The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
WHAT MIGHT
 HAVE BEEN ,-s F ----s--@-- Some Players Montgorrl- ery Has Lost. DOPE ON SOME YOUNGSTERS Biz League Waving Season A.
 . most Here. News of Baseball Deals Fill the Air
 Presiaent Chambers Placing
 Depesdence Upon Bis r Megul Promises. &
DOPE ON SOME YOUNGSTERS

One week from today is the date set by the National Commission for the asking of waivers by the National plus players that they will have to weed out. In the sixteen clubs 3f the two big leagues are many players that will have to be tabooed. and among fastest ball. players in the country: Some of them will be veterans. but very few. but the majority will be fast youngsters that the big fellows have drafted or bought from the minor
 Some of the big leagues have already asked for waivers on some of their this Leagusa are trying to get next when the break-away comes. Mont gomery has the promise of one or two good youngsters from the big leagues, more dependence in this than anything else for the makepp of the 1909 Climb CTS. Tue men that Greminger has are not thought very muchA of and, while bunch. @ the chances q are that the men that he brings down gwtth him will be sold to the South Atlantic, Cotton States or some. df the other minor leagues of that class. If the big-man- ager can get hold of a hard hitting outnelder that will i'll the bill he will have solved a very troublesome prob
 President Chambers has been trying to land Whiteman. the star outfielder of the Portland ciuh in the Pacific Coast League. It will be remembered that in Chicago last December the own ar of the Portland club offered to trade Whiteman to. Montgomery for Steve Reagan. When Reagan was sold to New Orleans it queered all chances Of that deal. and whether 1t was a Whiteman. is very fast and hits hard and consistently, and would be the biggest kind of a bargain for $500. The price that Reagan went to New Orr leans for was $500, and 1t is very doubt fuf if Whitefnan could be bought for that sum. Reagan was not to come back to Montgomery, anyway, in 1909, and by making. the trade the local club for nothing The chances are now that Whitemap will not be in the lots at Capital Heights this year.
 The Perry case looked like another instance of the local management be- ing asleep at the switch. The star third baseman was sold to Detroit last September for $l.75o. Detroit agreed choice of the youngsters that the Ti- gers could not use this year, and when they had decided to let Perry slide back to the minors they put him on the. market for $1.00o. and stuck to their promise by giving Montgomery the first shot at him. If the local club had made the deal for Perry they would virtually have landed him Tor nothing and been $750 ahead of the game, But the local club couldn't see S1 .0001 and Perry in the same moving picture, and Mike Finn jumped at the chance and landed the player.
 Several rnonths ago story was pub- lished in these columns to the effect that a club owner out in the Western Association wrote to President Cham bers and gave him the refusal of three outffelders. One of the men was Will son who with the SDrinRfleld club of that League last year headed the bat ting averages of the Western Associ- ation. Evidently nothing was done in regard to the matter by the local club. and ina the meantime Bill Bernhard of Nashville quietly drafted the outfie1der when the drafting season of this league began in November.
 To show what Montgomery has lost in Wilson can be seen from his record for the past four years: