The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-02
Connie Mack.


 be free to sign in the outlaws but Se may rsnrI mp a He s Waitng and Babb from New Orleans, so that he, can make. an effort to get his re | lease.
 Cannon played in ninety-fya games | in 1905, and ended the season with a batting average of .27S.. He went runs and crossed the bag safely nlnety- | seven times. He cracked out fifteen | two-sackers, six tf1ree-base hits and i three home-runs.
 Tn the fielding line he stood second among the outfieiders who played more than twenty games, ending the sea son stp. with ,aa record ef .sss; Winters. of Cannon played twenty7five games and had a fielding average of .972.-Mem- phis Appeal fa
 A St. Louis writer grows petulant be- cause John Ganzel Is permitted to man. age his own club purchased with his own own money; in league recognized by ern. paper. Gangel was under reserve 1 by New. York club. but refuses to gre because with his talents and knowledge Of baseball ms earning ca- pacity Is, increased as manager sof Q club Of his own The St, Louis, writer thinks protection should be withdrawn this Missouri simon Legree believes that players are sold, body and soul when they sign contract with their part to branch out CT, expand should be repressed by the big mag mates. What rubbish. tGanzel sold his
 Ensd tns He d not Tan npoas of his common sense or his business ability. Under the contract he. cannot Ssa don uniform a1d play base ball LII in He has in no way violated his obliga- ton to the New York club. Suppose Ganzel had remained with the New and his fielding to 7ss? . What then ? Would he De regarded as an asset of ths New York club Well, only for. adrift so quickly his head would be in Q whirl. ZanzeI Is merely using the brains he was born with. He has not there Is no danger that a man of his fense t
 They don't play ball the way they used to in the good old days" com plained the graybearded follower of the game
 ,, .N9?" g. s;s. said l2 Dope, Tanning. Wherein
 "In the old days the boys. used to hit the ball like fiends and there was were on their mettie Why. in fifty eight games In 1896 the Cincinnati Red stockings scored 23S9 runs. an average 
 changed since you were young" said Dope Tanning ., smoking affects the batting eye. Ball players who are known as constant users of cigarets are not as good bats cisars sa sS the Ms ow wG o@ esene cgts ee Gaft Blake. T was almost fend for cigar, at the plate that 1t seemed almost as though had veil over my eyes. Tom Mccarthy blamed 1t to the cigarets. I swore off and my vision became as good as it ever vas ~
 This thing of early spring train ing." says an old leaguer. "spoils the andS 9r poefet @amy mones @Sn fO neve had any of it. but some of the players who used to pick up $500 and $4O0
 are anG sgerE EooEpinR iEpiTiRs wse whs the students were training for the varsity ball team. are down on their luck It used to be the e, regular thing 1s to get berths coaching college play CTS. But 1t does not go any more The professionals have 10 trair 'nst as as of 1t Is that just the time the colleg- fans are training Is the very time tho nagnates want the players to go South,
 
 take long walks and work off every ounce of the winters fat"
 Detroit, which club drafted lansing last year. has notified Nashville of his release and he comes pack to the To- cal dunghill. DuRgan and William Sorrell have also been released to Nashville by the New York Americans and Pittsburg. Bobby Gilks had claim in for Sorrell but when the case was presented to the Board of Direc tors of the Southern League it was de- cided that Sorrell belonged to Nash vile.
 San Francisco. He Was heard from yesterday. stating that he was about ready to leave the coast lansing has but in a quiet winter and says that he Is in good shape.
 Manager Finn expects to send out notices to his men the first of the week. He wants to give them plenty of opportunity to get ready to report