The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-12
PLANNING TO OPEN
BASEBALL
SEASON
Strong Board Of Director:
Elected Friday Evening
WITH FULL AUTHORITY
Meeting Gave Instructions to Hire
Manager and to Arrange All
Preliminary Matters.

A good beginning has been made il
the direction of putting the usua
baseball team in the field during tn,
coming season. At a meeting held a
/ Foresters hall Friday evening boart
of nine directors was elected to have
full charge of the affairs of the team
and TO make the necessary prelimi
nary arrangements such as the leas
ing of grounds and the selection oI
a manager.
| The meeting was called TO order by
Frank +. Battles, treasurer and pres
ident OF last years association and
John p. Mulligan was chosen clerk
| President Battles briefly stated the
purpose of the meeting and outlined
the present association. He wished
TO be excused from taking an active
part in the management during the
coming season but expressed his will
ingness to and in every possible way
in putting team on its feet
II appeared to be the sense of the
meeting that the best way to set
| things in motion was to choose a
| board of directors, representing as
nearly as possible all interests and
sections of the village and the follow.
ing nominations were made from the
floor and elected:
w. H. Bradford, Mortimer Town.
send. John p. Morrissey, George T..
Donnelly, e. j. Murphy. John p. Multi.
gan, h. j. Graham, Conrad Schwartz,
Wallace A. Peart.
The election was followed by some
discussion relative TO instructions and
it was decided that the board of direc-
tors should be empowered to engage
a manager and carry out the business
of the association.
Several of the members of the board
| chosen Friday evening served i'm SINH
lar capacity last year and with the as
sistance of the new directors should
find little difficulty in going ahead
with the work entrusted to them and
putting in the field a baseball team
that will give Bennington as good
sport as we had year ago and per-
haps a little better. Last years team
was by far the strongest that ever
represented the town but by beginning
little earlier in the season it will be
possible to secure a nine in which
fewer changes viii be necessary and
thus enable the manager TO keep to-
gether more uniform aggregation.
The Saturday afternoon baseball
games that have been feature of the
village life during the summer for a
number of years have come to be
more or less of an institution. The
sport has been clearly conducted.
there has been no rowdyism or other
disagreeable features and the games
as whole have been close and inter-
esting. The recreation has been of
that healthy American character that
appeals to large majority of the peo-
fple in every community and it has
not been expensive. The games have
not only given the people an oppor-
tunity for outdoor amusement but they
have also served to keep the inhabi-
tants at home during the half holiday,
and have on each occasion been the
means of bringing a number, of stran-
gers into town.
Morgan Park, in it's location and
surroundings is second to no baseball
field in the country. Ii is neat, handy
to reach and clean in every respect.
1t is nearly time to see it once more
the objective point of the fans" the
men and women, boys and girls, who
follow the greatest outdoor game in
the world. Play ball