The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-01-15
FOR BASE BALL LEAGUE
North Nebraska Could Have a
Rafting Good Bunch.
WOULD BE THERE WITH GOODS,
The Organization OF an Athletic Club
In This City Suggests the Idea That
Interest Might be Created Through
out the Section.
out the Section.
IFrom snlurdny'a D0IIy |

Interest Might be Created Through
out the Section
fFrom Saturdays Dnily1
Norfolk Is To have an athletic club.
All those Interested in its organization
are requested to meet tonight in the
Eblo pool hall for the purpose Of or
gani2ation. Omccrs are to be elected
and other business attended to- The
meeting will be tO arrange for gym
nasium in which those agile ones who
are athlctically inclined may train and
grow strong in systematic fashion,
The club will handle wrestling match
es, boxing bouts and the like as foa
turc attractions. A few stunts and
n bit of wrestling may come in to-
night.
Baseball Possibilities.
II is barely possible that baseball
club may grow out of the organized
athletics. Norfolk had no CluD last
season and 1t was missed by the
sporting element Next year is to be
n great season for the national game
all over the country and 1t is only
reasonable to suppose that this city
could support nine that would do
things
Now, too. that the train service has
grown throughout this section, a
league of clubs in this territory would
not be SO bad There could be n great
little organization of the wide awake
al, n11 n
rafting good games could be pulled
off.
For instance, there is Creighton.
Creighton always did play fast base
ball and there Is no reason to suppose
that It has diminished in that respect.
Then there could be team up the
line at Niobrara or Lynch or both, and
getting into the Boyd county land,
there could he at least one and may
be more corliing outfits of twirlers
in Spencer, Butte or some of the other
points. The Bonestoel Indians made
n great tear over the country last sea
son and of course they could get In.
Fairfax, too, is always there with the
goods and startling aggregation
from the county seat would not be
surprising at all.
On the Main Line.
Up the main line, where they seem
to raise good ball players, lot of
teams could De formed, Oalldale and
Tilden used to play and Neigh has
always been ready to support team
of the first water, In fact, Sam Leth
erby (married) came from that sec
ton. Clearwater had some good fun
at baseball last season and O'Neill
is the home of n bunch of material
which could not be overlooked. At
kinsoh is the place where Tommy Sui
livan stopped Clarence English and
it would no doubt be there with the
goods when 1t came to ball There
would be no reason why Newport, Bas
sett and Stuart should not play ball
and Long Pine could certainly be de.
pended upon.
Down the Scribner branch they
have always made mark. There's
Newman Grove and Elgin where teams
would play until they were black in
the face, and Petersburg and Albion
would never quit till dark, Humphrey
furnished Norfolk with 10 Galasld
enough said, Madison is a good place
TO play, too, during county fair time
Hoskins Winside and Wayne would
rather play ball than eat any day and
they would no doubt encourage the
organization.
Have the Spirit.
Stanton and Pilger have always
had the proper spirit in IA baseball
way and would play against each
other at the drop of the hat Wisner
has played in it's life time and West
Point is the town which used to own
Ragan and Corbett and which turned
out Sam Crawford. 1t is also the
place which used to play so bitterly
against Norfolk and Norfolk can
never forget the day the Kim Valen-
tine came so nearly being mobbed
On the whole, north Nebraska has
turned out some of the best batters
and the best pitchers and the best
all round players that ever tossed the
leather within the bounds of the state
and it would seem an easy matter to
form league that would create inter
est during the usually quiet summer
months.
The News will be glad to hear from
any who may have suggestions or
ideas in this regard. Write to the
Sporting Editor"