The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-15
MOGULS OFF
 FOR GABFEST
 -< Southern League Meet ing in Nashville. TO. TALK BASEBALL MEASURES Salary Limit to Be Fought Hard
 For Reduction. President chambers Is For Raising Absurd Limit of ss,sOo To. Tbe clus--sueeesser To IcyaeF te
 Be Elected.
 
TO. TALK BASEBALL MEASURES

4 When Louisville and Nashville train No. reaches Nashville this morning 1t will have concealed within. the. re- cesses of one of Mir. Pplliams travel ing lodging houses various and sundry gentlemen Of the baseball persuasion.
 President Chambers of the local club left for Nashville last night and on the same train was, one Charles Frank or New Orleans. together with Secretary colson of the Mobile club. Tn Birm- ingham this array will be joined 'by President Bob Baugh and perhaps others of the Birmingham club. and when this noble army strikes Nashville the pump at Sulphur Dell will at once begin flowing apolinarfs. es
 The Board of Directors of the league will meat at the Hotel Duncan at 10 o'clock this morning, There will real ly not be much for the board to do ex- cept to elect a. member to, succeed Gap" Joyner, thes decision of the National Commission in the Lively case having knocked out the protest Of Dutch Charlie against the Montgomery
 At2 o'clock this afternoon the main show will begin when the general meeting of tho league will be held ak the Hotel Duncan, and while there will promises of some interesting doings. Judge sKavanaugh's salary will deubtA less be raised after, his election which will be by exclamation. Y
  nounoed through The Advertiser that he would certainty not be a. caudidate for President. His only intention 70 run for that office was Tn the event Southern League. Judge Kavanaugh having stated that he would resign if Little Rock was put out of the league.
 Player Limit Rule. S .
 One of the most Important matters that will come up will be an effort to do away with the present player limit rule.of fourteen men, and the indiea-' tions. are tiaat the movement will be successfuf Under this rule a team can only carry one utility man. If a4cluoi carries only three pitchers, couple of utIlity men can be carried with three outffgiders four infieldeYss two eateh-i CTS, three pitchers and two utility men. With the rapid pace of the game just now .(and it. Is getting faster every season) and +double-headers, coming on in June and July 1t is almost impossible for club to set along without at least four pitchers
 Then there is, hardly Q day that either a. catcher, pitcher, infielder or other member of the team is not forced out of the game that day on account oi injuries or sflooed from the animated scenesbx sthat prince; sofe tra 9edyge the. 'urnpkss say that threa e Of a team have to be left at home on aes count of injuries and the club starts on the road trip with only eleven able
 Now in one Of the first games that they play on the road suppose that one of this devoted band of eleven IS hurt and two others are chased by the iudgealsofa play. That woHId leave exactly eight men for that team to. play out the string with--and under z the rules of this game of baseball 1t takes nine men to play the game.
 The above Is not preposterous sup pDsition. for that Is precisely what happened to Mir. Bilr Bernhard and the incident of the scarlet footwear when fhe game with Nashville was forfeit ei to the Climbers atsCapitol Heights last summer.
 The Iudicfous side of the whole thing however, Is that with. very few excep- tions, absolutely no attention Is paid 10 the player limit rule, certain managers