The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-08
PAPER DOPE
 LOOKS GOOD Material That Grerninger Has Landed. MANAGER 10 COME THIS WEEK Montgomery Fans Enthusiastic
 Over Fine Showing,
 s-- wAitenan Deal Has Been Clesea-Eii Kspian BouEht Prom Toledo Ciah--Ciayten Peryy won't s
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MANAGER 10 COME THIS WEEK

Sometime within the next few days Greminger. win come to Montgomery and. his plans for the 1909 season. which so lar have been nebuious io- cally--wiii- be made public.
 The landing of Frank Manush vir- tualiy fills out the infieid, and in fact the entire team even if nothing else Is done, but before the end of this month there will be lots doing. Sew .eraf trades are hanging fire right now by the local management, and 1t is within the possibilities that the personnel of the. infeid and outfield may be materially changed before March 1. There is one department that is pretty much. of a fixture. and that is the wind-pad artists back or the plate, for there would be no Sacnssops-Hae SacHss s ifgx Hart and spike shan non--that, Gremtnger has to begin with. krebs of course ie the prop erty of the Montgomery club and can of the heaviest hitters in the business. ana if he is waived on by the other clubs in this league he may be sold. for there is hardly room here Tor thfes
 SreminEer on, first base. is sure to be on the job. He proved towards tne latter part of last season that ne is 2. the equal of any . arst.sa9k,ef s,s,.r m ,baS .ne the majority. On second base Rock enfield looks like the goods. He IS ln excellent physical condition just now and the hard work tnat ne 1oSs ,or some hours at bowling alleys every night, Is not only taking eli of the surplus averdupoie on, but ds makrhs m,, ci, a ,.oaaN ara however. that he, VIII have to fight for his job, as 1t looks now. very much like Gene Demont VIII get back into the game ,eos snd cnmsers' Inas ns Rockenfieid, however, looks so much better than he did last summer that the. chances are that Demont Woulq have to show pretty strong to peat
 Demont is a great innelder and one of the brainiest inside ball players m the country. Last season the oaItlng in 1907 withs Little Rock Rockenf1efd was. hitting a shade better than De- mont, though the latter has every year had him beat in the matter or stolen eiioJy up in March with the form that theylhad two years ago, the Chmpers are sure Of one thing at least-about the fastest sseeond base .sirgs tn .nis ,t wonld seem that Joe Pope is slated to be on fife iob again at short. The Bronx Kid Is pretty fast, and his only I,.s troS- Both Rock enfield aud Demont have played short. in faetN is their posi- tion in the infield, and Pope may nave light there for 1t would make tns
 at short and Demont on second or vice versa. Either will have 70 go some to, beat the New YorlN kto N
 fielding. For third Manusn anus ,rH iooRs chsnnes ees are that the local fans will not miss Clayton Perry so much after all. ,.
 Out in the lots 1t looks now hke riches. Persons is a cinch from the
 nresent point of view, and just before leaving far Mobile President Chambers told one of the local directors IaaS @ cltsded. gTfts makes e. certainty that at least two men in the. local outfield
 viii be among the fastest in the south
 : sA.S Towards the, end of last season the trpnreyement shown fin the all round
 work of Sis Hopkins was at once
 gratifying and startlinE; when HOP. @ 10 Montgomery in midseason and was not in the best condition. When ne rounded out. however, he snowed Wny Bill Armour had landed nm origil,Si- gr,s,.- he will be hard man for any out fielder to beat out Of his jon Tn the lots. q
 fHFemlnKGE naB OO08AN from the Toledo club. Eli Kaphan, who some years ago played the out field for Burlington and Waterloo In the Iowa State League, the league that Clayton Perry, Kensell and a lot of the other good ones came from. For d part of last season he was wlth l Clinton in the Three l League, but To-
 ledO got hold of him and now Gremia- M,,a hens. He led the batting of the Iowa State League when he was with Waterloo with 1o1 hits in sixtyssisS
 ss .aS and to Ss dH Ss at feet
 fines time Is sensational. They also say
 up in that country that If he 9 ca1 ieern a,a | of the stars in the fielding line.
 | All this looks very encouraging TOT
 the local team this year, but at the
 Hopkins. Spike Shannon also writes l that he. has a man that is some ball | player This makes i've men for the | lots, and out of the bunch Greminger | can surely get three that will be as | good as anything in this league. Just ! think what an outdeld composed Of 1 Persons, WhitemRn and Kaphan would
 look like The three three o of them aSsrv ope spe
 the field. Looks good, don't 1t?
 The slab department is pretty much
 and % negotistions are stiii going on for the landing of Grant Schopp. Thomas. Lively, 0uese and Juul are certajnties though Juul will not re-
 port until he finishes his college course In June. Thomas wants his brother to have. a try out Tn the local team' raw to bring down., If Schopp Is landed 1t will make seven men that
 Greminger will have to try his hand cinch that he can get four or five as good as anything in this league.
 rake 1t all round-upside and down things looks very bright locally for the coming season.