Evening journal., 1911-03-16
TRI-STATE
SOLID AGAIN
Lower Salary Limit InSureS
ALI Around Success for
League This Year
NO LACK OF GOOD
PLAYING AND HARD CONTESTS

The Tri-State League season d
1911 ought TO be one OF the most sue
cessful i'm the history of the organl-
gatton both from a playing and imam
oiol standpoint. The best known
league in the country flew a high kite
for several seasons, paid salaries that
were prohibitiye in comparison with
fhe drawing capacity of the cities rep
resented. but it is getting down TO
solid and sensible foundation and VIII
start this years championship race
under the most promising conditions.
The salary limit has been hammered
down until II is in keeping with tho
class of the league and the drawing
power of the cities represented ana
for the first time IN the past several
wears every club at least has pos
sihIe chance for breaking even and
making money on the side. The
attendance figures of last year prove
that with a salary limit Of $1,000 and
the gate receipts totaling practically
the same as past seasons, every club
ought to come out whole at the end
OF the season.
Hammering the Limit.
The salary limit has certainly been
hammered some since the Tri-State
came into the fold Of protected base
ball. The last season Wilmington
was represented in the old Tri-State
outlaw league the salary limit aver
aged about 5000 a month. an amount
sufficient to carry the club through
three months I'm the season of 1911
Those days have passed and the
league officials have succeeded In put
ting the organization on solid work
ing basis that affords every team rep
resented an even chance for success
financially the coming season. Al
toona has always been one Of the very
best towns on the circuit ever since
the league was organized. The peo-
pie have loyalty supported the club
with the result that the attendance
figures show that Altoona has always
ranked up with the leaders in attend
ance.
The patronage last year was good
and It is estimated that the average
attendance during the season was a
trine better than 1900 people and
with similar patronage this year and
the buying and drafting OF few play
ers at the end of the season ought 70
assure success to the Altoona club
for the coming season. Altoona was
the only club in the league that made
money In 1910. II was a good season
and while the attendance failed tc
reach figure to meet all expenses
the sale OF players and drafting of
others permitted the club management
20 wipe all debts from the slate an'
start anew this year. The prospects
look rosy and with anything like goo'
weather, a team that will travel NJ
with the leaders and an interesting
race.
Manager! Are Confident
Peter r. Cassidy, of Wilmington
George Washington Heckert, Of Tren
ton Bill Coughlin, of Reading; Mar
fy Hogan. of Lancaster, and Curtis
Weigand. of York. are all counting on
making money for their towns this
season. All figure that under the
new salary limit and with the patron
age the clubs we're given last year
the season ought to make such re-
turns that the men back of the clubs
would not have to delve down in their
pockets, or the fans be compelled 10
subscribe money to carry the team
through the season.
The league is in good shape this
year-better perhaps than II has been
for the past three seasons. All the
clubs have been put on good work
ing foundation, appear TO be evenly
balanced on paper and the general in
dications are that the penant race
will be one OF the most hotly conteste,
in the history OF the organization.