The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-11-05
WORKING FOR
LEAGUE BALL
Wilmington Baseball Fans Start
Movement to Organize
Carolina League

Wilmington, Nov. 1.-(SpeciaD.-
Absolute confidence was expressed
here this morning by those who are
agitating new baseball league to be
composed of Eastern North and South
Carolina towns and cities that such
league will be formed next Tuesday
when nine Of the principal cities in
this section will have representatives
at meeting to be held in Whining
ton. Those cities invited to be repre-
sented at the meeting are kinston,
Wilson, Rocky Mount, New Bern,
Fayetteville, Goldsboro, Sumter and
Florence, and word received here late
last night from part of those named
was to the effect that they will have
delegates here at the coming meeting.
The session will take place in the
rooms Of the Wilmington Chamber Of
Commerce and will be called to or
der at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
1T is believed that by early Wednes-
day morning the cities admitted to
membership in the league can begin
making their plans for the playing
season.
William A. French, president Of the
Wilmington club. declared in an in
terview granted here last night that
in the event the South Carolina and
North Carolina cities unite in the
present undertaking. they can pro-
duce faster and more successful
league in every respect than either
the South Atlantic Association or the
Piedmont League. Mr.. French de-
clares that if the present effort is sue
cessfu1, he will be we'll pleased that
the cities in the Piedmont league re-
fused to heed his appeal for admis-
sion to that league, and similar SEN
tiGoents are voiced by Watson Bell.
who presented Wilmington's appli-
cation for admission to the South At
lantic Association. Both these fans
OR Atlantic Coast League, as the new
association may be named, was more
logical from the beginning.
Thus far not one of the cities in
vited to send representatives to the
meeting Tuesday, has declined to do
so, and fans here are hoping that all
nine cities will be represented. It
will be possible to admit only eight
at the utmost, and probably six, and
it therefore behooves the fans in
every city in the proposed circuit to
bestir themselves at once.
1t is declared by James A. Cowan
of the Wilmington Chamber Of Com
merce, who last night issued the call
for the meeting, that an effort will
be made to secure CO. classification
for the league and that in all prob
ability the same player limit and sal
ary limit will prevail as that now in
the South Atlantic Association, which
is "A players and 1000 per month.
Should the present effort for organ
ized baseball in Eastern Carolina fail.
it will mean that there will be no
professional baseball played next
summer in this immediate section of
the state and the fans of several cit
les concerned are therefore greatly
exercised and are awaiting the out
come of Tuesdays meeting with more
than little interest.
Secretary Cowan has requested the
eight cities mentioned to advise him
at once by telegraph the names OF
the delegates who will attend the
meeting and he declared this morning
that by Monday night he will know
exactly how many cities will have to
be considered in the formation Of the
new league.