The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-29

ragtllue in comparison sith the dark
 brown" thoughts and succulent. eX- i presslve expressions emanating from the think factories and pouring n torrents from most of the directors or
 the Montgomery Baseball Association | yesterday.
 The casus belli was the fact that 2 : direct statement was made yesterday I by R. D. Aprcrson, President Of the { Montgomery Traction Company to the effect that he was negotiating witn | parties outside of Montgomery for the sale Of the baseball franchise
 Some months ago. as stated by The Advertiser. negotiations were in prog ress by outside people for the purchase of the local franchise. At that tmy' 1 officials of the Traction Company made I the statement on= the authority of I President AppersoG that the baseball franchise would under no circumstan-
 res be sold unless the purchaser gavs
 guarantee that the games would pc continued In Montgomery and on the | line of the Traction Company So the statement by Mir. Apperson yesterday 1 that he was negotiating for the sale | of the franchise to parties outside of Montgomery came as bomb shell 'r | the camp of the local baseball Asso~
 citation.
 "Yes. a deal Is on for .he sale of the
 M 1 ident of the Traction Company yester. day, and the chances are that 1t will ! he sold. I am negotiating with two , different parties, but for fear that might hurt the proposed sale I would l rather not specify the places. They
 are both outside of Montgomery, No, l have not had any letter CT | telegram in regard to the matter to-
 day, but 1t isa possible that the deal may .be closed within the next few days :" e
 This puts local baseball affairs in a more muddied condition than thex have been since the franchise was ! taken away from Chattanooga and
 given to Montgomery in the Fall ot l 1909. This poor baseball franchise of 1 Montgomery has been kicked and cuff
 ed and stamped on so often that its l best friends could scarcely recognize 1 1t as the same animal that came to | Montgomery holding it's head high in | the air away back in 1902 True Us l head is just as high in the air righs now, and a great deal higher, than Y I ever was but from far different
 cause. The poor thing has been drag l ged through tbe courts so often and squeezed so unmercifully that there is ! little lifeblood remaining in 1t now ! And unless something unforeseen hap pens within the next few days thA poor old thing will be once more drag ged into the courts. It depends on l this last legal battle whether It VIII take the count or no.
 The Montgomery Baseball Associa- | ton is capitalized at 5000. with ST. 500 worth of the stock held by th2
 Montgomery Traction Company and the other SI,500 of stock divided among
 number of Montgomery business
 men, The Baseball Association is ! t- | treasurer Eessrs Strasburger. Frank, r H. Reynolds, Phares Coleman, H Dent. James E Pinckard Ray Rush | ton W. H. Ragiand, and B. w Stras' berger. The officers arc F.. P Amer 1 inc president; Ray Rushton, vice-pres . ident; Mir. Mcintyre. secretary anc ] treasurer. Messrs. tSrasburger. Frank, 1 Reynolds and Amerine, said q director ! yesterday. are individual stockholders 1 who have their holdings of stock in dependent of the Traction Company | The other Ave gentlemen on the board. continued this same director, were put on by the Traction Company. MT Am l erfne is an independent stockholder
 who was elected president of the As .
 sociation and has served with credit l to both himself and the Association for two seasons. Mr. Rushton, tho
 vice president of the Baseball Asso : citation. Is vice. -preident of the Mont gomery Traction Company
 The last meeting of this board was held last November at the close of the 1905 season when Manager Ike Durrett
 with that famous 1905 team made such a whirlwind finish. During the t996 season things went from bad to worse caused by q variety of.reasons At the | beginning of the season Durrett got into trouble with Umpire Buckley in Birmingham for which he was suspen- ded by the league president and releas .. ed by the local association in order to uphold Judge Kavanaugh Dominick Mullaney was then put in charge of the local team and after a brilliant start fell down badly and closed the season in bad odor with the local As
 sociation and fans. Every week since then 1t has been expected by the indi~ vidual stockholders and some of the directors that a meeting would be called. Week after week, however, t | has been the same old story nothing doing as far as having a meeting was
 concerned. 4ria ,-.4ett
 Outside of the Traction Company of- l fcials. who wouldn't talk. nobody knew anything about the reasons for not holding the meeting. Everybody
 was guessing and the Crumbling and
 the uncomplimentary gossip grew in | volume.
 | Yesterday when MT. Apperson made
 the statement to 8 director of the | Baseball Association that he was try ing to sell the Montgomery franchise
 to parties outside of this city the caul- dron of wrath of locaA fandom boiled over,
 We feel that sanp judgment has l been taken on us" said a director of the local assoeiation, and if there is l any possible way we are determined
 that our rights shall be upheld, No in timation that there was a movement on foot to sell the franchise out of Mont gomery was given us until today. Without consulting US at all the Trac ton Company has run rOughshod over the individual stockholders. We will
 hold a meeting within the next few
 days and several of the stockholders have determined to pool their stock and in the event that an effort is made to sell the franchise out of Montgom- ery, will take the matter into the courts and endeavor to secure an in [ junction"
 The Mobile correspondent of The Ad- vertiser learned last night that Dr.. i Harry T. Inge has nothing to do with
 the deal that MT. Apperson spoke of
 yesterday. though 1t is known that Mobile is one of the towns with which the President of the Montgomery Trac- tion Company Is negotiating for the l sale of the Montgomery franchise. Sev- l cral months ago pr, Inge tried to buy | the Montgomery franchise but the mat ! ter was dropped when the conditions Of ! the Traction Company as to keeping i the franchise here and having the
 games on the line of their road were !