Show START BALL CLUB WITH NINE DOLLARS Nine silver dollars started the Athletic Ath Athi- letic lotte baseball club of Philadelphia Nine dollars In real mone money a set of at old uniforms uni uni- forms and nine pairs of or stockings stockings not not entirely whole was whole all Hit the capital spital that Zack Phillips Phillip and Mason had when they formed what wha 1 Is 18 now the most famous ramous baseball organization in the tIle world The rent of or their grounds park co cost t them 3 a n da day For three weeks the trio hustled for nil all the they were cre worth scared cared up crowds that were sometimes some some- t times as RR hi hip big as 9 and at the tho end of or that time found that the they had gained 52 El apiece for their twenty one days daf of or labor It W was aa 8 a case caso of or give gio up or do something some some- thing dc desperate The They decided to make or 01 r break and guaranteed the tho Boston Doston club chub the big blA baseball attractions of ot the days or of 1881 of ot WO If It should rain Than they tat sat at back and prayed for fair weather for tor there was not a dollar In the lie treasury to pa pay In iii case caso of or ra rain in Tr Things r br broke K riGht The They had nad a crowd of of or whom had to stand be because be be- cause the ihie seating capacity of or the park was wal only 01 But all paid and anti after paying th the tho guarantee and giving the tho home Players Player 2 25 per pel cent of the tha gate lite the three promoters had enough money monc to buy lumber for stands I |