The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-15

Charlie Frank and otherp--iosing large punches of sleep in trying to oeNlss ways to beat the fourteen man ru.s The popular plan with, SLY esn ,,.sn i. to get his club under the limit Inas is If he had eighteen men on his pay roii he would 'Tsuapend' four of them The salary of the four under suspen- sion, however went on swttn the ssS unsst ss ail ths ss.7vo salary limit and the fourteen player rule an average or $1ss per man was all that could be allowed-- and there are more men inthe SouIneEh League receiving salaries sranging from S2O0 to $250 and over than there are men getting salaries under those ng- uree. So in the name of all that's won- derful, how. is it possible for the teams of New Orleans. Atlanta, Memphis. and Nashville, (but that's personnll, to have did last summer at salary limit or tz's zoo for fourteen men.
 LiEnft Ignored.
 Absolutely no attention Is paid to the salary limit, either, though the auditor of the league makes ms resuiar p.ess 4ng well 1nside the salary limit. Qnd that going some.l
 In Ise5, under President Ainsrina's adminIstration, there was no salary ing ing from fsSs to ssEe and over beinE carried it was the fastest team th9t over represented Montgomery. The at tendance at the games was better than ever before CT since, and even with the high-pricd team. and big salary list. the Montgomery club came closer to ma king money than has ever been the ease before or since.
 This simply goes to show that If you give the fans the best that can be found the club will certainly not lose any money and thd chances are that with luck breaking. rigsit they will poe- sfbly quit winner on the season. IT Jimmy Ryan had been wise to the foxy novements 2f the maiagers Of tho been eAaght in that trap tover In Mem. phis IaAt May, There. were ct leass three other. clubs with sixteen or sevet- teen men, on their rolls at the same time. but Ryan had not psen in thk to the game of Towering up" the extra men as Bsbb, Smith and Frank. we're de- ing at that very time. se. l.
 If Judge Kavanaugh ls so determines on having { saiary limit ana IT .Ins soSef SoSS hsip IG9wi iot S F ssSe So mote vert pu. on the salary limit, which would thep
 At the meeting of the league In De- eember, 1906. President AfneriHe Iuafin strong fight for the adoption of a sal- ary limit or ss,b0o, but he was out voted. Aaron Prank. then of Little Rock, tried to get 6 salary limit of Se 400 but 1t dftin't take long to knock present limit Of s2.7oc was the ccmpro
 If Little Rock or any oths. club does not want to stand for . $S,50e team next season they win not be forced to, wish. but It.. has been proven that the better class the talent is. and the faa- ter the article of ball that as played there e4s a steadily increasing rain Of tickets in the turnatiles. It will be far better not 10 have player limit that Ss observed by nobody ana if this player limit burleSque is done away with, why ft Is the naturh1 solution of the salary umit--that is also observeed by nobody.
 President. Chambers said yeatsraay that he. would certainly vote for the abolition of the player limit. With Montgomery the chances are that fxhet votes of New Orleans, Mobile, Atlanta and Nashville win be chunked at the player hmit-0ye-5against EossihiS
 Another thing that win be brought up today will be a resolution by President Chambers that President Kavanaugh be authorized 70 mail the averages of the quarters of the AssoniAtAd Press. in time to be sent to the various papers cG1thes circuit s. 1sl 7. The averages Of the National and American Leagues are mailed by the Associated PreEs to every A. P. news4 paper in the South at least three days Before they are to be released. The | averages of the Southern League should he done the same way. but for the past year or 50 q newspaper man h Mem phis or Little Rock haR gotten hold Of the averages and offered them to the various papers for the sum of SIe when those morning papers should have the averages for nothing.
 The newspapers have done lots for baseball in this. section and 1t don't look just right to see them held up in this l .,.+ . .. ~