The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-11
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i We proves to be the goods at short. tho position of second base will lie between Ferry and Sweeney. IT Nye rails down at short Sweeney VIII go Perry will then be switched to second unless Biggers is all right, when Evans will be chained to the bag made la nous by the work of Charlie Schwartz. ing shortstops in the South. but he cannot hit when 1t is necessary to put In a run. For the last three years the local management has been trying out men to take the Kids place, but so far none of them have been able to get into Hsine's class.
 There is one exception-Rube Oldring in ls05--he was unquestionably head and shoulders above anything in the tnfelding line that ever came South. In fact Ruhe proved to be such star that the Montgomery management, for fear of attracting the attention Of the afraid to let him play in the infeld and put him out in the lots. Even then his light could not be diminish ed and the h G shsrp-eyed R Ton 0Brien RE Ss rs, drafted him Now If Malarky can get hold of a shortstop this spring that can field anything like Busch and hit any
 for nosedy se eise has se been w aSie to nd the combination.
 MaIarky has received a letter from Bill Hausen, jn which that great back stop. says that he will surely be in piece of good news for Hausen Is known to be one of the most valuable catch CTS in this League He is not only steady and great help to any pitcher especially young one-but he gener- ally gets q nit at the time that it. is the in or outasid jam up. up Last sum mer he played game after game both the bags perfectly. With. smiley An derson and Hausen. Malarky will have q pair of backstops that will not be dunlicated in this League; E - s,r, self that he is coming back seems to mark the finish of young Leslie. the Union Springs catcher. for there VIII lie will certainly not be able to take the place of either Hausen or Ander- son.
 MaIarky has received letter from Mike Kelly offering to sell him four prayers, among, them Water sessions ana Charlie Lexter. Last spring, Ses- sions was bought from kelly. wno Was then with SG Paul in the American Association. Sessions refused to come South. He is g. big right handler and is said to be a cofklns good pitcher, Kelly was mixed up in trouble or some kind in the American ASSociatlon. anu this year he is manager or the Des Moines team in the Western League, Sessions gong there with him.
 ~ Charlie Dexter is well known TO Montgomery fans. He was newspa- per man on an Evansville paper years and years ago. The baseball fever got too strong for him and he started out as a member of Ollie Boards aggre- gation on the Evansville team in the Southern League way back in the sos. Since then he has been a member of the Boston National League team opd the manager of the Louisville team in the Amer.can Association. Now he is with Mike Kelly in Des Moines the latter wanting to sell him to Mont gomery.
 As Malarky already has three of the fastest outfielders that ever played In the South, seven fast infielders, two star backstops and six pitchers, out of whom four stars will be developed Mt is hardly possible that there will be any room here for Charlie Dexter. It may be, however, that Sessions will be given a trial Out of the six pitchers Malarl5y, Walsh and Walker may be looked on as fixtures right now Max we'll and Burnum will have to ngnt Tor It and unless Weems develops into a wonder when he comes here after his school closes in uune his destiny Is
 There is one thing sure. MalarlSy will not have to tear his hair out by the roots or lose any sleep between now and the tenth of March.