The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-17
O'BRIEN IS COMING
MANAGER OF PRETZELS TO REACH
 MONTGOMERY SOON.
Dominlck Mullnney Returns to Savan- nah to Do His Training--Neyys Notes of the sport
 ing World.

1esterday morning Major K. E. Win | transportation to Montgomery and the l manager of the 1905 PreLzels will in the next few days start on his long journey from Massachusetts to the South. By next Wednesday or Thursday O'Brien will be in Montgomery, reach ing here few days before the league from tomorrow. It is thought that O'Brien will bring a bunch or players with him, but he has not stated just who will come. Big Domlnick MulIaney will this morning leave for Savannah, where he will stay until reporting time calls T think | can get into condition bet ter over there than l can here" he said last night. Il can do plenty of work at the ball park there and within few minutes walk of the park there Is & Turkish bath establishment, an institution that cannot be found in Montgomery.
 Manager o'Brlcn has notified all of March 10. about the same time that | Clark Grifith's New York team ar rives.
 Betting Is q lost art" says Captain Anson in his wordy war with Pitcher Chesbro over the spit ball. That 1 Is why all these fellows fall down on any ball that has twist or two on it
 
 are used to. You don't sec the long, sweeping stick work any more. It IS all the chop and slap, and not m hon. est, good hard blow struck. That is why I say batting Is a lost art. If some of these younger ones would study up the game the old-time bat ters used they would get out of the l modern rut that slaps at balls. instead of putting the wood into them for heal | thy drives.
 q don't care how the ball breaks. By the rules of the game it has got
 to come over that pan and if 1t comes | over above the knees and below the shoulder there is no need for the slap per in the game. l think it s a case these batte rs nowadays They go .hf- ter a ball feet from the pan and then call 1t marvellous pitching and new
 fangled spit balls, and agree Withh With it and nothing Is said. The batters to- day do not compare with Dan Brouth- CTS, Thompson, Roger Connor. Gore, | Dairymple, Herman, and l could name dozens or more, where nowadays you ! have one or two like Lajoie. Chicago News.
 Fitzpatrick d big pitcher and fielder, has been added to the Baron lineup, and he will show up here about the first of next month. The new Baron is a little over feet 2 inches, and according to the dope secured he has a volume of speed that Is something wonderful to behold, says The Birmingham Age Herald.
 He halls from Richmond on the James, and gained his speed, so the dopists say, in trying to throw a rock across sections of the river there. The big boy promises to hit well, and he can camp in any garden and pull down all the long flies from the bats | of the other teams crack swingers of the wagon tongue.
 Anyway, he Is to be given a try-out, and if he makes good his berth for the | season is assured, and with 1t nice salary. His contract was received yes- terday.
 Funniest thing ever saw on any ball field, occurred out at Alameda, on 1 the Pacific Coast when I was training for my last fight with Jeffries," said Jim Corbett. We had two great teams there of fighters and actors, and we used to play every afternoon Frankie Neil. Eddy Hanlon, Jimmy Britt and Berger were among the players. On the afternoon to which 1 refer l had the Poles-the acrobats-on my team. Joe and Tom Corbett were on the oth- CT side. The Polos didn't know much about the game, but one of them made a hit beauty that went to the suburbs. 1 l was on the coach lines believing my lungs out, telling the Polo to come on, while Tom and Joe yelled: Don't run; he's only kidding you! Polo finally started. and when he got to first he | turned back, as if to go to the bench, and I frantically waved him on. And on he went. He steamed ahead of the runner who was ahead of him and into the home plate the pair of them slid together while the crowd went wild over the only play of the sort ever pulled off. ."
 Jimmy Tamsett who will succeed to the third corner of the Memphis infleld this season, Is wintering in New Or Ileans and is anxious to report for spring practice. Tamsett has always wanted to play third and Manager Whistler will give him an opportunity this year.-Memphis Appeal.