The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-11
CHATTANOOGA
 MAY BE ADDED LifIe Rock About Frozen
 Out. PRESIDENT JOSEPH ON EETNc Some Trades Add to Strength of ], the Local Team. tside Lights on wAst Really Happened whne the Masnatss mixed Thinss over tt the Bssssan Gather
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,PRESDENT JOSEPH ON EEINc

.oh no. that was not the best days work did" said President E. B. Jo- seph. IT.. of the Montgomery Baseball Club: who returned from the Msmphis to the Rockenneld- Burnett trade. flor the best days work done at the meet ings$ in my opinion, was in getting ltt- tie Rock out of the Southern League.
 This Little Rock affair was just want to see.- he continued. "and we had some red-hot discussions over It, but we finally won out, and unless there is very radical change within the next month. chattanooga will De the schedule h made next spring.
 1t was this way: The President or the Chattanooga club, made an omer to the Little Rock club of &t0.Oo0 tor the franchise of the Arkansas town. together with a clean title to the Lt- tie Rock players amounting to some ts.0O0. and the Little Rock share Of the Southern League reserve fund. emountins to stoe. This virtually put at s7s.ooO and the first split came Tight there when the Chattanooga people refused to stand for 1t.
 "After some debates. parliamentary tactics. and bits of diplomacy that would have made . political convention posing factions up to the point where the difference was split, the Little Rock people agreeing to . price of si2.s00. The Chattanooga people virtually settled then and there.
 "Chattanooga has an option on the Little Rock franchise until December IS. The cause of the delay is that the Chattanooga people still have to or. rsnge mattsrs in resard to ge,t'ns b,s Sus will be done In the next few weeks # the release of the Chattanooga fran chise has to be purchased from the South Atlantic League. That matter of the South Atlantic League. which will be held very soon.
 At any rats.e continued Mfr Joseph, 'It fs pretty safe to say that Chatta. nooge will be g member of the 1910 Southern. League circuit; ana some shossnss ,s.xs,S of Sslisrs will De saysa inc
 so many trades were made during the meeting that Southern League fans will hardly recognize some of the teams next season. and speaking of "A mistake was made in the Rocken. field trade story. In that the name of the Spokane player Is Burnett instead Of Benn9tt. He is an outfielder and that 10 where ! snail put n nm 1 on sI sns n. i0. 6lhS said that Burnett was such q ia. yorite with the fans of that town and played such q smooth game in the in- neld On one or two occasions. that he si place in the outfeId and played him in tMe fnfleld
 .For that reason, the manager of the Spokane club said that he had de- cided to sail CT trade him if possible. .end.I had no trouble in pulling e1 the . - |
 New Deal.
 T have a deal on foot now for second bassman. but for various req sons his name cannot be made public. ing, but because some of the man. agers of Eastern clubs that I had the deals with will have to wait until they nask hs soms ss so S Ssvsh the men cannot
 "one of the most iudicrous things to me at the meeting was an ofter made me by certain manager. of Mickey O'Brien for Spike Shannon. asked this manager if he thought that I looked like candidate for the foolish house. and the subject was not men
 .arhe bisgest deal made at the meet ing was by the Mobile club. which sold ss.ooo worth of Plsyers. and LII, i.
 when I reached home I found a telegram waiting for me stating that the Mobile, Club had asked wavers on Hfxon. Thornton. McCay, Cato, McIver and Torrey I waived on the bunch. for none of them could hold their own with the team that we intend to have next year. At the Memphis meeting Dr. Ynge sold Pitcher Suggs to the Cincinnati Reds for $4,000, bought OutfieIder Hueisnan from New orleans Milwaukee for Moran and catcher, and traded Cy Neighbors for Pitcher Will der of the Northwestern League. where we secured Burnett. During the meet ing Charlie Frank of New Orleans drafted Farnk Manush from Savan- nah, and the chances are that Manush will be found playing against hts old team mates on the Montgomery team
 aThe salary limit was boosted from e2.700 to s3.250, and the player limit was cut down from fifteen to fourteen men. giving every club a chance to pay more salaries and, of course. hav- Ing the effect of making the different teams of the league very much faster and giving the patrons of the games a better article of ball than they have sver had in the South."