Arizona republican., 1911-09-29
Committee of Business Men
 Take Hold of Project
WANT THOUSAND DOLLARS
Good Chance to Get That Back Again, As a Letter From Hon. w. w. Turney Shows Committee Work ing Vigorously.

A baseball advertisement of Phoe- nix is being prepared for by the business men of Phoenix Leroy II. CivilTe, J. w. Stacy, II. R. Daggs, Oscar Irwin, Frank Cox, R. G. Whit marsh, and Postmaster J. II. McClint- ock, as a committee, have consented to lead on in the matter, and they hope to have the cordial assistance of the business men generally. The name of Sheriff Carl Hayden has also been cordially spoken of for addition to the committee, providing he will accept.
 The whole matter has been stirred up by the receipt here of the follow | ing communication from Hon. Wm. 1 W. Turney. state senator from Fl Paso in the Texas legislature: office of Turney X Burgess, Law
 yers, Fl Paso. Texas, Sept. 19, 1911. Judge Frank Cox,
 Phoenix. Arizona.
 Dear Sir:
 During the Statehood Jubilee to 1 be held here in October. it is our ! desire to give to the visiting public some real high class baseball. and the plan is to have Arizona, New Mexico and Texas each furnish a | team.
 The association will award prizes | as follows: To the team having the highest score. 5000 and 9 per cent of the gate receipts; to the team having second best percentage. $500 and r. per cent of gate receipts, and to the team having third place. S2jO and ten per cent of the gate receipts. By this arrangement. each team whether they win or lose. would be insured of having it's expenses paid, and we believe the gate re- ccipts would be sufficient to amount to considerable sum more than expenses, even for the third team. Subject to. change, SD as to include fourth tcam)
 The object of this letter is to have you and vour friends interested in Arizona, to undertake to get togcth- CT team of players to represent Arizona. We do not care wi ere you get them. but suppose Arizona has considerable number of good play CTS.
 Upon receipt of this will you kindly investigate and let me know If you and your people will under take to furnish this team.
 We are overrun with offers from Texas, but New Mexico has been little slow. However, We are satis- fled that they will be represented by a good team
 We do not intend to run you up against high class professionals. and it may be that Texas will be repre- sented by players in and around Fl Paso. Very respectfully, w. w. Fur ney"
 largely attended and cnthusias- tic baseball meeting was held at the board of trade rooms last c-cning. to discuss this subject The matter was gone into from every possible side and from every side it looked good Phoenix is overflowingly full of good semi professional baseball players. and with proper backing to give it is thought there would be no diff ficulty in getting up a team that would be a good advertisement fo- Phoenix and that would bring home a good piece of money
 It is calculated by the committee that it will take 5000 to give the matter a winning motion, but it is believed that there is a good chance of getting a good portion of that back. so that it is believed that the balance well distributed, would not be onerous on any one and would pay.
 As the celebration comes off in october. it is a matter that must be attended to promptly