The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-14
CHATTANOOGA
 IS WILLING Fans There Want in the Southern League. WOULD REPLACE LITTLE ROCK Arkansas Town, They Say, is Too
 Far to One Side. other Towns, However, Would Not Spare Judge Eavanaugh, and Mike Finn is Laying Plans for Next E Years Team.
 
WOULD REPLACE LITTLE ROCK

l. The annual cry from Chattanooga to break into the Southern League has commenced, just as 1t has commenced for several winters past
 This winter, however, for the first time since the Southern League has ta- ken the franchise away from Chatta- nooga and given it to Montgomery, there Is just the least suspicion Of foundation in the annual claim of the Chattanooga people that they will break into the Southern League.
 They base their hopes this time on the sApposition that as Shreveport is out dfa the League. Little Rock. on ac- count of itse geographical situation, will eventually get out and they will get the franchise of that town.
 It looks decidedly though as if it was a case of the wish being father to thethought, for unless there Is a very radical change in baseball affairs there Is no more chance of Little Rock getting out of the league than there is of killing the annual Autumn story out of Birmingham about Harry Vaughan and the 23.
 In the first place, If Little Rock were to get out of the league. there is the chance of losing Judge Kavanaugh. League what it is. Not only has he put , 1t on solid foundation, but he hass made this league a power in the affairs of the National Association, put 1t on friendly terms and in close touch with the big leaguss and the Nation al Commission. The most disastrous thing that could befafl the Southern League would be for Judge Kavanaugh to refuse to accept the presidency.
 Then again, Mike Finn is already hustling for his next seasons team. Just what new men he is after is not known, but it is known that he Is after Sam Apperiug of this city. Sam Is one of the fastest men in the busi- ness. His work with the Montgomery team until he was taken sick last year was easily among the best in the South.
 He said yesterday that he had not decided yet whether he will play ball next season or not. but that if he did, he was free to so with any club he wished, as he has an unconditional re- lease from the Montgomery club.
 Another deal that Mike is trying to make Is to trade Rockenfield for Moose Baxter. This would give Montgomery one of the greatest men in the business for secbnd base, Ryan having to fill first base and shortstop.
 With all of this going on, Chattanoo- gas chances look fading, notwithstand- ing the confident tone expressed in the following from the Chattanooga Star: Chattanooga appears to have an ex- cellent opportunity to enter the South ern Baseball League next season. In fact. organized ball in the South needs this city Little Rock has practically become a dead issue since the Shreve- port franchise was sold to Mobile. The Arkansas metropolis is entirely too far out of the way. Some city must take it's place. Chattanooga looks like that logical city.
 The Southern League always holds It's annual meetings in the city that won the championship pennant the year previous. Atlanta 'copped' the rag last summer and therefore At lanta gets the meeting, which will be held some time next month, probably about the time Santa Claus makes his pilgrimage. With Atlanta as the meet