The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-07-07
OSKALOOSA IS CAME.
Fans Double Their Holdings and
Boost the Ball Club.

A meeting of the stockholders OF
the Oskaloosa Base Ball Association
was held at the supervisors room In
the court house Friday evening TO
consider the business of the club and
to see what could be done. Oskaloo.
sa continues to lose with a persist
ence that can not be otherwise than
discouraging to the town and its peo-
pie. Ways and means, what to do
and how to do it were discussed and
the stockholders rallied to the sup
port Of Manager Donahue and their
organization in a way that was sur
prising. And this is In the face OF
the fact that the club has represented
the town shamefully. Players havt
laid down." games have been given
away and attempts made to wreck the
team more than once. The associa-
ton has had the misfortune to be be.
hind one of the most dissatisfied and
thoroughly unreliable lot of ball play
ers that was brought together as the
result of the organization of the Iowa
league. Confronted by all of these
facts, Oskaloosa comes up again in
support of the national game in a
way that at once stamps the town as
the best supporter of the game, the
very best baseball town in the league.
Discouragements have been without
number, the club as whole has
spit in the face of the organization
that has been paying it's salaries, but
the members come forth again and
say, we will have good ball here and
we will support good ball.
The meeting INDUCED in a. lengthy
discussion of the situation as it ex.
listed and it was the unanimous voice
OF the meeting that the stock of the
association be doubled and money
provided for the support of team
that would play good ball and bring
home at least small per cent of the
trophies of contests won. Every fan
present doubled his holdings in the
association and nearly $500 was sub
scribed by those in the room.
Committees were appointed to
make solicitations and to do several
parts of the work. Mayor John G..
Williams was placed at the head OF
the committee on solicitation, and ne,
together with W. P. Cleaver, Bert
Walton, James A. Dewitt and FRED
Blattner, started out this morning to
raise the necessary balance to place
the association upon wider financial
basis.
The meeting. all in all, became en-
Unused over the work in hand. 1t
was stockholders meeting pure ana
simple. Only holders of stock were
| admitted to the room and some plain
talk was INDUCED in by those in at
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cial condition of the Organization was
made and discussion of the require.
| ments of the future work Of the as
sociatiop. An explanation of the
transfer of the game of next Sunday
and the morning of the Fourth was
given and the stockholders came into
fuller and more complete under
standing Of the affairs of the admins.
tration.
Oskaloosa's support of her club
through thick and thin has been the
wonder of the other cities of the
league, and now that the stockhold-
ers and the citizens come forward
with such a manifestation as that of
last evening, and in what has been
accomplished on the street today, her
loyalty should stir any club of play.
ers to winning efforts. If the players
now in the club do not respond, there
are probably others who will.