The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1907-03-14

| 1t Is ndTuiy llkeIS JndI columbus VIII
| open at home. The locals will prob
| ably open the season at one of the
| larger cities in the league, but Will,
| it is hoped, be permitted TO return to
games. If this arrangement is ef-
| fected, the local season will open on
Monday, April 15th, and the initial
contest will undoubtedly bring out
the largest crowd that ever witnessed
baseball game in Columbus. The
| season will last five months, and each
club in the league will play one hun
dred and forty games, of which num-
Der half will be played at home and
half abroad. This means that during
the coming season the local fans will
have the privilege of Witnessing sew
enty games, and if the enthusiastic
manner in which the people are dis
cussing baseball counts for anything,
all of these games will be witnessed
by tremendous crowds.
Manager Blackburn said Tuesday
ification TO him that Hattiesburg is
now out once and for all. He has not
had much confidence in the Southern
team making good in the league, and
expresses the belief that they would
not have lasted had they made the
beginning. Smiling George says Co
lumbus means business, and he is
willing to welcome the North Missis-
sippi town into the league with open
arms. Vicksburg American.
Many thanks for these kindly
words, George. We will remember
them when you step up to the plate
in this city with good hand" We
may even allow you to reach first;
but that's all, George, remember.
Mr.. Emmett Mahon, who was unan-
imOuSly elected secretary of the local
baseball association, has entered act
lively upon the discharge of his duties
and from now until the end of the
season Will be one of the busiest men
in town. Mr.. Mahon has had ex-
tended experience in baseball matters
and the directors could not have Sc
lected a better man for the position
of secretary. He is Jealous and pains
taking in all his work, and is an en-
thusiastic admirer of the national
game He will discharge the duties
of the position faithfully and consci-
entiously, and the funds of the as
sociation will be carefully handled.
The Lake Park baseball grounds,
where the games will take place, are
TO be thoroughly overhauIed and nu-
merous improvements will be made.
The grand stand will be enlarged and
bleachers will be built to accommo-
date the numerous fans who like to
watch the game from the open, with
obscure the tiniest particle of the
field of action. Columbus will have
a fine team and a magnificent ball
park, and the coming summer holds
much pleasure in store for local ad-
mirers of the great national game.
Meridian is already suffering from
a pronounced case of what the spe-
cialists call exaggerated ego" In
other words, Meridian is getting
'chesty.' See here what the Star
has to say: Play Ball. will soon
be in the slogan of the Meridian fans
Manager Guy Sample has rendered
his resignation as manager of the
vote his time exclusively TO putting
the Ribboners in the very pink of
condition from now on, and there
amt no man no where, no how, who
He is one the best managers in the
league, and it's dollars to doughnuts'
he reaches down the rag. Manager
Sample already believes he has got
a winning bunch together as a ma
jority, but of course this will not be
known definitely until the series of
tryout games are played which have
about been assured
This morning the local association
closed a deal for Roth, the best heavy
hitting infielder that will be found in
the Cotton States this season The
other infielders already signed are
Marshall. Durmeyer and Stewart, and
the pitchers signed are Pylant, Bill