The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-26
NO ADDITIONS TO
THE NORTHERN
COPPER
Does Not Seem to Be Any One
Willing to Join the Shoe
string League.

Duluth. Mimi, March 26.-The
schedule committee Of the Northern
Copper Baseball league met Sunday
in the Spalding hotel and held an all
day session. Although the schedule
is practically completed it will not be
announced until the end OF the week.
when President Glass will give it out
at Lake Linden. his home. A definite
denial was made by President Glass
that any clubs besides Winnipeg. Du-
luth. Houghton and Calumet had ap-
piled for franchises. 81 understand"
said Mr.. Glass, that the report came
from the Copper country. and was
credited to me, but l have nothing
from the boys there except that they
had done their best to stir up en-
thusiasm with small results, but that
they were still keeping at it. don't
look for any additions to the present
circuit this year."
The only thing concerning the
schedule that president Glass would
give out was that each team would
probably have but one stay of three
weeks in its home town, two-week
periods being the rule. with one or
two stops of only one week.
The delegates present at the meet
ing We're: j. NJ. Lamb, of Winnipeg:
A. w. Kuehnow, of Duluth, and Presi-
dent Glass.
Schedule is Ready.
Houghton. Mich, March 22.-Presi-
dont.Conrotorx, C1oee $Lo
Northern-Coper baseball league. has
issued call for meeting of the
schedule committee of the league, to
be held at Duluth next Sunday. He
has. the schedule already drafted, it
is said, and wishes to submit to the
other members Of the committee for
changes and ratification Messrs.
KuehnOw of Duluth and Pulford of
Winnipeg, will meet Mr.. Glass at the
head of the lakes.
The Calumet team has signed a
couple more good men for the work.
out before the opening of the season
and the Houghton team has quite a
bunch of cubs on hand, all Of whom
will report on or before May ]. 1t
is expected that the Houghton squad
will make short tour through some
OF the good baseball towns of Wis
consin before the opening of the sea-
son and may also go to Duluth for
a series OF games.
Captain Taylor has not yet return
ed from Chicago. but writes that he
has a good number of men on the
string and will bring some of them
home with him next week. He says
that he has surprise in store for
the fans in the pitching line 1t is
rumored that Roy Beecher, the kid
pitcher from Cleveland. who was one
of the stars OF the season last year
with the Houghton team. and who
went to the Minneapolis big league
team at the close of the NC C. sched-
ule, will be back in a Giant uniform
as will Hastings, the Rock Island
man.
Solbraa will be at first, Brand at
second. Taylor at short, Sundheim at
third; Mutter behind the bat; Hast
ings, Beecher and two others in the
box and three good" ones in the gar
den, whose names have not been given
out. Houghton gets the following
men from Lake Linden. some of
whom had been negotiated with by
the Lake team before being dropped
from the league a short time ago:
Solbraa. F. NJ. Moeller. Abe Delvas
and William Pehle.
Calumet also gets a bunch OF Lake
Linden men by purchase.
Northern Umpires Appointed.
Calumet. Mich, March 24.-Presi-
dent Glass, of the Northern Copper
league, yesterday announced the ap-
pointment of Thomas McGrath, OF
Chicago, and E. F. Weisler, of Rock
Island, ILL.,. as umpires for this season.
Both men have accepted terms, and
will renOrt Nav IN