Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1893-04-27
Tne Un1cago uIup, as.r nave mentioned be

The CnIcago Club, asT nave mentioned be-
fore, expects to have hard year of it finan-
cially on account of the counter attractions
of the fair and will try to Offset its week.
day losses by Sunday games. Minor leagues
in the Chicago territory realized that this
summer all roads will lead to the fair, and
the economy necessary among people who
expect to pay the expenses Of trip to the
Chicago show would give professional base
ball decidedly small chance to 'pay out"
If the Western league of 1892 found it
hard sledding !" It Is argued that this year
" would be FOLLY to attempt champion
ship campaign among those same cities.
Some of the larger cities, like st. Paul,
Minneapolis, Omaha, Kansas City and Mil
waukee, will doubtless organize semipre-
fessional teams and may be thereby repre-
scented In state leagues
The Illinois and Iowa league is also in q
state of innocuous desuetude. The Worlds
fair incubus hung heavily over it's cities
of last season an ugly quarrel among sew
lively speaking, ripped the organization up
the back.
With the Western and the III leagues
are springing up through the west. There
is one forming in Ohio Indiana has one we'll
under way. Michigan cities and towns are
making ready to get together for another
campaign upon old lines with clubs at Bay
City, Owosso, Grand Rapids, Manistee and
Muskeegon. Missouri and Kansas are talk
ing Of partnership. In Pennsylvania the
state league is already thing of reality
and promises to do better than the organ
ization which represented the state last
year. An amateur league with clubs at
Windsor, Chatham, Blenheim, Wallaceburg
and Dresden has been organized In western
Ontario. Wisconsin has served notice that
1t will join the states procession with its
old organization.
A meeting was held in Toronto recently
which had for its object the organization
of Canadian baseball association divided
into four divisions.
John T. Brush is at the head of the pro-
posed IndisWa league. which includes the
cities Of Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Muncie,
Evansville, Anderson and Fort Wayne.
In Ohio Akron, Youngstown, Canton,
East Liverpool, Mansfield and Sandusky
are the candidates selected to make up the
state circuit.
In addition to all these minor baseball
circuits. the colleges will furnish an unusual
amount of sport among their teams. Yale
and Harvard have already agreed on dates
The Pennsylvania university, Princeton,
Holy Cross, Georgetown university, Am
herst, Browns university, Columbia,
Wesleyan university, University Of Yer
mont, Fordham, Dartmouth, Bethlehem,
Lafayette and Cornell colleges, all have
well organized teams, and have arranged
for'interchange Of games.
In Indiana the colleges have formed o
baseball league and adopted schedule of
games. The league includes clubs from
Purdue, Rose Polytechnic, De PAW, But
Ter, Wabash, I. U. and Hanover.
In Maine o similar organization exists
with Bowdoin, Bates, Colby and N. S. G.
represented in schedule of games.
There is also a state college championship
arranged in Pennsylvania among the clubs
Of Bellefonte, Lock Haven, Bucknell, Dick
inson, Tyrone and Pennsylvania colleges.
The Carleton, Macalester and Hamline
universities of Minnesota have organized an
intercollegiate league.
The above are only a few of the many
baseball organizations which will have
fully equipped teams in the field when May
day comes This necessarily imperfect look
out over the baseball field, just as the sea-
son Of 1898 is putting forth its buds, will
give. general idea Of the great proper
tions and wonderful popularity which the
American game has won for itself. Moth
ing seems to discourage its existence.
When local causes beat it down Temporal
rily in one section, it is sure to take root
where it had never before been known.
O. p CAYIOR