Evening journal., 1913-08-02
CHICKS HOLD
9 GAME LEAD
Team Enters On Last Month
of Schedule Looking Good
TO Win Pennant
POOR ATTENDANCE
DISAPPOINTS. OWNERS

With a nine game lead after playing
ball with real smashing power the
Chicks start on the last month Of the
Tri-State race this afternoon in a
donble-header against Allentown. Wet
.ngrounds prevented the clash yester-
oday.
~ Although the clouds again look as
though they might weep before the
day is over, every effort will be made
10 play the game and nothing short Of
a hard rain can prevent Allentown
from being pushed down the ladder a
little this afternoon
The pennant, seems certain for the
Chicks. for the first time since
ORGANIZED baseball was started in VIII
mincton The team has not only had
a winning team, but a team that has
put up a class of ball too fast for this
league II has been team that would
draw IN a city of 300000 people, and
yet II has failed and failed misorably
TO even set q crowd in it's home town.
Wilmington baseball fans where are
you? You the man who yelled last
year. give US a team, and the whole
! town vii flock TO Front and Union.
! Talk about new concrete grandstands; (;
! why the management Of the team
. can't even fix the roof of the pres
ent one. and the profits of the entire
, season will hardly buy a new fall hat
} for each man on the team.
It's a great baseball town and as
{ a biz league scout said when he went
away from Wilmington two weeks ago.
"They have the best bali team that
ever played in Tri-state baseball and
the poorest crowds | ever saw in a
! town where winning baseball was
being played
There Is a town out in the central
West and for fifteen years II
tried TO have a winning bali team but
always managed to wind up in the
cellar al the end OF the season II
was the same old cry. give us the ball
and YOU will get the crowd Two years
ago they got the bali, a smashing
team that cleaned up the circuit and
the official records show that one day
more than $4,000 people watched the
team play and that from $4,000 10
. 10000 people was only regarded as a
fair crowd. When the team broke up
: at the end of the season. there Was a
i. banquet and each man on the team
9 was given part of the town
3 What IS going TO be done for our
boys? There had hecn some talk cl
"a banquet But nothing definite has
been done. There has also been tall
Of A Booster Day for the players. Tn.
Questionably this Is the right idea and
If It were pulled OFF II is believed
that every man In Wilmington, who II
Interested in the team. would turn on
and lend a helping hand
George Stovall. Of the ST. Loui.
Americans. dropped of in Wilmington
Yesterday afternoon and cast a long
ing eve on several OF the local boys.
~ did get a chance 10 see the
tealn work yesterday. so VIII be ont
Atthe park again this afternoon look
lpg them over.
least three of the Chicks have a
good chance Of going into higher
company Doc Kerr Tom Brown and
Tony Marhefka, all have been looked
over by big scouts and have been
labeled for higher berths.
Every other man on the team is
PLAYING in great form and in case we
DO have team next year It will be a
badly riddled one.
II has just come out that the Chicks
paid $500 for the use of Harry Fritz
this year.