The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-26
OUTFIELD IS NOW COMPLETE Whiteman Sold to Local
 Club. KERWN SIGNED CONTRACT Montgomery Will Have the Fastest Gardeners in the League. When President Chambers And Man. ager Greminger Return From League Meeting, Some Inter-
 estins News is Found in
 Their Mail.

oh an early train rom Mobile yes- terday morning came President Cham oers, Manager Greminger and Road ocietaiy SttGkney. the trio that reprc- sehted the local club al the scneuu1e meeting of the league AtIer breakS tast an hour or SD was spent in MT. chambers office. getting next to tne correspondence that had piled up since last Sunday night.
 Wei. what do you think of this" salo Big Ed. passing letter over to MT. Chambers with broad grin on ms face. The boss of the Climbers tooAea n,''i at IL anu smile also rippled over hls countenance.
 The cause or this ebullition of facial expansion, was the return of this con tract all signed up. by Dan Kerwin mere was no letter or anything else with the contract-just the document itselI, showing that kerwin is satis- lied, in every particular, with the terms offered him by Greminger and also that he is more than willing to play with Montgomery this season.
 letter was opened from Judge Mo- Cready of the Portland club of the Pacific Coast League, in which he stated that according to agreement the eoston Club had turned Whiteman back to Portland and that he had nott- fled Secretary Farrell of the National Association that Whiteman had been purchased from Portland by Montgon- cry and that he had turned the out LAcluST oheT to the montgomery cluD. Judge McCready said that Whitemans home was in Peoria. Ill, but that he generally wintered in Texas. A con tract, addressed to Whfteman in registered letter was Immediately mailed to Houston, Texas. If he is not in the Texas town. of course the fact will be made known by the regis tered letter.
 There is hardly any question sof the fact of Whitemans signing his con- tract however Greminger of about the fastest, hard est hitting outfield In the South. The signed contracts of Persons, Daily and Kerwin. are already at baseball head quarters and Whiteman will De pretty sure to sign hls, as soon as he re- ceives the letter
 Looks like everybody has a smile coming. eh?
 In regard to the infield, the signed contracts are all in with the exception of Frank Manush. This fellows con tract has been mailed to him In Panama, but as 1t takes several days as long for the return, his contract IS not expected for some days, yet No uneasiness Is felt in regard to his signing He will sign his contract with a, fast. steady infield with himself on first. Rockinfield on second. Pope at short and Manush on third.
 The only contracts that have been
 
 are those of Whitey Guese and Jack Lively-Thomas and Juul have not signed theirs, as yet. but no trouble IS expected on that score. Elmer Bliss has not signed-but this was taken for granted, as he did the same hold out game with Jimmy Ryan last Spring. Bliss, having been reserved, Is the property of the Montgomery club and he will either have to sign his contract or not play. Unless he is sold or traded by Montgomery he can not play ball In organized ball. and ball player with the experience that Bliss has, Is not going to take the long chances of going in for the out law game, Greminger is doing the same thing in the Bliss matter that Ryan did last Spring. simply sitting steady in the boat and letting the big pitcher do the w@Fryng 6a1a +hs only contract that has not been received is that of Hub Hart-the contracts of Spike shannon and krebs are already In and a letter has been received from Hart, that makes 1t reasonably cer- tain that he will sign his contract all right.
 The scheme of splitting up the Cleveland and Philadelphia teams settled yet Greminger said yesterday morning that Secretary Colson of the Mobile club said that he could not do or say anything definitely fin this re-
  next month. Tt looks like a certain tv though" said the local manager. that we will have several days and several games In Montgomery from and his Cincinnati team get to At lanta," he continued. "I will run up there and try to get some dates for Montgomery with the Reds It Is dates with Jim Fox's Columbus team of the South Atlantic and possibly some games with the Auburn college boys
 At present the only regular dates that have hcen scheduled. are with the Brooklyn Nationals on March 26 and March 27 and the Philadelphia Amert- cans on the March 30 and March 31 hihition season will be pretty well filled. and local fans may expect some good games before the opening of hostflitics on Anrn IF.
 few days G-emtnger will have fifth outfe,der that looks a s Goal and in some respects hetter than anv of the nr~rtette he already has. Th's man Is phl Geler. fast hard-hjttIng cut fielder and utility man. that has been with the St Paul Club of the Ameri- ran Association for the past four years. On opening hls mail yesterday. Grem- finger found a letter from Geier in which the latter asked if there was chance to get on with Montgomery. Geier satd In his ietter. that he had had a talk with Mike Kelly. manager of the Saints and that the manager had told him to go ahead and d. busl- ness for himself Gr~minger knows the man having played in the same league witA him for several years so se al ouce wired him for his terms and f they are satisfactory Geier will be . mem her ot the 1909 Climbers
 For two years Geier hit over 900 ,,-ftt. t-ventv-e zht and twentv-t6ran stolen bases rrsuec tINelv. Last season he had 157 rms twenty-nne st"ien ases and average .2s6 His fielding record sh ows his great valu" and proves that he Is one of the most re- Table utility men In the business put ting up an unusually fast game at third. second and short as well as In the lots. He gave as hls reason for wanting to come South. that he is tired ..1.. Aho .rnlA cn.trat nr.A