The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-14

same hard. conscientious, run-gettingl game that he has played ever since he came to Montgomery in 1905, with that shredded wheat bunch of barn-' stormers from Chattanooga. And the aforesaid nonesuehs are still flying Tn cute little atoms among the stars with all the local fans having a brown taste in their mouths when one of the names are mentioned. This boy. this Heine Busch, will be at short for the locals next summer and he will be the peer in all around work of any shortstep
 Biil Huriy will be on first. and while he has never played in Montgomery the local fans know the former fast, hard hitting Little Rock utility man to be one of the best in the business Hurley has played everywhere on the Little Rock team except In the box. He has caught. played hrst, s secDmn. dars them all as If he belonged right there all his life. Hurley has shown that he is as good a first sacker as he is a backstopper, his natural position, and as Bill Hausen proved last summer that he was above the average minor league first baseman this pair of Bills leaves for in the matter of a catcher and first baseman.
 This then, with the exception of the new third haseman proposed by Mc- Gar fills the entire team, outheld, tn- field, box staff, and catching depart ment, and the only thing in doubt is the head that will wear the crown, and trunps will undsuDtedly be played
 Up to date there are i've candidates for the shoes Of the executive. They are Bob Gilks, John Malarky Frank Weikart. Carleton Molesworth and Phil (Redl Ehrct, all except Malarky have applied to President Amerine and filed their applications for manager Of the 1907 Montgomery team. Maiarky has not name has received such favorable sug- gestion from local fans that 1t will be filed with the applications of the others at the coming meeting of the associa- ton.
 That Bob Gilks is an applicant for the position of manager of the Mont gomery team in 1907 will be surprise to local fans His application canfe m day morning and will be filed with the names of the other applicants. He re- signed as manager of the shreveport team some months ago and Red Fisher, inc star pitcher of the Pirate cutfit, will have charge or the team. Gilks has managed the Shreveport team since the summer of 1903. and as avery year given them a fast team.
 Molesworth has been in Montgomery for some time recently. and while here he filed his formal application with President Amerine for the management of the local team in 1907. He filed his application, with his terms, and Pres- ident Amerine told him that nothing would be done until the meeting of the Baseball Association. but he assured Molesworth that his application would be referred to the Baseball Associa- tion, whenever the meeting was held. The same thing was done with the ap- plications of WeIkart ana Ehret. and the three applications. with the recom- mendation of Malarky. willx be referred to the meeting of the Baseball Asso- citation. which will be held within the next few days.
 From this it may be seen in what excellent shape the Montgomery base ball tam is for. the beginning of the 1907 campaign. Just about as swift an aggregation as ever was put into the field in th1s fast Southern League, is virtually intact and all that remains is the selection of q manager. which most important matter, will 1e decided at the coming meeting of the Baseball Association
 The. indications are that baseball af- fairs during the coming season will be in the same hands that shaped its pol Icy during the season just closed. The stOck of the Baseball Association has been on the market for some time, the conditions being that the sale. if made would be only to Montgomery parties who would guarantee to have the game played on the line of tine Montgomery Traction Company. at $9.000. of which the Traction Com- pany owns S7,500 worth of the shares which are $2S per share. with the other 1,500 worth of stock divided among local people. Up to date no sale Of the stock has been made There has been one or two bids for the stock and fran chse but nothing has come of it so far