The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-02
BROUTHERS IS SECURED
THIRD FRESHMAN FOR THE MONT
 GOMERY BALL TEAM.
His Release from Toledo Club Pur- Chase by Manager O'Brien. Outlook Is for Fine Crowd
 0f Prefzeln.

| | The Montgomery baseball team has l now for the first time since the days of Danny Minnehan. a competent man l to take care of about the most import
 ant point of the in-field, third base. A deal which has been hanging fire ] for sometime was completed yesterday | morning, when Manager O'Brien bought | from the Toledo club of the American Association the release of big Dan
 Brouthers. The record of this player | is hardly necessary to state how val- uable the pickup is for the Pretzels, During the season of 1908. Brouthers was with Bob Gilkss Shreveport team, | and was traded to Charlie Frank for Smith of the Pelicans. Brouthers play ed 121 games that season. was 356
 times at bat, had 72 runs, Is4 hits, 2 | sacrifice hits, N24 stolen bases and a batting average of .34S.
 In fielding, while his average puts him seventh on the list of third base
 men, yet he. really led the league. play ing more games than any third baseman in the circuit. Tn 120 games he had | 162 putouts. 250 assists and 42 errors,
 42 errors out of 412 chances at third | base.
 At the end of the 1903 season. Brouth- CTS was drafted by Strobe. President \ of the Toledo Club. in the American Association. but for some reason he be-
 came dissatisfied during the early part
 of last season and jumped the Toledo l club. Every minor league In the coun- | try being inside the National Associa- | tion. of course he was unable to play
 in any of them. and he went to an 1T in ledo still retained It's claim and held
 on the player during the season of I 1905, and Brouthers would either have
 to have returned to the Ohio town or
 not play in any organized baseball i league.
 The fans in Montgomery are aware
 of the feeling against contract jump ' T1r- |. 1rf. nwar nraf
 in 1903. jumping from Montgomery to the Pacific coast. During last season | big Ike played hard. conscientious ball for the 'Pretzels, but the local fans against Durrett for hisI breach of faith | in 1908. Now, the feeling in Toledo | against Brouthers is as bitter as It
 was in Montgomery against Durrett.
 club had man to play third base dur | ing the coming season, he consented to
 the sale of Brouthers's release. Other clubs were after Brouthers-
 minor league men in the country--and l had offered more money than Montgom- | cry, but out of his personal friendship | for Tom OBrien the Toledo manager
 sold the release of the player to Mont l gomery.
 With the exception of the box depart | ment, which still remains an unknown l quantity, Manager O'Brien has his 1905 I | be found In the running is shown by 1 the following: Millerick and Manners.
 catchers; Lee, Hale, Brandt and Gard ner, pitchers; first base, Mullaney; sec | ond base, Schwartz; third base, Brouth-
 CTS; shortstop, Busch and Lowney; out | field. Delehanty, Molesworth and two fast men now on the string.
 | This outfit looks as fast as anything
 In the Southern League for 1905. and | the outlook is for some pretty swift
 baseball during the coming season. | The League meeting to be held here
 Is only about two weeks off, and from
 now until those melancholy days when 1.-the leaves and ball players begin to hutter from their pinnacle, baseball will
 be the all absorbing topic in Mont- gomery.
 "TaIxing about your spit ball artist
 no pitcher in the country has any edge | on Bob Gilks when 1t comes to using | this ball. He hasn't forgotten how to keep them on the outside corner or in-
 side corner mixed up with one of the best slow balls" says Pitcher Swann. "We were playing in Birmingham, and
 our team was badly crippled up with two or three men on the sick list. We had a double header to play. So Bob Gilks said he, would pitch one of the | games. He pitched the second game,
 which lasted ten innings. We should
 have won 1t in the ninth. We gave
 them at least two of their runs. Of
 course, we expected to see the old boy
 driven to the tall timber, but he was
 there with the goods and l never saw a prettier pitchers battle in my life.
 Every tally they made we had handed
 to them. When the ninth rolled around
 the score was tied, so we had orders
 to work overtime. Gilks is quite a
 favorite in Birmingham, and was re-
 ceiving the glad hand from the grand
 stand and the bleachers. But our hard luck was still with us, and Bob had
 to lose just the same as us ordinary
 pitchers It was real amusing to see
 the old boy step into the box, and some
 people said a little merry for his age,
 but he had everything that day, and you ought to have seen him landing lthose bunts and watching the bases.
 He had about seven strike-outs and as
 many assists, some of them on very
 difficult chances. When you throw a
 man like Hennessey or Duffy out
 you've got to go some. Bob had them afraid to bunt, when really this was
 the only play for them to make" Atlanta has lost Catcher Fred Abbott,
 according to a report from Philadel- have traded Shortstop Hulswitt to Co., lumbus for the exPelican.
 The National Board decides that Mig
 Clarke must return to the Rochester frob Buckenberger last fall. It
 amounts to $150, says The Atlanta
 News. It will be remembered that Mig
 was sold to Cleveland along with
 Charley Smith. Despite this the catch-
 CT agreed to sign with Buckenberger
 claiming the sale was a fake and that
 he could furnish evidence to prove 1t, | thereby allowing the Rochester con tract to stand. On this ground he se-
 cured $15O from Buckenberger. At the same time he tried to secure money from Powell, but failed. The national
 board held that the Cleveland contract
 was bona fide, turned down Rochester's s | first claim and now orders Cleveland
 to pay Rochester $150 out of the first
 salary Clarke earns. The time has arr rived when ball player cannot get away with such deals as Clarke at- femDted