The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-16

President Chambers and Manager Ry- an of the local club returned to Mont Essnx xs:atssSstx asnt fsGm S as sas that there was no friction at the meet ing and that everything passed off as pleasantly as possible. ,.
 x.sSer Der satisfied at ae with the result of the meeting and especially the Montgomery end of 1t. This is Manager Ryan's first ssis .s ao sonts wsh the ' Chicago seam which played an exhibition game here
 To look at him one would think ,s < that ;s just as old as he feels.' he said yes, terday. This just about fills the bill in describing the appearance of Jimmy nysn He sssrtsd naYnw VI w's steady sns WS them for fifteen yearsI Tn 1901 he man. aged the St. Paul team in the West ern Leagle playing & the ss outneId nsaa.h aim, in the outfeid for the Washington team, Tom Loftus being the manager or thai team during that trme. In. 1904 he mancesa the cSeiorado % spPings sot team in the vest ern League In 1905 he managed and played the outneid for the Evansville team. h 1906 he had charge of the August, when the treasurer of the club hiked out with all of the cssh belong ing to the. club. Returning to chicago
 of the Chicago City League. For the remaining three months of 1906 he man : aged and played tbe outfield for that club, doing the same thing Tn 1907. Several months ago Charlie Murphy. an old newspaper man ana president
 and owner of the champion baseball club of the world--the Chicago Cubs --recommended him to President Cham
 bers. of the local club and he was sign | ed for the Montgomery club. He has
 a three years contract as manager.
 T think you people in Montgonery
 am rounding up for my 1903 team," he
 said yesterday, "and I guess that the impression has gone out that I am go.
 eas ofs chicago hn sr" amafsurs f snd sandiot boys Now don't think for a minute that have underestimated the playins
 strength of the Southern League. TO,
 will start the season next spring with
 jump" . ,s. n.w man ,as.
 Tom Messitt. y,ye star catcher On tnt l Lawndaie clutN He was several yeart
 experience in professional bal. mos
 of the time being with q Class team League. and had the following aver. age: Sixty-seven games. 24o times al three stolen bases and batting aver
 age of .275. In fielding he had: Sixty seven games, 293 putouts, sixty-thre'
 assists 3bs chances, and eight errors
 with a fielding average of .97S. Tha
 doesn't look bad. doe 1t?
 Al Demare, the firing end of m, } battery in Chicago last summer, is 1 pitcher that several managers dowI here in the Southern League have beel trying to get, only I got in ahead O
 them and have his signed contrac , locked ufs~ip my trunk. Edwin Aim quist the 6fher Chicago City Leagu ! pitcher, is rect inches. weighs 2o pounds and has good control In and d., ter sI. 3 made . deal with Billie Smith 10 ! also a left handler. Another deal wa 2 carried through by which Nye is to b traded for Merryman--another south paw--of the Springfield. O.. club of tn Merryman had fourteen putouts, nine ty-one assists. JOS chances, and eleve
 errors with a fielding average of .90t He won nineteen and lost fifteen O . his thirty-six games, an average O ? seven hits a game being made on hin | "While there was q hitch abou . Stackpole the National Commission ha 3 awarded him to me, He swas wit r Hoiyoke of the Connecticut League s but went to the Virginia League wit = clear papers The Virginia Leagu : people signed him and at once put i draft, the Connecticut League pec
 pie putting in a claim and being turn ;. ad down. Murray, the other Virgini League pitcher that drafted is als
 "Then. with weems and Helm, thi