The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-17
WORKING OUT
 THE PLAYERS Malarky's Bunch Max ing Good Showing. FIVE MEN TO BE NEEDED OUT InfieId, 0utfield md Battery Look
 Exceptionally Strong. - smiling Manager win Have Hard Time To select Ills Permanens Team.
 Practice Games start Next
 wedncsday.

This week the local baseball season will open in earnest. and within q very few. days now the fans will see John Malarkys spring prospects in action The local fans have deal of confi- dence in the judgment of the smiling. willing pitcher who did the bulk of the box work for Montgomery last summer and never once complained when day after day he was asked to go in and prevent a game from being an utter burlesque.
 The local manager has started things right by getting nearly two weeks good hard practice ahead of everything in the league. Besides this he has gathered together just about as likely looking bunch of ball players as one
 There will be just nineteen of them and the hardest part of Malarky's task this summer will be deciding which after the 10th of May he can keep only fourteen.
 With Connors who seems to have an iron clad cinch on tho third bag, and Clayton Perry, who has Just about as strong monopoly on second, and BiBgers on first, there is Edward Sweeney, Heine Busch and1sBill's Nye to select from at short Sa s1 HsS4 4
 All three are good men, but Sweeney was so good last year that he was selected as captain of the Kingston team in the Hudson River League. His he hit the ball at a<good bit over a .s00 clip--looks ike he viii be all right down here, don't 1t? Sweeney reached Montgomery only yesterday men out at work all day yesterday, or course Sweeney could not do shim-
 in practice Nye has shown hinlselr a great infielder, he is quick as cat, does not hold the ball a moment after diggin@ It up and shoots 1t over to first in great shape. while he stings the ball hard and hts on a line,' not up in the air.
 Kid Busch of course, is too well known to local fandom to need any comments. He Is one of the fastest hit like he should It is going to be e hard job to get man to fill Heines shoes though. For three years that stnt has been tried and it has always resulted in Kid" Busch holding down the place all through the season.
 In the infield, therefore, short Is the onl.. puzzle that Malarky will have to work out.
 sam Apperious and Mike pMcCann. is the peer of anything of the kind in this league and of course, there will be no changes in the lots.
 In the catching department Malarky has five men who look like great back stops-Bill Hausen and Ande Anderson are well known to the Southern League and local fans are satisfied there wont Oc dHytHihB oSttSh HI the ASd&uS Ihis summer.
 Young Leslie. the Union Springs boy, looks like a find--he throws like shot hits the ball hard and is quick on his feet. M
 Tn talking of him the other day, gentleman from Union Springs said that in his opinion, Leslie was going to be one of the hardest hitters in the league this year--he said that in sev- eral years he very few times saw Les lie fall to hit the ball somewhere, hardly ever striking out.
 Of the seven men on the box stan Malarky will have the hard job of wedding out three, as he will only car " four. Malarky, Maxwell, Walsh Burnum and Brandt all look good, the first four especially. Maxwell and Burnum have developed wonderfully since last summer. Bill Brandt looks to be in splendid condition. Walsh also looks better than he did last year. and if he pitches the ball that he did then he will be one of the winning pitchers of this League As to Ma larky, he is just the salue good natured, hard-working man that he was last year. Having an added incentive now. he will if anything put on more steam than he did Walker, the only south paw on the squad, has not shown up yet but Is expected any day now sam Weems will not report until his col- lege season Is over in June.
 Taking them all in all it looks like a pretty husky bunch. H