The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-07
FOOD FOR THE FANS
GETTINGER OF MOBILE CALLS UP
 OLDEN DAYS.
Houtx. the Heavy Hitting Outfielder, On His Way. Maxwell, New
 Pitcher, Joined in
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| Mobile.
 Memories of ven years ago were brought back by the appearance of Gettinger who Is now playing center | field for George Reeds. Mobile Cotton It was in 1893 that Gettinger was playing left field for Mobile, which at | wieidy twelve club abortion--the only | one fortunately that the South has | ever been afflicted with. There were gue--Montgomery. Mobile and Birm- | ingham; four in Georgie Augusta, Sa- vannah. Macon and Atlanta: three in | Chattanooga, in Louisiana and Charles | ton in South Carolina
 ! John McCioskey was in charge of ting tin % fast bunch he had. s Jack Me- Me- right. Danny Minnehan third base. Bii- t.
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 B e Hsssnsar sssa a ss s ssos Mdsos he hs was. Req Armssrons. Tus sS'S %eloS IoS second base and Joe McGinnity. rrani: ns slaeRburn pischers. eaSR Meeinnity ha sRe pitchs Se 's on % the so of nsDs had juss l reached Mont~omery that morning from a long trip from Indian Territo- M noo he was tirea ss aasas ana nis m balls---oniy five hits were made oft him, however, and he stiu:k out three
 as Ths biting behind hind. him in was w1s.sv ssr who was pitching for Nashville, Billy George getting four including a home run: the game winding up 10 to In Mobile that Year had Sam Mills sec end base. Bob Gilks-now manager of
 SesssnEss left eS ss traSss TraSy Sr base, Lutenburg first base Mike Trosk catcher Flinn right field and Slow b befs Danisis; d Jrazy rs senmid5 nia Ham tis i fans will be interested in looking over the fpilowinr lineup:
 ,sIa HIa,rninghara sn, had Cans ans o in srte ssnser in left field. Billy Earle, now q Cotton right field, Niles third base, McMahon year. Reading and Underwood pitch- Ing. Memphis Id clngman third base base Goodenough h. center % s ,fan field; s Cart. basse 1Tsi wt!roek eft eid esan Rossrs right field, with Charlie Frank an, and Ter center field, Laroque short.
 first base. Kreig right field, Wood left field. sommers catcher, Mack second vickey and Gillen pitching.
 New Orleans had Polhemus center field. Ward first base. Count. Gam Dowie third base, Bobby Langsford short, Doyle second base. Baldwin and Jantzin catchers and Luby, switzer A Atlanta had Camp third base. Ely short, Mortz first base Gonnor sec phy catcher and Keenan, Ritque and
 ssia cssstanooss had alsh short, Me field, Katz left field, Mcoaads right field. Flaherty third base. Long. Ryan first base, Dugdale catcher and Nevens. Easten and stephens pitch
 Macon had the diminutive Billy York. one of the fastest In the business. gen gen Beard short. Dest first base. Hess Lae,d. Appsy and and Mi5lsr Ssaga.a pltGahing Snort Hatfield third base. Mccarthy right, Long left. Carney first Wentz second. Weddidge center. sugden catching and Tom Colcolough, Cross and Killeen
 Augusta had the banner team of the leasue that year-Bob Stafford center, Denny third base, Dooley first base. George Stallings. who w-s mtnaging them. right. Parks Wilson etching,
 "ss.s sneh1 had anf jimmy &aaRins at Esecond, McCarr third base. lduseman first base: Burns left cr9sf short. hort. ley catcher and Petty plicher.
 manager an 's of f the Peiicans' AZ Powell sSta sSe game eas a Bob Ssaik slks anG is Hanging Shriveport,. John McCloskey iB manag- ing the St Louis National league for Mobile, lots of the others Are either dead or out of the game for keeps.
 Campau hangs round ths winter at any old place he can find Ia landing in the summer. John Kelley who man aged Mobile has in the last few, years
 sicians of the Gulf City. George. Stall ings who had Augusta was In the big leagues for a long time and Is now managing Buffalo In the Eastern lea
 Ted Sullivan who had Nashville has had possibly the most ''picturesque" was for a number of years the back, bone of baseball in Texas, organized the South Atlantic and other minor ehagsng faglss aee agen nSw for big ks iesgue clubs
 gravitating from Main to Mexico-hut always giving Montgomery and Ala who had Chattanooga. went to Wash
 National league-since then he has who had Macon has never been heard of since and Billy Earle, who had Bir- mingham is now a manager in the Cot ton States lea que.
 The schedule was arranged for two seasons, the first one to end on July
 4, and the second in September. All the clubs finished the first season with Augusta easily in the lead. Birming-
 ham was the first town to welch. about Nashville, Memphis, Macon, Chatta- nooga, Savannah and Charleston. New Orleans. Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta, Augusta played until yellow fevo-
 broke up the league about the last of August. Jake Wells had a semi-pro-
 fessional team in Pensacola and wh an
 franchise. but didn't last long. For