The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-10-06
OUTLOOK FOR BALL
CLOSE OF BIG LEAGUES OPENS
DISCUSSION.
Montgomery Franchise May BE Sold,
Bat There Will BE . Coed Team
In Alabama Capital
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Montgomery Franchise May BE Sold,
| But There VIII BE . Coed Team
| In Alabama Capital
City.
When taps are sounded for the cham
pfonship races OF the National and
American Leagues at the end Of this
| week. the good old game Of baseball
VIII be played In its entirety around
the hot stove circuits on points ra-
on the West and Montgomery to
| Maine and the effete East in that
direction.
Here in this fair Capital City of ours
| season-heaven save the mark-that
slowly dragged itself to an ignomin-
| Gus close September Is.
| 1t is possible that never before in
these United states has a really fast
ball team been butchered and hampere1
during the latter rart of the past sea
local team, could have easily finished
one, two; three. But it didn't. as pos pos.
try and point out the why's ard where
fores Of this would be not only sad
waste Of newspaper space. but would
ligence OF the local fans who. day after
way %sschins the pe ransest a Of
| moOern PROFESSIONAL DaSeDdll tnat ever
| disgraced a professional ball lot.
| No Team Playing.
| Day after day the identical old '76
game was played. Hit it out. hit it
out" were the instructions. and. no
them. or how well every member Of TIE
team knew his weakness. they would
Invariably swing as II trying to KNOCK
sEyer Of the ball Whether ses sne shs
which 1t was about as easy to hit as
retailing wall would have blocked tn"
recent storm on the Gulf coast. or using
any other kind of delivery that little
headwork could have demolished it,
was all the same.
| Just to give one example of the me-
ane1 methods ws mP Pho t by k M
ton the lengthy. college pitcher.
.'Rube" Keith. was in the box. Keith
dainty. sky-scraping texture as long
ing stock of speed and was virtually
had II him n: a. ssass a. the
est inhabitant of a bug house." He
was utterly unable to get down from
his lofty height to handle them. Now
and the local team. After the men
had vainly tried to smash the ball out
for several innings. John Malarky beg
kam to let ca then BEAT sth ha a he
low in walk If you let US bunt." said
But Mullaney refused to deviate one
iota from the old hitting game which
against Keith. The locals could not hit
him, whereas a punching Of bunt5
up in the air and eventually won the
game for Montgomery. But 1t didn't
Malarky II Suggested.
This was not the only instance that
Malarky had the correct idea about
played by the locals. And right here.
it may be stated that the Montgomery
Association would hardly make mis-
is put in charge Of the 1901 team. He
Is popular with his team mates. knows
to a fraction every fine point OF the
lightning modern game and the prob
a good fellow to land the crowd under
him up one. two. three next season.
Right now the local Association is
trying to get man from one of the
year and play second base. SO far.
nothing has been done in this respect.
though several lines are out. It will
determine whether. an inielder from
one of the major leagues will be Sc
cured or not One thing is certain, the
team will have to give a fast. intelli,
gent. heady style of work. for the local
fans are thoroughly disguised with the
hippodrome: false alarm methods that
for the past two wears.
II a good fast article Of ball is given.
the local fans next year. the 1907 sea-
wise. it will be a rank failure. for he
Montgomery people will not stand for
much more Of the stuff that they have
gone through with recently
During the season just closed, some
thing over $4,000 was lost by the Base
ball Association. The Montgomery
Traction Company off, Of course: loses es
the franchise: AS a clause in the con-
stitution of the Southern League pro-
hibits a street railway company from
Ssns % tine ty By t G
lines. the Montgomery Traction Com
pany has put local baseball in the
hands of company STYLED the Mont
dent Amerine has made a great sue
cess of this Association. and 1t is ow
ing to his good management that no
more than $4,000 was lost during the
past year.
Franchise II for Sale.
While an official offer has not been
made by the Traction Company for
the sale of the local franchise. it is
parties. An official Of the Traction
Company has made the statement that
the franchise can be purchased II the
buyers give a keep inc
Southern League ball grounds on the
line of it's road In other words. they
feel that they would derive just as
much benefit from baseball If it was
played on the line of their road as If
they owned the franchise. In the
event that they sell the franchise and
that ball is played at a point on their
line they will get the revenue accruing
from the car fares without having to
undergo the expense of paying any
possible losses on the team it's If. On
ladies' days, for instance, the Traction
Company got 10 cents from every lady
who went to the game, whereas. the
Baseball Association derived scarcely
any revenue from these fair fans. This
was especially the case at the close of
the season when the gates were thrown
open to ladies and small boys: 1t may
be readily seen. Therefore, Just how
valuable II is for the Traction Compan$
tc have baseball played on the line Of
its road. 49,. ~ !,
the baseball franchise Is sold during
The coming winter the game next sea
son will be PLAYED either at Athletic
park on the Pickett Springs line or az
the new Capitol Heights grounds. Dull.
Nv the Traction Company during the
mast year. The advantage OF the
crapitol Heights grounds are that not lot
only will they have a double, track
ieading to them. but there will be =
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