The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-07
REPORT OF BALL TEAM
MONTGOMERY COMPARES FAVOR
 ABLY WITH HOTELS.
Tom O'Brien Has Completed his aggre- gatiOn Except for His Pitch-
 eTS--Notes and Gossip b OI the Game.

II SONN@-N-NN
 League teams the outfit that Tom
 o'Brien is rounding up for his 1905 Pretzels looks about as good as any
 thing in the circuit
 Charlie Frank will play either 'Liv-
 CT Lip" Jack Law or Turner on first
 base, and Frank weikart, who has been spending a few days in Montgomery,
 said emphatically that he would again
 be with Gilks in Shreveport this sea- son. The new Atlanta owners will
 have either Stafford or Dexter, the youngster recently bought, on first. Over in Memphis Lew Whistler will himself hold down tn initial bag. His hitting will help some. but from past experience in Montgomery that club will go faster and finish better if Lew will repeat last summers performance Fischer will have either Bussey or Lally on first for his Nashville crowd Birmingham will of course have Dad" Vaughan, the manager, while Dale Gear
 mas not decided his first base position as yet.
 With the possible exception of Frank Weikart and Stewart--f the latter plays first for the Policans-Mullaney certainly looks better than anything The only unknown quantity about the 1905 Pretzels Is the box staff OBrten has written that he is after a couple of fast pitchers, a southpaw be- ing ohe of them. while 1t is very prob able that Clark Grifith will leave some ot his youngsters in Montgomery. k In point of numbers Atlanta and Memphis are better of at present in regard to pitchers than the other teams in the League. each club having nine men on their box staff.
 Whistler has three pitchers on his 1905 team who were with Montgomery in 1903--George Stultz, Oscar Streit and Otis ,Stockdale. Frank Wilson is work ing hard tos get into condition. He will
 be member of Franks Pelican pitch Ing stan this summer. Frank was not at himself in Montgomery last sum- mer, but if he returns to his old time form he will be one of New Orleans's speediest pitchers this summer. | Unless Brandt and Gardner show up a lot better than they did last sum
 mer 1t is, pretty sure that neither of them will be in the Pretzel pitching department this summer Brandt has pitched some brilliant games here, but
 he Is cratic, and it is lots the best policy to have a man who can be de- pended on to go a certain gait all the time. The big fellow and Gardner are
 both good hitters, however, but 1t Is going to take some swift pitching to land games in this League this sum
 mer. And Tom O'Brien is most assur- edly going to have a bunch of slab art ists that can run with anything in the circuit.
 There is a deal of talk in local fam
 dom about the advisability of signing
 heavy, hard hitting catcher. Last summer the improvement in the all- around backstop work of Harry Man ners was very marked In catching throwing to bases and batting he was good. Pat Millericks work is known all over the League. In catching and throwing to bases he Is above the ay- below par: Neither Manners nor Mil lerick is heavy, however, though the two of them should be able to hold their own. If a heavier backstop is needed Tom O'Brien will be the judge. He will be given absolute authority, something that he certainly did not
 have in Birmingham.
 There will be general shift of some familiar faces this summer, Wilkie Clark going to Birmingham and Pat Millerick coming here, lansing going to Nashville and Lowney coming here
 Norcum going to Nashville and Ken
 redy to Shreveport These were all
 trades, but Lew Whistler has managed
 to get bunch of good ones that were
 with Birmingham last year, Oscar
 Streit. Johnnie Dufie and Tamsett. The roster of the teams as near as
 can be made are:
 Atlanta--Pitchers, Smith, Ely, McMa-
 kin, Butler, Burnham. Sparks, Fucker Dwyer; catcher. Danny. Shea; infielders, | first base. Stafford and Dexter; second
 base, Magoon; short stop, Morse; third base, Noblett. 'Krug and McCay; out fielders. Croziers Winters and Bauers
 Memphis-Pitchers. stultz, Brown, Ehret, Streit, Herr, Thatcher, Stock dale and suggs; catchers, Dunlap and Hurlburt; infeldere, Whistler. first base, Keenan or Walters. second base; Collins. third base; Tamsett, short stop; outfielders, Duffy, Miller, Cannon and Dungan. Other infelders are O'Brien and McElween.
 New Orleans-Pitchers, Wilson, Breitenstein. Whittrldge, Dunham and nI GY,1lt infielders, first base, Law or Turner; second base, Holly; third base, Rohe; short stop, Beck; outfielders, Genins and Nadeau. Rohe Is drafted, but will probably be returned.
 Nashville-Pttchers, Adams, Herman, Frickie, Bruner and Bailey; first base, Bussey or Lally; second base, Pug Ben nett; short stop, Granville; third base, lansing or Tilford; catchers, Reisinger or Fisher; outfielders. Norcum. Russell, FieldhauS and others.
 rmingham-Pitchers, Ginger Clark, Cowboy Clarke, Reagan, Pylant Sitton, Wagner and others; infielders, first base, Vaughan; second base. Piggie Ward short stop. Moore; third base, Miller and Hafford; outfielders, Smith and Hennessy; catchers, Matthews and Clark.
 Shreveport-Pitchers, Bartley, Abel, Feye. probably Swann and others; catchers, Grafflus and Fritz; infielders, Weikart. the retired business man. at and Morris at short; Kennedy AIexan- der and Hanley in the outfield.
 Montgomery-Catche Millerick and Manners; infielders, Mullaney, first shcrt stop and Brouthers. third base; pitchers, Gardner, Lee, Brandt and Hale; outfielders. Molesworth, Dele hanty and Hennevan. Busch may be played at short.
 Little Rock--Catchers, Gowin and Bender; pitchers, Bolin, Guese, Meker- son. from Burlington club; Arthur My CTS, from Hannibal, Mo; Becker, from Oklahoma League; Gowin. of Brook lyn; infelders, Hurley. Fillman and --------- ------------------ TREATMENT OF PILES.