Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-13
MINOR LEAGUE
BASEBALL CLUBS
Secretary Farrell Says Prospect FOl
1919 In This Country and Canada
Were Never Better.
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Associated Press hAs..

NEW YORK, March 13-In fore
casting a successful season for the
minol league baseball clubs through
out the United States and Canada,
Secretary John II. Farrell of the Nat
ional Association said -fe wdays ago.
Il believe the general prospect for
1920 in the various sections of this
country and Canada were never bet
ter. The people are turning to an1use-
ments and out door sports for recrea-
tion in greater numbers than ever be-
fore. Last year the minor. league
clubs enjoyed their most prosperous
season in five years past. This era
of prosperity extended to all leagues
in every section of the country and to
far off Western Canada League in
the provinces of Saskatchewan and
Alberta. The minor leagues have
flourished under the National Asso-
citation government as never before in
the history of baseball"
According to the annual report read
at Springfield, Mass, slast Novem-
Der Is leagues employing nearly q
500 players began the 1919 season and
13 of these finished their official play
ing schedules. The CInternational
Northwestern League closed down on
June Z, but the New England League
paid its players in full for the full
term of the schedule which ended
10 oil
ed it's season on August End.
This year the pennant winning lea
CUES of 1919, Pacific Coast, American
Association international, Western
Southern, Eastern Association Texas
! Michigan Ontario, Three I, South At
lantic, Western Canada, Virginia and
Florida States are all ready for the
coming season. So are the New Eng
land and reconstructed North Western
organizations and in addition there Is
great activity in reviving or reor-
ganizing others with every promise OF
many of them being ready to begin
play early in May. Among these are
the Blue Ridge, Corn Belt, Cotton
States, Illinois Missouri, Central AS
sociation, OkIahoma-Kansas, New
Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Neb-
raska State leagues.
The National Association of Minor
Baseball Leagues which has been ST
productive of good results and the
welfare of the national game was or
ganized 20 years ago. At the outse
it was composed of nine leagues bu
three years later it had % member:
and in 1912 it reached the top notch
of so league members. In that year
those so leagues embraced 1856 cite:
and towns in the United States ane
Canada The launching of the Fedora
League made inroads on the minor a:
well as on the major leagues and II
1915, owing to this cause and the out
break of the European war, the mem
bership dropped to 40. The three fol
lowing years, during which every cor
ner of the world was interested In th'
great struggle being fought on Eu
ropean battlefields, there was onl!
meagre interests taken in baseball
but a revival set in last year witt
wonderfully assuring results and it i
hoped by the beginning of the play
ing season one year hence there VII
be 80 leagues in operation and tina
two years more will find the Natlona
Association operating with mem
bership equal to its banner year.
PHILADELPHIA OARSMEN.
PHILADELPHIA, March 13-Tw
hundred University of Pennsylvania
oarsmen spent two hours each ait
ernoon gazing at themselves in larg
mirrors in order that they may cor
rect errors in their rowing form.
It is the opinion of Coach Wrigh
that mirrors are invaluable to ere,
candidates.
every man out for my eights mus
watch the mirrors" he says. "Th
value of the mirrors is inestimable /
showing the mistakes and weakness
es of the oarsmen. For instance, m
stroke can see the mistakes each ma
is making as soon as the slip occurs
He can Immediately correct them"