Baseball fans who want to see real baseball in Elizabeth City for the rest of the season are asked to attend a mass meeting to be held at the courthouse Monday night at 8 o’clock.
The purpose of the meeting is to determine whether Elizabeth City wishes to continue baseball for the month of August.
Fans in Elizabeth City for the past four weeks have been witnessing a style of baseball that is just about as good as the big league stuff itself, and attendance has been very good except during threatening weather.
But the baseball association is up against a few hard facts. Without a fence around the baseball park, the experience of the last month has proven that expenses cannot be met on gate receipts. The two days that games scheduled were not played on account of rain were the days on which no rain insurance was carried. The fact is insurance for games has to be taken out five days ahead of time and many of the games scheduled have not been arranged for that many days ahead.
But the experience of Elizabeth City is not being able to meet expenses on gate receipts is the experience of practically every baseball association of semi-professional baseball in other parts of the State. For instance, Bill Poyner of Poplar Branch, who before signing up with the local fans, was employed by the baseball club of the little town of Marion, says something like a dozen men, forked out $50 bucks apiece to start things off.
Tom Nelson, president of the club here, has been watching the financial status of the club here with some suspicion and on Friday gave the visitors supper without expense to the association. “This is the most hospitable town I’ve ever been in,” the manager of the visiting club said Friday afternoon, “and we certainly want another game with you next week.”
The advertising value of a good ball team in Elizabeth City is not properly appreciated—perhaps. For instance, the record of the local team this season has been hailed as far as Charlotte, and games in Elizabeth City have brought fans here from several adjoining counties.
The Edenton aggression has disbanded for the rest of the season bhut the Norfolk police, Roanoke Rapids, and the South Norfolk teams are all anxious to play in Elizabeth City next week.
From the front page of the Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Saturday, July 28, 1923
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