The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-22
0UTFIELDER SIGNED
KING ACCEPTS TERMS or PREsI-
 DENT AMERTNE.
Was in John McCIoskey's Northwest- ern League and Played for . Season in Cotton States
 Other Dnli Gossip.
And stlll they come

And still they come.
 H, A. King, an outfielder whose re- cord shows him to be one of the fast est in the business, was virtually sign ed yesterday morning.
 For some days past President Amer Inc of the local Association has been in correspondence with King, and yes- terday morning received the following telegram from the outfielder: Terms accepted, wire Farrell at once" Pres ident Amerine immediately telegraphed Secretary Farrell of the National As sociation, notifying him that King had accepted the terms of the ntgomery club and asking if there were any prior claims for Kings services, It doesn't look reasonable that if King had made deal with anybody else he would tel egraph to Montgomery accepting terms.
 Last year King played with Belling ham Washington. in John McCIoskey's s ill-fated Northwestern League. whose demise occurred early in the season That League never having been reor- ganized King was free to go where he i played in the outfield for the Green vile, Miss, club of the Cotton States l League. Hahn. who was with New Or leans last season playing the outfield | for Vicksburg the year that King was with Greenville. Local fans have very | feeling recolfections of, Hahn. one of | the swiftest outfelders in this League | last summer. and the relief felt when 1 ShotAC T AAhh oOAu N~ CAeAA n AAA l A comparison of the records of King | and Hahn in 1904 will be interesting I In 446 times at bat Hahn had 65 runs l 142 hits, 10 sacrifice hits. 30 stolen bases and batting average of .31S | Tn 413 times at bat King had S3 runs l (1S more than Hahn), 129 hits. tl3 less than Hahn), 3 sacrifice hits e less than | Hahn), 22 stolen bases tS less than Hahn), and a batting average of .3l2 ---6 points less than Hahn. In fielding Hahn had 162 putouts and assists | of .s24 King had 25s putouts, s1 as- | sists. 2e errors and fielding average | of 921. King had 334 cahnces (Si of 1 them assists from the outfield), tc Hahn's I'll chances of which only | were assists, making 163 more chances for King than Hahn had, King hay. l outfield with Durrett, Holland, Dele hanty, Thornton and King looks pretty l good, and both President Amerine and | Ike Durrett may both begin to veal the smile that won't come off.
 A Chicago paper says:
 "B1n Johnson and Harry c. Puliiam Presidents of the American and Ma
 ticnal baseball leagues, respectively did not have their proposed conference
 today as to the opening of the comins
 baseball season. The delay was attrib
 uted to the nonarrival of important pa
 pers from Chicago. The presidents O
 the two major leagues will meet to
 morrow and an amicable agreement a
 to non conflicting schedules is looked
 for.
 president Johnson today appointe'
 Clark Griffith of the New York team
 Connie Mack of Philadelphia and T c Moves of Washington, n. C., as conn
 mittee on rules to meet Hanlon. Mur . phy and Dreyfus, a similar committe of the National League, so that the , may come to a mutual agreement be fore the regular schedule meetings O !; the big leagues next month.
 l The following from the Philadelphi
 correspondent of The Sporting New s does not look like there is much chanc e for OIdring to play short for the Ath Q letics this season.
 1 If was amused reading the well !. meant efforts of your Washington col s respondent in his last letter to prov : that the one spot on the Athletic teal . a whole lot about baseball here in Phi adelphia, or realize as well as outsider
 do just where our local teams are veal
 est, but the magnates, baseball writer a and fans of this burg, I think, are ' unit in agreeing that in a fielding sens . at least the position on the Athlet
 team that is best covered, with the pos e sible exception of Harry Davis, who : in a class by himself as a first bast Il man, is shortstop, with Monte Cros = at that station. I am sure no shor
 
 fielding game and covered more groun
 last year than Monte; if he had pee
 1t was our other shortstop, Doolin (
 the Phillies.
 You may talk about your Parent 6. your Wagners, your Wallaces, you Dahlens and your George Davises. bI
 have never seen such fielding in gam
 after game as Monte Cross showed U : last year. and in the class with hil
 was Doolin. And let me assure m X Washington contemporary that Mont Cross not only saved game aftt
 game by his wonderful fielding-fielt E ing that Joe Cassidy is not yet able
 duplicate, though he is a great, youn shortstop-but won game after gam
 by his good judgment at bat and timel