Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-12
HOPES OF KEEPING BALL TEAM HERE
George Madden Securing for Partner-7es Part of the
Season Ahead-League Directors Propose to rams
fer Franchise-5ristol or burlington Favored.

1 All Hopes of having a ball team in
! the Connecticut association to continue
| the season and represent Norwich is
not to be given up yet. although the
four men who have been running the
| team to date have thrown up the
tsspOnge. AS. stated Monday morning
I IN The Bulletin, George P. Madden,
who has been one of the promoters of
the team, is willing to stick with it
still longer and he has-not given up
trying to get one or more partners to
go in with him and carry the team
through to the end of the season.
The players all turned in their suits
Monday morning at the Del-Hof and
received the salary checks due them,
but they were given to understand that
they had better hold little longer
as something miglt turn up that would
enlist hem again under he Norwich
co4ors
Best Months of the Year Coming.
With the two best months in the
baseball calendar, July and August
coming. and the team playing better
bail and better shaped to play than it
has been at any time this season. Mr.
Madden considered that he had an at
tractive proposition to OFF, and he did
some scouting for partner. One man
was found willing to go in with him.
hut he cannot tell definitely within u
day or two. 1t all depends on whether
he takes up another business PROPOSE
ton which he has in view The way
only about 5000 to continue the team
for the rest of the season and it GER
tainly seems as if that amount could
be raised between two or three or even
ten men who would like to see the
team stick.
A streak of bad weather in the early
part of the season when there were
two weeks with hardly game. had as
much to do as anything else in max
ing a hole in the finances to date, but
if the team were taken now, the wealth
er risk would be a minor factor. In
fact, no better time in the year could
be chosen in which to handle a ball
team with the expectation of getting
by safely. for it will be playing in the
very height of the season for the next
two months.
Henry 3. Davenport Declines.
When talk of a baseball team for this
CITY gets going there is one name that
boDs TO the surface at once, the name
of Henry B. Davenport who kept Nor
wich on the baseball map for ten years
in the state league. Rumors were
aflOat Monday night that Mr. DaVen-
port was to take up the ownership of
the team, but when he was seen by
Mr.. Madden, the Wauregan house own
er said that he was out of baseball
Later in the evening Mr.. Davenport
said that he was not to be prevailed
upon to take hold of the team now,
as he thought he had done his share
in the past ten years in keeping base
ball going here. He had been behind
thousands of dollars where the pres
ent owners had lost hundreds, but he
had always stuck the season out, and
he thought that the sporting blood of
Norwich was at pretty low ebb when
5000 was all that was required to run
THE team for the rest of the season. He
was a supporter of the present team
to the extent of buying two season
ticket books, making subscription,
and advertising. but that was as far as
he would go.