The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-03
North and South Carolina
League Of Eight Clubs.
ITS POINTS OF STRENGTH
The Va. N. G. League Protected by the
National Association.
NOTICE THAT PLAYERS MAY Be RESERVED
Telegram to President Riggs Yesterday From
Secretary Farrell. Ashenback Writes
That He Wants Team in
the League.

the League.
While the Tar Heel fans have given
baseball rest since the termination of
the State League season there is much
tion of an eight club league, composed of
towns in North and South Carolina.
There is a strong desire in both States
for the formation of the Two State
League. As to Virginia there is no dis
position or desire to include any city in
that State. The experience of the pres
ent season with the Virginia teams is suf-
ficient,
An eight club circuit would insure the
success of the league as it would not
give any of the towns too much ball. In
this State, Raleigh, Charlotte and Will
mington would doubtless desire to enter
the league, and it is understood that
Greensboro and Winston would like to
secure franchises.
In South Carolina Charleston Columbia
and Spartanburg are good baseball towns
and would, of course, enter the league.
Savannah and Augusta are near by and
there is talk of even including the two
Georgia cities. All indications point to
the formation of a strong league next
season, much stronger from a financial
viewpoint than the old Virginia North
Carolina League.
Ed. Ashenback, formerly captain of the
Newport News team, has left the Pacific
coast and is in Cincinnati again. Ash
wants club in the league next year In
letter to the Religious Editor Of the
News and Observer he says mfr Frank
Mofftt,, of Knoxville Tenn, who had a
team in Marion. S. c., spoke favorably
CT the patronage in that section. He
tells me that Charleston, Spartanburg
and Columbia in South Carolina are first
class ball towns. In my humble opinion
think it advisable to give Virginia a
rest. have nine of my 1902 team signed.
Abner Powell and others have urged me
to take the Atlanta club"
President Higgs, Of the Virginia North
Carolina League, received the following
telegram yesterday from Mr.. ]. H. Fer
rell, of Auburn, N. Y, Secretary of the
National Association Of Professional
Baseball Leagues:
For. further self-protection mail list
of reservation to Mr. Young
Tho National Association is composed
of all the minor leagues in the country,
and the Virginia North Carolina League
is included. Organization was recently
affected at Chicago by the election of
Mr.. P. T. Powers, of the Eastern League
as proof This action was taken for
the protection Of the players of the minor
leagues, the ten-year National League
agreement having expired. President
Higgs has been furnished with proceed
Of 1,o nj NJ
the agreement entered into by the Minor
League Association. He thinks the clubs
of the Virginia. North Carolina can re-
serve their players under the rules. The
leagues that compose the association are:
The Eastern League, the Western League,
the Western Association, the New York
State League the Indianapolis, Iowa and
Illinois League, the Southern League,
the California League, the New England
League. the Pacific Northwest League,
the Connecticut State League, the North
Carolina League.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal says
very truthfully of the players who went
from the State League to the Southern
League: 'The Tar Heel recruits from
the North Carolina Virginia League have,
with few exceptions proved stars in the
Southern League. DIESEL, Dannehower
Smith, Freeland, Stewart, Atz, Stanley
and Gilligan, of New Orleans; Lipp and
Win Clark, of Birmingham; Wolfe and
Spratt, of Chattanooga, are rated among
the leading lights of the present league.
Not one of the players from the Old
North State has failed to fulfill expecta-
tions, and from their performances or
Southern diamonds the Virginia. North
Carolina organization must have been
composed of fast baseball timber.
President P. T. Powers, of the Eastern
League, has addressed letter to the
presidents of the National and Ameri-
can Leagues, reciting that the minor
leagues have recently received notice
from President Young that the national
agreement will be abrogated and termi-
mated by the National League on Sep
TENDER 80, 1901. and not again reinstated,
and that the eleven minor leagues
have banded together for mutual protec-
tion and organized an entirely indepen-
dent association under the name of the
National Association of Professional
Baseball Leagues.
President Powers proposes that the in
diyidual members of each pf, the American
and National Leagues expEcss their will
. ingness as individual clubs to respect the
reserve and contract national rights of
the minor league clubs with their play
ers, the minor, league clubs, members of
tho National Association of Professional
Baseball Leagues TO reciprocate by re-
specting the reserve and contract national
rights of the club members OF the Ma
tional and American Leagues with their
players or such individual clubs of these
two leagues as may be willing to join with
us in this reciprocity arrangement.