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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
BIG GAME TUESDAY.
MONTGOMERY AND BIRMINGHAM
 SCHEDULED TO MEET.
The Local AgKre@atlOn Is Out For
 Revenge For a Defeat Admin r. tstered in the Magic City.
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The fiercest s basketball contest scheduled for the season. will be seen when the teams. of the Birmingham Athletic Club and Montgomery '. M. C.. A. tie up in a Southern League
 The game here tomorrow has been awaited with much interest since the recent trip of the Montgomery aggre- gation to Birmingham, upon which oc- hoore, Instead. Of basketball the game in Birmingham was more in the na- ture of hstic encounter, there being TeReatsd t rOgEe snd ti1s tumble aars E0
 In Birmingham the referee lost all control of the game and the contest able to win over the Magic City bruiS- CTS tomorrow and are entering the game. with a determination to make things warm.
 The local team showed form Friday night against Vanderbilt, which has had encouraging effect on the root CTS in this city. Any team that can ertion as was shown by Montgomery. 1t is stated, should not have much trouble In putting one over on Bira-
 The. Birmingham aggregation, indi- vldually. is great one, but because of the presnce of so many stars. 1t iS stated. that they have not shown Ware and Woodruft of Auburn. Thom- as and Hilty, the pick of the Birm ipgham Athletic Club and Bill" strait Auburn on the team. the aggregation should not have an equal in the South, yet the local players say that Montgomery has a team which iP capable of trimming the Birmingham team, any time that, the game is play ed on its merits. Arrangements are being made for capacity houss
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
NEWS NOTES OF SPORT

MO@u0ys International indoor skating cham pionships at New York City.
 TuegdRy. Opening of annual bench show of Westminster Kennel Club, New York. Opening of international bonspIe1 in Winnipeg. Man.
 Annual meeting of American Polo Association in New York. Annual meeting of National Cycling Association in New York.
 Wednesday. Opening of ice palace and carnival of winter sports in Montreal. Annual St Valentines golf tourna ment begins at Pinehurst N. c.
 Thursday. Executive committee meeting of American Automobile Association in Chicago.
 Opening of international association bowling tournament in St. Paul Women's national indoor tennis championships begin in New York. rounds, ct New York.
 Annual meeting of United states National Lawn Tennis Association In New York.
 Annual indoor games of Columbia University in Madison Square Garden, New York. Handicap sweepstakes golf tourna- ment at Palm Beach, Fla. Gunst stakes at Oakland; Caltfor- mia Handicap at Arcadia.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
St. Louis Fans Sing
 Praise of The Great Roger

as McGraw. He commands respect from umpires, opponents and specta- tors. He fears nothing and fighting is his delight At the same time he liant player. Indications are that he will be an excellent manager.
 John Mccloskey was thorough as boys of the field and they played as boys on the field. He never re- cOgnized them as full grown men of ability. He made them think they never save gave them so think they could go out on the field and battle a team like the Cubs or the Giants to stand still
 Bresnahan will treat all his players as big leaguers.. He will give them to understand that this year. at the very beginning of the. fight, they are Wagners and Thinkers and Donlins in the game. He will start them Tn a fight with the idea they are going to win and he will keep them fighting lose. It's that spirit that struck Stan- ley RObison as the one thing needed for suecess on the diamond and he planked down something like $25,000 worth of promising talent for 1t. He lost much of the building of three years by McCloskey. but he gained that spark of fire that he believes
 Bresnahan is untried. but he is a graduate of the McGraw school He is probably the most promising schol- ar the wonderful little New York leader ever turned out. He knows every trick of the game that has been practiced by McGraw in years past and there are many who believe that Roger will show "Muggsy" a few new ones now that he is to oppose him in baseball warfare.
 Roger is starting on his new duties with all the enthusiasm that one could ask. 1t will be most gratifying to the fans of St. Louis to see man lighting for their rights on the dia- mond. Roger is the man that will light. That spirit in him will instil fight before a season Is oyeS the Cardinals Hay be known as ths serapplsst nine nine pulls the tight games out of the fire. The, Cardinals will no longer be the meek and lowly St, Louis team; s1;.,. If If win games they are expected to fight 10 the very end at least. That spirit in itself win pull the team out of last place. q.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08

Local fans will be interested to learn that Heine PietZ may possibly again he the manager of the LouisvtHe team lln tine American Association this season.
 cs tcSers s i that the game ever produced. He was developed by Charlie sLeVis in lMontgomery,. in 1892 and that ne w1s ", Ia great catcher came out oy an acSt- ait dent. Gus Land was the re9 and one "trip he was stung on the arm py nor1 .,,S lnet ar something over in Macon. anu lPIetz was brought rom snort Isd s5e snyWhere else. Bill Stickney.. the present efficient road secretary short IClImbers. was put on the 1ob at snor. lin Pfetx's place. and he made tne rest
 ot the shOrtstops ,,;as bnnch in sahs of fa nuts
 The T,ouisviIle correspondent of The lSnorting Life says in last weeks issue lof that paper: ,,. hoe eur nrIssd fhe owners of the Louisville team by making demand for an increase lin salary. The reports Of his actions
 that have gone aeroau hevs evideDtIy taeD been @ They say that Burke wants and insists on having $7.00O per wear before he will agree to return to
 Ouisvls There is nna no hGbpe tbpet 01 sa,ary SEKe
 Burke seems to take sensible view lof inc situation, and he Is not as larbitrary in his demands as press re- luorts seem to indicate He frankly says that he wants to come back to tI Huntsville and is willing to come at Q I1air remuneration, but thinks he Is entitled to an increase. His employer seems to think the same thing, and ldoubtless Burke will have little trouble in getting what he asks for which will doubtless be a substantial increase from what he got last year Burke Is very popular with the local Hans, every one of whom want to see lhim manager of the team again next
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08

Roger Bresnahan seems to be the candy kid in St. Louis and the papers up, there ags setting just about about .S as 2 papers paper she in Montsomesry last spring. Listen to this from one of the St. Louis papers:
 whether @ weak team with q light ing spirit Is better than a strong team with weak spirit will be proven to the baseball fans of St. Louis next sunimer when the Cardinals. revised under the leadership of Roger Bresna- tionaI League pennant race. owner M. Stanley Robison took a desperate chance when he tore down the foun- dalton of club started by John J. Mccloskey and put the former New York catcher, in charge of the remains with orders to strike as he~willed.
 Robison killed the embryo. of a great bah club when he tossed away mond @ and an Arthur Fromme for one man who had inspired him because of the 'steely glint" in his. eye, the St. Louis mangnate believing Dit ot. lighting spirit better to win ball games than talent without unity. The aggressiveneSs of Bresnahan appealed to Robisen. It grew upon him the more he thought of it and with free method of building up champion. ship club from young and talented players, for his new idea of getting . bunch of fighters and charging on the enfins The W work SRse of MeclOsEey of three years was destroyed fin a night. Base ball, at League Park was to have q new era, The old things had passed away and Bresnahan in all his glory was named to lead the little band of St. Louis fighters against the strong armies of the National League. Robi- son was sick and tired of building up champions and always getting. licked in the meantime. He hungered for a fight and he believes now that with Bresnahan at the head of things, there's going to be fight this very year with the Cardinals playing part In 1t.
 school of baseball. McGraw has won pennants In the past because he fought harder on the diamond than anyone else, He came very near getting the flag last year. Yet man for man his club did not class with the Chicago Cubs. However. he battled them to a standstill so that a tie game had to be played of at the end of the year fo decide the championship.
 Bresnahan is the same type of man
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
BUSY TRAINING SEASON
 FOR BROOKI YIN TEAM

New York. Jan.. 6-Charles Ebbets has mapped out the busiest training season of the Brooklyn clubs history for this year. No expense will be spared by the owner of the Dodgers in framing up a club for tue sister Bridge gang won pennants. The club will again train at Jacksonville, Fla, and all will report there on March $. As in the case of the Yankees and three divisions. One contingent will set out by the sea route from New York on March 6. Another squads will join Manager Lumley at Hot Springs, Ark. gregate at some point in the West and make the journey by rail.
 Mir. Ebbets has been in almost com stant consultation with Manager Lum- flee They have about decided on the makeup of the team. At least they have definitely concluded who will make the journey to the land of alli- gators. Several undesirables % have been heads to fall were those of Pitcher F'tnlayson and First Baseman Murch. Both were yesterday released to the Brockton club. =
 from today for Hot Springs. Ark. He has ordered to report there on Febru- ary 14, Jimmy Sebring. the new out fielder, and Burch, WnO VIII make bid for garden honors: Infielder Alper- man, and Pitchers Bell and Pastorius. These players will remain in Hot Springs until March G.
 All Brooklyn players who live in the vicinIty of New York will go to Jack sonviIle by boat. They will leave on the Clyde line steamship Arapahoe March B. Infielders Jordan and Pat tee. Outfielders Catterson. Hummell and Iennox, Pitcher Dos" Scanlon, Catcher Bergen and Hunter will make up the
 Many regulars and recruits scatter led through the Middle West Will go direct from their homes. assembling al Here they are: Catcher Dunn Springfield. O.; Outfielders Kus- tus. Detroft aud Starnagle, Bellville. Ill; Pitchers Elmer Stricklett, San Jose, Cal; Wilhelm. Wooster, O.; Rncksr AIpharetta, Ga; McJntire and McfGl' veen, Jefferson City. Tenn. and Me- Milan, Atlanta, Ga.
 This makes in all twenty-three play CTS who will go into spring camp. trainer will be thrown in to break the
 'Rkiddoo" hoodoo number The team will remain in Jacksonville until February 2s. wher 1t will leave for Macon, Ga, to begin the long list Of exhibition games that will mark the route North.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
BABE IS OPTIMISTIC. THINKS MEMPHHs wKl.E. HAVE WIN
 MING TEAM. He Has Already sigasd Up Fifteen of tke TweMey-T'kree Players He & Has Claims 0n---The
 Line Up.

Men1pilis.' Teun., Feb. T.--(Special.l-- With fifteen of twenty players he has claim on signed up for the com ing campaign in the Southern Assocfa- tlon, Manager Babb expresses perfect satisfaction and: peace with the base ready contracted with are the really preferred players whose stock Is rated above par Tight now.
 The veterans or past Mempnl -llne 1ps who have placed their signatures to decnpentss calling for them to re- port tn March are: --'
 Catcher Q Leary; pitchers schWenck. lon, LiadsaT.s BabS; Outfislder Baer-
 Strangers to Southern fandom who ss%s sssn or ars dFat'ed and QuIesser and .DIck:' outfielders or in fslders aud ,catchsrs .Lnndtne. Wagner,
 This leaves contracts to be signed by Stinson. an outheIder who distin- Guighed himself last. season by leading Schmidt. brother of Detroit's regular backstop and Who, like his noted brother is holding out, for larger tn- daeefnsnts; WHils;, coaison. Datley.
 ko Nick carter's Salem Winston club in the Carolina League and others who figured In Q few games for the 1908 01enlpnl nAE0s pSeh lrAoous IolSoSoV oA
 H The ohtfeid will be strong if local hopes are realized and the inheld will be practically the same as last season.
 Stineons Bserwald, Woodrun and Wagner are the probabilities for the outfeld. Woodruff played In the Cot ton States League and so did Wagner several seasons ago but both batted hard enough. last season in Northern BaSb's notice and he has already been offered money by Mobile and other clubs for Wagner. Wagner was a member of George Redd's Decatur (Ill) squad last season and Reed wants him back with him at Mobile but the local oh1clals are not In a humor right now for bRsebalf bartering of any kind pre- 9erring to await the opportunity to size up all available material In the team for disappointed fandom here
 we have been teased for three sea- aons,'" says Manager Babb who recalls ehe fact that he has been in every raee since he assumed local control, "and You may guess that I will not trade or release anyone that looks like he can
 Babb viii stick to third all season end win depend on young Lindsay for . short stop. Cranston will return to second base where Memphians believe be belongs and Scoops Carey will be stationed at his homestead on first
 Efforts have been made by several .-IubB to sre-purchase claim on several players claimed by the MsmphIi Pitch . sr Dick Is the latesI to offer terms for his, own release which he accompanies with a stated desire to pay $500 In cold cash It. Is believed he Is acting for me Wichita management with whom 1e played last season.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08

Chesbro. Glade, Eiberfeld. Kleinow. Conroy and Keeler will start for Hot Springs as the first fnstalment of the New York Americans day after tomOr row, and on the same day Stallings will take another batch of his plantation at Haddock. Ga. to Timber up before the regular training season begins at Macon on March 1. The rest of the Yankee squad will leave for Macon about the 27th of this month. Gremin- ger should be here In a few days. and it won't be long before the army of ball tossers-big leaguers and all- win be in motion for the run down to this country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
TIE SOUTHERN .,.
 RAILWAY COMPANY

Desires to call your attention to the great improvement in the equipment yf the New York and New Orleans Limited Trains No. 37 and 3s by the Addition. of the late0 improved Pull man -Chaifs Gar between Montgomery and dFeepbbpro, N c. -Adv.-3t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
A PECULIAR ACCIDENT.
A WyIam Man Struck in Face by Live
 Wire Spark.

Birmingham, Feb. 7.-(Special)-Ai- bArt Holmes a well known young man at wylam. q mining town several miles from the city. has severe burns on the face from which thA'e will be scars which will probably be notice able the balance of his life.
 He was doing some work in an cleo trical line when he took up hammer to 6rive A nall. He accidentally struck a live wire and while the wire was in- sulated, a heavy spark was struck off ana hit him squarely in the face. For A while it was thought he was blinded and the pain was intense but he will recover though he is considered lucky in getting off with his life.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
sssrst About It.

Huntsville Tribune.
 We have been about a great deal and everywhere we go we find that each town has it's fellows who can dress and live better on nothing than the fellow who makes @ good salary and stunts himself Ia the matter of living. There is an art to the secret sonswhera bus We prefer not to find
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08

Who says that there Is nothing in Ia name. Just look at the Wagner that ICharlie Babb has in his outfield. He hit .2eO for Reed in the Three-I League last summer, and now the latter wants him in Mobile. His name IS not Honus. but he copped thirty-tWo stolen Dases last year all the same.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
A~A>>>>NN>NeN~>A4

' REAL. GLASS TO THIS PITCHER. q and gobbied up by the White z Sox.' was the champion strike . out pitcher of the Pacific Coast q League. He mowed down 2se q in forty-six gaxnesr seven more z than Dolly Gray, of Los Angeles,
 his nearest competitor. in thirty q seven games. ' .Aithough left-hander. he was C unusually steady having only . three wild pitches
 . His most notable achievement . was when he pitched twenty in- z nings against Portland. striking . out seventeen men. as compared C with twelve for Mickey Graney, . of Portland. the former Nap.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08

Girls will be girls' is an old saying but they wouldSbe boys if they had their way about it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08

Out in Texas they are figuring on boosting the circuit to eight clubs. with Oklahoma City and probably Sherman. Better look out, those unwieldly cif- cults prove a boomerang as the fans Of Montgomery found out when there was a twelve club circuit down here in 1893. But If the bill prohibiting Sun day ball passes in Texas, there may be no league out In the Lone Stay State at all, as several of the club owners say that if that bill Is passed they will give away their franchises.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08

Mike Kehoe, another old Montgom- cry favorite, is getting nervous. he says that he wants cantillicn to either sen6 him his contract or give him his re. lease from the Washington team.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
Saie. of. sKotuable Real Estofe

Under and pursuant to. the authority con- se eased, 1. Will proceed to ssil at the Artesian Basin in the City Of Montgomery on Moa. day the Sth day 0f February, 1909. at 12 state. situate in said city. with the i'm. ssoysrnents thereon. the propsrty of sAid Lot ss fronting 4s feet on the south side # Bell. street and running back 1ts feet ore or less
 Lot SIS fronting 60 feet on the south eide # Clay street and running back IBo feet. Lot a26 fronting 50 feet on the north eide f Clay street and running back 160 feet Lok eBo fronting ef feet on the north side s6 Clay street and running back Ts feet The right to re1ect any bld is reserved Terms of sale-eash.
 -gALNxANDER TROY. tt Bxr. will Margaret coiiina dsce
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08

Clark Griffith says that Billy sulli- van will make as good manager Tor the White Sox as Fielder Jones. won. der if Sullivan will stand out for thas s30,00O.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08

Here's the limiti Mike Donlin, the hard hitting outfielder of the New York Nationals says he is holding out for ss,00O this season. A St: Louis of Mikes says that the latter told him that he was getting {SGo fncreasa to make 1t, se,000 this season. It is said that Donlin even slaves himself now and says that Mabel, his wife, has taught him what Ia fool he has been with his coin In the past, sfetf t& +~ q
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08

We thought that the retiring stunt was over now that Jeffries and But lternlilk Meeks have come out into the Iopen, but the latest is O statement that Garry Herman will cut out tho base ball end and devote his time to his Cincinnati and I4QpisviiIe Coal and Mining interests, -
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08

It is said now that Joe McGlnnity tmay get the job as manager of the Denver club of the Western Leagle. Harry Arndt, the former St Louis Ma but he has butted into. some trouble with the National Commission and may mot get out of the scrape in time. The Montgomery friends of McGinnity would like to hear of the old pitcher being at tlie head of ball club for he lcertainly deserves 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08

ton pitcher, and Branch Rickey--at
 that it looks like a prohibition Hickey George stallinEs seems to still have the same knack of getting next that he had when he was a manager in this league a good many years ago. Weiy- CTS were asked by the Boston Amec- lcans on catcher James and Stailings got the man by refusing to waive James hit .274 for Columbus in the American Association last year and had fourteen errors out of b21 chances-
 looks like some backstop, thax. e- | Arthur Irwin, scout for the High.
 landers who is scrapbook fiend. has the documents to prove his assertion
 that the squeeze play was much tS;n used sa !can dig up some literature that will show the Providence champions had the lsoueeze in their repertory in 1884. One lof the first traces of the squeeze play the game played on the Congress street grounds, Boston on April 24 between John Wards Brooklyns and Mike Kef- lly's Bean eaters.
 Ilates that with Harry Stovey on third Joe Quinn tried to bunt the bell so that lStovey could score. Dave orr, who was playing in close, took the palI on tne for a dual slaughter. This incident happened in the fourth inning.
 "In the eighth round Dan Brouthers was squeezed" home by Irwin. The lclipping reads as follows:
 Big Dan went around tN third. IT, Twin bunted and Brouthers made for the Iplate. Connie Murphy got the ball, but the big first baseman got SA his run by la good slide"
 Altogether Irwin has about fifty clip pings to show that the Brotherhood teams worked the squeeze, and worked lit just as weIl as the Highlanders have been doing. 't
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08

Rumors are out that George stallings will can Rube Zellers, the old Atlanta ion pitcher, and Branch Rickey--at that it looks like prohibition Rickey
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08

Former Cornell men in Montgomery can get lots of action 1T they go 10 one of the college baseball Rames-- Hughey Jennings Is to coach the ltnican squad this spring, and the fam ous, "We-Ah" that was the railytng cry of the Tigers will doubtless get busy on the college team
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
sPOR TS

From the looks of, things, can almost stand pat.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-28
"A SPLENDID DIGESTION

The Iroqouis Chief suggests the
printing of the laws Of South Da-
kota in the newspapers, same as
they do in Minnesota. This is a
very good suggestion, and one we
would like to see put into prac-
tice. 1t would give every citizen
chance to see what laws have
been passed, and as nearly every
body takes q paper of some Kind,
it would put the laws in the hands
Of everyone in the state. There is
constant need Of referring to the
laws, and especially when the ref
erendum is mooted in regard to
any special law, as the Headlight
Law, or the Military Law or the.
Came Law, the people could refer
to the, copy of the laws, and see
Just what the particular law was
about. This method has been tried
with great satisfaction in Mime.
sofa for many years, and there is
no reason why it should not meet
with as much success in this state
as vel |. @ E
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-05-28
SUES FOR DIVORCE

A COMPLAINT in an action for d.
.vorce has been filed by Frank
Keene, one Of the mail carriers of
the city, alleging that his wife
Emma Keene has been untrue to
him, and naming other reasons why
a decree Of divorce should be
granted. Mrs. Keene has filed an
answer. asking for temporary ali
smony to fight the case, and also
stating that Mr.. Kaene has failed
to supply her with means to sup
port herself Charles Pruner who
lis named as the correspondent in
the case, lis alleged in the complaint
to be the cause Of the breaking up.
of once happy home. The news
of thedivorce proceedings comes as
a shock to their many friends, as
such an outcome Of their happy
home life was never thot possible.