The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-03
MONTGOMERY HAS BRILLIANT
 OUTLOOK FOR BALL SEASON
Difficult Task Confronts Manager Malarky.
splendid Buneh of Eishteen Players must be weeded Out to Conform to League Limit of
 Fourteen. .-!4:s

If there WAS ever d UdoCb1At in the country whose future prospects were brilliant to degree. that man is John Malarky, who has ready 10 ms hand the material for what looks 10 be one of the swiftest aggresa.io3hhss 3h 2 that ever cavorted on ball lot Tn the
 ft is a great opportunity for. "smil- fng John," and if he does what tnS tnS local fans are confident he VIII, II wtii add largely to his popularity in aoits Mont- gomery where he is already favorlte' not only on account of his conscien- tious work here last summer. but TOT his manifest integrity. ,,, Cor
 It has all been smooth sailing aep lop him SO far. True, there have been several ripples which at times tnreai, ened to develop into rough waves All this. however. he Kept 10 nlmsefi. s. si,, Snn at last. In just a bit over one mohen sSiea he will have 8 bunch Of trouptsss thicker He has what may pc apeg termed "an embarrassment 2, ficneS tosssrs who will drift into Montgomery When the time comes to report TOT sprlns practice. meal tickets and other lnci-
 Az cnrsory glance the task of snuff Hing the deck and getting four dis, s,, cards out of the eighteen that VIII have to be dealt does not appear so stupendous. But right tnere iS tha WIFE biee gest thinks coming that he ever Eo. 1n against. Under the ruling of the Southern League, only fourteen men may be carried by any team in the nnt oof Of efghteen men, Malarky will have a delicate kind of jackstraw game uo work out. He must pin guaolay., colored "23" tag on the emotionaI part of four ball players.
 Outfeid q Cinch.
 The odds are just about toothpick to a sawmill that the outfield is lead. pipe cinch. By the records shown, lt is seen the three of them th are eafSs hSs '15 Ky the three of them. just ninety-loui.. . sacks were pilfered around the circuie last season, Fred HoutZ leading with forty-fve, Sam Apperious with thirty one and Mike McCann with eighteen: The three of them punched out Sts , smashes. Apperious leading with Houlz and McCann following in the oroer named. McCann has the nignes. ,Sad nas5 in twenty-six games less than APpeIi- ous. and twenty-four less than Houtz' the increase in the times at bat or the two latter bringing their average down: of these guardians of the lots.
 Then come the six infelders. 1T looks like Corners is chained to tnird base If s he can Ss sf i fsythhs Ss the soods for d man that can hit 'em out at .o3S clin m the Hudson River League should be something good in this league
 Clayton Perry is too well-knoWn to need any comment. and the same can be said about Bill Evans. Both are unusually fast men. and It may posSi- bly come to one of them having to pc aeiected for second base If Biggers falls down on his touted record. 1t may result in Evans going to hrst. as ne is as good an aveESge first sacker as can be found. In t Et event. Perry Will De 1iS Pnsch ia one of the hardest working infielders going. He covers lots of ground at short, ana pulls on some sensational plays: OnIortuna.JL L iy, he cannot hit, and at times q pincn hit is absolutely necessary to pun oyer the deciding run. Sweeny batted :S4S fin fha Hudson River League last sea- son. and if he can held. he VIII na'e Teine skined forty different ways.
 Fans Want to He Shown.
 A baseball fan. however, is peculiar specimen of the genus homo. He IS primarily from Missouri. Fl mas simply got to be shown. For the past chain of nightmare possibilities drift ing in and out of poor, abused Mont gomery. These antique specimens have from time 10 time come to Mont, Mont year 1t has turned out that the earnest, hard-working shortstop Is as much superior to this bunch as an electric light Is to a tallow candle It may or
  The people here know what Kid Busch is and Sweeny will have to prove his fitness of the position.
 Bill Hausen and Anderson will be no experiments. though Leslie. the Union Eprings boy. is a newcomer, and VIII have to work hard to make good. It has been hinted that Hausen will not not be back this season. There IS nothing definite about the rumor so far, how ever. and 1t is hoped there Is no foun- dation for 1t. ,,-.
 Tn the box, there is not much doubt that Malarky and Walsh will be the etandbys of the team this season. Bur : mum is in splendid shape now. and if he pitches anything like the ball he did last summer. he will show up Rert Maxwell, If he has entirely recov- cred from the accident to his arm last summer should be winner this sea- son. . -. Sn paper and work on the ball field are radically different. Weems is an other man that will have to do the Missouri act to the local fans. Occa-