The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
APPLICATIONS FROM
PLAYERS ARE RECEIVED
MANAGER WILL BE EMPLOY
ED AND A NUMBER OF WELL
KNOWN STARS SECURED.
WILL RAISE 1900 DOLLARS
Assessment Plan Used in Securing
Necessary Funds. Will Start Play
ing in June With Schedule for En-
tire Season Fans Enthusiastic.

lAAk HI JUNO Will 0SllCQbuC III GAL-
tire Season Fans Enthusiastic.
That Dawson will have the strong
est baseball team that has ever trod
the local field is the promise of the
new officers of the organization.
No effort will be spared to line up
club that will compare favorably
with the famous 1915 team of Lefty
Williams, Baby Wilder, the Thrash
ers and other former notables of local
teams.
1t is understood that the assurance
of opposition from several other towns
in this part of the state has only help
ed to make the local heads work all
the harder. Albany will be represent
ed by strong team, as will Airing
ton, Cuthbert, Valdosta, Triton, Quit
man, Townsville, Fitzgerald and
Cairo. A movement is on loot now
to try to arrange schedule for the
entire season, thus eliminating the
one outstanding weakness of semi
professional ball. If this is accom-
plished there will be no til1-in dates
like Camp Benning's second team,
etc. This in itself will almost put the
Dawson team on firm financial basis
after the first canvass. The new base
ball rule passed by the Southern Ath-
letic conference will in no way hurt
this class of baseball, as was feared
some weeks ago; in fact, the players
are more plentiful than usual, it seems,
by the flood of applications which
have been received.
Money Now Being Raised.
A new system is being used in rails
ing the necessary money this year
the assessment method. Several of
the most experienced men of the
town have placed the amount he is'ex-
pected to subscribe beside each fans
name. This sum is supposed to have
been designated after calm delibera-
ton on the part of the committee. OF
course no fan is obliged to pay more
than is his usual amount, but the as
sessment plan is sound and saves a
world of time.
AS soon as the necessary funds are
raised, or the financial backing of the
team is assured, manager will be
employed to select players. The Off
GERS, A. ]. Hill president t. B.. Raines
vice president and c. d. Cooke sec
rotary and treasurer, compose a gov
erning board that is hard to beat, and
each of them has the interest of the
club in mind in every selection they
will make Just who is being consid-
cred for manager will not be made
public at this time, but whoever gets
the call will be man of known exec
utive ability as we'll as an excellent
player. 1t is rumored, however, that
such stars as Tige Stone, Jimmy
Clements, lobe Edwards, the Geor-
gia Tech star, Eddie Rawson, Sulli
van, Bobby Pinkston and the Thrash
err boys will >cavort on Baldwin park
this SUMMER.
Every prospect therefore, is for a
continuation of prosperity and popu
larity of local baseball Dawson's col
ors have always been held the highest
in the national pastime, and Dawson's
reputation as the best and cleanest
baseball town in southwest Georgia
is at stake unless the fans put their
shoulders to the wheel and again help
the officers assemble another winning
team