The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-18
Sunset League Would Arouse
Enthusiasm for Twin
State Games
RECEIPTS COULD BE
GIVEN TO CHARITY
"old Timers" at Basketball Will Ar
range for Benefit Game for Local
Twin State Baseball Club as Soon
AS They Get the Word

The start of the pennant races IN
the big leagues and the probability
that the Twin-State Baseball league
later in the season will be in full
swing has brought forth Il proposition
to have Sunset league in Brattie-
boeo.
These leagues, so called because the
games are played late in the afternoon
by men who are otherwise employed
during the working day, are very pop
ular N other places. Some of the men
and boys who play in them either are
old-time ball players or are those who
have natural ability and like to play
FOR the fun and exercise obtained by
participating in this national pastime.
They serve TO arouse interest in the
game locally, furnish lot of fun alike
for spectators and players, and if any
admission is charged, as is done in
some towns and cities, the receipts 90
10 some local charity. The men want
none Of the money.
Here in Brattleboro there is no place
| to play bail except Island park and
he Fairgrounds, and the latter is too
/ FAR from town to allow the men to
/ get out there and play even 4 few
innings before dark
What arrangements could he made
/ fer the use of Island park, perhaps
)Wo carly evening Il week before the
/ beginning Of the real baseball season
/ locally, has not vet been learned, but
! It is believed that if there were TO ne
. small admission charged and the re
irCipts turned over to the tuberculosis
fund, the Day Nursery or some such
worthy cause the cost OF securing Is
land Park Cor such games would he
nominal, especially as it would serve
20 whct the appetitcs Of baseball low
ers fer the league games at IsIanr
Park
Already there are plenty of young
mcu who would be glad to enlist in
such a league for the sport of it. and
il is proposed TO have the teams so
divided in known strength As to make
the outcome of each contest really
doubtful until the last man is out in
The last inning played.
\ suitable prize has been promised
for the pennant-winning team and
there remains now only the definite
arrangements for the use Of Island
Park
Just rs soon as it is decided defin
itchy that Brattleboro will have {
team in the Twin State league ar
ranGements will be perfected for tn:
benefit basketball game to be playe,
By old timers at that sport. The
meeting to be held Sunday in Below.
Falls. IT which the question Of til,
ID salary limit will be finally decided
probably viii settle all questions as t.
= the membership of the league.
d All Of the teams in the league tOun,
: It hard TO keep their heads above thu
financial waters. something that wa
: true of all minor and Independent
leagues last year, and a little help viii
( not he turned side by the directors
II who would like to have the old bal
Q auce~ on the wrong side of the ledge
; wiped out as we'll as some cash in tn
Y treasury to start with.
Some of the ''old timers are OF
p baseball PLAYERS as well. In any even
n they want to see the sport go her
d as it never has in the past. The
IT purpose to organize two basketba
Y teams, with numerous substitutes, VIII
viii play benefit game in Festiv;
Ii hall, the entire proceeds of whic
er shall 90 to swell the treasury of til
" Brattleboro Baseball club. They ava
OF only the word that there is to be
n team to complete the final arrang
ments.
III The game win be well worth Will
ne if for no other reason than TO 5,
nd those who have been forgotten {
w having once been associated with II
as sport again scrambing around Fest
nm val hall in an effort to cage the ba
sb This will be no ten-twent-thirt shO'
es but being benefit performance al
he the asst in which many of the 60
testants ever will participate, Il
ha price Of admission viii be sufficient
NO make a showing in the treasury.