San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
THOUSANDFANS
To Be. SOUGHT
FOR CLUB HERE.
Purchase of Tickets for
Giants-Sox Exhibitions
Gets a Membership.
AMATEURS SPONSOR IT
City League Stars Campaign
Next Week Among City's
Civic Clubs.

Wanted: one thousand loyal baseball
fans TO show the New Workers they
are welcome in San Antonio and they're
wanted back.
That's the call that will go out in
the coming week when the membership
campaign for the loyal fans club is
launched here.
The idea of the fans club was I'M
folded mt a Saturday luncheon by Presi-
dent Charles n. Wuest of the City
Amateur Baseball League, which stands
sponsor for it and will get behind the
campaign.
The plan is this:
One thousand boosters for baseball
here will be enrolled in the fans club.
Membership fee will be the purchase
Of seven tickets for the exhibition
games in March between the New York
Giants and the Chicago White Sox at
League Park. The price of these seven
tickets will be SJ.25. 1t will not be
charity" affair, but every fan who
pays in his money will get full value
for it.
Want Seats Filled.
The aim will not be to raise money
hut 10 fill the seats at the park when
the Giants and Sox are playing. Mana.
ger McGraw of the worlds Champions
the plavers themselves and the news
paper men through whom San Antonio
gets either invaluable publicity or ir-
rcparabe knocks were disappointed az
the small crowds that attended the ex-
hibitions last spring after the first
game or two. Another such show of
the lack Of enthusiasm and hospitabie
shirt on the part Of local fans nroh-
ably will mean the loss of the Giants
as a training camp attraction and the
removal Of San Antonio from the base
ball spotlight-aloug with all the pub-
licity pertaining thereto and the classy
baseball furnished in the SurilfesystE- -
1t took II. ]. Benson considerable
time and required of him a trim east
and some earnest conversations with Mr.
McGraw in order TO get the Gianfs
back here this spring. California and
Florida cities were bidding high. one
Florida community offering the Giants
guarantee of $4,000 to train there.
San Antonio gets the Giants for moth
ing-eXcept Il little loyalty and boost
ing and good attendance at the exhibi-
tion games. If that attendance this
spring is missing, San Antonio can kiss
the Giants goodbye. They'll heed the
siren call from California in 1924 as
sure as shooting.
Put 1t Up to Clubs.
The membership campaign for the
loyal fans club will be started Mon
day. Speakers will present the sub
ject before all the civic clubs next
week
This is the pledge of cooperation and
loyalty the fan-members will take:
I'VE, the undersigned loyal baseball
fans, DESTROYS of expressing our apprei
citation to John ]. McGraw for agair,.n
bringing the first baseball team of the Y
land, the New York Giants, to San An
tonic for spring training, hereby pledge
ourselves TO welcome and support said
team upon their arrival and during their
stay in the CITY,"
The games on which the tickets will
apply will be played between the Giants
and Sox on Saturday and Sunday.
March IL and Is, and Saturday and
Sunday, March n and %.
81 Welcome ut Station.
The first step on the program of
" treating the Giants right will be the
arranging of welcome at the station
when the main party arrives, probably
the night of February IS, although this
date has not been definitely set. 1t is
understood Mayor Black has agreed to
arrange for a band.
The membership campaign in the fans
club will be short and snappy and no
trouble at all is anticipated in secur-
ing thousand members as a neucms
Tor big crowd at every big game the
Giants play here.
The office Of Mr.. Wuest in the Tray
ellers Hotel will be headquarters for
The fans association during the cam
Daign.