The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-01
TED SULLIVAN TALKS
OLD BASEB '. MAN GIVES yIEWs
 ON s0UTHPAw PITCHER.
History of His stormy Career in Mont. somery and Mobile is Spread Before Latter Day
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 The restless shade of the lamented Mir Banouo is made to look like two spot in a pile of discards when stacked up against the list of immortals in the went down" class alongside of
 Ted Is an 1rishman who has just had an eruption in a new place. This start ling statement Is a hard proposition to people for from the name one would think that he Is of Graoeo- Roman or possibly one of those frog eating gold bricks of the Boni- -Castellane ancestry.
 But Ted Sullivan as the Montgomery people know is an Irishman, pure and simple. Celt of purest ray, Hibernian of Hibernians. Ted gave great assist Saint skidoed his celebrated bunch of trained snakes from theuttermost con- fines of the Emerald Isle. Ted also stone of Biarney. Part of that stone he brought to Montgomery some six teen years ago. The Southern League basis for the first time in the year 1890. Montgomery. was to be included in the circuit but it was hard sleudtng to round up the "sinews of war" En- thusiasm was at a discount and simole- ons were about as scarce as molars Tn the mouth of female fowl. Both were about as shy as clean sheets in the average country hotel. Right here is where Ted made his grand entry into Montgomery. With Charlie Genslinger he was getting UP he took the Capital City of Alabama by storm is putting 1t mildly. It was a whirlwind After few minutes were convinced that the game of base 1 ball was in its incipiency and would re- main in swaddling clothes until the tie the world with it's flashes of bril- liancy and teach the American people the art of playing baseball.
 When Ted would put his arms about the shoulders of fan and whisper con. fidetially. Why me bye, this team of yours will make everything outside or the big leauge look punk, shure! There never will be anything like 1t. and hist. Ted Is going to take care of Montgom- cry; remember that me bye" then that fan was firmly convinced that we had 6 team of world beaters. and he felt | sure for the balance of the Southern League. When the morning for the meeting Montgomery up to the sticking point. There was sudden transformation py o'clock of that day and Montgomery was financially the most ,s.os solid city da ia sent q telegram to Montgomery from Birmingham like this: birmingham people are saying that there. is no chance for Montgomery in the leaguei that the town is so slow that hearse moving through the streets looks like q runaway and that .ne streets of the town are filled with growing grass. This settled it. Montgomery became | member of the League. Chaelie Lewis put in a good team nere and the. sea l son was a success. thanks to Ted.
 was once more In the focal baseball limelight.. He had secured the fran chise of the local Southern League that year and was putting In hts own team. ] Ted had worked up a good preliminary business selling & numbsr si{road pr season Sea built for him the then famous Hob sons Park" Hobson had just -butted | in to press notices about that time by | "butting" the Merrimac out of sight, ian. ian Ted was ''hotfootedS for naming l his new park after him. The regular grounds were at Highland Park and
 H6dsS gmes Besides Ps Pse uSee Railroad a local brewing firm went to | considerable expense in fitting up the grounds, several hundred dollars be, i ing spent on 1t without its costing Ted
 Then came the team" and such a collection of dubs, and frapped has fore. The predominant feature of the aggregation was Charliehorse in a most acute and advanced stage The bunch l looked ike a nOSQlLdl llSL ana It was actually painful to see one of them get | ting on and off a street csr. Such a hing as baserunning was or course a dead ee pa oae 9T w4 o ReR fSere the way while as for. throwing-say that was the limit. 4 bunch of old beat beat them eeTerai eity blocks Ted should have been arrested for obtaining money under false pretsnces. u,,..o. ing aggregation misplayed in Mont 1 gomery. Three Sunday games were played at "Hobson's Park" and the one night Ted did the Arab act, quietly folding his tents or bat bags and more | quietly stealing away with his barn, Nashville train going South but was man by the name of Smith in that city went his bond snd 5,t Ted took o6aar another her wiser man to pay the forfeited bond The Montgomery fans who had paid their money for Ted's season season, tickets lHi, had the tickets and Ted their money. l The Western Railroad and the brew ing concern were losers and not one | cent did they ever get back of the hun
 dreds of dollars they had expended. with something near S1.00O in his pockets from park privileges. advances by the local street railway people and kseason tickets, all a dead loss to the Montgomery people.
 Ted took his team to. Texas where he finished the season, but from that day to this he never goes near Mo bile or MontgoTer cry. always giving Ala bama as wide d berth as possible
 This is the story. of Ted Sullivan's career in the Southern League, in Montgomery, and in Mobile but this chapter is the only evil one that has ever been heard of him He is a good fellow at that, and with the gang of alleged ball players that he put here face.
 There is probably not a baseball man in the world who has the dope
 Ted, and he writes some interesting | thir 1s. Here Is his latest outbreak: Eb1ys upon essays have been writ l ten for years on the great right handed pitchers of the National game, hgt 9ry little esid r@f of t3T famous us | the Enquirer. The first left-hander that appeared in the major league that created a sensation was Richmond, of the Worcester Club, which was then This man created d sensation in Chi cago when he first appeared there, and struck out continually the two great left-handed hatSmen nf the old Chi people were amazed at the helpless ness of those two great batsmen in their efforts to bat the delivery of Richmond. It was also the first clear ters were handicapped when facing left-handed rltchers. Richmond was followed by greater men. although he was the first premier as teft-hander The other southpaws that followed him were stars namely. Morris. of he