The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-01
John McGraw's .Buneh Plays To-
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Smiling Manager Has Hard Task Ahead of Him Tn weeding Out the Pitchers and Extra
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Malarkys Dunch or bail tosserS, as In championship battle of the 1907 South ern League season will be on.
 This last week of exhibition games has been u, disastrous one for Malarky's crippled in the Gulport games and on top of that. sam Apperious was spiked in the hand in Mobile Friday. Neith- TS or ths ansss IS no,sa play the only big league team of his 1907 spring season, when he tackles John McGraw's New York Giants at the his people are barnstorming their way | from Los Angeles. Cal. back to the Polo grounds where Philadelphia opens 1 the season there one week from Thurs- | It Is a strange thing that at good | many points in the South McGraw and | his team have gotten in trouble while he se ssspDy 1 himself as a gentleman. In 1904 Mo I Graw and his team did their spring | training here and during the month or more that they were in Montgomery in regard to their conduct. They have | many friends in Montgomery who will be elad to renew old acquaintances
 The chief interest in the party win be centered in Joe McGinnity who started his baseball career in Mont l gomery with John McClosky's team in 1ss4 H. landed in Montgomery one dian Territory. went right in game against Nashville that afternoon, won 1t and continued to be the leading
 Such sensational bail did he pitch that 1t was not long before he was at- tractfng attention up East and went l to Baltimore. The next year he was with Brooklyn and finally went to New CT of the Giants. Since then he has been one of the most successful pitch CTS in the world and his friends wish him every success during the coming season.
 Another man who will be with the New York party Is Sam Crane, tho veteran baseball editor of The New as a professional baseball player and just how long he has been writing floods of baseball, it wouldn't be just fair to tell, though there is story to at the Hessians during the Revoiu- | tionary war back in the 7O's.
 Mike Donlin. the hard hitting out mUnsy %hS nan Ml sso Se With me Graw's bunch. having joined the Giants in New Orleans. The party who will be in Montgomery will consist of the
 Manager McGraw, Secretary F. M. | Knowles and family, Trainers Henry Tuthill and J. Swanson, Catchers. Bres- anham. Bowerman and Fitzgerald. Pitchers c. Matthewson, H. Matthew son, McGfnnity. Ames, Taylor. Wiltse 1 and Ferguson, First Baseman McGann, 1 Second Baseman Corcoran, Mullin Shay Strange, Third Basemen Devlin. short stops Dahlen and Hannefin. Outfiied- CTS shannon, Seymour, Burke, Browne and Don1in. Iron Man" McGinnity fs accompanied by his wife and daughter. Wiltse. Devlin and Seymour also hay. | ing their fraus along.
 Sam Crane. of The Evening Journal Mark Roth, of The Globe, and Len Ed gren, of The Evening World. are with and MT. Perry. both of Newark. who have been making the training trip, Although the street car strike will still be on Monday. General Manager Ragland of the Traction Company. says grounds will be all that the local base 1 ball public can want. He will have al the cars necessary if he has to take them off of the other lines.
 Auburn Wants Return.
 The Auburn people have written ask ing Malarky for return date. and while there has been nothing definite at yet still 1t Is probable that the col lege lads will get one and possibly two | games in Montgomery this week. The | great showing that the Auburn team | has made this season has made the fans here very anxious to see them. espec- ially as Sam Weems has been doing the bulk of the work for them and he | will be one of Malarky's pitchers this season. Weems is better this year than he ever was before, and has been pitch | ing some sensational ball.
 The Montgomery team could not hit | him when they went up to Auburn last week and he shut the Louisiana Un-nes week and he shut the Louisiana Uni versity team out In Baton Rouge Thurs day with three hits, striking out six teen men and plying only one base on balls. If he can keep up anything like that record in league eames, Malarky will have one of the finds of the season.
 That should make a great battery when Weems and young Leslie are Union Springs boy who used to catch Weems during the semi mi-professional games last year, He looks like a great ball player in the rought--throws paths. steps in and meets the ball in- stead of pulling away. as so many young ball players have habit of do- ing. and better than all. stings the ball hits it some place and rarely strikes out. This Union Springs youngster looks all to the good.
 The coming week will give Malarky some idea as to the advisability of just where his axe should fall Walsh looks like he will be one of the star pitchers of the league this summer, and Malarky is showing better fern form than han
 
 a find and the big southpaw should make good in whirl Thees three will be on the regular pitching staff. while the others will be between Maxwell Burnum and sam Weems. Malarky has not decided yet whether he will carry four of five pitchers this season though he will most assuredly need five when the double headers begin later in the season Nothing definite has been done yet. though there is a chance that Ma larkv will get hold of couple of big league pitchers after the season opens in the East next week.
 The outfield-F Fred Houtz. Sam AT perious and Mike McCann--is the fast. est thing of the kind in this league and of course will not be changed Conuors on third. Perry on second Sweeney at short and Biggers on first look like fixture for the infield though there may be some shifts The backstop department now looks like Bill Hausen and young Leslie Andy ' Anderson is an unusually good man a bit slower than the Union Springs of May to decide on the makeup of hi; Busch, Anderson and his pitchers.
 Macon Games Called on.
 A dispatch from Macon to The At lanta Journal makes the statement that the games scheduled with the Macon club in this city for the last of the week have been called off. The Ui ..s,' -. ,.S, Iror,o. IT -+,.- nf .A>