The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-22
Meet With Three-Eye Dele
gates at Indianapolis to Dis
cuss Outlook, Wednesday.
WANT SIX CLUB LEAGUE
Springfield and Dayton Inter-
ested in New Comport Ohio
State League.


Builders of a new Central league
will meet at Indianapolis next Wednes-
day either to resurrect the old cir.
cult or to form new one. The Rich.
mond club will be represented.
Richmonds entrance into q league
depends in q great measure on the
cities that are included. 1t is be-.
lieved that compact organization Of
cities, geographically located to pre-
clude big travelling expenses, will be
an ideal one. Such circuit would in
terest the Richmond club owners.
Members of the, old Central league,
the old Three-Eye league. and repre-
sentatives Of cities anxious to get into
a new league will attend the Indiana
polls meeting.
Peoria Boosting League.
l. G. Ryan. president of the Peoria
club of the Central, has been active in
boosting the formation of league.
Five cities in the territory formerly
occupied by the Central and Three
Eye leagues are ready to resume the
game, according to Ryan.
A. r.. Tierney, Of Chicago, president
OF the the Three-Eye league. and Har-
ry Stahlhefer of Evansville, retired
president of the Central, have been
asked to help re-organizc the circuit,
according to advices that reached here
today. Peoria wants some of the
Thrce-Eye league teams in the new
circuit e.
Cities That Want to Join.
Cities that have shown a DISPOSE
tion to get in line are Peoria and
Bloomington, H.. Grand Rapids, Mich.
Terre Haute and Richmond Efforts
L. H. 4l,xhr Nav
ton, Ohio; South Bend, Evansville or
FIT. Wayne. Ind; Muskegon, Mich;
Rockford, Moline or Rock Island, Ill.
Folk down Ohio way don't seem to
be pessimistic about the probability
Of success for minor league baseball
this year. They want to organize right
before they start, and are going at 1t
in the most business-like way.
The Central league hasn't made
known the territory which 1t might
want to include in its makeup for 1919.
Accordingly, Ohioans, at Springfield,
have started a movement to form an
Ohio league.
viii Claim Richmond.
1t may not make any difference. The
Central league has the territory. Of
course, but wouldn't want Springfield
unless Springfield wanted the Central.
Dayton and Richmond. Ind, are other
former Central league cities which the
new Ohio league proposes to claim.
Association of commerce men at
Springfield are behind the movement
in Ohio. They have spread the doc
trine Of the compact circuit" broad
cast in nine cities. Other towns asked
to send delegations to a meeting on
Jan. 90 are: Youngstown, Canton,
Akron, Mansfield, Lima and Zanes-
vile.
Candidates for teams continue to
sprout fast in Illinois, and it is hardly
probable that the Central would want
to go over as far east as Ohio again
In its reorganization plans. Michigan.
Indiana and Illinois offer field which
is large enough, and, with Chicago as
the pivot, furnishes enough Of the ter
ritory Of these United States in which
to build a ball league.
Michigan Cities Slow
While plans for a new circuit arc
under consideration, someone will
have to get busy if Grand Rapids and
Muskegon are to pastime In Glass B
baseball this season. So far there
has been no effort to start anything
with view to reorganization In either
city.
1t has been assumed at Peoria that
Grand Rapids is ready to string along
again this year. Muskegon,. however,
isn't considered quite SO attractive,
perhaps, because President Marsh has
let it be known that he will not back
the club this year, but is prepared to
give a hand to any and all persons
who want their city represented. From
this particular dugout, 1t appears that
the presence of Muskegon will be
necessary II Grand Rapids Is to be
represented. One can hardly survive
without the other. in baseball way,
and other prospective members of the
league would be influenced greatly in
their desire to join up if they found
that only one city was available up
this way.
Want Six Club League.
The task of making the league a
financial success is going to be hard
one. unless the magnates get their
maps out right away and make some
effort to form compact circuit. One
suggestion of the best six-club league
would include Grand Rapids and Mus
kegon from Michigan, Peoria and
Bloomington from Illinois, and Rich
4mond along with either South Bend
or Fort Wayne from Indiana.
n the league Is to have eight cities,
Terre Haute and Evansville might be
safely added. Evansville has fine
big park, which the fans will hardly /!