The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-04
DECISION TO COME
AT COLUMBUS MEET
Representative OF Wash.
ington Senators Insists
On Charlotte Inclusion

Wilmington chances of obtain
ing a Piedmont league berth ap-
peared improved last night as a
representative Of the Washington
Senators baseball team repeatedly
insisted at a conference of Pied
mont and Carolina league officials
in Columbus, O., that the Charlotte
club, located in the Senator's farm
system, be given a place in that
league instead of the Carolina
league.
With Wilmington the only other
application for a Piedmont league
nine, granting of the Charlotte ap-
plication would make necessary tlS
inclusion of Wilmington to make
up an eight-city circuit.
The dispatch follows:
COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 3. Up
The Piedmont Baseball league in
a six-hour session failed today to
elect a new president or to decide
what will happen to the Charlotte,
N. C. franchise.
The league in its meeting pre-
ceding the annual session OF the
National Association of Profession
al baseball leagues, discussed 26
candidates for the presidency, left
vacant by the resignation of Ralph
H. Daughton, congressman from
Norfolk, Va.
There were indications that be-
cause of inability to agree on a
new president or to find stand
out among the 26 candidates, the
league might be forced to ask
Daughton to return despite the fact
that it had accepted his resigna-
ton.
Last season, the league operated
as a six-club circuit with Ports
mouth, Norfolk, Lynchburg, New
port News, Roanoke and Rich
mond. Charlotte was member of
the league until it suspended be-
cause of the war after the 1941
season.
The league is in favor of ex-
banding to an eight-club circuit
and, in addition to Charlotte, also
has an application from Whining
ton, N. C.
However, some members pointed
out, that the six-clubs now in the
league are roughly 200 miles apart
while Charlotte is more than 800
from most of the other teams.
The league will hold another
session tomorrow and then will 60
into a joint session with the Caro-
lima State league to discuss the sit
uation of the Charlotte club further.
There was a report that there
might be an attempt to swap"
franchises with the Carolina league.
However, a representative of the
Washington Senators, in whose
farm system Charlotte is located,
was understood to be insisting upon
a spot in the Piedmont League, n
class B organization, rather than a
class &c" Carolina League.
The Piedmont League meeting
also discussed the 81 amendments
IN paSebau law to come pefore
the National Association meeting
later in the week and approved
a majority of them.
The Washington Senators, which
operated with two farm clubs last
year, has arranged to build its
farm system up to five and pos
sibly more for 1916,
Heading the farm system again
will be Chattanooga in the newly
promoted class IA Southern Asso-
citation. The system also includes:
Charlotte, suspended during the
war and slated to return to the
Piedmont league or possibly the
Carolina State league.
Havana of the still-to-be-approv-
ed Florida International league and
Orlando of the Florida State league.
Joe Cambria, chief Washington
scout said it was likely that VIII
Transport, Pa, a Washington farm
last year, would also be back in
the chain.