The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-05
ORDERS UNIFORMS
MANAGER RYAN,s SUGGESTION Is
 ADOPTED.
AClimbersv wsri Be Neatest Leoksns Bunch fn south--RyaE Talks of Plans For Preparatory
 Work.

Arrauxements were made yesteroay morning for the new uniforms ot ane an the style suggested by Manager Ryan and if will be adopted--will have the effect of making the Climbers aoous the neatest looking bunch oi atniesuS s..s,S be Virtually the same as last season Ryan don't fancy the red stocklngs. belts and caps and these Will pc Oius with the same style road uniform oI of last year uniforms are left over ana as most of them will be good thiN year they win be used. ..
 Quite . change will pc maoe III, an ehe he home uniforms---of course they VIII pc white as called for by the regulations of the Southern League They VIII pc white shirt, white pants, blue oelt ana blue stockings. The stockings VIII oe on the order of bicycle stockings, 1oot- less so that any kind of cocks may pc worn. The collar of the white snirt will be trimmed with substantat band of blue. while on the breast or M tne tering. The caps will be biue--Phila- deIphia style--corded with seams in white.
 for fifteen men and this number or uniforms will be ordered from Spald- ing by a local tailor early next week, There will not be the delay in getting the uniforms that there was last year. said Ryan yesterday, and the order will ali be here long before the last
 sciinbers Mast werk..
 The man that gets on the Climbers will be no go-as-you please business this year but straight business from
 II am getting paid for my work down here" says the manager of the Clim- bers. land am going to try and earn my salary, and the men working Tor me have got to do the same thing"
 After this week things win pc will have to report at the ball grounds for practice at 10 a. m., work till IF o'clock, come to town for lunch, report at the ball grounds again at 2;s0 ?. m. and work out till 4:3o. This rule will be rigidly enforced every day and at night the players will report at their quarters at q reasonable hour the contract has been made with Clan.
 boarding of the Climbers until the season opens in April
 There will be no time for loaffng
 for any of the local team from next
 week on. The water will be turned on at the ball grounds this morning so that work can begin at once. Both
 Demare and Almauist put in a good days work yesterday. several buckets | of water being carried to the clubhouse. All of next week will be devoted to 1 light practice work and then everybody will get down to business.
 On Tuesday. the 17th, will be the | first exhibition game Of the season. Connie Mack's Athletics playing the l Climbers two games. Thursday ana | Friday the locals will work out among | themselves and on Saturday, the 2lat Ryan will have an exhibition game. He has enough men to make two teams l and they will be divided into the | Regulars and Yannigans, the twelve
 pitchers pitching three innings each | for their respective sides. A nominal admission will be charged for this | game as Ryan says that he wants to | try and make this spring training
 season come as near to paying expenses I as possible.
 On Monday the 2srd the Climbers Il will get up against Comiskey's White l Sox. The locals will put in good
 days practice on Tuesday and Wed l nesday. On Thursday and Friday, 26th
 and 2fth the worlds champion Chicago i Cuhs will play two games with the | Climbers. and Saturday 28th the local team will be divided up and play an Tuesday win be put in by the locals ir | practice and on Wednesday, Thursday
 and Friday. April 1, and 3. the
 Brooklyn Nationals .' viii be here on | other exhibition game between the l two teams of the Climbers.
 Then for the next eight, days there | will be local practice and on Wednes- l Birmingham Aggregation open the I season at Capitol Heights, playing a
 series of four games with the Clim- | bers.
 So things win be kept on the JumD | from now on.
 | Murray May Net Come. Word was received from bJur- | ray yesterday. The pitcher IS l working for a cotton company in l Monroe, La. and wrote Ryan that he | could not report for a month yet. The chances are that if he doesn't come before that time he will not be needed
 and Ryan will probably sell him to | Monroe, or to some other team. Bliss is still holding out, trying to | play the "fear of feveF" game, but Ryan | says that he will just sit steady in the boat and the chances are that Bliss I will come to time Baxter will get a | raise. though not what he demanded. l He gave h1s terms and Ryan gave hIs | terms and there was a compromise. Managers Night Office. | The manager of the Climbers will have a night office as well as a day one. Yesterday Jack Clancy fixed | him up one of the best rooms in nis | house on the office floor and fronting l on Commerce Street. Ryan will do most of his work there at night ana iI | is a big room in which he win have aIi | the elbow room he wants.
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