The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-24
GOSSIP OF BASEBALL
 AND BASEBALL PLAYERS

the regulars and Coakley, Hendey. Meyers and Bartley are the pitchers left in Montgomery Durrett VIII hay" day. If the weather is warm enough he will work Hale, Malarky. and Mc- Crane. but If it is damp and raw the youngsters may do the pitching agaln. Frank Loses Williams. Charlie Frank will have to get some body on second base this ..inn sumner. od.o The following is from the sporting News.
 the life of Otto Williams. On Friday he signed a contract with the Altoona Club for $500 month and moved into 1 his own home at 2615 Montgomery Street, for which he paid $3,500 and an- nounced his marriage to Miss Pearl Perry of Chillicothe. Mo. which was solemnized ut Belleville, H., last Octo- Der. On Saturday he received a teie, that the Washington Club had bought his release from New Orleans and with in an hour had notified Arthur Irwin that the contract he had mailed the day before was void. The Altoona manager called the infelder up over the long distance telephone, expressed all claim to him. Otto thereupofl opened negotiations with Stahl and , will join the Nationals at Charlottes- ville. Va, where they arc training,
 Williams has played professional ball for four years and during that time has been the sole support of his year. She is under the new roof end will have the affectionate care of her son and his wife in her declining days.
 Sunday night the players friends made merry at his home, which had been repainted and handsomely fur nished throughout A wedding feast was spread and many sparkling bump CTS were drained in honor of the 'ide and groom and his venerable mother.
 '.I prefer to stay in organized base ball. he said, tbut would have gone to Altoona and taken the consequences rather than submit to injustice at the hands, of Frank and Mack, who covered me up last winter. All. want. from the washington Club Is fair contract and q chance to show. that I am of ma jor league calibre. was willing to go back to New Orleans at a salary that T. am worth, but when l made a protest against a reduction, Frank in- formed me that I had to accept bis terms or get out of the business. He meant it, for he declared that heNwould neither sell nor trade me. When he discovered that he could not bulldoZe me. he disposed of me to Washington. Since my marriage I have greater in- ducements to stay in a major league and I'll stick with Stahl, sure.'"
 Bunch of Stories.
 Hugh Fullerton tells the following bunch of stories in the Chicago Tri-
 Ned Swartwood. one of the best um- pires that ever braved a bunch of en- ragged citizens. once mixed up with d couple of the best ever--Tommie Hess and Bad Bill Egan. Neither Tommy nor Bad Bill was familiar with the three rs--or even one of them One day Bad Bill was playing second base for Springfield, Mass, and Tommy was catching. X runner started to steal second and Tommy threw ERan the ball, touched the runner. who slid a circle around second, and landed on the base
 Safe" yelled Swartwood. who was on top of the play.
 @what'ell do you mean. swarty?' de- manded Bill 'f touched him stopped l You what?" asked Swarty.
 ..I touched him stopped" repeated swartwood scratched his head a mo- 1 inent and then walked back of the | plate. Say. Tommy" he remarked to | Hess, what does Bill mean?" T dunno" said Tommy. What did he say?"
 He says he touched him stopped D Tommy scratched his head d minute | and then remarked:
 70. don't pay no attention to- Bill , Swarty, he's iggorunt."
 There was another outflelder with the
 Boston club in '95 who made break l 1 1 day when one of the newspaper men
 inadvertently spoke of Martin Luther
 in support of some argument and Inc 1 quoted Luther.
 'I knowed that fellow" remarked the | player.
 Knew Martin Luther?" asked one
 reporter.
 Yep. Played with him up in the | Maine Letgue. Good hitter, that fel- | low, and he'd made good in fast com | pany if he'd cut out the booze. We had one ball player and J. Ryan | kept him on a string all summer. Ryan | explained all geographical points to | this fellow carefully and pumped him | full of transformation. I got up early | one day and found the player dressing It was still dark and the train was rushing @long.
 Hello. B." I remarked, "what gets | you up so early?' l q want to see the Apolllnaris Riv- er," he remarked. "How's that?"
 Ryan says we cross the Apollinaris | River at daylight" he replied. l I laughed. Go back to bed. He's l Kidding you. There is no such river ' Well" he answered. "Ill stay up until we get to the cheese mines" l -------~--------- ----------------------------