The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-19
ANOTHER LEAGUE
OLD TRI-sTATE LEAGUE.
Frank Moffatt Steering it, Selma, An nistOn and Huntsville with Chat tanooga and Knoxville, Tenn,
 and Rome, Ga.
Advertiser Bureau,

 Selma. April IS. Another Tri-State baseball league which bids fair to be the most suc- cessful of the ventures of the past few years is being organized and the prin- cfple "second class" cities in Alabama will be represented.
 , The Trf-State League when organiz- ed will comprise six clubs from Ala bama, Tennessee and Georgia, three of which will be Alabama towns, Selma, Anniston and Huntsville. The work of organization is now progressing and rom present indications the league will be ready to do business May 15. The promoter-in-chief is F. H. Moi to have proper financial backing. Moi fett was formerly manager of the suc- cessful Independent baseball team at Rome, Ga, which city will be in the backing from persons interested in baseball in six cities in Alabama Ten nessee and Georgia Noffett has the support of managers and owners of Knoxville, Chattanooga and Rome. and those six cities will comprise the play ing circuit of the league.
 The fundamental business basis Of the league will, according to the views of the promoter expressed in a letter from him to the Selma club. be about the same as that of the Delta League which had a meteoric career over in Mississippi last year, although it is be- lived that the Tri-State League will be more firmly backed than the Delta, and the sizes of the towns comparing with those of the Cotton States League the success of the venture appears assured. Moffett proposes that the salary limit of players be $7o0. and that the club guarantee be made $40.
 The six cities that will be represent ed In the TriState League are the very best second class" baseball cities in the South. some of which have ably been patiently waiting for an oppor- tunity to play organized baseball for a number of years and now that the Huntsville and Rome to say nothing of the other three cities will probably enter the project with enthusiasm. Selma was once in the Southern League and so was ChattaHooga, and until that great baseball association grew to the dimensions of one of the biggest minors in the world both of those cities did tanooga. Rome and Anniston have always been enthusiastic baseball towns and organized baseball is the only thing that will properly develop them.
 When Rosendorf. Latham and others organized the Indian team in this city this spring 1t was with the in- tention of playing independent base into the Cotton States or some other good league presented itself. Now the opportunity has arrived and the Selma club Is heartily in favor of Moi fetts scheme. President Rosendorf feels assured that it will be a success and he is corresponding with Moffett with a view of getting the league organized as early as possible He says he believes 1t will be ready to start the season May 1b.
 In the meantime independent base ball will be played in this city with the same team. Selma will enter the league season with the same team and it will take hustler to beat her out if she keeps the same team tho sea son round.
 What a revival of baseball cnthusi- asm such a league would result in! Selma and Rome were once the bitter est antagonists on the ball field that semi professional baseball ever saw in Alabama. Selma and Chattanooga were once rivals for the bottom of the Southern League. Annston and Rome and Anniston and Knoxville have long been adversaries In baseball.
 The organization of a league that would comprise those six cities would mean a thorough awakening of the sportsmanship of the smaller cities of the three States.
 The South Atlantic League also opens its season today with Augusta at Savannah, Macon at Jackson and Columbia at Charleston.