The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-09-03
STANDING OF CLUBS.

STANDING OF CLUBS.
Standing OF the clubs in the Blue Ridge
League at close of season:
Frederick ..........................53 70 .6Sl
Martinsburg. .......................44 80 .594
Hanover ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 90 .oso
Hagerstown ........................34 ~ .44I
Acknowledgements. ...-.....2S 40 .ooo
ChambersbuTg -. ..............2S oil .354
Martinsburg, Aug. 29-Every town
in the Blue Ridge circuit finished in
good financial shape, and at least
three made money, according to I'M
| official figures of League Treasurer
| Stewart, the other three breaking
about even or better, so far as the
gate and grandstand receipts are con-
cerned, with an excellent chance to
| increase the returns by the sale or
draft of players. Frederick is believ-
ed to have finished the season with
| about 50 500 to $4,000 on the right side
of the ledger; Hagerstown may show
profit of probably $4,000; Chambers
| burg ard Hanover are ahead about
| $1,000 each, while Martinsburg and
Gettysburg about broke even. But
| Martinsburg expects to realize from
| $1,000 to $4,000 on the sale or draft
of players, while Gettysburg is as
sured of from $500 to $1,000 from
the same source This will result in
every team in the league showing an
actual profit on the right side of the
ledger, and place the towns upon an
excellent footing for next year. The
first season of the league therefore
| io1 in, 70
sense and firmly established organized
ball in the Cumberland Valley for
several years to come, at least.
1t is estimated that it cost the six
clubs an aggregate of approximately
100000 for all purposes during the
three months of play and that the to-
tai revenue from all sources will ap-
proXimate $4,000 1t is believed that
no other league in the country will
be able to show as satisfactory a re-
suit for a seasons work, based upon
comparative population. The total
: population of the six towns of the cir
cult does ont exceed $4,000, the towns
ranging from Gettysburg, with 5000,
to Hagerstown, with $4,000. Each
club is estimated to have paid out
something more than $4,000 month.
Amid a flare of brilliant lights, the
blare OF trumpets, the screeching OF
flies and the more subdued tones OF
bands of music, more than 500 per-
r sons on foot and in automobiles and
carriages participated in a parade
a, that brought to an end the greatest
: baseball season in the history OF
Frederick. Tucked in carriages near
: the head of the procession rode a
dozen of smiling, bowling and scrap
. ing balltplayers, champions of the
Blue Ridge league.
The rumbling of shouting and cheer
: ing went up from a monster crowd
composed of all of Frederick and
county, that lined the streets of Fred
erick in compact mass to the build
ing lines OF the main thoroughfare.
. Thousands of fans, men, women and
children, of all nationalities, color and
: hue, stood on the curbstones and as
the parade passed slowly by paid
homage to the Frederick baseball
team, impersonating the great Amer
lean sport, baseball. Patriotism, just
as strong and all-consuming as the
emotion that sends every man to his
country's service at the call to arms,
fared up last Tuesday night in Frederick
: and constituted one of the most en-
thusiastic public demonstrations in
. the history of Frederick county.
Mayor A Hot Fan.
Between the lull of the cheering
crowds and the boom of drums and
the screaming of youngsters and
shouting of men, Mayor Lewis HI. Fra
ley, shouted, But for baseball, Fred
erick would be dead Frederick owes
its existence among the progressive
cities of the State and the country
/ to baseball. Let's hope that no eff
fort shall be spared to make baseball
fixture in this city. It's the great
est amusement and recreation that
could be introduced to a community.
It's clean. It's healthy. 1t promotes
! good business It's a community as
set. It's premier advertising me-
dunn. Let's resolve to support the
baseball movement, every man, wom-
an and child"
The majesty of the law the mount
ed police force of Frederick leading
the public demonstration, fitting eli
max to Tuesdays game and the end
of the baseball season of the Blue
Ridge league, was set into motion last
evening at o'clock on West Church
street. With bands playing "It's a
Long Way to Tipperary," the parad-
ers marched to Market street, the
main thoroughfare, then north. The
Braddock Heights Concert band, Irv-
ing S. Biser, director, followed the
mounted police.
Riding in automobiles came Mayor
Lewis H. Fraley, President of the
Board of Aldermen Lloyd G. Cutler,
Aldermen Henry H. Abbott, City Clerk
Jacob H. Schmidt, John H. Grove, Ell
mer McC. Phebus and George W..
Shoemaker.
After the city officials came the di-
| rnctnrs of tho Eradarick Baseball clnh