The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-16
SLAG PILE SETTINGS.

Secretary Sheppard of the local baseball association has heard from all of the members of the Birmingham team for the season who are already signed. and they will report in Birmingham on or before March 15.
 Several of the players wrote that they would be ready to report any day that Manager Vaughan wanted them to come, and they all seem to indicate from their letters that they are in pretty good con dition for this time of the year. Young Pylant who developed so much last year. stated in his letter that he was already warming up little every day and would be in excellent condition early in the season if nothing went wrong.
 The Montgomery fans had a scare last week when 1t was announced in Sa- vannah paper that Dominick Mullaney, the long, lanky boy who guarded first base for Birmingham early last season, would play in the South Atlantic league with the Savannah team. A howl went up from the baseball writers, and Man ager Thomas O'Brien at once sent out denials.
 Mullaney has an iron-bound contract with Montgomery, so the mogul of the Alabama legislators claims. and he will do the initial bag work in the Southern league team instead of the South Atlantic league aggfegation.
 The Montgomery fans are getting ready
 
 tomorrow when he strikes the capitol from the land of the snow, where he wintered. He wrote that January r would see him on the ground.
 The South Atlantic league is going to be hard up for good umpires next sea- son. Joe Burke. the giant judge of balls and strikes from Birmingham. and also Joe Black did excellent service last year for the s. A. league but this year Pres ident Kavanaugh appointed them for the Southern league, and they are reading up on the rules, preparatory to the open ing of the season.
 Grim and Harry Mace, two South At lantic umps for the past, year, have also hunted other pastures, and so whoever is elected president at the meeting Jan uary 20 will have to get four new men.
 Memphis, January 15.-(Special.) Char ley Frank, manager of the New Orleans night for New Orleans to begin active preparations for his spring campaign.
 My team will report February 25,' said Frank, "and we will begin practice at that time.
 q suppose eighteen men will report. Of course I have not actually closed con- tracts with that number, but have a line on men I want. It would not do for me to announce my lineup now, especially as I have not closed all the deals I have planned, but I will give New Orleans good team"
 Frank did not deny that the Pelican lineup for next season is somewhat as follows:
 Sullivan, catcher.
 Breitenstein and Whitridge. twirlers.
 Jack Law, first base.
 Holly at second.
 Atz at short.
 Stanley back in the field.
 Henderson, Ky. January 15.-(Special.) J. Jacob Zimbro, Jr., who is one of the prime factors in the K. I. T. league and who attended the Vincennes meeting, said to-day to your correspondent that there was no trouble to amount to anything In the league, and that the matter of guar antee will be adjusted to the satisfaction of the league members at the Padueah meeting January 29. Should Cairo refuse to join there are several other clubs which would be only too glad to take the place. zimbro is a strong supporter of a six-club league. He is one of the orig inators of the league, and says that the 1905 season looks very prosperous.
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