The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-13
WORCESTER CLUB.
Will Be Managed By
a Stock Com
pany.
CANVASS TO BEGIN At ONCE.
Territory Opposite East
Park to Be Fitted Up
As Grounds.
CANVASS TO BEGIN At ONCE.

The Worcester ball team will be man
aged by a stock company after a few
days. The failure to organize a stock
company week or two ago when a
meeting was called at the Bay State
House. means nothing.
The company will be formed as if no
notice Of that meeting was ever issued.
Fred Mason, treasurer of the ball team,
win begin today or tomorrow a canvass
of persons interested in the welfare Of
the team with a view of forming cor
poration which will conduct the affairs
of a>base ball club in Worcester not on
1y this year, but for subsequent years,
while the club can retain its franchise
in the Eastern league.
The company will be capitalized at
$4,000. OF this the present management
will retain $1525, leaving s1475 to be
subscribed among business men of this
city. who have desire to see the ma
tional game exemplified in this city.
The shares will be sold at $25 each.
The purpose of the present manage
nent of the Worcesters in forming a
, SlOSh IS1LRGuy 10 not Win a view TO
this season. The financial success of
this season is already guaranteed. The
club is not only ahead of the game at
present, but is 50 far ahead that with
fairly good luck, it will finish easily
ahead from a financial standpoint.
The club is gaining perceptibly and
xhere Is every indication that it will
continue at the same rate until the end
of the base ball year. The stock tax
M he nlfrh R,aac z
when the receipts of the holiday games
of July could be included in order
that the brightest prospects might be
made known. The showing is more IA
vorable than the great majority of peo-
pie OF this city could imagine. The ac-
tual net receipts of the club up to Ju-
ly were $1S24.30 which with the $500
that Charles A. Marston has placed in
the hands of p. T. Powers, president of
the league, makes the present assets
of the club $2324.S0 on July 5. The liza
bilities are but five days salary and $50
in outstanding bills. The club is far
ahead of expectations and the financial
statement shows it is a money maker
of the first water.
The success which has attended the
club thus far insures its success for
the balance of the year, Followers Of
the game recognize that with fair wea-
Their conditions the club will continue
to make money at the same ratio that
1t has thus far, which win leave a COM
Portable balance when Its books are
closed at the end of the season.
The only object of the stock compa-
ny is to insure successful base ball in
worcester another season. The plan is
TO form stock company with a cap
1talization of $4,000, which, with the
money the club makes this season, will
equip new grounds nearer the city than
the oval That is the primary object
of capitalizing the club at $4,000. The
grounds are practically selected. If
the stock company is successfully
formed, the territory opposite East
park, on Shrewsbury street, will be
fitted up as ball grounds. 1t will take
few thousand dollars to erect a
grandstand and fences and properly
grade the lot for ball ground
Treasurer Fred Mason of the club
has the subscription papers, and will
start them in a day or two. The man
agement of the club is nothing daunted
by the failure to organize a stock COM
pany at a public meeting called at the
Bay State House several days ago. 1t
has learned that public meetings never
amounted to anything in Worcester,
and relies on the promises of promin-
ent citizens to take stock in the team.
Before calling the meeting, Manager
Leonard interviewed several well
known citizens who have a liking for
the national game, and from each he
received assurances that thew would
assist by every means in their power
They assured Manager Leonard thew
would subscribe for stock in the club
and were immensely pleased with the
showing that the team has made thus
far this season.
None of the men put in an appear
ance at the meeting, but Manager
Leonard was not disappointed. He
realized that men who would support
the team financially were averse to
having their names connected with a.
public meeting, and apparently gave up
the project. But all the time the man
agement was laying it's plans to con-
summate them quietly.