Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-01

Owner Powers Would Like to
Sell Out But Wants Too =
High a Price.
BLOOMINGTON is BIDDER
Team Not Supported as 1t Should Be
Crisis to Come by Satur-
day Night.

And now Danv1lle Is weakening. Ru-
mors have been afoat down that way
that there was trouble. but such re-
ports have been stoutly denied. The
first inkling came with a local ell
thusiast offered to buy the club from
Owner Powers. The deal was not
closed. Then reports went out that
Manager Mccarthy was about to leave
the team.
Now, it turns out, Bloomington has
been negotiating for the purchase Of
the team and franchise, but broke Oft
when a price of $4,000 was named.
Another effort will be made by Bloom
ington to buy the Peoria club.
A dispatch from Danville today
says that Owner Powers declared if
he had not found buyer at a reasonable
price by Saturday night he would
turn the club over to the league.
NOT WELL SUPPORTED.
That Danville is not supporting the
team as it should is admitted by The
COmmerCiai-News or that city in the
following:
Manager Jack Mccarthy will not
leave the ball club. Rumors to this ef-
feet have been af1oat for some days,
started by some person who knew not
whereof he spoke. The manager has
no intention of leaving. He has been
accorded good treatment here and
there is, it is pointed out. no reason
why he should leave this city.
The manager was called home, it
is true, but this was not for the pur-
pose of prevailing upon him not to re-
sign, the statement being made that
he has never had any intention CT
leaving the club. He was called here
by President Powers who desired 10
know the financial condition of the
association, the situation in all its de-
tails, how the club is going and in fact
everything about it. The manage
was here for a short time only. in con
ference with the president and Vice
President James BOYLE, leaving during
the night to join the players at Quin-
cy, where they took on the infants for
two games during the day.
president Powers confessed that
the attendance has not been all that il
should be and stated that while the
manager regretted this, he had not OK
pressed a desire to be relieved and
that he would remain here, at least un-
til the close of the season. Mr.. Pow
ers further asserted that he would
give Danville folk baseball, whether
the majority of them wanted it or not,
that the club will play here on all reg
uarly scheduled dates and finish II
first division, whether it made money
or not"
FROM ANOTHER SOURCE.
The Danville Press-Democrat says.
The local fans are not supporting the
team in the way that they should.
There is not a prettier or a better
base ball park in a minor town thaI
the little plant down on the Perrys-
vile road. It was built without stint
OF money because the men who gave
Danville Glass B base ball believed the
fans of this old town deserved some
thing far better than the sheds that
had hitherto been crowned with hign
sounding names of pavillions anG
such. In some of the games played so
far this season only a few hundred
fans have turned out. asmere handful
of what should be in the stands at ev
cry exhibition
Tacoma Census Men Indicted.
Tacoma, Wash, June Twenty