Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02


lit May BE n Member of the Inter ma
tional League.
The Wilmington baseball club was or
ganized on Monday with Harry White. as
president pro tenn and Andrew w. Selak
as secretary and treasurer. The meeting
was of an informal nature and after Mr..
| White and William II. Higgins, who will
be the manager and captain of the club,
were selected as a committee ON perma-
nent organization, adjournment was made.
One of the principal individual stock
holders of the club is franklin i. Cotton,
president of the Front and Union streets
railway, and il is expected that at least a
| dozen prominent business men will be-
come interested. Manager Higgins asked
| for $1,000 with which to start the club and
| this same amount was considered reason
able, inasmuch as it will be sufficient to
| put strong nine in the field. The stock
subscribed for last night amounted to up
| ward of $1,000. II is expected that the
| $1,000 will be turned over to the club to-
morrow night, so as to enable Manager
| Higgins to secure his players this week,
and, if possible, play the opening game
here next week with the Philadelphia
city railway and the Front and Union
streets railway will financially aid the
! movement
The games will be played on the Front
and Union streets grounds, and i'll order to
| provide quick transportation the Whining
| ton City Railway Company will extend its
Eighth street electric line down to Front
and Union streets. Soon after the begin
ming of the championship season the ront
and Union streets road will be transformed
| into an electric line and with two electric
| roads to the grounds there will be NO
| trouble as to prompt transportation. Ma,
| terial alterations and Improvements will
be made in the ball park.
While the Wilmington club is now q
/ member of the Atlantic Association il
would not be surprising to hear of it be
coming a member of the International
League (the name of which will soon be
| changed to the Eastern League. Newark
has withdrawn from the International,
and efforts will be made to fill the vacancy
| with Wilmington. President White of the
| international League will be commune
Gated with on this subject and action
thereon will be taken at meeting on
| April 9th, in New York.
Pitcher Mattimore of the Athletic club
| last year wants to sign with Wilmington
and he will probably be secured. The
team Manager Higgins intends signing
will be something like this; Catchers,
Tate of last seasons Baltimore club; and
either Myers of the late Indianapolis
| National League club or Corcoran of last
seasons Wilmington club; pitchers, Matti.
more, Flanagan, Anderson and Day; first
base, Roseman Of last seasons st. Louis
club; second-base, Higgins; third-base,
Rickley, of last years Toronto club; short.
stop, Mari Phillips of Rochester; left-field,
Knight of the Cincinnati club last season;
centre-field, Connors of Toronto; right-feld,
"Orator" Shafcr of the Athletics.
ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION MEETING.
HARRISBURG, Pa, March 31.--The At
lantic Association held another meeting at
the Park Hotel yesterday afternoon. The
constitution was carefully gone over in
order to make it conform to the National
League rules. All of the clubs made a
report showing excellent progress. The
question of adopting ball was laid over
until the next meeting. 1t was announced
that Altoona will have the colored mon
archs who played in New York last year,
that club deciding not to locate in Port
land, Me. This means great fun in the
association and big attendance. Carmen
of Reading has signed Mart Swift, Scran-
toms famous pitcher. Reading will also
have George Winters in left field Clymer
of Philadelphia, for third base and Will
liam Davis as catcher Carmen is after
Lynch, late of Wilmington, for first base.