The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-16
KAVANAIJGH
 IS REELECTED Southern Baseball Mag ,. hates Hold Meeting fsE eu E3s @pfnfss& SEIsS ca es 5se sseslt es as s+--e---ss SPRING MEETING IN MoBlE The Board Refused To Reopen
 Stoekdaie Case Prssrasst ISsysnaush In HI. Annual Rspert. says Past Season Was ',issi Most sseeessfst |. History .ts S4Ass1 sf Lessse.s t H tEs
FIRING MEETING IN NOBLE

--The regular League session of the stockhoiders of the Southern League was held tl1is afternoon at the Duncan Hotel. Judge ". M. Kavanaugh was self as President; Clarke Miller was elected Secretary: W. T. Crawford of Shreveport. Vice. President.
 The new Board of Directors was then chosen. The Board embraces F. P. Coleman Of Memphis. H. c. Rather of Little Rock. R. II. Baush of Birming- ham, and F. Kuhn of Nashville. The new League Trustees. hosen consist of J. ". Hsisman ofs Atlanta. A. J.. Chambers cf Montgomery. J. W. HeismaA of Atlanta was chosen to sue ceed ". R. JoyneT. also Of Atlanta, on the Eoards of Directors,,
 The -Schedu1e. CoIpmittes is Judge kayAuepgh. MF. BapEh and pr. H. T. Inget of Mobiie,s sE
 The 1908 season yin open April 1s. consisting of l4o games. The next meeting was set for Mobile on Feb. 23. 1, Dixie's moguls wound up their an- l nual session in record time, no hitch occurring Rt any time, though there was earnest dlscussiQn upon several of the more important points.
 The audfoE's report showed the league finances In tip-top shape. It
 
 over a million pegsons had paid to see the game daFing the past season, the same being way above, the average record and something better than I00,- 900 average for eech team. A $500 dividend was declared for each team with a substantial bonus in the treas ury.
 One thousand dollars was voted for the entertainment of the National As sociatioh of Ball Clubs. which will gather ia Memphis next fspvember.
 Moh1ls was refused eeIsipensation for the sShreyepoft franehise. though the attendance at Mobits Was shown to be far in advance of that at the Louisiana
 The most important change was probably the change in the old double header rule The League moguls pass ed rule that should game be post poned for any reason Grain, etc1, that 1t should be played or on the follow ing day. This eliminates the old rule whereby the home manages. could play or refuse to play a double-header. as 1t sditad his coHyentence. No change was made in salaries.
 A banquet was tendered the visiting moguls tonight by the Nashville club.
 Executive COmmiftee Meets.
 Nashville.s Tenn.. Dec. 15.--At a full meeting of the executive committee of the Southern Baseball Association at me Duncan Hotel in this city this morning. Nashville was awarded the pennant for 1908, and the Volunteers were duly declared the champions for the season of 1909
 The protest by, Charlie Frank. of the New Orleans Montgomery game played In New Orleans on Sunday. September i3. was wtthdrawn by. Frank The teh s-fI5 htrs Iay1n n fst1dr,e raaaAnf ~Af.YeaA to reepen. the Stockdale case, in which that pitcher had been suspended for ciIatses' he made aEainst' the Memphis Giuhg lotf '. Sh
 After the meeting this afternoon vis- itinR naEnateE were shown over the city and tonight they were rendered banquet by the Nashville club.
 In his annual report this afternoon President KavanaHh said in part:
 T desire to tulate it's mam- bers upon hal ssleted the most successful. se son tls4 history of the has been Ehat 4A ternaea in business circles. 'a hard ySars
 Not Snly has itgbsen success from the snoetsman'sA se@ndpoint. but from a ananeial standpoint as we'll Tue race An ;itaelf Is one of the most re- n1arkahlq an history and the winner of the race for the pcnnant was not known. uptn tho last ball was pitched in the last game played. at Nashville on tue 18th d0y of September. and that before the largest crowd that has svsr; .aftsHded a Eapae oE baseball in the South, 1T n0t Ehe largest attend ance af any game eyer played in mi- nor assoeistions, and in passing we should note the fact that thfs exciting and spectacular finish was not marred by any 4wrangling or boisterous con duct or any other element that could bring discredit upon or cause the least criticism of the game"
 President Kavanaugh referred to the fact that we were 8 member of what is class A In the National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs and we still retain that position. although strenuous efforts have been made dur ing the past season to depose our as- sociation. These efforts to date have been successfully resisted"
 President KAvanaugh reports the of- ficIal standing of the clubs to be as follows st the closing of the past sea