The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-01-23
Kenosha Team in the Lake Shore
League To Have Finest Ball
Park in the League
JEFFERY TRACT FOR BASEBALL
Lake Shore League at Annual Meeting
Admits Waukesha and Waukegan
Cubs as New Teams in League.
Season Opens or May 8

Kenosha is to have new baseball
park, as late Wednesday evening Man
ager Peter Breen of the Kenosha Lake
Shore League Base Ball team closed
deal with Thomas B. Jeffrey for the
lease of large tract Of land at the
corner of Grand Avenue and Charles
Street, and this will be the new home
of the Kenosha team. The ground for
the park is leased for term of three
years with the privilege Of extending
the lease to five years and if possible
the new park will be made the perman-
ent home of baseball in Kenosha
The new park will be the same as
the park which has been used for the
past two years and Manager Breen
will begin the work of removing the
fences, grand stand and bleachers at
once in order to have the new park
ready for opening by the middle Of
April. While the buildings at the old
park are to be moved to the new park
they will be greatly improved. The
grand stand will be enlarged and the
seating arrangements will be changed
so as to make the seats more comfort
able for the base ball fans and indivi-
dual chairs will be placed in. the new
stand. It is planned to have = seating
capacity of nearly twelve hundred in
the new grand stand. The bleachers
will also be enlarged and it is planned
to make a seating capacity Of at least
$500 at the new park. There will be
little work to do on the park save the
laying out Of the diamond as the out
field is in splendid condition now and
the diamond will be put in condition
as soon as the spring opens. The dia-
mond will face the South and the land
has been tiled so that the diamond will
be dry at all times of the year and it
will dry off few hours after any rain.
The Street Railway Company now
runs cars on Market street within a
block Of the new park, but Superintend-
ent Russell has notified the management
of the base ball team that the new line
on Grand Avenue will be built so that
cars will be running to the very entrance
of the park by the time for the opening
Of the season. 1t is also planned to
erect car sheds at the park SO that
extra cars can be kept there to take
care Of the crowds after the games.
Manager Breen declared that no ex-
pense will be spared to make the Ke-
nosha park the best base ball park in
Wisconsin outside of Milwaukee.
The annual meeting of the managers
of the Lake Shore League was held at
the Republican House in Milwauk ee,
Wednesday evening, and final arrange
ments were made for the League season.
At this time both the managers of the
Racine and Kenosha teams announced
that these teams would remain in the
league for the new season, and John
Herzog, of Manitowoc, John Kisor, of
Port Washington, and Peter Breen, of
Kenosha were named as a schedule com
mittee to make out the schedule for the
new year. The schedule will be an
nounced before the first of March. The
first game in the league will be played
on May 3rd and the last game on the
last Sunday in September.
The Waukegan Cubs Athletic Club
secured the franchise which had been
formerly held by the Pulse Brothers,
at Waukegan, and the Cubs have ag-
reed to put professional team in the
field. The team will secure the lease
Of the ball ne~l1 used by Waukegan
last year. It is claimed that the popu-
larity of the Cubs in Waukegan will
make the team a paying venture. The
franchise which was held by the River
view team was given to a syndicate of
business men at Waukesha and they
will put a travelling team in the field.
The travelling teams in the league will
be Port Washington, Milwaukee and
Waukesha, and the schedule will be
arranged so that the teams with parks
will have but five games away from
home during the year
Manager Breen has begun the work
OF making up his team for the season
and all of the men will be signed by
the hrst OF April Knipple, Laabs, Felt
ing, Heffner, and Roddy have been
signed to play with the Kenosha team
for next year and Smith who pitched
for the Chicago Brass Works team and
showed class, will be given try out
IN the box for Kenosha. It is pretty
certain that he will make good and be-
come fixture on the team.
Smith who played short stop for the
Brass Works team has also been signed
to play with Kenosha. The manage
ment Of the team will seek to get as
many Kenosha boys as possible on the
team IN order to make it more of a
local organization.