The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-01
WHITE S0X REPORT
At MADISON ON
APRIL IS
Duluth Pennant Chasers Start
Practice There-Smith is
Playing Manager.

Duluth, Mimi, April 1.-Two weeks
from today the bunch of ball tossers
who will try out for Duluth's pennant
chasing White SoX for the coming sea-
son are due to report at Madison, Wis.,,
and from present indications all but
one or two of the twenty-five men that
Manager kuehnow had in line for the
squad will be on the field when little
Smiley Smith. formerly of Houghton,
chases the bunch out ON the Madison
university gridiron and hollers play
BALI"
Every man on the list with the eX-
ception of Krick and Mccormick has
signed his contract for the coming sea-
son and letter has been received
from Krick saying that they could
count on him and he would have his
contract in before the bunch started
chasing fast ones over the Madison
diamond.
Treadway has signed. but may ask
for his release, as he is at present buy
ing grain in Dakota for Minneapolis
land of the prairies and pitch bush
ball for the summer. If he desires his
release Manager Kuehnow says he will
for the season.
the box for Duluth this season. He
has already signed, but Manager Kueh-
now has announced that he does not
think he will quite answer as slab
artist for the kind of delegation the
Duluth team is due to be this year, and
when the other players get their trans
portation Hopkins will get his release
There is a possibility bare posi-
bility-that if Artie O'Dea plays ball at
all this year 1t may be with the Sox
again. Artie has timber claim and a
variety of backwoods garden which his
friends are kind enough to designate
as farm, up the north shore, and Ar
thur has decided that Eau Claire is too
far away to establish his headquarters
and he will not officiate as manager in
the Wisconsin league as was stated
some time ago.
O'Dea has had some little trouble as
to salary with the Duluth management,
but If this can be adjusted it is possible
that the smiling first baseman may
again disport himself before the fans
here this season.
The selection of Smiley Smith as
playing manager will be highly salts
factory to the players and the little
Houghton backstop will undoubtedly
make good in this capacity. He ran
the Houghton bunch last year and very
nearly piloted them into the top notch,
and II Duluth displays the same quail
ty Of team work under his generalship
that the Giants did last year the fans
will be satisfied.
It will be up to Smilev to attend to
the wedding out process at Madison
which will cut the squad of twenty
two men down to thirteen or fourteen,
which will go on the teams barn
storming tour through Wisconsin and
Minnesota before the opening of the
season, and finally to cut the team
down to twelve men who will stick
through the season. At the meeting
here last week it was decided to raise
the salary limit of the league 500 and
the teams will each be paid an aggre-
gate minimum of $1,000 a month from
now on.
The men who have put their names
to contracts up to this time are: w. s.
Treadway, Smiley Smith, Frank Sum-
mers, E. L. O'Brien, Earl Hazen, Will
liam Pinger, Walter Barrat, L. Wood
yatt, William Collins, H. B. Backus,
Jim Haney, Thomas c. Quigley, E. A.
Oderall. Dick Macdonald, A. w. Zim-
norman, John Mandernack, George
Weaver, Frank Bonnet, James A. Fa-
gin, Helding and Cummings.