Complex sentence: Before the start of the 1919 season, West View Park lost its founder; in February that year, T. M. Harton had been stricken with influenza returning from a business meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Split into simpler sentences: Before the start of the 1919 season, West View Park lost its founder. In February that year, T. M. Harton had been stricken with influenza returning from a business meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio.