The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-03

There has been no change In the local baseball situation since the mee9ng oI the southern League m birmihgnssms gasrs last week, and indications still point to the fact that the game will De m the same hands here this summer that 1t has been in for the last few years.
 T have been so busy with otner ma. ters since I have been In Montgom- cry" said President R. p. Apgerson or the Montgomery Traction Company. fast night, that have had no time to even think of baseball affairs. We are not in the baseball business, and with other matters that we have in hama think that baseball Is too heavy ioaa for us to carry. We intend doing ev- basebali continued as usual, and l VIII see Mr. Amerine tomorrow and try 10 have everything satisfactorily straight ened out for should be very sorry to see baseball lost to Montgomery.
 As a result of this baseball fran, ci1ise agitation that has kept all ioca. fandom in a ferment for the past lew months. local interest m the natiNna, ,h,, was ever known before: It IS an un- disputed fact that but for stupid man. agement the team Hast summer would have finished one two, three. ,s ieason Inas ea of
 With the exception of Charlie Schwartz at second base. and McAieese behind the bat, John Malarky has the opportunity now that comes to base baif man once in a lifetime. He has the same fast, machine all ready to begin the season in April that was made botch Of last year Taere sss,astc IS nai oser ,a the outlook of the team this season than same John Malarky and If the en- ergy, vim and interest In his work that he is showing right now stays kie down next September there is not the sligfitt.t reason why he should not make a phenomenal success in Mont- gomery. Only one point in his team re- psct orsanization. He needs an in- -fieider., He has already decided to transfer Clayton Perry to secona pase. and a man will have to be landed TOT third base. It is going to De a ratnsr difficult job to get man that can III Perry's shoes, for whoever does it VIII have to come up to the requirements oos os the leading third baseman or the isVo
 Last year Perry played in 13s games, had 206 putouts, 261 assists t4bl chapces) ana 8 errors, an average ol .933, almost tieing him was Charile Babb of Memphis win ntogas IaI gameSs. s5s ss. sists (535 chances), and Ss errors, av- craze .s32--seventy-four more chances and six more errors in four more games than Ferry. Dan BroutneEs % ony usy p,sy ffve putouts, 120 assists l95 chancesl and ls errors, average .937. but both Perry and Baabb made Brouthers looh cheap. <
 President Amerine of the local club has Instructed Malarky to gof ahead and get the best man that he can kno for the position of third base, ana ne isv obeying those instructions literally inc drafting season is over he has got to dig deep, for he realizes the fact that a weak man on third base will have the effect of ruining an infield that is unusually fast While he has has that he certainly does not intend 10 make the mistake Of acting hurriedly and in the end will land man that will be a Sredit to even as fast a team as the local promises to be this sum-
 With Houtz, Apperious and Mccann in the outfeld. Biggers on first: Perry second, Busch short and "a good, fast man on third, for the infielda Malarky Walsh, Maxwell. Walker, Bnrnum and Breitenstein in the box. Hausen and a youngster. to help him out, the teair looks. right off the reel, just as good as anything that showed In this League
 Just where the games will be played --at Athletic Park or the n9v Capitol Heights grounds--will possibly be de- cided today, but with the manifest ad- vantage of double track the attend ance this summer should be vastly in- creased If the new groundS are se- lected
 The sum total of it is that baseball prospects in Montgomery are unasu- ally bright. and it is hoped that every thing will be fixed today
 The Baseball writers.
 A little consideration is due the base ball writers, says F. P. O'Connell. in The Boston Post. In no city in the country is baseball supported s6 loyal ly by the press as in Boston. This has bcen shown year after year. Since the Americans came to town, weak teams have been tolerated at the south end and abuse has never been felt by the players. The past summer the Americans played horrible ball, mfx-ups were frequent. and yet the teams were supported by all.
 Baseball owners arc swell gentlemen when the cards are breaking right and when their teams are winning, and when nothing but praise is being show cred upon them. When the worm turns, what a difference!