The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-08
TROUBLE FOR MEMPHIS
SUMMER RACE MEETING sCHED-
 ULED OVER THERE.
Memphis Sports Have Always Passed Up Baseball for Racing-The Trouble Between Baseball People and Press Will
 Hurt Gimme.

Memphis, Tenn. May 7.-(Specta )- Manifold troubles are following in the path of the Memphis Baseball Club rent season. Added to the unpleasant relations existing between the only two daily newspapers in this city and seems se sn SlS5 the stockholders owing to the semi -chcial announcement that midsummer race meeting for running horses is to be conducted at Montgomery Park by people behind the New Memphis Jockey Club. This bit of news will come In for considerable consideration from each franchise holder of the Southern League according to local opinion, as baseball and thoroughbred racing in the past has never been conducted holders of both games happy over the financial returns. Baseball has invari. ably been side-tracked for .he annual spring season of races here in the past and 1t is generally conceded that the average Memphis sport lover Is and al- ways has been inclined to patronize the running horse game in preference to any branch of sport offered.
 An economic policy has recently been introduced by the stockholders of tho Baseball Association in many ways and garded as the most unpopular one ever introduced by a pennant winning club. Wholesale curtaiiing of :ourtesies two papers occurred and unpopular moves were taken in other directlons which mby explain the limited number
 The cor:ing of the running hocse game. however, Is calculated to cause stockholders of the baseball association and as Memphis has invariably been near the top when the full gate receipt es season the ase @ of the the @ eai game may be readily seen when it Is stated that the. profits of visiting .eams around the circuit will be correspond 1aSiy psl., decreased while playing in Mem
 The books of the Association which show a loss of s2.soe in 1904 nave been two weeks for possibility of errors but thus far the original trial balance struck off in the baseball ledger stands habit club can get into by winning We lost s2,soo and that's all there .ere s re aeks sao to set eee off fhat cheap e players were paid fabulous salaries and there were other expenses we dld not think we would have to meet until af- ter the season was closed"
 The local attendance alone amounted to more than 10000 paid persons. With the profits of trips to New Or vile more than balancing the losses which may have been sustained l. at at Montgomery. Shreveport and Little art of How to make a penndnt win ming team pay" may find time for solv ing a mathematical proposition espe- clalIy when it Is remembered that there Is a salary limit In the Southern League.
 The Pennsylvania outlaw fso ealled) league Is trying to make lnroads on the Southern League players. Hand some salaries have been offered Jimmy Smith of Shreveport, Edward Beecher. Ed Hurlburt, Orth Collins and others of Memphis to jump to the ''unrecog- nfzed" diamonds. Jake Law, who played last year with the local. team, is playing with Altoona and writes In cash salaries.
 A letter received here from Hand some Harry Mcintyre now with Brock lyn, says that he is using the spit ball altogether in his Northern and Eastern essays and has found 1t an eaoy way to puzzle opponents.