Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-21
MERCHANTS BACK
TEAM HERE? SURE
SAYS M HSEXTON
Ex-President of Three Eye One
of Many to Speak for Re-
turn of Sport.
WOMEN ALSO FOR III
They Express Hope That Project Will
Carry-Say National Game Pro-
tects Growing Boys.

LET the people vote to buy that
park and Rock Island will have base.
ball next year"
This was the statement made this |
morning by n. Il. Sexton, former
president of the Three-Eye league |
and one of the city's most ardent fans, !
anent the baseball situation as il
stands at present.
while !, myself, am out of base
ball and intend TO stay out, 1 am still
eagerly waiting for the tine when
Rock Island will again be represented
in the great national pastime
Encounter difficulty in raising
funds to equip team and launch it,"
he replied in answer to a question.
Say, I'll guarantee that if you can
assure the business men that the peo-
pie will buy that park, that within "a
hours you can go out and raise every
cent that will be needed to give the
project the most auspicous star that
any minor league team ever had.
WANT ROCK ISLAND.
There is not a question in my mind
but that Rock Island would be well
coined with open arms by other cities
on such circuit as that advanced by
The Argus or any other good league
which could easily be formed.
This city always had the reputa-
ton of being one of the best and most
Loyalty supported baseball towns of
any miner league town in either Iowa
or Illinois. Get into a league? Why,
the return of this city to professional
baseball would be received with open
arms by every city within circuit dis
| lance"
GOOD ADVERTISEMENT.
What do l think of baseball from
| a business standpoint? Well, let me
| tell you, young man, that having a
| team in a good circuit is one of the
| best advertisements that a town can
| have" was the emphatic statement
made by a prominent Rock Island
business man today in response TO
the query of an Argus man.
ASK any business man what he
thinks of the proposition. I'll wager
that if you were to go 10 some live
| outside city that more than one would
| tell you that in. their estimation, a
town without baseball club is dead
! and lacks progressiveness.
81 do not doubt for a minute that the
workingmen of The city want baseball
and l fell certain that the business
men do. You know there is quite a
bunch of good Rock Island money
goes across the river every day that
the Davenport team pays at home.
Il have lot of respect for that
fellow, Irving Norwood, secretary of
the Greater Davenport committee. If
what | have been told is true he is
trying to bring the New York Giants
and the Chicago White Sox to Daven-
port for a game at the close of the
present season.
Mr.. Norwood says that he believes
that baseball will bring the city more
advertisement than thousand folders
and believe him"
WOMEN FOR 1T.
From present indications, if the
|
number, the proposition to buy the
baseball park Will carry by a huge
majority.
One of the women was asked after
registering today whether she was
going to vote on the project.
well" you may depend upon that
will" she declared. I've got
that owe it to them to vote"
why, what has your duty to them
got to do with Rock Islands having q
baseball park?" asked the puzzled
i, scribe.
Foolish man." she retorted laugh
ingly, Don't you see that by so doing
l am protecting them. l know of nj
better way to bring up boys to good
honest, clean manhood than by in
oculating in them a love for whole
some athletics. Do your"
The awed reporter admitted that he
did not.
well" she continued, 81 think an!
, athletics are good, but, while l know
, nothing of what you call the inside
of the game, 1 consider it an idea
sport for growing boys-and girls toe
for that matter.
"Asd then there's my husband. Il
strikes me that 1t would be an idea
recreation for the tired business man
you hear about. And BESIDES" sh'
! laughed as she turned to go, ''if W,
have baseball I'll always know he's IL
good company"