The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-10
Managers of Base Ball Team De-
eide to Withdraw From the
Interstate League.
WILL NOT STAND TO BE HELD UP
Action Of Directors In Attempting to Col
lect Unjust Fine Leads to Decisive
Action Tuesday Evening.
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The managers of the Kenosha base
ball team have become sick and tired
of the treatment accorded them by the
directors and have defnitly decided to
withdrawsfrora the league and finish
the season as an independent team.
The following letter from the seer.
tary of the league will serve to give
the fans some idea LOT the kind of a
came thesKenosha team has been up
against:
Chicago, Sept. ?, 1908.
Mr.. E. C. Alleman, Kenosha, Wis.
Dear.Sir: Beg to advise you that at
the regular.monthly September meet
ing of the InterstatelBas Ball League
held last night,'Sept. /, at the Grand
Pacific Hotel, the Kenosha base bali
association was suspended from the
league for failure to pay to w. c..
Nielsen, of the Gunthers, the amount
of $36.4O, sum awarded him by the
league in his protest against your
team for not appearing at regular
scheduled,game.
The Kenoshas base ball association
wall stand suspended and will not be
allowed to compete against any team
in the Interstate CHASE Ball League
until such time as they pay Mr.. Niesen
the amount due him, when they will be
reinstated in good standing.
AS a penalty for failure to appear at
the meeting last evening and settle
the claim of Mr.. Nielsen, which was
due on this date, the games scheduled
against your team on Sept. 9th and 9TH
with the Marquettes has been forfeited
to the Marquettes. Yours truly,
ROBT. L. WEIGH.
Of course the Kenosha team can be
"reinstated" easily enough if the man
ayers will permit themselves to be bled
for the small samount of 5000 but
rather than submit to this extortion it
has been decided to withdraw.
On July 20 the Kenosha and Gunther
teams were to play base ball here but
Manager Nielsen, of the Gunthers,
agreed to play the Grays instead and
permit Alleman to take his team to
Clinton, Iowa. Nielsen appeared to be
perfectly satisfied with this arrange
ment, came to Kenosha, played the
Grays, took his per centage Of the gate
receipts and went back home without
entering any protest at the time
against the substitution of another
team. On August 6, however, at a
meeting of the managers of the league
a protest was made and the Kenosha
team was fined $50 for failing to ad
here to the schedule. The fine was
afterwards RENTED.
Shortly afterward, notwithstand-
ing the fact that he had accepted a
share of the gate receipts of the game
played here, the manager put in a
claim for $36.4O Expense money
against the Kenosha team. 1t is this
claim which the Kenosha managers
refuse to pay and which led to their
suspension from the league. The Ke-
nosha team has been the only team
making money in the league this
season and many the other teams have
been helped out 20 asgreat extent by
the receipts here.
Financially the team will be better
off outside than inside the league and
from the applications already made to
the Kenosha managers by the best
teams in the league and outside of il
the managers can pick dates that will
give the local fans betterCarticle of
their favorite sport than they have had
so far this season.