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Show Bill If L j SUPPORT TEAM Many Subscribe Stock of Baseball Corporation to Be Organized LiRIF.ll AM. Feb. 7. -New life was injected in-jected into baseball In this city at an nthtn i.islie mee ting held in the club ! i " Miis Saturday night, when it was I Idc-clded to form a corporation and sell! jstcok in a baseball organization. Over one hundred ami fifty shares of stock I wan .sold (n Irs than tifteen minutes afi r the meeting adjourned. ' J. Francis MerrOll, chainnan of the baseball Ct D ml -. presided and stat- led that some action was necessary if Drlgham is to have a winning team M is season. The Commercial club backed and helped to finance the team , last year, he said, and now it was necessary nec-essary to ascertain what was lo be done this Reason. BUSINESSLIKE BASIS. Members of the board of governors of the Commercial club were present and advised the chairman that the Commercial club could not guarantee Id he resnans-Ihli- tor th.. "rnonu.. nt 1 running tho baseball team but would purchase stock In the baseball corporation corpo-ration if one was organized: that the .club had already ndvsinred the deposit 'fee and will do everything possible to make the thing a success. Utorne) V E. Davis and others j pointed out the advantages of form , Ing a corporation an,l electing officers : and turn the baseball business over to 1 them lo run on a businesslike basis. A Miie was taken and was unanimous i in favor of organizing. It was then proposed that an organisation organi-sation be perfected under the laws of the State to be known as the Urlgbam City Basdball club wtlh 4 capitui stock 'of $5it00. divided Into shares of 910 leach, payable as follows: Twenty-five iper cent down and tfro balance subject to the call of the board of directors in instalments of 25 per cent of the .amount subscribed, said tails to be. made not oftcner than thirty days apari. Tho officers of the organization will consist of a president, vice president, flvo directors. secretary -treasurer. These officers are to be elected at a meeting to be held Tuesday night. Tho following wero named to sell Ji R. Thompson. II. L. Krd uiann. V L Davis. Ress Wight. W. T. Davis. Charles Whitworth, Wilford Jensen. Norman Jensen. J. A. Fish bum. Will Bur. R. Kaiser. Roy Ros-kelley. Ros-kelley. It Is expected b Tuesday night all of the stock will be subscribed and from the way thlnga have started out others will apply for a second Issue. Joe Van will manage the team again this year and is now busy get-tlBI get-tlBI a lineup that will make the baseball base-ball tans sit up and take notice this season |