The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-07
Baseball.
TED SULLIVAN REACHES ZION
LEAGUE PROMOTER ARRIVED IN
TOWN YESTERDAY.
Will Begin Work on the Organization
Of the Salt Lake Team Advance
Talks Of Baseball.

Ted sullivan. the partner Of W. H.
go ir The Central American League
r-,pozi,ion that is % embrace Utah and
lr.,tara. came into town yesterday
,,,ttf,nr over with enthusiasm for the
&c NJ the project. Mr.. Sullivan re-
80 +he league as an assured fact.
=. savs that there is a lot Of work to
~ done vet to get things in shape. He
Mill get right to work on the organiza-
a.. nj the Salt Lake nine, and
-.f-g Of the league will be called
,,.,rfr q week or ten days. The perma-
..,- oraaufzation will then be effected,
- tho league will be ready TO begin
0rs of the big things that will slim
80. interest in the outcome Of the Sc
- of games will be the playing Tor
- rsrrant that has been offered the
1[S,i,e bv the Spalding company. 1t
nj bs q handsome affair, and will be
Iii worth striving for. The umpires
Fan be selected by the league officers.
rrbe officers are to be chosen at the
or,auizstion meeting Of the league and
al ba representative of the four CLUBS.
ON every side the promoters seem 10
have met encouragement ana ala from
a. more enthusiastic Of the fans. The
S,regoD short Line Railroad company
61s ofyen the project assistance by the
ofrerinf, of "A rate that will make the
Ionr iumrs possible without any great
daniafi0n Of the treasury. Mr.. Sullivan
avnarts To- meet little or no opposition
in this city. He says that IL is ripe Tor
professional league ball ana that the
1uL.f. is TO see better baseball than it
has been accustomed to.
81 came here to see what interest
There was among the citizens or SAT-
Lake and ogden in the formation OF a
league which would be called the Cen
tral American said Mr.. Lucas yester-
day. This is a name which would De
large in scope and give the citizens
throughout the United States an ldea
that Salt Lake and Ogden are on the
map and in full touch with American
national game / am addressing myself
now to the disinterested patrons of the
game in Salt Lake. and will state that
there is no better medium for advertis-
ing the city than a professional club in
q professional league.
There is a vast difference between an
amateur or local league and profes-
si0nal league. In professional league
the players have something TO play Tor.
There is an incentive in the possibility
Of their graduating into the larger
leagues Of the country. Their scores
and averages are also printed in the
leading baseball papers of the United
States. They would be under discipline
and would be protected by the national
agreement.
The standard would be entirely rails
ed. Umpires would be selected by the
league and there would be as much dit
ference in the whole surroundings of
the game as there is between the wait
ers Of a hotel trying 10 play a Winter s
Tale i'm opposition TO the James Kid
der-Hanford company. This is no re-
Election on the railroad teams, as they
may have many good players, but it is
the entire structure Of the league that
] am comparing to all amateur clubs
throughout the country.
The Montana cities have shown
great enthusiasm and with the kind
concessions that Mr.. Burley OF the
short Line has made i'm giving terms
for the clubs, will not only give great
baseball TO the city Of salt Lake, but
would bring excursiOnists from the
cites which the visiting club halls
from
I am speaking from experience and
Know that this proposed league will be
run thoroughly on business principles,
and DC cannot be other than a success.
have managed the ST. Louis Browns
and CluoS of the national league and
know full we'll the downfall of most
minor leagues IS the foolish eXtraVa-
Gdnce of amateur managers