Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-06-22
GET TOGETHER
TONOPAH FANS
BRING ALL YOUR EFFORTS TO
BEAR TO HAVE PENNANT
WINNER
(By Thos. E. stephens.

Tonopah were being heralded as the
richest and biggest in the common
wealth, the people of Tonopah were
known as the best boosters in the
country. But since the mineral
wealth of the district has been prov
en- and Tonopah has become an es-
tablished city there has been a
gradual decline of this boosting
spirit. But there is need to re-
awaken that spirit now for Tonopah
is to have a baseball team and IL
will need the cooperation of every
single individual to make our ma
tional game a success.
John II. Powers, the minor league
organizer, has succeeded in forming
the four principal cities in the Sage
brush state into what will be called
the Nevada State league. Tonopah is
one of those cities; Carson, Reno and
Goldfeld being the other three. This
one fact alone, these Nevada cities
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baseball, should be highly gratifying
to the people of our state as it shows
how much the national commission
thinks of the future progress of
wonderful Nevada. The league, thus
organized, win continue year after
year, waxing greater with the growth
of the state until it occupies a prom
inent place among the minor leagues
of the United States. 1t assures the
four towns and the surrounding ter
ritory a season of rare sport, natural
ly exhilirating and exciting; a place
to go on Saturday and Sunday after
moons where the week day cares and
worries can be dispelled by an aft
ernoon of enjoyment.
You have seen what Goldfield has
done; they have raised a fund suffi-
cient for the needs of the team for
the whole season and the crowd
turned out in such numbers, during
the first series with Reno, that the
grandstand could not hold half the
people who went to the game
What Tonopah needs, primarily, is
a sum of money not over $500 or
5000 to build a grandstand and fence
in at least two sides of the grounds.
There is no reason why this sum OF
money cannot be raised in two hours
among the enterprising citizens OF
Tonopah. The members of the team
are giving their services so as to get
the diamond in shape for the first
league series next week. The games
at Carson on Saturday and Sunday
last demonstrated that the team is
trifie weak, especially in the pitch
ing department. and that 1t also
lacked practice and team work. The
Tonopah management will immedi
ately send a man to California to gef
two pitchers and a couple of othel
men and when they arrive the Tono
pah team will be as strong as an!
in the league and will start at ono
to climb the rounds of the percentag,
ladder. 1t viii be up to the mer
chants and mining companies to fur
nish positions for these men.
Mr.. Booth, the manager of tn
Tonopah team and one of the leagu
officials, has been in Reno in con
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matters concerning the league man
agement. He returned yesterday an
will Immediately arrange for tn
building of a grandstand and othe
detail work connected with gettin
the team in shape for the coming sea
son. The formation of a leagu,
which would give the leading elite
of Nevada good baseball, has bee
the aim of Mr.. Booth for month
n he deserves a world of cred
for successfully inaugurating TIL
stupendous project. In discussin
the baseball situation with NJ
Booth, he says, Il look for a pro
porous season in all four towns. ]
Reno the other night | attended a
enthusiastic mass meeting of Il
prominent citizens called to start c
the baseball season financially.
large sum of money was raised al
the following leading citizens we
elected as officers: Al North, pre-
ident; Fred White. vice presiden
Kenneth McKim, secretary; Fral
Golden, treasurer. Directors, Har
Stewart, Max Sample, Ray Rees
James Boyd, A. b. Mannheim,
Pape and Paul Mas. In regard
our team we have simply got to W
the pennant. We are strengthenii
the Tonopah team and intend
make 1t the fastest in the league.
"A grand stand will be built q
week and the grounds put in ord
for the opening of the season here
week from Saturday. BY that til
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