The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-28
MARION MAY
LOSE BALL TEAM
Crisis is Reached and Team
May go.
ATTENDANCE IS BLAMED
Club 5000 Short of Last
Years Crowds.
About $4,000 Must he Had at Once
and Directors VIII Not Again 90
On and Solicit Funds-Secrctary
Carr May Take over Team When
hc Comes saturday.

That there is the very gravest
danger of thu Marion ohio state lea
pue team being transferred from Mar
ion To somc other city and passing
out Of the control OF local men. be-
came known today when the directors
of the club sont for Secretary Joe
Carr of the league to come here and
talk over the situation.
The whole situation will he put
up to Carr. II he can interest local
men to thu extent that they win raise
about $1,000 the amount necessary 10
finance the team during the remainder
ul the season then Marion will have
nusehau But II Carr secs that the
case Is hopeless. the league viii take
over the team and franchise, pay the
salaries that are I'm arrears and then
within an hour after taking charge
Marion will be left out in the cold
and some other city, probably Mid
dletown will be given the franchise.
Most fans have not bean unfamiliar
with the conditions under the club
| rasbee n laboring this season. About
| 81 200 was raised before the season
commenced. OF this $3.50 was deposit
STE in Columbus with the president Of
| the league as a guarantee that Marion
would play out its schedule. The great
or part Of the remainder was used
in purchasing two sets of new uni
forms, paying the travelling expenses
q, nearly thirty players here for the
training season and n keeping them
at hotel during the training sea-
son.
| But even with this condition exist
| ing the club would have encountered
no financial rocks had the attendance
heen up to the mar;, which 1t mas
not been. The opening day crowd
vas Il grand one but since that time
six out of seven Sunday games have
teen marred by threatening rain. The
Weekday attendance mas been mis-
c,able. Day after day the gate and
grandstand and receipts have totalled
less than $50 while the visiting team
must be paid $50 eacn day and $40
| On Saturday The Sunday guarantee
Is 500 ana many sundays the gate
receipts have not been great deal
above that amount and then during
| the week the club has had to take
| part of the money made on sundays
10 make up the guarantee.
The Diggers cost the management
about $50 or $50 a day. Any thinking
person viii readily see the impossible
| ity of keeping even under those con-
dtions.
The attendance this year is entirely
lblamed for the existing conditions Up
TO July 10 the attendance was exactly
1000 admissions short of last year I'm
the same period and last year was
the poorest year the club ever had.
But even with the attendance of last
, ear the club would be In fine shap2
as 5000 additional admissions would
he practically $4,000 clear as the guar
lantees for that period have all been
paid.
Baseball men cannot understand th2
lrttitude of Marion rams toward the
game for all year the Diggers have
been right up there lighting for the
top or else in top position There's
never been better team that rep
resented Marion, nor has any team
been composed of cleaner, more gen
tlemanly fellows.
But the crisis is at hand. In form.
or years the directors could not lei
so of the club for they owed thous
lands of dollars. the payment of which
they had guaranteed by giving theil
ersonal notes to local banks, Now