The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1907-04-01

port at Madison, and from present
indications all but one or two Of the
twenty two men that Manager Kueh-
now 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 ball"
Every man on the list, with the ex-
ception of Krick and Mccormick, has
signed his contract for the coming
season, and a letter has been received
from Kriek saying that they could
count on him and he would have his
contract in before the bunch started
chasing fast ones over the Mad1sqh
diamond, says The DFinith fd Y
Treadway has signed. buBiH Hay ask
for his release, as he is at present
buying grain in North Dakota for a
Minneapolis grain company and he
may stick in the land of the prairies
and pitch bush ball for the summer.
| If he desires his release Manager
Kuehnow says he will grant it, though
he has already signed for the season.
isis" Hopkins will not officiate in
| the box for Duluth this season. He
/, has already signed, but Manager
Kuehnow has announced that he does
not think he will quite answer as a
| slab artist for the kind of delegation
the Duluth team is due to be this
year, and when the other players get
their transportation Hopkins will get
i his release.
| There is a possibility, q bare pos
sibility, that if Artie O'Dea plays ball
at all this year it may be with the Sox
again. Artie has a timber claim and
la variety of backwoods garden which
| his friends are kind enough to desig-
nate as a farm, UP the north shore,
and Arthur has decided that Eau
Claire is too far away to establish his
headquarters and he will not ofticiate
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 manage
ment but if this can be adjusted 1t is
possible that the smiling first base-
man may again disport himself before
the fans here this season. fld
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 rar
the Houghton bunch last year and
very nearly piloted them into the tor
notch and if Duluth displays the same
quality of team work under his gen.
eralship that the Giants did last yeal
the fans will be satisfied
1t will be up to Smiley to attend t.
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 ano
Minnesota before the season, anC
finally to cut the team down to tn,
twelve men who will stick through tn,
season. AT the meeting here last weel
it was decided to raise the salary limi
of the league 500 and the teams viii
each be paid an aggregate maximum
s3of $1,000 a month from now on.
l.. The men who have put their name
to contracts up to this time are w
S. Treadway, Smiley Smith, Fran
Summers, E. L. O'Brien, Earl Hazer
William Pinger, Walter Barrat, 1
Wopdyatt, William Collins, HI. T
BaGkus, Jim Haney, Thomas c. Quig
LEY, e. A. Oderall, Dick Macdonald
A. w. zimmerman, John Mandernacl
IGeorge Weaver, Frank Bohnet, Jane
A Fagin, Helding, and Cummings.