Bisbee daily review., 1910-02-03
BASE BALL IS
A MATTER Of
PAYING DEBTS
Deficit Of Last Year Must Be
Met Before There Is Any
thing Stirring in Way of
New Team.

thing Stirring in Way of
New Team.
Don't talk baseball to M. have
my hands full trying to square up
the deficit OF last year.
Seated in his Office in the Shattuck
building, Attorney J. NJ. o'Connell took
anything but an optimistic view Of
the baseball situation as il now
stands. with regard TO a team for
this year
We are still several hundred dol
lars of cleaning up the deficit of last
year and / believe before anything is
done that an effort should be made
TO square up back debts. There are
many subscriptions not yet collected
in. Last fall / was advised to wait
until the first Of the year, then when
| made an effort to get some ofthis
money they told me to wait until aIetr
election. Now I'm going TO try It
again, and | hope, with better sue
cess, unless some, new excuse is in
vented
W"ill l take an active interest in
promoting baseball this year. Abso-
lutely nothing doing. Let some OF
those who have been busy talking for
the last month do something"
Ii is said that there is nearly $500
! still outstanding on last years sub
scription list for the support of the
team Evidently Judge o'ConneH be-
lieves in cleaning up old obligations
before annexing new ones is thought
iof.
Who should blow into town yester.
day morning. fit and ready for the
, baseball bee TO commence buzzing. .n,r
our old friend ard. otherwise known
as Handsome Eddie" shortstop Tor
the home talent aggregation OF 1909
and one Of the ladies men, of the
team
Eddie came here direct from BRAY
ley. Calf, where he has been spend
ing the winter and incidentally play,
ing third base for the Brawley team
in the Imperial Valley League. His
club finished fourth in The league
standing.
Ward brings news OF most OF The
other - Bisbee players who went 10
the coast when the local team abb
ruptly ended after those two games
here with Douglas. Tom Royal. Cor
don sIcCaEg. Earl Hamilton and En-
Parm all went farther west than did
Ward. but played ball al winter
around Santa Barbara. Pasadena and
other towns near Los Angeles.
At present Eddie doesn't know VIVA,
he will do He has a contraer with
Abilene. Kas.. the club which ANY vii
son Is 10 manage. While west he
also had m offer to sign up win
HAPPY Hogans Vernon team OF the
Pacific Coast League. but Wilson re
fused TO give him his release from
Abilene so he could accept the o.
fer That is partly what brought
him here. Should he decide not &c
go with either of these teams there
is a berth waiting for him at Douglas
either at third or short fed.
He came TO Bisbee for another rea-
son. to see what prospects w<re n
regsrd TO the locals getting into 1ke
field. Eddie likes the town and
would play here in minute. but tie
way things are framing up it doesn''
/ l1,r- hin,
What do you think OF the outlook
/ anyway he was asked.
Rather dead he replied.
/ Bill Harper. Douglas crack center
1 fielder. has slso been in town the Dasl
/. few days in the interest Of the n&'
tional game. getting a line mainly
upon local sentiment as TO what viii
be doing this summer So far he
has not met with much that is en-
couraging.
Manager O'Donovsn and the Doug
las sports are anxious to see Bisbee
get in line to complete the neigh0o-
IL four-team circuit. CT last year he
tween Cananea. Bisbee. Douglas arr
III Paso. ODonovan has been cue,
ed in the Douglss papers. since tn
team backing for that burg has beer
, assured with a desire to get busy
J and boost for Bisbee TO come IN on
of the wet 1t needs somebody like
] O'Donnovan 70 put little ginger int
local think-tanks. II he'd come t.
Bisbee aud talk baseball for ieN
days everybody would be with hin
and the team would be assured in n
time Maybe he'll take pity aad "a
lit Unless he or somebody else does
however we're lost
Il Harper Is signing up with For
Worth this coming season, but vii
hang around the old diggings unit
spring calls him to report for duty
He is in Bisbee for the avowed Dur
pose of using his sounding iron on IN
bs seball proposition. snd viii repor
to O'Donovan. The latter. il is said
is almost as anxious to see Bisbee d
The baseball map as to see Douglas
cop the coming seasons honors.