Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-04
NO WORRY HERE.
Baseball Enthusiasts Give Committee
Soliciting Funds the Glad
Hand
AND PUT SOMETHING IN IT
Not Necessary to Hold Fairs and Balls
in Rock Island to Coax Support
for the Game.

Some of the papers from down tho
league are commenting on the fact that
the local club is at work raising
money to carry on baseball during
the coming season and sOr1p of the
remarks are to the effect that trouble
is being met in getting the cash and
it is even limited that this city may
find itself without a team Il the open
ing of the season. 1t is true that the
directors of the club are out witbea
subscription list but as % Jhei ,~mcet,
ing with anything but encourag ament
in raising the amount of III Jney ihey
consider necessary. there is nothing
to- it. The committee which is in
charge of raising the money for de
fraying the years expenses, is getting
the glad, hand wherever it goes and
more than willing to dig down deep
in their jeans if necessary to keep The
game on its feet here.
Need No Fairs or Dances Here.
When the local association gets to
point where i, hnS tn no u carnival,
fair, or some kind IF t:ante in
order to get the cash with which %
run the team during the ycar. 1t win
be time for the .lownS.a ers 20 sit up
and take no-ice and then they can
remark that 3asebll prospects are
not very brilliant here. AS it stands
now, however, there is absolutely no
doubt in the minds of any of the local
fans that the money needed can be
raised and no one is worried except
| those in the other cities in the league
who are seeking to raise he cllamity
howl.
What gives the southern plpars a
chance to talk is possibly the fact that,
although it is well known thar COM
mittee has been assigned for over Il
month on the proposition of raising
money, they have made no report as
yet of having secured any. That does
not show that the committee has met
with any rebuffs. however
Never Any Doubts.
The fact is that the committee has
been SO sure that the loyal spirit of
| the city would come to the all O! the
directors, that they have not felt it
was necessary to get out three or four
months before the opening of tie
season in order TO make sure that
there will be enough cash on hand IL
last through the year. During the last
few days the !. committee has spent
some of its spare moments in seeing
| some of the business men around Il e
| city in the interests of the sT6scrip-
! ton list and all who have beer ap-
iproached so far have been more Than
generous.
! Everything goes to show that de
spite the calamity howl coming from
the southern end of the circuit, Rock
| Island will be in the limelight as 4
contender for the rag at the end of the
&, season, and furthermore the ball park
will not have to be mortgaged in or
der to keep the team in the field.
Hears from Players.
Jack Tighe is receiving letters daily
from the different men whom he has
signed up, and the big manager says
that every one of them expresses the
uluOSl toliilutjSt III tHt prospects "
the Islanders for the coming season
, Frank Lakaff. who is at Clinton a
present, writes that he is in fine shape
Idespite an attack of fever which h.
suffered with during the early part o
!, the winter, and that he will be read.
to play the best game of his. caree
when he reports here in April.