The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-14
PLAYERS AT THE PARK
ANIMATED PICTURE AT THE BALL
 GROUNDS.
Shannon Reaches Montgomery and Oth- CT Local Men Are Expected Soon --Nothing from Lowncy or
 Delehauty.

With Manager OBrien's bunch of Pretzels and Manager Grifith's Yankee outfit something like twenty-seven athletes made an animated picture of the ball grounds at Athletic Park yes- terday.
 The arrival of shannon yesterday players in Montgomery.
 A mistake was made in sending ticket to Outfielder Barry. The ticket was forwarded to him week ago. received a telegram from him stating that the ticket had not been received. The mistake was promptly corrected by show up with Pat Millerick about the latter part of this week.
 Delehanty and Lowney continue keeping the public guessing. the con turned by either. Delehanty Is holding out for more money and reiterates his assertion that he will not come to is showed to him. O'Brien says he is not losing any sleep over it. however. This kind of talk is chronic with many ball players in the spring ss,9 Sgt o the in before the opening of the champion
 Nothing has been heard from Doc tor Lowney in a good while. The M D. has said positively that he will practice medicine this year, and he seems to be standing pat on 1t. Wheth- CT it is a. bluff or the real thing re- mains to be seen.
 There are already two candidates for short on the ground -Heine Busch and Shannon the Pretzel infeld will doctor remains conspicuous by his ab- sencs
 Speaking of Lowney, Manager o'Brien is not the only man having frn ha nnto vftnv nf the Fishermen, like his illustrious namesake, seems to be finding the cen ter of gravity. When foxy Newt made the deal with foxy Tom whereby Heine lansing was swapped to Nashville and Doc Lowney was sent to Montgomery. O'Brien and Fischer each took an ex- tra hitch in his trousers and gave vent he will see the PretzeIs further away before he will come to Montgomery. lansing. made similar statement in has that s1o0 fine hung to him imposed by the Montgomery Club when he kan garood out of town last summer.
 Nov .%. comes & Colonel Fischer Fl hI ana say, say on the Nashville team this summer. Sundays Nashville American quotes Fischer as follows:
 photographic orders were sent to various winter camps Saturday by Manager Newt. Fisher with the request to come at once.' Eighteen of the men un0er contract were CaIleQ out. E'OuE were left behind for use later on in case their services are needed These were Bussey, Lewis, lansing and Cox and the steps that the local mogul is players will not be needed during the season. Bussey, who has been a war horse in this circuit. Is already on the is u" desirous nf of changing % his e boarding dMS house. lansing Is not thought to be fast enough for this company Cox. who is an amateur. has been given his release. Nashville will hold on to. the contracts of Bussey. Lewis and Jan sing for while at least but it is probable the three will be either sold or released before many days roll around.
 The American and National Leagues now have 362 players under contract. has 191 and the American League III. The combined playing strength of the two leagues is divided into 51 catchers. 1s2 pitchers. sS innelders. and 7S out number of players, having maned con tracts to S5, while the lowest number Is held by three teams, the Chicago Quakers. each having IT on the pay National League has 73 to 62 by the pitchers on his staff. while Griffith has 12. and Collins. Nichols and Penney 10 each
 We hear much about pitchers who have all the curves" said Clark Grifith, as he gazed refiectively at the hurrying crowds in Madison Square. recently says a New York exchange.
 "As a matter of fact" he added. "I don't think there are more than two curves that can be pitched. It is pos sible for a right handed pitcher to deliver both in and out curves, but he cannot use an incurve effectively, as in its delivery his hand describes a move ment above his head which apprises the batsman of the character of the ball that is to be delivered.
 T believe that Garvin is able to de- liver both in and out curves with the same hand. but the in curve Is not ef- fective, for the reason have stated.
 50 far as the majority of pitchers are concerned. they pitch merely an outcurve and what is really an inshoot In the case of the latter ball, it goes