The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-01-25
DIAMOND FIELD SI'ARkS.
Base Ball club. Preparing for the season.

The hopes for q good strong lcaguc.arc
Frightening. -Four clubs arc ready. The
other four are trying TO get ready. In
Chattanooga the subscription list is being
libcrally signed; Atlanta is waking up TO
her interest i'll forming n club, and in both
cities the sporting men claim there will he
iinC clubs. AS to the remaining two clubs,
there are such cities as Montgomery, Mobile
and GIccnViilc, each of them anxious for
Il club.
New Orleans, it is said, has promised to
take care of Mobile, but she does not seem
to be doing much towards putting a club
in that city. 1t is very questionable if Il
cub, formed undcr the auspices and by the
assistance of another Southern League
club, would DC any addition to the strength
or advance The interest Of the League. 1t
would seem very hard If the Mobile nine
should, under such circumstances, persist
in beating the Crcsccnts, If able to do so
The attempt to work up Il team in Mont
gomcly is meeting with local encourage.
mcnt, but is hardly likely TO result in The
formation OF n strong club. This city
would make q nice stopping place, how
ever, in the run TO and from New Orleans
and Memphis, and the expenses of the
League would be greatly reduced. Mont.
gomcry can afford a club as well as Bir-
mingham or Chattanooga; perhaps better,
as the novelty of the game there would
almost insure success for the first year.
With q little assistance she might organize
a good club.
Glccnvillc is becoming interested in the
national game, and IA strong effort is being
made there to have a club in the Southern
League. The Grccnville Noes is at work
on the plan and there is no doubt that n
lively effort will be made to form Il club.
Giccnvillc takes n wholesome interest in
every thing that promises to render her
more attractive, Base ball will do that
and the Mountain City knows it. A club
there would make the chain complete, a
series of links running from the sea to the
Mississippi. 1t will be pleasant TO watch
what Grccnvillc is going to do in the mat
ter. Why couldn't Charleston look after
her a little? Two clubs in South Carolina
would help us here rs well as the League.
The talk about Louisville is dying out,
as was expected. Louisville would hardly
enter the Southern League with a high.
priced nine and such nice little jumps.
The uniform of the Southern League
umpircS will be as follows: Navy blue
knee pants, shirts and stockings, with
white caps and belts. II will DC a very
pretty dress.
Charleston has signed Lon Meyers,
Noss's catcher, and this fine battery will DC
together again this season.
Tho southern papers haven't got Charles.
tons team down right yet. Here it is:
CatrhcrS-Childs Nicholas, Meyers; pitch.
e~rs-hnowlton, Bohn, Brown, Noss; base
mcn-Powcll, Peak, Strict; short stop,
Sadie llouck; ielders-Glcnn, Carl, viii
liams.
a. w. Saunders and Ed. S. Iiepglc, of
Chicago, have been appointed umpires for
the Southern League.
Sporting Life says that Sadie Houck is
waiting anXiously for his advance money.
Capt. Young states that $3.50 was sent 10
Houck some weeks ago. Powell holds
Sadic's receipt for the money. Perhaps