Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-20
BASEBALL SUBSCRIPTIONS
ARE COMING IN SLOWLY
More Speed and Action Necessary IL
Richmond K to Get An Interna-
tional League Club.
ONLY THREE DAYS REMAIN
Fund Must BE Complete by Friday
Night TO Assure SucceSS-Gct
Busy, Send in Your Subscriptions,
and Do Ii Now.

While figures are not available o,
will not hc so until Friday night. Il
w. Wilson. member Of the baseball com
mitteo appointed to secure funds to
float tho Richmond Exhibition Com
pany and bring the Baltimore Inter
national League team 10 this city, said
last night that he could only rcpor,
progress" Ey reporting progress
however. he did not mean to infer that
Sufficient funds were IN sight and the
merchants and others could rest Sc
cure that tho project had been carried
through, but that the canvasscrs and
others interested were going along in
an easy fashion and doing their duty
we'll
According To Wilson there are many
more dollars needed. and II IS not safe
TO lay on with the Thought that the
other fellow has responded in Il man
ner sufficient to mako better baseball
AN assured fact.
Mnny single shares Taken.
That the small investor is taking an
interest i'm the project is showu'by the
number OF single shares subscribed for.
These siucl. subscriptions are accept =
able. but it is the larE" blocks of stock
that Will successfully put the deal
through, and the large investors have
not responded AS literally and in as
large numbers as the committee had
hoped they would.
Everything that Dunn and tho com
m mi ,; hay,ns The MATE ,r, in chnrSe can
been signed by the Virginia League.
and il only remains for the business
men 10 como forward at once and close
tho subscription list.
only three days remain 10 get tho
complete fund together. and it is cX-
peCted this Will be accomplished. but
and speedy action on the part of those
interested in the welfare of Richmond.
Advertised Extensively.
II has been published broadcast that
League club. ana will rank with cities
Of her size in baseball. 1t has also
been published that Richmond business
men would rails" the sum OF $4,000 to
float the Club, ana should the deal fall
through by failure TO collect the ncccs
sary subscriptions. il will hc a blot
that would he hard To wipe ont.
Everybody having tn" love OF tho
city AT heart can aid by sending in their
subscriptions At once. There is no
danger nf the fund being oversuh-
at 100000. and stock Will
he issued for every dollar subscribed
$4,000, the difference will be placed in
the treasury and used when necessary.
Dunn has tho greatest confidence in
the business men Of this city. so much.
booked a series Of exhibition games
with the understanding that an Inter
League team would be on tho
ground to Civ" the big fellows II battle
during the month OF April. Should
there he no International League team
here 1t would he another black eye
for the city. and the news would soon
he scattered broadcast that Richmond
could not finance "a $4,000 baseball
deal.
Get busy. subscribe for stock. send
in your subscriptions To the committee
II YOU have not been called upon. Place
the city In It's class. and in the spring
and summer 20 ont To Broad Street
rark and root hard for tho pcnnant
Subscriptions may be sent to The
Elchrnond Exhibition Company Post
send in at once and do II now