The Cairo bulletin., 1908-07-13
PROBABLE REVIVAL OF KITTY
LEAGUE NEXT SEASON STRONG
Err THAN EVER.
MOVEMENT IN CAIRO
To Secure and Establish Fine Bail
Park-M ]. Farnbaker. Former
Secretary Talks Enthusias
ticaily,
tPaducah News Democrat.

flying about are true.
Whether the league is to be form
ed this fall and winter and which will
open next summer will be the Kitty
league of 1903-O4-05-06, or take upon
itself some other name. matters not,
so long as Paducah is furnished first
class baseball And the best news
of all contained in the rumor is that
Cairo. the home of Tadpoles or Polly
wags, our traditional baseball foe. Is
to be a member of that league.
Good! Without Cairo in the league
Paducah would hardly want any Of
.it-all the fun and sport of beating
our enemy into pulpy mass, and
incidentally being smashed into a
lobolly occasionally ourselves woulG
be missing.
The rumor goes that several gen.
tlemen interested deeply in the ma.
tional game are willing to take stock
in a company organized to promote a
local team. provided citizens as deep
ny interested an dthe traction com
pany. will finance the club. as Was
done in Cairo the four years the
Kitty league was in existence. The
citizens o fthat little sipe-water burg
contributing $1,000 annually In addi-
ton to $500 donated by the traction
company. the latter amount being
paid 800 monthly in advances. II
was this handsome annual subscrip-
ton by people loyal to the city that
enabled the Cairo Club to weather the
storms and expense attached to fast
baseball in a city of only 20,00o popu-
lation, yet drawing as good patronage
as Paducah, a city of 10000
Yet the four years that Paducah
was in the league one, two or three
men bore the brunt of the expense.
not one dollar being contributed by
private citizens or traction company
The rumor has ii that a wealthy
Cairo corporation, backed by a sew
eral time millionaire, is to build
baseball park at Twenty-eighth
street, just west OF the Big Four
tracks, and on the line of the traC.
ton company. This street has recent.
ly been paved with vitriied brick,
while the site selected for the park
comprises seven acres and is one CT
the very highest pieces of ground In
the city and perfectly level 1t has
been utilized for many years as
truck garden. The intention is to
build a grand stand and bleachers
with seating capacity OF 5000. The
estimated cost for construction, which
will start soon is $500 exclusive of
ground or club house.
In order to verify. if possible, some
of these rumors Col. NJ. ]. Farnbaker.
promoter of the Kitty league, secre-
tary for three years, and at all times
the car, ruling over its destinies with
an iron hand, but ever keeping it in.
tact and working ceaselessly in its
behalf summer and winter, was sought
ont yesterday evening and asked, if he
knew anything relative to the reports.
He said;
Yes. There is some truth in the
rumors, I am not in a position at
present to give all the inside details
without laying myself open to the
charge of violating a confidence. but
| will youchsafe the information that
the wealthy Cairo gentleman YOU re.
fer to is willing to build a park at
the place you suggest Mr.. Guy p.
Eichenberger and first selected il
before Sportsman's park was utilized
for a ball yard, but could not secure
a lease on It as the owner had
growing crop of early vegetables. I
which meant thousands of dollars to
him. Cairo after a rest of two years !
is again ready for league baseball. !
The men want it, the ladies are crazy |
for ii and the children are crying
about it, and ! presume the case is !
the same as Paducah, At all events
I've frequently been asked what are |
you going to do about baseball next
gear?' Do? Why. I'm going to or
sanize new league. or reorganize the
Did League if satisfactory evidence is
give nthat Cairo and Paducah really |
want league baseball"
Continuing, Col Farnbaker said:
BY satisfactory evidence | mean that
hose interested in baseball get to-
sether and secure some reasonable
sort of pledges of financial matters
rom those that reap financial benz
hts from baseball and from those
ieeply interested In the sport who
will contribute toward the sport &C
'ording to their means Saw. from
% to sZ5 during the season. payable
10 per cent when the season opens
and the remaining 50 per cent on
luly ], 1909. If the preliminary steps
IRE taken toward local organization
md have plan. which will give
nut later. that will materially assist.
viii after September 1 make a tria
'Ver the circuit proposed and give
IN impetus to the formation of q
'iub and league. leaving the rest
or the press. Make a second trip |
n November. making ready for a
teneral meeting of all the cities in
a