The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-29
MONTGOMERY BASEBALL CLUB.
Photograph of the Team fin the New
 Spalding Guide.

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 Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide for 1905 has just been issued. This is
 It's twenty-ninth year. and 1t is, as
 usual, edited by Henry Chadwick, The
 year is the largest baseball guide that has ever been published and is com plete in every way.
 In addition to the picture of the local
 team. the Guide also contains half tone pictures of prominent baseball mag mates. as we'll as pictures of all the clubs in the National and American | Leagues. and. for the first time, pie lures of all the prominent minor league | teams of America. This is the first time that so many pictures have been published in any one book devoted to the game.
 The lovers of baseball will appreci- ate the Spalding Guide this year more
 than ever, owing 10 the amount of pic
 lures therein, consisting of no less than 2,17O individuals pictures-of
 players. magnates and offcials-con-
 tained in 160 group pictures of the diff clubs in the National and American Leagues and the minor leagues as
 we'll. and twenty-three pictures of base ball magnates.
 A very interesting article is contrib
 uted by A. G. Spalding. entitled, What
 Is the Origin If Baseball?" MT. Spald-
 ing's contention is that baseball did not nc ,oInsu originate SI from the English game will be read with great interest
 One of the leading articles in the Guide this year Is lecture that was Sarrg delivered Msr. by A c spading before the Training School. at Springfield. Mass, November IT, 1904, on The Origin and Early History of Baseball" The edl- tor, Henry Chadwick, contributes a series of instructive chapters on the game, entitled, The Evolution of Our National Game; "A Chapter on Pro- fessional Baseball" and Two Great Essentials in Professional Baseball. :"
 The National League official averages are published in full. appended to which Is complete analysis of the seasons work both of the clubs and individual players. including record of the pro- gress of the race from the commence ment to the end of the season, compiled by Editor Chadwick in his usually mas terly style. Mir. Chadwick also ana lyzes the work of the American League very fully. The American League DOT ton Is further supplemented by a trenchant article on the work of that organization in 1904 by Irving E. Sam porn, the well known sporting editor of The Chicago Tribune.
 The minor leagues are accorded more space than the National and American combined. tn seasons work in each being reviewed by some writer con Jersey City, writes on the Eastern League; Oscar H. Morris, of Milwau- kee, on the American Asosciation;. Southern Association: otto Floto. of Denver. of the Western Leagues; F. F. Pferson, of Bloomington, III, on the A. Bensburg, of Utica, on the New York State League; Charles H. Spalding of Fort Wayne, on the. Central League; Tim" Murnane, of minor league fame. I and President of the New England League. takes care of the New Eng land interests; the Pacific National League. is taken care of by Ed H. Rothrock; the South Atlantic League by Chas. w Boyer, President of the League: the Connecticut League by Dick Howell; tho Cotton States League by Frank F. Cashman, Secretary of the