The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-03-05
GETTING A NEW TEAM.
Many Changes Being Made in Keposha's
Base Ball Team for new Season.

Many Changes Being Made in Kenosha's
Base Ball Team for new Season.
The Interstate Base Ball League
will open the base ball season in Keno
sha on April 10th and already the
plans for the years work on the dia-
mond are being made and these plans
promise 10 give to Kenosha one of the
most successfully years of sport the city
has ever known.
With the opening of the new season
it is announced that a decided change
is to be made in the management of
the local team. EE. c. Alleman will re-
main as one of the managers of the
team, but w. J. Swift, his former part
ner, will retire, and in his place Peter
Breen, an old National Lacquer, and a
man who has done splendid work for
the Kenosha team during the lastStwo
seasons, will become the active mana
ger of the team. = He will also captain
the team and will be wholly in charge
of signing the men and paying the
salaries. Manager A11eman will re-
main manager of the business end Of
the company, but he will have nothing
to do with the players. The move is
one in the right direction, as Mr.. Breen
has no superiors in thea Interstate
League as a captain and manager and
he could bring winning team to Ke-
nosha.
The work of getting 1.-THE team to-
gether for the year has already been
started and a number of men have
been signed. Manager Breen will cap
tain the team from the initial bag and
a new man will have to be found to
play behind thesbat. Several men are
in sight, but as the RUS of the league
is that each team is to have but twelve
players, but one catcher will be signed.
Pitchers are already provided for
Finnegan, who won the pennant for
Sioux City in the last seasons contest
in the Western League, will be the
nestor Of the Kenosha pitchers and he
has already signed Kenosha contract
for the season. Ballet, "south paw"
who did good work with the Mason
City, Iowa, team, has also been signed
and is now in Kenosha ready for work.
None of the old pitching force will be
signed this year.
The outfeld has been made up by
the signing of Connery, Hanks and
Freitag, ali of whom are we'll known
in Kenosha, and all played with the
team last year. Schooling, new man
who played with the Decatur team IN
the "Three T. League last year, has
also been signed for the field. Snelle
has been signed to play second base.
There will be no trouble in regard to
umpires for the year, and Tanning, an
old Kenosha player, has been secured
as league umpire to oficiate at games
in Kenosha.
With this array of talent in sight the
managers of the team have started out
to make this banner year for base
ball in Kenosha. Efforts are now be-
ing made to secure many improve
ments at the Grand View Park. The
PoAh WAA OO AAuP1OVCA Wy luC Oullu1uS
of new diamond and some effort will
be made to make the field more in
keeping with the demands of the
game. The grand stand is to be i'm
proved and enlarged and a new tar roof
will be placed on the building. The
bleachers will be enlarged and the
managers believe that if the team
plays good ball it will be popular
team.
The managers of the team have
asked the managers of the Kenosha
Electric Railway Company to run a
branch line from the city to the park
and they have taken the matter under
consideration. It is claimed, by the
managers of the base ball team that
the company has already decided I'd
build the loop, but this decision has
not been made public if such is the
case.