The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-26
New Men Should Make Formidable
 Pair.
Former Comes From Union Springs Team With Reputation as Back stop. While Latter Is Au-
 burn Boy.

A deal was closed by the Montgomery Baseball Company yesterday morning with Leslie, the big Union Springs youngster who made such reputation in the mi-professional games last summer. While he has not signed a contract yet, Leslie will report to Man ager Malarky in March and will work out in the Spring exhibition games, and there Is reason to believe he will be able to hold his own as a member of the backstop department of what promises to be one of the fastest teams that ever represented Montgomery.
 Leslie Is a big, husky chap, strong as down to second like a rifle bah. At the same time he Is terrific hitter, swinging free and being in the class of natural hitters. With Union Springs catching. he punched out sixteen home runs, and there were a lot of first raters among the pitchers in the semi professional league at that
 One of the greatest things in Leslies favor is that he is young and natural ly ambitious. As this will be his first appearance in league company, he may be bit green at first, blush, but un-- der Malarky tutclage when the bell taps in April he should look almost like seasoned veteran.
 One thing that will give Leslie con- fidence Is that Malarky will try out Weems. the big Luburn pitcher who made such hit with the local fans when the Auburn aggregation played the. locals at Athletic Park in the spring of 1905.
 Weems pitched the first half of that game and acquitted himself admirab- ly. For young college pitcher work ing against bunch of seasoned pro- fessionals, his performance was won- derfully' good. As steady. cool and de- liberate as If he were working against another college team. his control was perfect. and the local fans as they watched his delivery and saw them hurtling over the plate, stared in amazement and then broke into cheers of admiration. Not a base on balls did he give during the five innings that he was in the box, two clean hits and punky scratch being all the local leaguers were able to cop.
 Bill May, who started the season with game. and while he also pitched some great ball. his delivery was not as good as that of Weems, nor his control as steady, and the locals won the game season. Weems and Leslie proved to be the star battery of the semi -profes- sional league. and whenever that bat tery got 10 working good. it made the opposing team look like a bunch of old maids playing croquet,'
 Argument Over Bet.
 Several times last season, bets were made on different league games, the bet being that Montgomery would double the score of the opposing team. The final score 1t happened on more than one occasion was 1 to in favor of omery, and in each instance 1t was decided that the man who had bet Montgomery would double the score of the other team had won. Montgomery most assuredly had the i, while the other crowd had nothing at all to show, and if 1 is not twice or even 1000 times more than o. then logic is faulty and mathematics have been the wrong way.
 The most remarkable of these 1 to 0 games. was the one that the little Nashville on April IS. Herman, the Crane, and 1t was battle from start to finish. The first nine innings were rattled off in one hour and twenty min utes, and the next four innings in thirty five minutes In the full thir teen innings, thirty eight men faced McCrane-Just one man over three batters for each inning played--while Castro. Jay Kanzler and Hermann got the only three hits made off of the off Hermann, Houtz, Charlie Schwartz. Clayton Perry and McAleese getting the only clean hits. McCrane gave two bases On balls, but neither of them did any damage. and he struck out five batters to Herrmanns two. Only two hits had been made off Hermann up to the last half of the thirteenth. and the score was standing and o, when Schwartz. the first man up, hit safe. got to second on Sam Apperious's sacrifice, went to third on Bill Haus-