The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-02-10
Ohio State League is Now
Composed Of Eight Clubs.
JUMPS FROM CLASS D TO C
Columbus Club to have Con
troll of Lima.
Harvey Kicnc win Head Newark Club
All Officers of Last Year Re-elect-
ed--Constitution is Revised TO
Meet Eight Club Plan.


Hamilton, Springfield, Lima AMI
Marion to make up the western divi.
sion of the next Ohio State league. ana
are to have Portsmouth, Newark, Lam
caster and Chillicothe as rivals in tho
eastern section. At continuous ana
lengthy session yesterday afternoon at
the Neil House. the expansion OF the
organization into one of eight clubs
was accomplished, and q great mass
of incidental detail cleaned up.
There Is only one more lick to be
struck in the rlveting Of the eight.
club combination. Today in Lima,
Messrs. Wollenweber of Marion. Ga
bleman of Portsmouth and Siberell OF
Chillicothe will meet with a number
of Lima citizens and probably com.
plete arrangements whereby the Co
lumbus Baseball company will con-
tinue to produce baseball for Lima
people In the last few days great
progress has been made i'm adjusting
the situation that arose there.
President SchOenborn represented
the Lima club at the meeting and
quickly outlined his position in regard
to Keeping the team going there. His
ideas were shared by other club own
ers and. long before the meeting ad-
iourned. 1t was believed generally
that the case can be adjusted with
great satisfaction to all.
During the afternoon Harry A..
Eiene was installed as chief Of tn
Newark company Thus W. H. Wat
kins was able to turn his attention to
Springfield ana enter this city along
with Hamilton, which was represent
ed by Jake Milders. George w Run
and Dwight Walker represented Lam
caster President W. n. Gableman
was the Portsmouth club representa-
tive. President Siberell of Chillicothe
was accompanied by Directors Grubb
and Bergman. President Wollenweber
and Director Dan Evans attended from
Marion.
Officers who served last year were
reelected as follows: President, r..
w. Read; vice president Robcr'
quinn: secretary-trcasurer Joe r.
Carr. All are from Columbus, where
the headquarters of the league always
have been ana where they Will re-
main.
March ! is the date of the meeting
for posting forfeits and for an adop-
ton of a schedule that will be drafted
by the league officers. Two sets of
dates will be presented then. One will
provide for 140 games and the other
for 1875. The opening will occur on
either the last Wednesday in April or
the first one of May. A closing on
Labor day Is anticipated
Revision of the constitution Is made
necessary by the adoption OF the
clght-club plan, and this work will be
done by the board of directors, which
Is made up as follows: Watkins a
Springfield, Quinn of Lima, Gablcmau
of Portsmouth. Siberell of Chillicothc
and Wollenweber of Marion. a re-
port Is to be made at the schedule
meeting.
Hamilton and Newark teams are the
| ones on which the most building will
have to he done, but so much of this
work has been accomplished already
that each playing manager, who Is not
announced yet, will find himself sup
piled with a lot of talent from which
10 select. Several of the players Mr.,
Watkins had at Newark last year will
he used at Springfield.
Three firms sent representatives tO
submit propositions for the furnishing
OF the official ball, and it was voted
to award the contract TO the Gold
smith company of Cincinnati.
| George Wrigley was the only man
ager at the Neil during the afternoon
| Ed Conwell of the Portsmouth club
famed with n bunch of players from
various leagues one of the visitors
was Outlelder Abbott, a former Ohio
slater, and now with York of the Tri-
| state.-Ohio State Journal.
| Cleveland, o.. Feb. 10.-The Ohio
and Pennsylvania league will proba-
bly, resolve into a siN-club affair this
season, according to the action taker
at the meeting here yesterday. Nc
| Keesport was declared out and Eas
| Liverpool is hesitating as 10 whether