The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-22
RYAN'S BUNCH
 ON HOT TRIP Climbers Now Donicled
 in Slagtown. MINNEAPOLIS BATTERY TODAY Three Games With the Poor Un-
 lucky barons. Manager Jimmy Ryan Says He Ex- poets to Take Majority of the
 series--Team in Good
 shape.
nY M. M. sCREws. In.

Birmingham. June 21-(Special.) )--If there IS any hotter place on the face or the earth than the miles covered by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad between Nashville and Birmingham, 1t has yet to be uncovered-at least that IS the unanimous opinion of Jimmy Hyan ana the bunch or athletes play ing ball for him.
 The hike was made out of the Nashville station at $40 thls morning and after an ail-day ride. this town was discovered about 1 clock this af- ternoon. Talk about your sunny South and sunny Tennessee-the gent that framed up that phrase must have been dreaming of the time that the Montgomery ball club would make the daylight jump from Nashville to Bir- minRham. The boys made the best or IT, however. and turned petty an- noyances such as collars that wflleu almost as soon as put on. and other pleasant vagaries of the same strlpe- Into Jokes. 1t was bad enough on the hallplayers, but it was pretty hard on Mrs. Ryan. who joined her husband In Nashville and is taxing this trip with hlm- Big Ed Greminger. with his sev- eral hundred odd pounds Of flesh and bone and sinew. was the hardest hit of The bunch. but the good-humored smile that the fans or Montgomery know eo well. never left hts face even when he vas told that he could not sit an a block of ice all the way.
 Billy Cristal said that his face was so baked and burned that when he would try to swab his countenanc. wau one of MT. Pullman's towels. he could feel bits of the flesh come off after each rub. The team is in good shane now and ready for three pretty fast battles with Birmingham So far this season they have played seven games with the aggregation from this town. Tn SIX of these games. the Climbers have squeezed th' large end of the count. the Birmingham people getting the DIE end on the solitary occasion that young Mac Robinson was on the hill. The game tomorrow will makc the eighth played between Montgom cry and Birmingham this season, and as Forrest Thomas and Spike Shannon Will form the battery. it looks as ir montgomery Will have seven wins to one Tor Birmingham this season.
 me Minneapolis battery has not lost game this season. and if the ganH under Carleton Molesworth gets to the Wire nrst tomorrw. the one best bel VIII have gone wrong. The doctor ie m great shape Just now and tho indi. cations are that the Birmingham peo. ple are going to see a bigger assorf ment of steam tomorrow than they nave seen even when one of the fur. nanees up hete is getting busy.
 Molesworth has taken Holmes back that nobody knew what had becon1a or him and his being taken back nnv,, looks bit irregular
 Jimmy Ryan says he is sorry he Aid not know just how this league was says that he thought everything was on the level and If he had dreamed that such actions as several nAnaRefh m this league have worked lately wouid pc tolerated by the authorities, he would have kept strings on at least seven of the men that he has turned loose. .e.