montgomery on March 7th and put in about two weeks bruising practice
 work. When Griffifth made the con- tract, however Major Winters had 1t distinctly understood that the stay of
 the Yankees in Montgomery should not interfere with the exhibition games Of other teams. Griftfth agreed to this and when other teams are scheduled
 the Athletic Park grounds in the morn
 ing, stopping work in time for tho
 regular game to begin fin the afternoon.
 The first exhibition games will be on
 March 20. 21 and g with Comis-
 keys White Sox--it Is a coincidence
 by the Pretzels last spring was with Comiskey's aggregation, Denver and
 Nolley pitching the game against Doherty for the White Sox, the Pretxeis winning by a score of to 1.
 On the 2sth and 2sth the Cincinnati Reds will play the .Pretzels two games 1t will be the first time that this az gregatlon has visited Montgomery. On
 the 3d and 9th of April Lajoie and his
 Cleveland bunch will be here for two
 games. and on the 10th of April Jimmy
 Collins and his champions will be here,
 though for only one game. Last spring
 the 'Pretzels played this team the
 closest game that they had on their
 in favor of Boston, Duke Carter and
 Roach pitched the game for the Pret-
 gels against Dineen and Winters for
 Boston, six hits being made by the
 Pretzels and only four scattering ones
 by Boston-Buck Freeman only got one
 April r the Detroit Tigers with Bill
 Armour as manager will play one
 game here. That team was not here
 last spring. but in the spring of 1908
 tiers team beating them several
 games. Other dates will be arranged
 later on. McGraw's New York Nation
 als, the Boston Nationals and several
 other big league teams having asked
 for dates. These dates will all be
 changed in the event that the Ameri-
 can and National seasons open much
 earlier than expected. Interest centers
 of course in the New York Americans
 who will do their spring training in
 Montgomery, and as Manager O'Brien
 will arrive on March 1st 1t is probable that enough of his players will come with him to get lots of benefit out of the work of the big leaguers. To give some idea of that New York gang their batting averages during the past sea- son were:
 KeeIer, .343; Dougherty. .2s2; Ander- son. .2S1: Fultz, .27s: Clarkson. .269; Ganzel, .261: Williams. 25s; Elberfeld. 25s; conroy, .24s: orth. ;e4e: Chesbro. osteen. .2o2; Kleinow. 200; Powell. ITO: Griffith, .146.
 Dougherty. of the Now York Ameri- cans, is the next best batter to Keeler on the New York team, but he Is four | teenth on the list with 2s2 per cent. Anderson Is seventeenth with .2S1. Fultz Is next with .27S.
 The New Yorks were second in team batting with .25S. being nosed out by
 the slugging Clevelands with .2s3. Major Winters will make extensive improvements on the grounds a. Attn letic Park, but as he said ye' cerday | he won't begin to plan anythin until after the 1st of January. The center | field fence will be moved back twenty | feet and the batter who gets ball over that fence will be a slugger for | keeps. The press and scorers box | instead of being located on the left of the grand stand as at present will be built right under the center of the grand stand and directly back of the plate. It will be so constructed of course as not to interfere or encroach
 on any of the backstop's territory. the wire netting of the box being just q few inches outside of line with the bot
 tom of the grand stand proper The
 most radical improvement. however. will be the changes in the grandstand. Major Winters said yesterday that he thought the entrance at the right end of the stand entirely too narrow, and he will have an entrance opened in the center of the building and leading down to the street outside of the grounds. This entrance will be 6 or s feet wide | SO that there will never again be any crowding in going in or coming out after the game Is over.
 Colonel Holt will of course be re- | elected as one of the directors of the l.league, Major Winters putting hls name in nomination at the beginning | of the meeting.
 Baseball for 1905 in Montgomery | looks pretty good.