The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

Memphis News-Scimitar: Rumors that
 have been as persistent as the efforts Of
 certain political comebacks to the effect
 that Little Rock was knocking for ad-
 mission to the Southern league are out
 again, and this time look more like bus-
 ness was really meant than any of the
 others.
 H. c. Rather and his associates are aw-
 fully keen to get back into the game de-
 spite the fact that reports by the dozen
 have been sent out of the Arkansas cap-
 ital that there was nothing doing on the
 towns efforts to get back into the cir
 cult.
 According to- the reports received here
 one of the guarantees that the Little
 Rock people have offered in the fight
 to again get back into the league is to
 have Sunday baseball legalized. A pe- tition, under the recall law, which only
 requires 2S5 signatures to have such a
 measure voted upon has been put out
 and a thousand people have attached
 their names to the paper.
 Sunday baseball say those who believe
 they know the situation, will be legalized
 year hence, when the election is held
 The necessary thousand signatures will
 insure passage of the bill, and it will probably be on these grounds that Rather i & Co. expect to batter down the oppo- sition, if any is offered.
 That most certainly looks as if the Lit tie Rock people had some inside informa- tion concerning some certain franchise that will be obtainabe and the chances are that if such a deal is put over the black line will be drawn through the Mobile entry and the Travellers board run up as the added starter. Owners of the Mobile and Montgomery 1 clubs declare that they do not propose dis posing of their holding. Millionaire Tiilis, at Montgomery, recently said that lie would retain the franchise no matter how much money is lost.
 H. T. 1nge, Harry Hartwell and C. z, Colsson have repeatedly stated that they are not in favor of selling the Mobile 1 club. There is a plan of reorganization under way at Mobile at present, but those l fighting for control of the club, as men, toned above, are in favor of remaining 1 in the league.
 | But there is a chance that the directors will arrange for the sale of either club without the approval of the present own l CTS, as was done in the transfer of the | Little Rock franchise to Chattanooga. It
 has been said that Little Rock was bluff l hng, but from other sources report has l it that Rather & Co. were not consulted as to the sale.
 l Chattanooga News Now from Memphis 1 comes another vapor story and about the 1 same old hackneyed fustian subject-d l change in the presidency of the Southern l league Throughout the entire season | this same scribe has faked interviews l fe. fa1 fn I anated from Judge Kavenaugh and now he extends his field of telepathy-at least we can't discover any other means or l communication of which he has avaied himself-to Chattanooga, Atlanta and i Montgomery We do not know how true | the purported statements from the capi- | tals of Alabama and Georgia are, but as
 for the one from here it Is absolutely ungrounded. The scribe in question prob
 ably took occasion to mention the local
 club owners so prominently because of 1 the unfortunate Collifower accident l The local owners, like many others in the league, would prefer a chief execu- l tive who resides within the circuit, if one | could be discovered whose ability equaled
 that of Kavanaugh, but this has been im- | possible.
 Personally we consider Judge Kava- | naugh the most logical and adapted man l for the position and believe that a change
 would be conducive only to deteriorc> 1 tion in the morale of the league.
 I
 | Rube Benton gave undeniable proof ves- terday afternoon of his possession of big | league qualities when he defeated RuDc | Marquard at the head of yelping Giants | by a 6-5 count. Our Rube not only an | initiated the McGrawites but whiffed nine | of them in the course of his wanton | slaughter. In doing so he set strike cut record which has not been surpassed in l Cincinnati in three years.
 1 Now this was a good exhibition, but it Is not half what Rube will do before he is through with the majors. He Is every whit as good a man as Marquard or | O'Toole and we are anticipating a clash with the latter with great pleasure, Did you note what President Andrews said apropos next years club-'Moran
 alone Is a certainty of the men who were
 here last season." When the material | which we had last year Is bettered just
 take it for granted that the locals will be
 in the race for the rag.
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