The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-04
RYAN WITH TWO RECRUITS Climbers New Leader is on Deck. AIKouIsr AND DEMARE First Detachment In and at
 Work. Athletic Park is in Fiae Ceaditlen--- Tickets Are seat te Member.
 sf Meatsomery
 Team ef lsea
 

With old March blowing currents of not air throughout the land of Dixie
 Lord. 1908. There also M blew into Mont - gomery three voters of the city of Chicago. the said three liable to be very much in the limelight of the city
 of Montgomery for the next seven
 The gents are Messrs. James Ryan, Edward Almquist and Al Demare. The
 trio arrived yesterday morning and
 They are parts of the long chain resch-
 ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
 said chain held in the hands of King
 Baseball which monarch is exercising
 out thts goodiy land just about this
 section Of the calendar.
 With the arrival of Ryan, manager
 of the Climbers, and two of his pitch
 ers-Almqufst and Demare-yesterday morning the threatened epidemic of ostavirulent type of fever among the
 baseball fans of Montgomery broke out
 in earnest and before many hours had
 reached an acute stage. The disease
 The three denizens of Dear Old
 Chr bringing in and unloading large
 bundles of germs and by tonight the citizens of Montgomery who will not have a touch of the "Baseballitists viii be a rara avis. -.
 All three of the baseball men were
 given 2 hearty welcome. and the in- town argues well for the local aeason of 1908. Edwin Almduist was one of the pitchers of the Felix Colts, one of the teams in the Chicago City League last summer. He Is a big fellow. six feet two inches In height and wetgh- ipg oyer 200 pounds He is said to have all kinds of speed and a good ios pr curyes-and he must have a he held his own last summer a arsinat wRsn such men as Jimmy Callahan. Mike Donlin. Jake Stahl. Tom Hughes. Bert Kelley. Walter Most, Dutch Meyer, etc. Ryan's star battery on the I.awnsdaIe Club of the Chicago City League. Tom Messttt--who will be one of Rvanss catchers in the Climbers this summer .-peihs the receiving end of that bat
 Several managers in the East vera after both Demare and Almouist. but Ryan got h on time and got the sign then, however, Callahan and some of the other Chicago City League peopIe continued in their efforts to get them m m the City League up there. Every bear on ,Almquist, the fight being kept up to the last minute while Ryan and Demare were waiting at the train Mon- day morning.
 In two minutes the train would start on its light to Montgomery Ryan had his suspicious that sonlebodv was tryiSg to starc@ something and before going to the statIon he had aant a minute or SO before ieaylI,g fiT,e of the train Almquist with his Ertr ir his hand, started on a run across the plat form. A bunch of the Chicago City League people had been holding an an- mated little seance with him, but he out talked them and got to the station Just Tn time to join Ryan and Demare 0 on ,Sn fne s ruiiman that was hiking out
 Ryan put in busy day yesterday. c,, As soon az ne had picked some of.the Pres. Chambers and some local news paper men went out to the Capitol Heights grounds There Is nothing to be done out there except to change the press box.
 Ryan's idea is to have the news paper boys given a place on a level with the grandstand. He wants tho sent one. and the ..binnacle"l like PPoof of a ships cabin cut out, the press box to take its place with a railing around It. The only trouble about this scheme able to some of the Iadies to % have the tobacco smoke from the press box in their faces. Hardly any repairs are needed on the grandstand and bleach CTS as both are In good shape lots of work has been done on the diamond and field in general and before the opening of the season the Climbers in the Southern league. A lot of grad ing has been done and ;s still going m. and the entire field Is now almost fRra tSss t d s" to ref slS will not be so noticeable. A system of terra cottS drainage pipes have been 2rt,na 2nt unaer sa the infeid s-. with a surface there wtll very seldom be a muddy diamonds this summer.
 Ryan will have an oflce in the Montgomery Light and Water Power Company building on Dexter Avenue. and from now on the management of the team will be entirely in his hands. regular routine work for the present as real training will hardly begin until the 10th. Some of his players may few days as he will begin sending out transportation this morning. All of 1t VIII not be sent at once, the first tick cts to be sent being to the men Ewing
 $. M. Merryman. Covington. Ind: Fay Kensel. La Junta, Colo; Noah Henline. Memphis. Tenn; Ross Helm. Floraia, Ohio. St; Owen Shannon. is15 Cum: m. mings st., Omaha, Neb; Jack Robinson Macon. Ga; Joe Pope; 2l7 St: Anne's Rice Lake wis; E. Ai Murray. Munroe' To Fred Wohlleben. 23e srd street. San Francisco. Cal; Forrest Thomas 1908 Francis st.. St. Joe. Mo: Geo Pulley. h72 Pomeroy st.. Kenosha, Wis; A. Ii. Stockpole. West Lebanon. Me; Archie L.. Persons, Plume CHty. Wis; Ed Van Anda. 255 P. Factory st, Springfield. o. Gordon M. Lewis. Highland, Wis; Thomas Messitt, 10 Elburn Ave. Chi cago. III: Sam Weems. Montgomery; Elmer Bliss. Richburg. New York Charles Fuller, 1906 Nevada st., E. To- ledo. O: Wm Cristall. 56s Williams st.. Buffalo. N. Y; Ed Greiminger, 1923 So Market st. Canton, O; oscar Burkett, Mann'a Choice Bedford Co.,. Pa.