The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-15
BASEBALL PROSPECTS
 LOOK GOOD TO THE FANS
Connie Mack's Team Will Be Here March lSt-- 0ldring May Play This Year
 With Durrett.

CT or later. He commenced losing and seemed utterly powerless to shake orr Mon, shs no0doo; He s is very P9puiar ra m turn to his old form at the beginning Of the 1906 season-and Ike Durrett for one certainly has confidence in his to get the degree"
 Germaine and Frye both come pretty highly recommended, but both Durrett will be from Missouri in regard to them. May is the ex-Auburn pitcher. and in the game that he worked ed that there was the making of a first class pitcher. Whether he can hold his own in fast company is an- for for the e1a matter so e was VI Frank Sparks. Walter Clarkson and numbers of other collegians who gravitated into profes- nrr Out s,oa of tbs baye bunGh mn , in landing four likely ones. pitchers that will hold the team up 10 the high mark they were in when The Climbers OIdrIng May Come Back. With big Dominick Mullaneys on first. Charlie Schwartz on second, Perry on | looks goods. After all, it is pretty safe to assert that Rube oldring will play with Montgomery for 1906: Con nie Mack has about six men for the position held so long by Monte Cross at short Mack wants Oldring to have one more years experience in one Of states-the southern--and unless he changes his mind in the next few months. the hard-hitting. lightning fielding Swede will stop in Montgomery when the Athletics journey American LeaRueward this spring.
 All local fandom will hail this piece of news with delight, for oldring was the most phenomenal ball player that ever struck the South A terrific and consistent hitter and one of the swift est baserunners ever seen In Mont gomery. oldring was terror to every pitcher in the Southern League. While he was in the local infield he made some sensational plays and covered
 world of territory. but was bit CT ed to the outfield the effect was cleo trifying. With that superb arm of his, it took a pretty speedy base runner
 to get s safe on on even clean ,n hit rdne if tne quick enough.
 If Oldring comes there will have to
 be goodly bit of wedding to get in-
 side of the $1.700 limit in vogue this season. Charles Frank has virtually that high priced infield of last season
 and 1t will be the part of wisdom for the local management to watch that
 Pelican outfit before beginning the local trimming.
 Heine Busch for utility with Beech and Smith for backstops complete the
 upper end of the aggregation. In the outfield there will be Durrett, Holland and William Delehanty. And if the combination as a whole don't have a 14karat look then no ball team ever did.
 Improvements at Park. The improvements at Athletic Park are to be commenced immediately, and
 things will look shipshape by the time i that Mack and the Athletics drift into Montgomery.
 An electric pump with shower bath
 attachment is to be put in the players | dressing room, a shed put on the out side of the entrance gate so that ladies will not be forced to stand in the broil- | ing sun while waiting their turn to 1 get in. The same officials will be on | duty. Bill Stickney> in the box office.
 though the ticket takers have not been | selected, the same scoring arrange
 ments as last summer, though the press
 box will be materially enlarged.
 Baseball prospects look bright for | the coming season.