El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-30
RAILROAD FARESI
SMALL FACTOR
New League viii Not Suffer
Greatly From Travelling
Expenses, Belief.

one Of the arguments used against
the formation Of the Rio Grdnde Base
bail association is that railway ex-
penses will eat up so much money that
the league. cannot be a success. A
rough estimate OF the mileage required
by the tentative schedule shows that
each team viii have TO travel but little
over 5000 miles for the entire season
With IL men 70 a team. this viii mean
a total OF about $4,000 miles. BY using
the scrip system, the clubs will get
rate OF 9 cents a mile, so the total rail-
way fares VIII not be over SllQ0 each
or about $500 per team per month
Playing Independent ball and a lin
tied number Of games the Silver City
semi-Dro. team paid out $3.50 in railway
fares LAST season and even then that
was not considered very much II the
independents can pay $3.50 for the lin
tied number Of games they play. then
the new league viii be in fine shape TO
pay less than so percent more when
they are playing practically every day.
The Nogales fans are not ready 10
give a definite answer regarding their
position with relation 10 the new league
They have all The data regarding the
league before them and are now dis
cussing ways and means Two meet
ings have been held already, according
TO reports reaching here. and II the club
is able TO raise enough to see IL through
the whole season then they viii seek
a franchise. Nogales wants a winning
team and il il enters the league, il viii
have funds ahead for the whole season,
independent Of the gate receipts.
Another meeting Of the Phoenix fans
has been called for tonight. when Off
GERS viii be chosen and a business man
ager named TO look after the financial
end Of affairs. Herb Hester viii man
age the team
The Albuquerque club is getting
along fine the capitalization OF the
club has been placed at $4,000 in
shares Of 81 each An effort is being
made 20 sell 5000 shares Of stock at
once and the committe I'm charge IS
meeting with great success O. A
Matson is the president of the clu b
and Leo Murphy has been named as
secretary
Roy Strome OF Albuquerque. ex-
pressed his sentiments as follows 81
think Albuquerque can put through
league clubs Will take notice OF the
climate here. They are having bad
weather in some Of the training
camps now"
Over at Phoenix. the citizens CONF
mittee has undertaken to give the
club a good start by guaranteeing the
sale OF 1000 tickets at SLOO each for
the opening game The committe has
made il known TO Hester that 10 wants
"a team that is a team" and that
Phoenix wants TO be in the race from
the start
Bill Hurley got busy at Las Cruces
Immediately on his arrival there Non
day. He had conference with the
citizens committee and the campaign
for the sale of stock I'm the Las Cruces
Baseball company was mapped out.
Already. several of the fans have
agreed "a. subscribe for 500 of stock
each and il viii not take long for the
Las Cruces club TO get going They
have a good ball park and Hurley will
at once issue a call for candidates for
his team To put i'm an appearance for
the preliminary practice BIZ figures
| that his men viii need less than two
weeks of stiff work so viii likely
start his official training camp
about April 10.