Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-08-18 | Page 8 | Plans for Another Outlaw League

PLANS FOR ANOTHER OUTLAW LEAGUE CHA TTA.NOOOA, An. It. A new baseball leerue In th south U to be organised by chart- to b filed in eight out barn cities today, according: to plans of tha promoters, which hava bean under way for months and ara now parfectad. Chattanooga. Tenn.. Atlanta. Oa.; Rlr-mlnjrbam, Rlr-mlnjrbam, Ala.: Now Orleans, lea. ; Memphis, Mem-phis, Tenn. ; NaahTtlle. Tann. ; Little Rock. Ark., and Shreveport, La., ars to compose the elght-elu) circuit, which will be named the Dixie baseball league. Memphis promoters are behind the scheme. It la said that the Dixie league wilt be associated with the Federal leaeTue. Judge Willis m J. Bacon of Memphli. who is to bead the proposed Dixie baseball base-ball league, stated that the new league promoters had no Intention of starting a baseball war In Uie south. Bf forts will be made, he aald, to effect ef-fect an agreement with the Southern league dubs In several cities, and If possible pos-sible to gain recognition of the national association of minor league clubs.