The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-08
VIII Try to Foil Dutch Magnate Who Yearns for Pitcher Lively and Is Headed for National
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The next few days promise to be about as full of strenuosity for base ball affairs as even Theodore T., him- self could wish for.
 Monday morning at the Auditorium Annex in Chicago the National Com mission-the supreme court or oase- ball--will meet and put the kfbosh on numerous and sundry things that have threatened of late to make a rough house in the baseball family This meeting of Messrs. Pulliam, Johnson Herman. etc, will be the curtain raiser. The big show will open Tues day morning when the annual meet ing of the National Association is call ed.
 Baseball men from every section Of the United States will be at that meet ing which will be one of the most tm- portant and interesting held in years There will be a good many fights dur- ing the meeting and it promises to be wa rto the knife-lively doings there will be and the life of organtzed oali probably depends on the result.
 Sunday night. Bill Stickney, road secretary of the local club-and one of the most capable men in baseball will leave for Chicago, being joined here by Charlie Frank of New Orl- cans and Secretary Colson or the MO, bile club who left the Crescent and Gulf Cities Sunday morning. Presi- dent Chambers of the local club was to have gone to the meeting but irn- portant business engagements at the last minute prevented his going, Col onel Stickney taking his place. At long conference. between Messrs Chambers and Stiekney saturaay morning every detail and possible phase of the matter was thoroughly gone over and when Bill gets busy at the meeting in the Auditorium Annex Tuesday he will not only know just where he is "at" but he will know just exactly what he wants to do And baseball people are aware or the fact that Bill Stickney- sticks to the line of talk that he starts out on un- | til he is killed off.
 The most important thing that will come up in that meeting-and possl- bly in the National Commission Mon day--that affects the Montgomery cIuo | will be a futile attempt by the Cleye- ] land club of the American League to reopen the, Lively case. The roxy , hand. of one Charles Frank is dimiy discarnible in this matter. Charlie Frank is not a man that would have to be taken by the hand ana leo through a crowd. for if there is hu- man being in this benighted world or ours that can take the pest care m the world of himself that same indl- NIoudl ID th6S SOAAS
 Canal street.
 Several months ago deal was framed up between certain parties Tn the cities of New Orleans in the State of Louisiana and Cleveland Tn the State of Ohio. The Cleveland Club was to draft q pitcher by the name or Lively from the Gulfport club of the Cotton States League. The pitcher was badly wanted by Charlie Frank. His club however was in the Southern League and of course could not put in a draft for the player until some thing like forty days after the Big Fish got through with riddling the minor league clubs. By that time all of the other seven clubs or the South ern League as we'll as the clubs Of the Eastern League and American Asso- ciation would be on equal terms with the New Orleans club and there was chance that one of these clubs would get their hooks into Lively before the Pelican Mogul could.
 So Cleveland was to draft Lively and in the spring turn him over to New OrIeans-siick scheme but for once Foxy Charlie had his hand call ed good and hard. On the 14th day of August the Montgomery club bought from the Gulfport club Pitch