Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-02-22


 Pine Bluff gets into s!le game. According to NIT. tsisss, q six club circuit is favored. This will include six of the following towns: Pine Bluff, Hot Springs, Argcnta, New port, Paragould, Jorasboro Helena or Poplar Bluff, Mo The iaLter towa is favored in tho circuit. because of it's Sunday ball ait! a!so because Of the fact that 1. ia .::>og7iza. as enc of the most enthusiastic baseball towns In tho Southwest.
 The -12 men, $500 salary limit will be adopted and i'll view of tho fact that the present 2 cent railroad fare is in effect, the league can be 1 operated at a much less expense than that which has jroven a discouraging g feature in leagues which have oc- cupied attention for a while in this section in days gone by.
 MT. Riggs states that fans at | AAOICAdp OoASoOoloS oP.dA DUH o00 other towns visited have displayed much enthusiasm over the proposed league. At Newport the other day over $2,0o0 was subscribed in two hours for the proposed club, and Newport is 8 town only about one third as big as Pine Bluff. At Helena the fans are active in organ izing and the same condition applies to Argenta, Poplar Bluff, Paragould and Hot Springs.
 Manager r. E. Chorot of the Citizens Light and Transit Compa- ny says his company vii, as usual do it's share toward supporting base ball here. In Jonesboro one wealthy citizen has announced that he will own the league team himself and will not ask for any assistance from local fans. Al he wants, he says, is liberal patronage for the games.
 The Helena World in discussing the proposed team there says:
 "A short canvass of the business district was made this morning and the encouragement which was given the promoters was unlocked for. In no instance were they met with anything but the most eager SUD- port and it is tferefore proba ble that some prominent local man will represent Helena at Hot Springs Saturday."
 The Little Rock Gazette had the > Towing Fc;tay'
 The new state baseball league is to be organized Sunday at Hot Springs. Representatives of six towns-Hot Springs, Newport, Pop lar Bluff, Jonesboro, He'ena and Pine Bluff-which tswns, it is now planned, will comprise the new league, have promised to be at Hot Springs on that date for the purpose of organizing the league and put ting the new organization on it's feet.
 There is a slight possibility that one or possibly two of the towns named above will not go in the league and in view of that fact Rob- ert Shelton of Paris, Tex, who is organizing the league, was in Ar genta yesterday attempting to de- termine the feeling in that town re- garding Sunday baseball. If the city administration of that place is not opposed to Sunday bal in Argenta 1t is possible that Argenta will be represented in the league and Sun- day ball will be played there. The success Of such a venture is practi- cal'y assured, as crowds of Little Rock fans who are not accorded the privilege of seeing Sunday baseball in their home town would flock across the bridge to see games on the other side of the river.
 According to all rumors concern ing the coming meeting at Hot Springs, Tom Craighead of that place Is slated for the presidency of the league. :.
 MT. Shelton, who was in the city VesterdayA talked enthusiastically concerning the leagues prospects and firmly believed that, if organ ized with six clubs, 1t will be a