The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-09

When man in any profession in life
 by dint of hard work, grim determi-
 nation and sheer pertinacity accom-
 plishes what he had set out to do,
 reaches the goal to which he had ever
 been climbing, then that man is de-
 serving of the plaudits of all mankind,
 he has done the best that in him lay.
 and angels could do no more.
 Dominick Mullaney has succeeded in
 making just about as fast profes-
 sional baseball aggregation as was
 ever gotton together in minor league
 baseball When he was placed in
 1t was then a rattiing good one. the
 material was there all right but it was
 the diamond nd-in-the-rough variety.
 There were were t5 soms y9sngs5sps an in amaa sne
 ingiy fast individual game were not
 exactly up to the inside play and team
 work that is the secret of champion
 taking determination and Kindness Mullaney has worked with these
 youngsters night and day on the ball
 showing them their weak points. sug-
 gesting this thing and that. advising
 them, at times being firm, through 1t all though acting towards them as an elder to a younger brother. The vet erans on the team helped Mullaney in every way possible, and the result Is
 that today he has 2 magntficently bal oai- are now playing as fast an inside game as veteran of years of experience !, The team work is good and best of
 team. Every man works for the sue cess of the team as a whole and in- dividual or grandstand playing is some- It Is a byword all over the league that Dominick Mhllaney gets more work out of his men than any mana ger in the South, and the secret of 1t body on the team They work hard all the time for they know that the big manager never asks anythinD of willing to do himself. and this fact is just why they never quit but fight as hard with the score against them at the finish as if the game was on velvet. The batting of the team hardly ever wanes, at time there Is a slight slump but it never last long, In the six games last week. three in Birmingham and three with Nashville at Athletic Park, they won four and lost two, winning one in Birmingham and three straights from Nashville here. Tn tho
 and seventeen runs scored. nearly eight hits game and nearly three runs a game. Fred Houtx has been the best
 run setter te1, with five in s the six games. Mike McCann leads the individual batting with forty-nine hits in forty three games, five of his hits last week.
 of which one Is a home run. three three baggers and nine two baggers- Sam
 Apperious Is second with seventy-five
 hits in seventy-two games, eight hits in the six games last week His hits includes three home runs, two three
 baggers and thirteen two baggers. Null
 ianey is third with seventy-two hits in
 sixty-six games. five of them last
 week. He has one home run. one three bagger and seventeen two baggers.
 Hausen is fourth with forty-eight hits
 In fifty-six games of which three are
 three baggers and six two baggers.
 Brettenstein is fifth. His batting fell
 of last week but his improvement in the box offset it. Houtz Is sixth with seventy hits in sixty-nine games, six of them last week. He has six three IsbagRers and ten two baggers. Me-
 Aleese Is seventh and Schwartz eighth, Schwartz getting seven hits in the six games last week. Perry is ninth, get ting five hits last week. Heine Busch Is next and hitting better this year than in the four years he has been with Montgomery,
 The base running Is steadily innprov- ! ing, Houtz leading with twenty stolen