Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-27
Association Has No Money 10
Pay Its Players Or Nnmer-
GUS Bills
WILL TRY TO RAISE 1T
Directors Agree That Bills Must Be
Paid But How to Do It Bothers Them
Effort Will Be Made to Borrow $500
With Which to Pay Players = The
Team Has Been Expensive.

The directors and few stockholders
Of the local base ball association, who
attended the meeting Wednesday nishs
in the council chamber, cudgeled their
brains and fguratively speaking, spat
on their hands in strenuous effort to
devise way by which to pay what the
association owes. With liabilities OF
sSOS,29. representing unpaid players
salaries and bills, and with assets OF
only s737.63, which, when an attempt is
made to realize on them, will shrink I'D
not more than $500. and without money
in the treasury, the, association IS IN
hard lines"
Every one of the eleven present were
unanimous that >the Indebtedness
should be paid, but just how-that was
the stumbling block. An effort, in spite
of its diagreeable features, is to be
made to borrow money enough to pay
the players, securing the loan by the
associations assets. just what was 10
be done with the other bills was not
decided AT the meeting, $3.50 of 500
loan was raised, and individual mem
bers of the association will try to Sc
cure the rest within day or two, as
all effort to secure soliciting commits
tee failed, because all objected to COINS
out on another so called begging cans
vass."
What 1t Owes and Owns.
The association owes it's players, all
but two of whom have not been paid
$499.60. The largest other item of it's
liabilities is s177.50 owed the Marshall
County Fair Association for rent OF the
grounds. In addition there are other
small items for expenses of the sea
son.
AS assets it has It's bleachers, valued
at $780,, it's 5000 guarantee in the
league treasury, and $102.50. which has
been subscribed and donated earlier in
the season, but which has not yet been
collectable, SIS which the Boone club
owes it, which is not collectable, a
turnstile worth $50, and other lesser
assets There is a feeling among the
directors that all of the 5000 guarantee
may not be returned from the league,
because part of it, about SIS, was
voted to help pay Boone's debt to its
PLAYERS when Clinton bought Boone's
franchise
Season Has Cost $4,000.
When all is figured up, and at the
meeting committee was appointed to
audit Secretary Cards book, it will
probably be found that over $4,000 has
been put into the game here this sea-
son. A roueh estimate of only a part
of what 1t cost brings the total to all
most this sum. In rough figures $500
has gone in. About $4,000 went in as
stock subscriptions and donations and
from the sale of booster tickets. The
fair last winter brought in $500, the
sale of Williams gave $500 more and
the receipts from games, here and away
from home, is estimated at $4,000. Out
of this have been paid salaries, travel
ing expenses, advertising, repairs and
maintenance of the grounds and other
expenses,
The sole reason for the association
tendance, which this year was but a
little more than half of the first year.
The opening year it was about $1,000,
last year it was approximately $4,000,
but this year it fell to about $4,000.
Brown Leaves Between Days.
Another of the directors troubles
was the peculiar and entirely unsatis-
factory leaving of Manager Brown.
Brown returned with the team Monday
night, left what money-something like
s24-he claimed was coming to the |
team, paid himself in full and left dur
ing the middle Of the night without
reporting receipts and moneys paid out
during the last trip south All of which
is aggravating to the directors, who do
not know whether he overpaid himself |
or not. All efforts to get statement
from him since he left have failed.