The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-23

Memphis. Nov. 2.-Cspecial. .)-The fight which is about to occur between the Southern Baseball League, which com
 sss sSes ,,,s ia Msnph' R.oR New Orleans. Montgomery. Mobile, Bir- mingham and Atlanta, and the new league betng pushed by Charley Frank
 sTa wnicn anh has NasSy1s annoaneed ehen. Montgomery. New Orleans, Atlanta. Sa- vannah. Charleston included, is likely to cause much bitter feeling between not
 sss saa soms of t6e 6outh's foremost moneyed men. who are influential in electric light enter pfdses. street car trusts and banking con- cerns.
 According to announcements made by representatives of both leagues. there will be . clash of clubs in six cities. The main financial stays behind the old league will be H. and J. Newman of New Or leans, whose operations through their ownership of street car enterprises ex- tend to little Rock, Birmingham. Nash vdlle. Atlanta and New Orleans. Gen.
 Sam T. carnes, a local capitalist. whose fortune has assumed gigantic proportions recently through successful investments in local and other electric plants and in Beaumont asphalt, has given Charley
 Frank and the promoters of the new league asurance of ample financial back Just how far General garnes will go in advancing the money for preliminary expenditures is not known, but Carnes himself has stated that he is willing to lose every cent of his annual salary or l $25, 900 from the Beaumont Asphalt Com pany in order to win out. Carnes states | that he Is In the fight because he thinks | Charley Frank and the Memphis Club were the victims of conspiracy in the | settlement of the noted St, Vrain case, | subsequent disruption and reorganization | of the present Southern League, headed | by Judge W. M. Kavanaugh of Little Rock.
 turn for his trouble. he states, and 1t is | known that he has already passed out more than 5000 to enable the new or | ganization to lease parks, sign players | and get things shfpshape for the launch- | ing of the league in December. General | Carnes Is known as a man with great | deal of determination. who is likely. with | his great wealth. to carry cut any pro 1 feet he starts. He says he cares nothing | for the so-called protective agreements between baseball bodies; that he has been engaged In baseball before and mas
 that the player Is always looking ous for the biggest plum. He has announced through others Interested with him that fancy inducements will be offered play
 CTS to jump into the new league band
 With the Newmans of New Orleans,
 things are different. In statement made to The Advertiser representative recent ly the junior Newman said that the VieW' he and his father took of the situation
 was from purely Q business standpoint He said that baseball was the means o
 increasing street car trafiic exactly &o | sOS. .25 over. his lines in the summer O 1yUl. He said he controlled the street ca | systems of New Orleans.' Birmingham Atlanta and Nashville. He Is of the opin ion that a fight between rival leagues
 in the South will eventually mean
 slump of public interest, therefore
 shrinking of nickels and dimes tn trolley
 fares. T don't believe that Genera Carnes understands the situation; sale
 Hart Newman. "I believe that he nai
 heen hoodwinked into fight which n' holds too cheap. Two leagues will never
 nav. If necessary will furnish twenty | cars A minute to the parks in Atlanta
 Rlrmingham, New Orleans and Nash
 vile occupied by the old league and on | car every twenty minutes to the new
 parks. In other words, we Will ngnt tt II kilI the new leaguers of at once IT hopes of keeping the game from goinl
 into the gutter from which the presen
 league took it two years ago.. = r., while the light which is promised be
 hween Millionaire Carnes and the New mans will be the real issue. there VII
 likely be a great many side battless tha will be of great interest to the commu
 nitIes in which they are waged; In' Il granting of the old league francnise t' | fine new street car company in Montgom
 erv and the awarding of the new league
 franchise to the old street car company