The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05


 The organization of the Montgomery Baseball Club was completed yester- day afternoon by the formal election of tcrs.
 The meeting, which was a most en. thusiastic one. was held at 1 o'clock in the ofiice of the Montgomery Trac-
 As was stated in The Advertiser yes- terday morning the new club was in- corporated in the office of the Judge of Probate of Montgomery County Friday. divided into shares of ss5 each. some. thing over $3,000 having been sub scribed by local parties.
 At the meeting yesterday the follow Major E B. Winters; Vice-President, Major R. E. Steiner; Secretary, Lloyd Lyons. The directors elected were: 10. p. Winters, R. F. Steiner. Lloyd Lyons. T. J. Reynolds, B. ]. Strassburger, R. [. Todd. J. W. Tulils. IT.. Bernard Frank and W. T. Robertson.
 The spirit that characterized the meeting was uniform desire and de- termination .saoi t9 give Ms,ontsomsry 3 win; yin; be done with this one object in view, no expense being spared to get togeth- CT an aggregation composed of the fastest bunch of minor league players
 The organization perfected yesterday Is an unusually solid one, the directory being composed of some of the most representative and responsible bosiness men of Montgomery, among them being the President of a national bank. We are determined to have one of the best teams that money can buy, said Major Winters. and Manager and is making his plans accordingly. If any of the men signed fail to come up to requirements they will be prompt ly turned loose and their places filled and refilled until the high standard de- manded by us Is reached. No drinking or rowdy ball playing of any kind will be permitted on the team. Manager OBrien will be given absolute author ity and he will have perfect discip- line"
 When Rube waddell was with the Chicago Nationals he was assigned to play first for them one day In New doing bench duty for the Giants that day, but when our manager saw Wad- dell on first he sent me to the coacher's box and told me to engage Rube in con- versation.
 How about that game in which you struck out twenty-three men" I asked him just as Van Haltren hit hot one to the iniield.
 Well, sir Rube began
 And then soemthing white and round whizzed by his left ear. It was the ball Barny Mccormick had gathered up and shot to first. Rube didn't mind the er- TOT; he was SO anxious to tell me about the twenty-three strike-outs. We'll, Van Haltern got around to third with two out, and one more visit with Rube during which he forgot to pick up an in the winning run
 In the days of the tangled-up Broth erhood, Pete Browning was playing left field for Cleveland and Ed Dele: hanty, Cub Stricker, Pat Tebeau and other diamond lights of the day were on the same team.
 The bali grounds were located on Wilson Avenue, and peculiar feature of their topography was that in center field, just beyond where the fielder stood, was an apple orchard. It was this orchard which occasioned a great amount of fun at tho expense of Browning and Stricker during the pro- lands and Chicagos.
 Old Pete was always anxious to make a long hit. Every single looked good for a double to him, every double coaches were kept busy trying to make Pete stop at the proper base. ,
 In this particular game Pete hit one to center and started of, head down. and was lost sight of by the center fielder. happy thought struck the fielder, however, and he picked up an apple and lined it to second.
 Stricker, on the coach line at third, linking 1t was the ball coming in, called wildly to Browning to stop at second. Old Pete did, spreading him self all over the ground in his effort to stop The apple smashed as 1t struck the ground. and Stricker, seeing the trick, called on Pete to come on
 Peter gathered himself and "came on" but in the meantime the center felder had located Ehe ball, and good throw to third caught Pete three yards away. Maybe he wasn't mad! He ran after Stricker like whirlwind, utter | ing all kinds of imprecations, while Cub" made tracks for the club house. Few of the people in the meager crowd understood what 1t was all about, it happened so quickly, but probably no more comical incident happened that season.
 Manager Newt Fisher "uncorked" a real good piece of news for fandom wednesday, when announcement was made that Charley Elsey, last year with Butte Mont, in the Western League, was slated for an infieid position on the tioeals in the next campaign. The se- curing of this man came as a surprise to Newt. A message was received at l headquarters early in the day from | Walter Wilmont stating that Elsey could be had for a certain sum, which, | by the way, was pretty stiff. provided | Nashville wanted Q good man. MT. Fisher was not long in Investigating