The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-03-13
League Adopted a 1872 Game
Schedule at Meeting
Yesterday.
Henderson and Hoplsinsvillc 10th
Came In with Guarantee Money,
Thus 1nsuring Six Clubs.
GENERAL NEWS OF THE LEAGUE

The members of the X. I. T. base
ball league held meeting at the
general Offices of the Paducah City
Railway Co., on South Fourth street,
yesterday and completed the member
ship of the league. settled on a sched-
ule. elected a board of'directors and
the league is now ready for business.
President Charles Brown, of Padu-
cab, presided and the representation
was as follows; Paducah. Messrs.
Gus Thompson and John Keller In
the morning session, and Mr.. Thomp-
son in the afternoon; Cairo, Secre-
tary w. p Greaney and Mr.. Maurice
j. Farnbaker; Vincennes, G. c. Cos
nell. treasurer of the league; Prince
ton, Floyd ]. Biggs; Henderson, ia
cob zimbro, Jr., and Hopkinsville,
w. II. Hancock. Manager Harry
Lloyd, of Paducah team. was also
present at the meeting.
The first thing taken up at the
morning session was the settlement
of membership. Hopkinsville and
Henderson both deposited the 5000
guarantee fund, and a committee
composed of Messrs. Farnbaker, Gus
Thompson and c. c. Gosnell was APP
pointed to look over schedules and
recommended the best to the league.
| After this the committee went to
work and little was done until after
noon when the schedule was present
ed and adopted.
Ex-Secretary FarnbalSer had what
he called a sliding schedule" He
had four schedules but presented on
ly three to the committee. One was
for 1923 games. another 1872 and the
third for 153. The 1872 game Slid
ing schedule" is so arranged that ad-
ditional games can be tackled on in
event the league decides later to
make the schedule longer. A sched-
ule from John Ray, of Princeton, was
presented and two from Mr.. Ray
mond LOOMS, of Evansville. The
committee selected the 1872 schedule
of Mr.. Farnbaker which opens the
league May 4th and closes September
18th. Mr.. Farnbaker's mileage ran
from 1910 to 1900 miles, while
Rays ran from 800 to 5000. be-
ing too great mileage for the small
towns. and Mr.. Farnbaker's being
shorter by 1000 miles was adopted.
On May 4th. the league will open
under the schedule adopted with
Princeton at Vincennes, Hopkinsville
at Paducah and Henderson at Cairo.
The remainder of the schedule will
not be given out until printed In
form by Secretary Greaney and sent
each newspaper with a specified time
of release for printing.
The board of directors of the
leaguswas elected as follows: Wal
lace Dyer, Henderson; w. ii. Han
cock, Hopkinsville and Floyd J..
Biggs, Princeton, Ind. Each gentle
man lives in the town he represents
and owns stock in the local team.
The matter of uniforms was
brought up and selections made.
Paducah, Cairo. Vincennes and
Princeton will have two suits, one
white and one blue, but the stock
ings. caps and belts must be blue.
One suit will be for the road and the
other home. Hopkinsville retained
brown. and Henderson cadet gray.
In the matter OF the small towns
paying so much mileage on the cir
cult, II was voted that the league pay
500 to this expense, this being COM
plimentary TO the smaller towns.
The league also adopted a history
OF the Kitty league which is being
gotten out by Jacob Zimbro. Jr., of
Henderson. IL will contain a com
plete history of the league, managers
of teams and all data OF players, who
have made good In bigger leagues.
along with the pictures OF the teams
This book Is intended to help the
league and will be sold In every
league town. Mr.. Zimbro thinks II
will pay.
An attempt was made to have the
scorers file written report OF games
at the telegraph Offices for the bene-
1T of newspapers. but this being a
special meeting and impossible to
amend the constitution the matter
was not acted on.
In regard to the matter of amend