The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-19
HOPKINS WILL COME
4 soUTHPAw PITCHER SIGNS WITH
 DURRETT.
This VIII Give Montgomery Eight Twirlers to Try Ouf in the sprIng--0ther News of
 Hnsebail.

President E. P. Amerine of the local baseball association yesterday morning received a letter from Hopkins. left handed pitcher, accepting terms
 Hopkins was recommended by Wii- liam Delehanty and the correspondence has been going on for some tune. HoP- kinss acceptance of terms from Mont gomery means, of course, that he will sign and a contract was sent him at once. This will give Durrett two southpaws in the event that McCrane comes, and will make the boxstan LOOK pretty strong to start off with. If May, the ex-coliege pitcher. is consistent iH the delivery that he showed in his try out here last spring he will be pretty sure to make some of the veterans hustle for their jobs on the bcxstan. He has dazzling speed. while his in and out shoots break in the most marvellous manner just before reaching the plate. He has an underhand delivery that IT he can control will be the undofng or lots of the best hitters in the league next summer During the last haf or the game that he pitched fer Auburn against the local league team only one hit was made off him. True he gave several bases oa balls but that was probably due to nervousness re- sultant from pitching against protes- SlOHdk Uc1lA bCGhAA.
 This gives eight pitchers to work out this spring. and from a long distance view 1t is going to be 8 pretty hard matter to cut down to four.
 A Job For Yeager.
 4 few days ago President Amerlne received a letter from the GuIfport, Miss. people In the Cotton states League. in which they asked him 70
 F1r them YlS- terday morning he wrote them recom- intending George Yeager, who caught for The Climbers last season. feager should make a good man for the Gulf mort people. He will be playing man sSer and is a pretty fair hitter. getting thirty-three hits out of forty-two games here last summer and hitting
 Deaver, who was with Montgomery during the early part of the 1904 sea son, is to be one of Billy Smiths pltch- CTS during the coming season.
 Here is what Atlanta looks like at present: Pitchers: Collins. shaffer, Sharks. Denver, P. Curtis, Harley; catchers: KaIkoff, Ketter and Dunne; ehortstops: Morse; third base: Gettig; Crozier, E. Curtis and Stinson,r out fielders.
 As result of transfer of several acres of ground on Madison street from the Memphis Baseball and Park Association to Gilbert D. Raine and R. F. Cary, much discussed question of home for local and visiting Southern League clubs during championship games is settled and by the sale the local asso- citation is enabled to declare nice profit as result of an investment.
 Less than three years ago the club purchased sufficient ground just oppo- site the Red Elm Park property on Madison street to build baseball park. The property yesterday sold for s2l,- 4O7SO, which gill enable the associa- ton to pay of indebtedness incurred by a disastrous financial season in 1905, and at the same time retain a hand some amount in bank. Announcement is also made that a lease has been ob- tained on Red Elm Park, which will insure all Southern League games talk ing place there for the next eight