The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-14

can League race being just as tight and strenuous as the former gallops for the Johnson gonfalon.
 Fans of almost every city on the cir cult have the hunch that their repre- sentatives possess. a chance to land the laurels. and if the enthusiasts are not shesmns sse sSout the Rss s e bright outlook. and ali the peerless disappointn,snt tasaprs n and sorrow for mana
 Just now. however. everything is rosy and mental reseryations TOT tick- 4 ries to be played next fall are oein4 ma de in almost every city represented on the B. B. T. circuit
 Local fans are chipper because tns Nationals have great pitching s.an and have many players who are apie io clout the ball. The club made a gar, lant finish last season and knockeo the Maps out of the pennant. Mana ger Joe Cantillon has not made any to buy Conroy from the Hishlanders and to pick up two good pitchers from California in Dolly Gray and Bobby Groome Joe figures that nast ms Vsseuas seasos. and that Washington for the nrs. time in many years. has a chance |" make creditabla showons.
 Hughey Jennings, manager of the Detroit Tigers and qualified attorney In Lackawanna County, Pa, does nor see on the American League horizon Jungleites from breaking a record In the Junior organization and landing third consecutive pennanf. The invent or of the famous battle nsa slogan Q. Tss h1s team during the off season ana that II will go to the. front on April 14 and stay there. Jennings figures that Mo. third base than was Bnl Coughlin, of the Honest Hand. and that Oscar Stanage. and Jesse Beckendorf will prove supe- TiSr as With s'Gsiser7 shs white saa sos and Thomas. at present with the Athletics The Tigers have a wonderful player Tn Owen Bush. and will be strengtnened in the hinging department. by the ac. qulsition of Ed Lafitte. splitter" from Jersey City: Ralph Works. who did great work for Syracuse, and Ell sseasoning sea in the minor leasues, now Is reckoned capable of trotttng in fast
 Jennings expects all three of his colt twtrIers to pitch winning ball and feels that by getting these youngsters he has protected the Detroit team in the box and has men who will be aple Sora1 dSvse aeorss rss M1n a and Ed Rsn again having poor seasons. Jennings says his team Is the hardest hitting team in the country and that none of quently he cannot figure how any club will be able to finish in advance of the Felines.
 Chicago has no manager at present: present: but this fact does not worry Charley Comiskey, the Old Roman. who sees only one team in the American League race and that one the club of which he is the owner. Commy has not as yet abandoned hope of getting Fielder
 Brains in abundance will be on the White Sox, team. even If Jones sticks to his word and quits the game: The Hitless wonders will have Billy Sulli. still left on the board of strategy, and if Jones remains firm in his intention to pass up the managerial life. 1t would not he surprising h, to sec sshit Goms anS accompany the team on all its jaunts. ready to assist in all momentous mat. ters. The Sox have picked up several rd-hitting outfielders and they hay" landed some good young pitchers, too Louis Fiene, according to Comiskey, Is now ripe for major leagues, and the get out of the hard luck class ano form form fhs sox will have two men capable of covering third If 1,n,s Lseford rd
  retires. These players are Jakie AtH and Dave AltiZer. Comiskey says Ed Walsh will soon sign and that Ameri' can league teams with pennant aspir. ations will have to look out for the White Sox. The Chicagoans still are the best defenders of the home plate iS the business.
 Cleveland.
 C1evelanders opine that there is no way to keep the Maps from climbing to the top and staying there. The For est City combination finished only four points in the rear of the Tigers last fall and now that Cy Young has been procured, Cleveland fans figure that their team has the brightest pennant chances of any club in the Johnson or- Eanization. The Neps needed a box man who could trim the Senators. and Cy Young seems to be the finger who can do so. The Fence Breakers count on having both Elmer Flick and Ter " Turner in all the games next sea son. The Bedford. O.. horse dealer re- ports thai he has entirely recovered from the illness that kept him out Of