The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-11
THEY WANT MULLANEY
SAVANNAH PEOPLE AFTER OUR
 FIRST EASTMAN.

He is Signed to Play With Montgom- l cry Next Season--News and | Gossip of the Baseball l World.
 Ut is to laugh" will be the opinion of Montgomery baseball fans when they read a wild screed from a Savan- | nah paper regarding Mullaney. The article in question is as follows: | If plans that are now under way materialize,, Dominick Mullaney will | again direct the fortunes of the Path- | finders in the baseball jungles. and | will be seen at first base again the | coming season.
 Some time ago Null signed a con- | tract to play with Montgomery during | season, but did so in tho belief that there was no chance for him to secure | a place on the Savannah team at any thing like the figure he was paid by | Montgomery Since Owner Boyer ar 1 rived in the city friends of the big fel- l low have been trying to make arrange ments whereby Mullaney could secure | his release from Montgomery and | again wear a Savannah uniform. Letters to the management of the Montgomery team have already been | written, and it Is believed a release to | the contract can be secured. Owner | Boyer says he has not secured any one | for first base. No matter who is final | ly secured for the place, none will ever | fill Mull's place in the confidence and esteem of the local fans"
 Just before leaving Montgomery last | fall Mullaney signed an ironclad con- | trac ito play with Montgomery during | the season of 1905, and unless Manager O'Brien voluntarily agrees to release him from that contract the Savannah people have not even the remotest pos sibility of a chance to land the first
 sacker for the South Atlantic town. At local baseball headquarters yes | terday the idea was pronounced pre- posterous.
 O'Brien thinks pretty well of young Mullaney. and the thought of giving up the fast first baseman is absurd. One thing is just about as certain as any thing in the uncertain world of base
 ball can be. Mullaney will wear Mont gomery Southern League uniform this season and the Savannah people will
 save time and trouble by looking out
 for another man for 1905.
 letter was received at baseball headquarters yesterday morning from Manager O'Brien in which he stated that he had been "marooned" by the blizzard and unable to get about any where for something over week. In his letter he stated that in few days he intended to get down to business In earnest and that by January IT at the latest he thought that he would be able to get the contracts of some men that he has been working on a long time. At the meeting of the South Atlantic 1 League manager to be held in Savan- | nah on or about January 20, there are more matters of importance than the
 election of a new president to engage | the attention of the assemblage. chief | among which will be the day for the | opening of the league and the length of | the season, says an exchange. This question has never been finally ! settled. although it has been agreed to l lengthen the season. All those who
 made expression at the meeting held | here in September favored the earlier l opening of the season. but wanted the
 closing to remain September To- 1 It was a noticeable fact all over the | league that after the first day of Sep l tember the attendance ferr of percepti-
 bly, and it was almost impossible to | keep up interest. On the other hand | 1t is a we'll known fact that commence l ing with the first of April there are a large number of people able to leave ] their business who are just commence ing their busiest season September 10 | Another matter that will have to be
 arranged will be the pay of the umpires | and scorers. Last season the league 1 paid $150 per month and railway ex- l penses of umpires.
 | Although the league was particularly | fortunate in getting umpires it is hard | ly believed that competent men can be | secured for this price this season. | President Boyer has made no arrange l ments for umpires, as he does not yet know whether he will again be presi- ! dent. Joe Black and Joe, Burke have | been signed umpires In the Southern 1 League. Jack Grim is somewhat out on the coast and Harry Mace is still in 1 Washington. Mace Is anxious to come | back South if there is any advance in
 the salary paid to umpires.
 There was a general complaint over
 the league last season at the price
 paid for scoring In the Southern | League $2 Is paid and there is no diff | ference In the work In this league each scorer is required to mail two
 copies of his score each day to the | president and when postage Is taken
 out and the time of the man who does
 the work is computed the remunera-
 tion is regarded by the scorers as too | small,
 So far there are three candidates in | the field for president, the present in- | combent c. w. Boyer. R. W. Hunt, of Charleston. and Grantland Rice, of At l lanta.
 There are arbitrary umpires nowa-
 days. but not one of them succeeds in | having his own way all the time as
 did our old friend Tim Hurst says | Napoleon Lajoie, in The Cleveland
 Press. One day in Philadelphia, four | or five years ago, when the tempera- | ture was close to 100, Dick Cooley tried | to get out of the game He called Hurst 1 all kinds of mean names and made himself generally obnoxious, but Tim ! never said a word in reply.
 Finally, in going after a fly Cooley fell down and, pretending to be hurt, lay perfectly still while the batter com
 pleted the circuit. Tim refused even to | call time
 AS Cooley came In after the half
 was finished he said to Hurst: | You think you're pretty smart,
 don't you?'
 No said Tim. I don't think I'm
 smart. I know it-smart enough to be up to all your little tricks and to keep
 you in this game until it's over.'" l "The only time I ever saw an umpire l deliberately change a decision that meant run was back in the sos, when
 Mike Muldoon was playing third base | for Cleveland says George POmeroy. 'Muldoon was not a Collins or a | Bradley a fielder, but he had a lot of l lttle clever tricks up his sleeve well 1 calculated to bother base runners. The l number of men he tripped or held at | third while the ball was being relayed
 in from the Outfleld will never be def- nitely known.
 Tn the game I have in mind Arthur l Irwin hit ball far over Tom York S head In left field and started around | the circuit York moved fast, relayed the ball to Jack Glasscock and he threw | 1t to Bushong at the plate.
 | 50 intent were we all in watching