The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-16
LEAGUE WILL
REORGANRE
Arrangements Being Made for
Teams to Purchase Ground
Fixtures.

There was a baseball meeting last
night at which the possibilities of the
coming season for big league ball were
discussed. The Diamond Heads. ST.
Louis, Punahou and Kamehameha teams
were all represented and the result was
that, it looks very much like people are
going to get down to business and give
us snappy, if short, season of ball
at the old grounds.
So far as the league is concerned it
called itself pau when it gave permits
sion to the trustees to dispose of the
fixtures and improvements at the league
grounds. The only right that any in
dividual team has in the league now
is what may be left over after the
fixtures have been sold and the debt
Of the trustees has been paid off.
But this does not mean that the
league will break up by any means. An
offer has come from a wealthy sports
man to save the situation and put the
league on a working basis.
This is how it will be done. A sum
of $4,000 will be advanced to the league
under new organization. That is, the
teams that have composed the league
so far will get together with, perhaps,
one more team and organize a baseball
league.
To this new league, ON their note
with the fixtures at the league grounds
as collateral, will be advanced $4,000.
With this sum the new league will pur-
chase the fixtures and improvements at
the grounds. This amount will go to
the trustees. From it they will sub
tract some $1,000 with which to cover
their own Indebtedness and the other
$500 will be turned over to the old
league.
This $500 will be used to pay off the
indebtedness of the different teams and
is just about sufficient to do it. That
will dispose of the old league and the
new one will start up with every in
ducement to play good ball. They will
own the fixtures on the grounds and
will obtain lease on the ground them
themselves at a nominal rent.
They will have debt of $4,000 but
this is a comparatively small amount
if the players get together, show en-
thusiasm and put up good class of
ball. They will probably play on Sat
urdays and Sundays with one good
game each day, starting at or $3.50
Q clock. The fans will back them up
just so long as they play ball. The
better they play the larger the gates
but there must be no more of last year S
intoIerable slackness, or the league will
peter out, the man who loans the money
will foreclose on the note and the league
will simply disintegrate.
There were no definite steps taken
at the meeting last night except that
| it was decided to have every manager
sign up list of players and turn them
in as a starter With four or five good
teams signed up there will be basis
on which to start. This will assure
| the man who has offered to lend the
money that the league is acting in good
faith. He will pungle up the denario
and then there will be nothing to stop
the league from making out schedule
| and starting practise right away.
There is no doubt that the fans and
players are hungry for some good ball
and there win be no lack of support
| if the bunch gets tgether The senti-
! ment shown at the meeting last night
| was that they will get together and,
with a big inducement to keep them
hard at it, they ought to be able to
put ND a class of ball that will fill the
bleachers.