The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-09-20
WILL IT Be CAIRO
OR OUR OWN CITY?
Not Settled Where Final X. l..
Il. Meeting Goes.
Secretary Farnbaker Has the Funds
and Records ana Will Have to
BE Persuaded.
X. l. t. LEAGUES PROSPECTS

DIR. Irwin Thompson, president of tn
X. l. I. league, stated this morning tina
meeting of the league would be hel,
Sunday, but that he really could not tel
if the meeting would be held in Padu
cab. Cairo or elsewhere.
"You may say for me- DIR. Thompson
explained that | really do not earl
whether the meeting is held in Cairo oi
Paducah, but the reason | named Padu
cah as the point of meeting is because
on the face of the returns Paducal
is the winner of the pennant and under
the constitution the final meeting should
be held in Paducah. Cairo and Paducah
or rather Cairo, is contesting the pen
nant and this matter will have To he
decided by the league meeting. | will
say that as far as the games played arc
concerned,@ Paducah won the greater
number and in percentage gets the pen
nant Now this talk of protests, etc,
will have to be ruled on according TO the
constitution and rules of the league at
this meeting Sunday. ! have no doubt
that Paducah will hold her own and if
the league as a whole wants the meet
ing at Cairo it will have a chance TIA
have voice.
"This afternoon | shall write to every
league town and inform the officers that
on the face of the returns Paducah gets
the pennant, and is therefore entitled
to the meeting. | will add that in event
any one wants to vote for Cairo or any
other place as meeting point, TO notify
me before Sunday. II the majority of
the votes go TO Cairo it will suit me to
eall the meeting there" Iy
President Thompson is fair and inn
partial man and admits that as far as
the actual winning of the pennant is
it will have to be decided at
the league meeting. inasmuch as there is
some contention on part of Cairo mana
gers over some of the games. lie has
never himself, he states, declared who
did win the pennant except from what
the returns show.
lie states that neither he nor Secre-
tary Farnbaker has any right TO decide
any game that was played in the last 30
days of the championship season. The
game must be counted as il was played.
and the question of for whom il is ulti-
lnately TO be counted must he decided
by the league at its final meeting.
One proposition that the league is up
against is that of handling Secretary
He has about 500 of the
guarantee money deposited by each club
that they would finish out the season,
and in addition each club had to pay
the league secretary 81 for every one of
the l22 games played, for league eX-
penses, which would have made S2.s2s
paid to the secretary by the six clubs.
II is understood. however, that some of
the clubs have not paid up in full. Out
Of this, also, must come the league ex-
penses, such as umpires, scorers, station
cry, etc, hence it is not known how
mitch Of this expense money the secre-
tary has left. Secretary Farnbaker,
however, has the league funds and the
league records, aud is in good position
to dictate his terms of surrender. II he
insists that the final league meeting
must be held in Cairo. it will have To be
held there, but the others are counting,
on his coming to Paducsh, and here set
Ting all questions about which there il
any difference.
In speaking of the prospects of the
league for next season, President Thomp-
son stated: IL think next year we will
have an eight club league. This will
be decided at the next meeting or some
meeting held subsequently. | think it is
the intention of Evansville managers and
Owensboro fans to get into the Kitty
league and we are expecting applica-
tions for our next meeting"
At the meeting to be held Sunday
new officers will likely be elected for
the next year. President Thompson has
made a good officer and will likely be re-
elected president as there is no known
opposition. IL is understood Secretary
NJ. J. Farnbaker will not be candidate
for reelection and Mr.. Arthur Bailey, of
Paducah, has announced his candidacy in
went Farnbaker refused to run again.
The Jackson Street Reds and the Ster-
ing amateur teams will play match
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