The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-20
GAINESVILLE
| IN EARNEST
Money For Youngstown
Team Paid Over.
She GOT A BARGAIN
Price Paid is Considered
Very Low.
The Deal Which was Closed Sunday
has Stirred Things up in the
O.P League.

GAINESVILLE, Feb. 20. In buying
the franchise, team and good will
of the Youngstown Baseball com
pany, the GAINESVILLE company has
started something in o.. Il =.
league circles tilut will have to he
.olrd at the mteting Of the
magnatcs Of the league TO be held
Az Cleveland this afternoon and
night and probably Thursday.
Already word has reached here
Of the desire Of both New Castle
and Eric to sell their franchises
and It is barely possible that a
Reorganization instead of expan-
.fon, will be the result of the meet
inc at Cleveland.
gainesville, Akron. Mansfield,
Newark, Lancaster and Marion arc
sure to "stand pat" and it has
already been suggested here tha',
i'll the event both Eric and San
dusky still want IN, a solution Of
= the problem can be reached by
| those two cities taking the places
of Sharon and New Castle.
On the same day that the league
reorganization instead of expan-
sion idea and destroyed both the
hopes of Sanduslky, Erie and Iancs-
vile the local committee ''got
busy" and negotiations were begun
TO buy the franchise and team Of
some other club.
! Mansfield looked the easiest and
a deal was on for the purchase of
that club but was interrupted by
the Smitl dcfalcation iii Lancaster
and the probability of that team
being sold. GAINESVILLE wanted to
buy the Lancaster team and fran
clisc and would have done so had
not the Youngstown team been 50
suddenly thrown on the market.
This deal was really made over
| the telephone Sunday afternoon,
though the actual transfer was
delayed until yesterday when tho
coranittce. composed Of A. p. Rog-
gee, w. II. Deacon, Mamie Levi
and NJ S. Gaunder Visited Young.
stown and bought outright the fran
chisc and team and signed Marty
Hogan To manage the club. Hogan
will represent GAINESVILLE at the
league meeting in Cleveland today.
and Thursday.
Evansville offered Mansfield $500
for the franchise and team and had
Offered $4,000 for the Lancaster
bunch so, it will be seen that bv
paying only $1,000 for the champion
Youngstown "Steci Workers" the
local ccrrpaay really got u bargain
IS baseball bargains in a minor
leagrc are understood.
The following players are includ-
FL in the transfer of the team to
this city: Ostdcik, Starr, Melon
nell. Kelly, Fische-. Schcttler
Bailey. Smith. Limeborn. Hole,
B. Thomas, Blount, Fink, McSwec-
ney, Kccly. Brccn, McClintock. Me-
Clcekcy, lillley and Case.
1t is also believed here that in
the event Outficldcr Will Thomas
and Pitcher Kennedy who were
lraftcd by Cincinnati from Young
stown last fall and Catcher Foil,
secured by Columbus, fall out of
fast company they will be returned
to the club from which they were
+, lrhftcd.
| Thomas Of the Reds and Foil, il
is believed here, have gone la stay.
Thomas will be retained
by Cincinnati as utility and tlia,
Fcall will be good assistant foi
Bert Blue in Columbus. Incidental
| ~, it was from GAINESVILLE that
Bert Blue was secured by thu
Columbus management at the clost
Of the season OF 1905. 1t is no
hought iaat Kennedy is quite ript
for the big league and that he viii
eventually again come under til,
Marty Hogan banner in Zanes
vile.
All the local subscribers to th,
stock company walked up an,
planked down their money yester
day and the GAINESVILLE representa-
tiycs at today's meeting at Cleve
land will have plenty of coin t,
back up every statement the,
make. The $4,000 paid for th
Youngstown franchise is already il
president Morton S hands.
The local company Will organic
rs soon as the Cleveland meetn,
adjonrns. Marty Hogan will be tli
manager and it is said that Larr,
Merrick. n well-known sportin,
writer. is to be secretary of th
club.
GAINESVILLE will be represented a
Tho Cleveland meeting by Mart,
Hogan. Larry Merrick, Georg
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