The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10
Montgomery Club Broke About Even. GREMINGER HOLDS HIS JOB Association Held Its Annual
 Meeting. Charlie Schwartz May Be in Local InfieId Again--spike shannon is to Be Traded-Tcam Has s
 Splendid Prospects
 for Next Year.

The annual. meeting of the Mont gomery Baseball Club was held in the o'clock Friday evening. There was full attendance of the Board of -.- J. H. Klinge showed that the financial end end of the game is satisfactory in der: the following directors were meertief REssene w. A Maksr EmamHsI Thomss J. Reynolds E. B. Joseph, Jr.,. Der nard Frank, R. j.. Chambers, S. J.. Mohr and B. w. Strassburger. Secre- tary King then read his annual report sive and exhaustive. the salient fea- lures being as follows:
 Total paid admissions for sixty-seyen games. $66,715, an average of 1000 paid admissions game.
 Transportation cost during. season, railroad fares and sleepers. $4,666.76.
 Hotel bills on road. $4,o5s. 7S.
 Cost during spring training season. $3,000.
 Total gross receipts from all sources.
 From the above; the financial condi- tion of baseball in Montgomery is in a healthier condition than 1t has ever been. The actual loss during the past season was something over s3.200. sale of players is averaged up. the de- ficit would be so small +hat. there was almost an even-break on tho season. something never before heard of In To- feature of last season was the radi- cal increase in the attendance over the past few years. An average attend Is easily the best attendance eyer known. before in local baseball For sixty-seven games this meant $250 a game or $16,750 for the season. If 1t had not been for that unaccountable slump that the Climbers butted into in June. the attendance, which decreas- ed with remarkable rapfdity dufin- the at at home stay of the team during that team had continued their winning streak during Che month of June, to sss ssSd ss%s sSGSS o ofis fo the
 A resolution was unanimously pass ed by the. Board of Directors authoriz- ing President R. J. Chambers to close nent manager of the 1908 team. and the first thing this morning big Ed will receive that announcement. Beyond this. nothing was done at the meeting. and after flaming bee, during which lots of last summers battles were fought over, the meeting adjourned the election of officers to come up next
 Ed Greminger has the nucleus of a team that should make pretty near a runaway start during the months of ApFiI ana May. TO begin with, ne will start the season with virtuall-- the same team that made such a lieht- ning finish during the months of Au- gust and September. Not a man has been drafted by the bg leaRues, the draft of Cleveland from Gulfport for John Lively having been disallowed, and as the drafting season of the big have only six more days to get Forest Thomas if the Reds or any of the oth- CTS want him; The sale of Clayton Perry to the Tigers makes the only break in the start of me 1909 team from the way it finished in SeDtem- 6er Between now and next Spring. Spike shannon will probably be trad ed for a hard-hitting in or outhelder. in April with Hart and Krebs.
 acclimated during. the latter part of weeks he was not only catching swell ball. but hitting hard and consistently. Krebs proved during the games that he played on third that he is one of the hardest hitters that ever played in the South. He has a great arm on him. and while he did not catch any of the games here, he is said to be a good backstop. With this pair, Grem- inger will start out with as fast catching department as ever hit the Southern League.
 Greminger himself will. of course. be on first. a position in which he has no superior and few equals. but the rest of the infield is liable to be new. .Rockenfield and Pope at second