Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-19
THE NEW LEAGUE.
Little Came OF Yesterdays Dav-
export Meeting.
INDIFFERENT SPIRIT Is SHOWN.

No Change. In the Name, and the Schedule
Committee IS Highly Independent-Wsn
Attended. but Experience in Bali Mat
tiers a Perceptibly Missing Factor.
The so-called Eastern Iowa Base
Ball league. to which Rock Island
and Moline. by reason of their ANAL
gamation with Davenport. are at
tached, as well as GalesburS, does
not start ont with the air of business
that has characterized organizations
with which Rock Island and Moline
have been associated in the past.
1t will probably begin the season and
will be composed of good clubs. but
it is not dominated by the business
like spirit that looks to the interests
of all cities enlisted. One evidence
of this was shown yesterday in stick
ing to the title of the Eastern Iowa
League" despite the efforts of the
Illinois representatives to have it
changed to title Of broader scope in
view of the fact that Illinois cities
are included in the roster of clubs.
The name adopted under such cir
cumstances is nonsensical and mean
ingIess. What Illinois cities are do
ing in attempting to capture the PEN
nant in a race that is confined to a
section of Iowa in its comprehensive
significance, it is difficult to discern.
However, we will probably have base
ball and a good local team, and from
indications interesting games with
most. if not all of those played on the
Tri-City grounds in this city, AS the
Davenport papers are now finding
fault that no movement is on foot
looking to grounds or games on that
side. Rock Island expected to fur
nish the grounds in the first place,
and that is its sole reason for object
ing to the title OF the league.
Proceedings of the Meeting.
The Democrat of this morning
gives the proceedings of the meet
ing at the Kimball house in that city
yesterday:
1.-The base ball meeting at the
Kimball house yesterday called to-
gether representatives of seven of
the eight clubs Of the league. DR..
H. ID. Mccormick and &. s. Shugart
were there from Dubuque; j. a.
Plumb, L. S. Metcalf and j. +.
Brott from Cedar Rapids; F. L. Du-
shane, r. w. Sweeney and Bill
Kreig from Galesburg; c. H. Ross,
o. NJ. Burris and X. nj. Burris from
Burlington; c. II. Nauman and Il. ID.
Herman from Waterloo, and M. T..
Fulton and j. f. Skemp from Du-
buque. The Tri-City club was rep
resented by c. w. Schlcgel. Charles
McHugh and c. L. Kindt. The
main matter of business that had
been expected to be considered at
the meeting was the proposed sched-
ule of the league, but the committee
was not ready to report. Mr.. Plumb.
of Dubuque, chairman of the sched-
ule committee, was too much en-
crossed in a game of billiards last
evening to know when it would he
ready. or anything about it. He
showed the same heightened disre-
gard for the newspaper men and the
public. which is holding its breath
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base ball news, that the magnates
did in the afternoon by holding their
meeting behind closed doors.
Without the schedule to con-
slider, the meeting did the best it
could by taking action upon the case
of Marshalltown, which has not YET
got its local association into shape
and was not represented at the meet
ing. 1t was decided that Ottumwa
would be a better town for the
league than Marshalltown, and q
committee will be sent there to help
get things into shape and maintain
the S-club league.
lin regard to Sunday games it was
decided to award 65 per cent of the
receipts from such games, in towns
where they are allowed, to the win.
ner. the $25 guarantee to the visiting
club to stand for all other games.
The Spalding ball was adopted as the
standard ball of the league"
MASTER PLUMBERS MEET.