The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-10

time Manager Wreath of Hancock has
but two of last years team Wares
and Rogers. To fill the other places
he has made every effort to get good
| men. but, as far as can be seen at the
present time. but few of them are
capable of putting up the kind of ball
expected by the Copper country fans
Though the game with Houghton Sun
day was played with the mercury how
ering around the freezing point, and
allowances must, of course. be made
for that, the team was disappoint-
ment to the few shivering fans. who
gathered to see the men work out.
The team at present is composed of
the following: Catchers, Gallagher
and Rick; pitchers, Rogers, Spizer,
Hopkins and Goulet; first base, Gillen:
second base, -; third base. Cox:
short stop, Waresffi outfielders. Terry.
Boden and Walker. Several more men
have been ordered to report and are
expected here within a few days, in
Guiding Charles Steward, catcher. OF
the men named. only the pitchers and
Wares. Coxand Terry showed good
form Sunday and the others will doubt
less be back in slower company be-
fore tho league season opens. Man.
ager Wreath, who came to Hancock
from New York to manage the team
this year, has promised the fans a
first division team and as he has lines
on any number of good men, he will
doubtless make good his promise and
make some substitutions Immediately
There will undoubtedly be some
changes in the Houghton lineup also.
Sundays game with Hancock was the
Of t,1r H<Nv, th@
and although it won. to 2, poor play
ing on the part of Hancock and not
good playing on the part OF Houghton
men, whom Manager Cassiboine has in
Houghton at present are: Catchers,
Boyer. Wegman and F.. Smith: pitch
McGraw: first base. w. Smith: second
base. Brand; third base. Sundhim
short stop, Taylor; outfeld. McHale.
Manager Cassiboine has several new
men on the way to Houghton now
and the team. which will appear on
the diamond in the opening game,
May II, will substantially differ from
the above. The present is Houghton's
first venture into baseball for num-
her of years and the business men who
are backing it do not intend to put an
inferior team in the field. if men are
available for a frst-class team and
money can bring them to the Copper
country"
The ante-season games have served
to stir up interest in the game among
the fans, and the prospects for the
success of the Northern-C Copper Coun-
try league in this section this season
are most bright. The close proximity
of the towns and the rivalry which
has always existed between them, par
ticularly between Calumet and Lake
Linden and Houghton and Hancock
will bring out record-breaking crowds
to games in which those teams con-
test against each other.
1t is thought that the eight-team
league will prove a boon to baseball
in this section. In former years four
Copper country teams played among
themselves, and, though the class of
ball was high, the continual playing
of the small number of teams became
monotonous, and though close pennant
races, in which Calumet figured.
brought out the fans in that town, the
attendance in the other towns was
anything but encouraging to the man
ayers. But sectional rivalry will lend
added interest to every game this
year, and as the league magnates have
set the salary limit at point, with
in which good teams can be secured
and good class of ball given to the
fans, there is no reason apparent at
the present time why the league should
not be a success.
Everything will be in readiness by