The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-14
FIVE MEN WANT TO MANAGE
 MONTGOMERY BASEBALL TEAM
Names of Malarky, Molesworth, Ehret. Gilks and Weikaft Are Filed With Association
 Which Meets Next Month.

Who will be the manager of the Montgomery baseball team in 1901?
 This is the question over which four baseball men in particular and hun dreds of local fans In general are striv-
 sNothing doing. says President k P, Ameririe of the local baseball asso- citation. to every query of What do you raradoxical just now. The situation re- garding the outlook for 1907 Is de- cidedly foggy. At the same time the prospects for 2 winning team in 1907 tagonistic state of affairs, but true new ertheless.
 Getting first to Exhibit "A" the Gloomy Gus feature of present baseball history: Everything is in the air and will remain in that nebulous condition until the arrival in Montgomery of President R. D. Apperson of the Mont gomery Traction Company. When he of the Baseball Association. at which the airship will be yanked down from the blue, everything will be straight ened out and the 1907 manager will
 Now for Exhibit "B," the Optimistic 'Orry feature of the local phase Of the great national game. With the excep- ton of osi.I man to shape it's dssstlnles s and will put q team in the field next pApril that will be as rapid an aggregation as anything that will be uncovered in this league along in the shank of Au- assertion, but the statement is made advisedly and its truth will be de- monstrated next season. To begin with. the start will be made with the strongest pitching staff in the League |--Malarky, Maxwell. Walsh and Walker. Burnum and Breitenstein both belong to Montgomery but unless something radical happens 1t is nearly certain that fha ah0vA Uili he fha h0N a "a go through the campaign. Then there is all ready to start the fastest out field that ever chased ball in the South Fred Houtz in left. Sam Apperious Tn center and Mike McCann in right
 A letter was received yesterday by President Amerine from McGar. the New York man who sent Rube Oldring and 'Mattie'' Mccoy to Montgomery, saying that he had a third baseman who is fast As both oldring and Mccoy prov ed such sensations in this League and both were recommended by this man, third baseman. Clayton Perry, who played such great game at third last summer will be shifted to second If the new man shows as well as he has been touted- Perrys natural position Is at second base anyway, as he always played between the first sacker and shortstop before coming to Montgomery. Perry had one unusually strong point and one very weak one. He throws q ball with more speed and accuracy than any ball player ever seen in Mont gomery, and he cannot handle bunts Now at second base heNwon't be call ed on to handle bunts. That bIots out his one weak point And, while he will have much shorter throw to first than he did across the diamond from third last summer. 1t will necessarily be much quicker. if the force of the throw don't queer his first baseman
 For four years manager after mana ger has. in a most misguided manner, secured the country for men to fiii the shoes inhabited by one Heire Busch. Tn long. tinbroken tragic lines have four -fiushes. false alarms and pififul looking has.beens of the Colonial style of brie-a-brac, cavorted around the local diamond and tried to show the Kid up. And the end of every season has always found the Kid playing the