The Cairo bulletin., 1914-04-05
Manager Herbert is EcTc.--Will Be
at Ball Park Today---Game
Called at 2;45.
THE MONEY GOES
TO BASEBALL FUND
Stron. Line-Up oil Both Teams---Cy
Lingle Will Catch for
the Visitors.

Baseball enthusiasm and baseball
weather. everything promises well
for the opening of the season, the
first preliminary game will be played
this afternoon. Cairo's old fayorite
Cy Linclc will be here with a fast
team of Jonesboro and Anna players,
some professional and some amateur
and Cairo will line up against them
with a team composed of those PLAY.
ers who have shown up on the reeu-
lar team. filled in with some good
fast local talent.
All the fans are expected to tuln
cat ana root in their old familia
way aud incidentally to aid in get
ting rs large an attendance as pos
s'ble, rs the major part of the pro-
vccds If the game will so to swell
the funds of the Cairo Baseball as
ISOLATION. The game will be called
at 2:ij.
Jack Shechsn the Mound City
favorit,, will hold down End base
for Cairo and is expected to give
MANAGER Herbert an example of how
it oughl to be done.
Manager Herbert and his wife ar
rived in Cairo yesterday afternoon
from Pekin, III. They are moving
their household gotcs to Cairo and
will make this their permanent
home.
The new manager looks the part
he is appointed to fill, not only that
of live ball player, but one with
the requisite executive ability to
properly direct his forces,
April 18th will be baseball night
at the Arcade theatre and Manager
Byron Herbert Will donate every
penny taken in at the box office TO
the Baseball association and the di-
rcctors have offered as prize a sea-
son pass TO the Baseball park, which
entities the lucky winner to admis-
sion t. the grand stand for 80
gamc.,.
The soliciting committee will
start out Tuesday and Manage:
Herbert will join their forces, it was
at first planned to start Monday, but
as the 500 committee of the Cairo
Association Of Commerce will be IL
the field that day, it was decided to
wait until Tuesday.
The plans for the season depend
largely upon the state of the finances
of the club, and in view Of the fac.
that good baseball team is the best
kind Of an advertisement 70: city,
the merchants are expected to rail-
to the financial support Of goo
clean sport and make their coatr =
buttons sufficiently liberal TO enabla
the Baseball association to put u
pennant winning team in the field.
Five new players have been signel
mp since last report. The arc: Oue-
fielder. VIII Showers, Equality, Ia {;
Pitcher II. Hobbs, Denver, Tenn. ;
1st Base ]. ]. Spore, Nashville,
Tenn; Infielder H. B. INLAND, st.
Louis, Mo-; Catcher L. Myers, At
1antic City, n. ].
Responding Literally.
The business men and fans in
Owensboro are responding literally
to the call of the baseball associa-
tion for money. The solicitors there
did not start to work until the Cast
week and the first day $1,000 ives
subscribed. Such spirit of the citi.
zens is certain to make baseball q
success in Owensboro. Manager
William Ling has about all of the
players he will sign.
Waddell Faced 1912 Batters.
Chicago, April 4.---Statistics to-
day figured that during the fifteen
years he was a professional baseball q
pitcher George Edward tRube"
Waddell. who died Wednesday in 7
sanitarium at San Antonio, Texas
pitched to 1912 batters.
1t was figured the batters, made d
tCQaeluded on Poge Eisht.)