The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-08
BUSINESS MEN COME
ACROSS WITH MONEY
TO AID u. S. LEAGUE
Takes Just Ten Minutes to Get Part Of
Stock Observation-Disclosures Pleased, and
Workers Viii! Have $40, 900 by Noon TO-
Day.. Each Other Club Must Do
hipn
Same Thing.

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Newman says that he can have his
ball club on the spot.
The result OF the meeting, was tina,
committee OF ten was appointed to
SOLICIT 100 men for one share of stock
cach In the corporation $40 TO be paid
cash. and the remainder upon evil
dence being furnished that iivc other
cities had done the same thing The
$1,000 thus raised will pay the players
and furnish transportation 10 pits.
burgh The Filllpinos Will return 10
richmond. finishing the week here.
During that time the work of re-
organization Will have been COM
pleted and new schedule drafted.
Give Up Stock.
Morgan f. Mills. representing his
associates in the Richmond Baseball
+. Il. Snyder, told the men interested
That he was authorized to state that
| all OF the original incorporators were
willing TO lose what they had put in
and We're willing in addition to sub
scribe 500 each TO stock for putting
the team on a sound financial basis.
Chief Rooter Sydnor. who has been
loyal all the way through. made the
| emphatic and telling assertion that
Richmond in the United States League
! was worth more as purely adve--
| using proposition than all tho 81
dinners which could possibly be given.
| II am not able to subscribe much, but
viii be there with what | can give.
and know many business men who
feel just as do" Indeed. expressions
We're heard from men in all walks OF
life. There were doctors. lawyers.
bankers. merchants and men of every
craft represented and they were there
with money TO help
| There Is no more question about
Richmond. The $4,000 needed Is as
good as collected. The committee OF
ten started ito work last night and
| while definite reports have not been
received. it is known that the original
! lis Of sixteen has been augmented
considerably. Until noon to-day the
workers Will be at 1t. and by that
time they feel that they will have ac-
compiished their task. They will not
let the news go forth that Richmond
was tried and found wanting.
Other Cities Must Show.
In epitomc, the situation is this:
Richmond will be ready and willing
to meet any five cities in the United
States. SO situated geographically as
to make probable the ultimate success
of the league, in any KIND of 4 propo-
sition. Richmond is ready now with
the money and the ball players. Cap
tain Henderson says that the other
cities are ready. II all OF these as
| sertions are true, the United States
; League is just ready to start the sea-
son. All of the bad Gigs have hcen
thrown over. Everything IS clean, and
! from now on real baseball will be the
| result.
Those who have already subscribed
are: The Jefferson Hotel, the Gilbert
| Hotel. Gucrrant Hotel Samuel Roscn
| dorf. Amos &c PoindeNtcr. Gibboney &
| Nuckols. +. p. Snyder. Leroy Il. Brown.
| DIR. Charles l.abcnberg, Morgan r.
Mills. c. +. Sauer Company, c. F..
Sydnor. w. w. billiard and James An
| thony. while others have telephoned
| that as soon as the list is brought to
them they will add their signatures
The committee Is composed of n.
Mills, IL. S. Bum. Samuel S Rosendorf
John +. Gibboncy, Marshall W Butler,
w. c. Blanton. George c. PoindeXter
| Grin b. White, T.. w. A-"os.
| Each of the newspapers in Rich
| mond will receive stock subscriptions
If the stock is subscribed. the men
who will not be admitted Will be no
tilted. No money is to be paid until
positive evidence that each of the 9TH
, or clubs will do the same thing Rich-
| mond has done. One hundred men in
terestcd in the club provides one hun
dred boosters. That is the reason 1t
was determined to have that number
| I'm the new corporation. T.. C.. Land
| graf has been eliminated. and while
| the men who will> back the club do not
| expect any returns OH the investment,
certainly not the first season. they are
willing to help advertise Richmond.
] They are real boosters.