The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-18
|DON'T WANT
COAST TEAM
Expense Of Visit
Would Be Too
Great.
Baseball League Will
Not Take Risk
Of Loss.
Meeting Held Yesterday To Dis
cuss Proposition Of Pro.
fessionaI Team.

The Honolulu Baseball League at
yesterdays meeting decided not to at
tempt a winter season of baseball
with a professional California team as
the center of attraction.
The sentiment against bringing the
professionals to the city was unani-
| nous, not that it is not the desire
of the baseball men to furnish amuse-
| ment for the fans, but for the simple
| reason that the finances of the league
and of the individual teams are not
| in such shape as to warrant an ex-
| penditure of $500, with a possible loss
attending.
| Every team in the league was rep
resented at the meeting in the Elks'
| Hall yesterday afternoon, the captains
and managers of each of the five teams
being present. Secretary Andrews
| opened the meeting by reading the fol-
lowing letter, which President Isen-
berg had received:
Honolulu, Sept. IA, 1903
| Mr.. D. P. r. Isenberg and Directors
of Honolulu B. B. League.
| Sir and Gentlemen:-I am represent
| ing a picked professional ball team
and am very DESTROYS of bringing the
| same to play a series of games with
your players on the following terms,
which I hope you will find and agree,
are very reasonable.
| You to have round trip tickets left
| in San Francisco, either with the
| steamship company, or a representa-
| tive and on arrival at Honolulu to
| board and lodge twelve men for a
| period of 80 days, or more if you wish.
| AS near as I can estimate the eX-
penses will be in the neighborhood of
| two thousand dollars.
| Having witnessed a game Saturday,
| 18th inst, I should suppose your re-
| ceipts were in the neighborhood of
| from four to five hundred dollars.
Now this would surely be increased
to at least one-half again as much Or
| say six hundred.
| We agree to play till you get your
| expense money, of passage, room and
| boarding: then we to get one-half of
| the gross receipts. We also agree to
play as many games as you gentlemen
| may see fit to arrange, under the above
| terms.
You will find it will greatly benefit
not only your players, but will arouse
| much more enthusiasm as is the case
| in San Francisco, when the eastern
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play ball with the locals.
| We may be able, after playing say
| two games with each of your teams,
to intermingle and act as coaches for
your boys, which will certainly i'm
prove your games for the coming
season.
Please inform ME at your earliest
convenience, so that I can get the
men together and complete arrange
ments.
Thanking you. gentlemen, for the
courtesy you have shown me, and
hoping We will be able to come to an
| understanding which will be agreeable
to all concerned, I am
Respectfully yours.
H. r. BECKETT,
14O fremont Ave, San Francisco.
Mr.. Isenberg said on behalf of the
| three trustees in the city, that they
| We're not in favor of the proposition.
''The trustees do not favor importing
a team from California; said he.
THE trustees are heavily in debt on
| the baseball park, and while this was
an exceptionally good year, there are
| still outstanding liabilities amounting
| to $4,000. We do not feel warranted in
| taking chances on bringing the team
here, but if the league wants to cake
| the responsibility all we'll and good
Mr.. Steere, as a member of the COM
mittee to whom other letters from CAL
| ifornia teams had been referred, stated
that one meeting had been held, at
which the matter had been discussed.
The sentiment then was that none OF
the propositions presented were feas-
IDLE because of the great cost. He
thought that the Beckett proposition
was even less feasible, and besides