Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-01-26
WE MAY CEI IN
 STAIE LEAGUE Baseball Enthusiasts Are Urging Organization With Little Rock as Hub.
THE CAPITAL CITY
Franchise Is All That Prevents immc- diatc Acti0n--What Might Take
 Place.

D. Hotchkiss, Of the Hot Springs Sentinel-Record believes that the greatest opportunity ever offered Ar- kansas for the organization of pay ing State Baseball League Is now at hand. and especially since Little Rocks Southern League franchise has been taken away from that city. He places Pine Bluff in a list of live cit ies throughout the state that could be gotten together in q fine circuit. In a recent issue of his paper. Mir Hotchkiss says:
 The question of organized baseball for Arkansas fans will be answered within a short time. There is but one obstacle now in the way of a good state circuit, and that obstacle is the magnates of Little Rock.
 Little Rock fans, and Little Rock magnates, must not be confused in this discussion, for Little Rock fans will want baseball when the grass be- gins to cover west end field this spring, or will want it in future springs
 The magnates, however, of that city, aggrieved over being kicked out of the Southern League, have said Little Rock fans could have no or sanized baseball this summer. Their authority is the Little Rock Ga zette.
 Baseball fans in Arkansas have pa tiently tried to evolve State League around Little Rock. 1t was hard task and mostly failure Little Rock was enjoying Southern League ball and of course that field was re- served to Southern League games.
 Now that Little Rock is out of the Southern League, kicked out, Arkan- sa9 fans, many of whom have already noted the attitude of the Gazette in 'PI'co'bioIJ DCIltFt LIltN Have IHt I1Sut to new cirenit of baseball, an Ar kansas circuit, with Little Rock as the centerpiece. Support instead of opposition, from the state capital would complete the Statt League.
 The situation is briefly this: Hot Springs, Helena Pine Bluff, Jones' boro. Paragould, Texarkana, Fort Smith and other cities in the state want State Leapne, and they want a team in Little Rock, as that is the geographical and railroad center of any state circuit that might be cal culated
 The Little Rock field is NOT NOW PROTECTED in organized ball. If State League is formed and Little Rock magnates will not co-operate the LAWS of organized baseball will give some other or any other base ball promoter the right to CLAIM THE LITTLE ROCK TERRITORY. AND TO RECEIVE IT.
 If Little Rock magnates continue to attempt the "dog in the manger'' act, State League can take the Lit tie Rock territory over and put a State League team hert, give the fans the best possible for their mon- ey, and make good. Little Rock fans would prefer first-class leading State League team to a motley crew Of tail-enders in some other league
 IT the state meeting had been called at Little Rock for today, as had been anticipated, Hot Springs would have been represented with an applicant for local franchise and with some suggestions covering the Little Rocl situation. If the other cities of the state mean business, the matter of 2 pretentious State League need not he hindered longer by Little Rocl MAGNATEs.
 The situation concerns basebal fans of Arkansas, the good old en thusiasts of good field sport. who al ways pay the freight and are willin: to continue to do so when they ge good baseball, whether it be unde the title of Southern League, Texas League Canal Zone League, or more preferably, the ARKANSAS STATE LEAGUE.
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