The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
The Local Situation Has
 Cleared Up.

Next Tuesday morning the first of the annual meetings of the big base ball leagues will take place when the annual meeting of the National League convenes in the city of New York.
 Harry Pulliam will be reelected President of the National League. and the indications are that only two: and possibly only one, club. out of the ei Int will oppose him. John T. Brush of the New York club will put up the hardest fight he knows how against the former Southerner. and Garry Her mann of the Cincinnati Club will also cast his vote against PulIiam, though t is thought that he will be in the Pulliam column before the end.
 Pulliam was formerly a Louisville newspaper man. writing baseball on The Courier-Journal of that city, and his experience as a critic of the na- tional game has stood him in good stead during his presidential career. He has made an unusually capable chief executive of the National League him all success.
 The meeting of the National Associa- : tlon this week, however, Is the one that holds most interest for Montgom- erians. as the Southern League is a member of that organization which embraces every minor baseball league, | with the exception of a few outlay and States. Judge Kavanaugh, President of the Southern League and also a former newspaper man, will attend the
 
 being one of the officials of that body. There may be an effort made to change the officers at this meeting but the in dicatlons are that President Powers ed.
 On Wednesday. the day after the National League meeting in New York, the annual meeting. of the American League will be held in Chicago. The officials from President Ban Johnson down. will very likely all be re- e-electeds hYNV hn al .at1a rrNa In the personnel of several teams in that League, Boston and Washington especially
 On December 22 the annual meeting or the Southern League will be held in Birmingham. and in this gathering Montgomery and the South is intensely interested, Judge William H. Kava- for he alone has made baseball in the South possibility. The old salary limit question will of course come up meeting ever held in the South-but whether the present limit of $2.70O and fourteen men will be changed or not Is questionable.
 When these four meetings are over. the National, American. National As sociation and Southern, the preliminary campaign of the 1907 season will have been launched. and the fans who are tired of hearing of football will begin to discuss in it's every phase the great est game in the world.
 DdSCOhAA hhdlIS nave UtSH lOUhlIS bilious in Montgomery for some weeks. but the atmosphere has begun to clear at last It seems that all the talk and q committee from Mobile coming to Montgomery to try and buy the local franchise was a blum pure and simple. On the contrary an official of the Trac tlon Company confided to a stockhold- er of the Baseball Association that his company had no idea of selling the franchise outside of Montgomery.
 A meeting of the Baseball Associa- tion will be held some time within the next week, after which the directors will know where they are at" and everything made ready for the coming season. A manager for the local team will probably be appointed at this meeting. and the indications are that baseball during the season of 1907 will be in the same hands that it has been in for the past two years.
 Yesterday morning the question of first base was settled when a big fel- low by the appropriate name of Big gers sent letter to local baseball Headquarters accepting the terms of the Montgomery management for the season of 1907. Biggers last year played in an independent league in Missouri. and is said to be unusually fast. besides batting at a 1920 clip. He is 24 years old, weighs 176 pounds and is feet. 1 inches in height two inches taller than Mullaney. This disposes of the entire 1907 team with the exception of one infielder to play either second or third base. and things are in ex- cellent shape to make good start