The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-17
MEETING OF REPRESENTATIVE
WILL BE HELD AT THE DE SOTO.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION
WILL BE PERFECTED.
SUCCESS OF THE LEAGUE is NOW
PRACTICALLY ASSURED.

Charles w. Boyer, Secretary of At
Iantn's Southern LenEue Team
Last Year, VIII Attend the Meet
ing-Ted sullivan VIII Also BE
Present-Street Railway COmpR-
MES Have All Promised Their Sup
port-RichmOnd and Raleigh Anx-
iOus to Come In.
Next Tuesday representatives from
the six cities that will constitute the
South Atlantic Baseball League will
hold a meeting at the De Soto for the
purpose of perfecting a permanent or
ganization for the advancement Of the
national game in those cities which
have been so long without good base
ball.
There has been no lack of interest
in this movement to put a league on
foot, and all of the cities have re-
sponded enthusiastically.
Mr.. Charles w. Boyer, secretary of
the Atlanta Southern League team last
year, will be present at the meeting,
as will Ted Sullivan, one of the best
known baseball promoters in the
country, and there is nothing left to
be done toward the completion of the
plans for organization before the meet
ing is held
Meetings of representative ~ citizens
have been held at Macon, Columbus
Jacksonville. Columbus and Charleston
and representatives have been selected
to attend the organization here.
The purpose of the meeting will be
to outline a plan of control that will
be agreeable to all; to select a COM
mittee to draw up bylaws and con-
stitution, to elect officers and put the
movement in definite shape.
Plenty of Good Material
Since the plans for the organization
of this league have been under way
dozens of player managers and players
have applied for places, and there will
he little trouble in securing good ma
terial at reasonable figures. Mr.. Minis
Hightower. former owner of the Chat
tanooga franchise in the Southern
League, is anxious to secure franchise
in the new league, and says that he be-
lieVeS it will be one of the best baseball
investments to be secured anywhere.
Ted Sullivan is now in Richmond,
where application was made to come
into this league, but Richmond is too
far out of the circuit as is also Raleigh
and Charlotte, both of which have ap-
piled for permission to join in the as
ISOLATION.
If this movement for the organization
of league fails there will be little hope
for professional ball in these cities next
year. 1t is almost impossible to get a
can be relied upon. In forming a
league it is still more difficult to perfect
an organization that will be in a set
tied state with a few weeks prepara-
ton. There is but one way to organize
and that is for a permanent league,
duly Incorporated
Grent Enthusiasm in Columbus.
The greatest enthusiasm in the move
ment seems to exist in the smallest
city to be a member of the league
Columbus Two meetings have been
held there, and representative citizens
have grown enthusiastic over the pros
poets. Columbus supported a team last
year that, with regular playing could
hold its own in almost any league. Au-
! thing, and Savannah, Charleston and
Macon successfully operated city
| leagues. Interest in the game was
! never greater in the South, and it bids
| fair to be still more intense next year.
The street railways in all of the cities
/ have promised their hearty support of
| the league, and the future for profess
/ sional ball in these outside cities has
| never been brighter