The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-08-19
LA CROSSE A DEAD ONE,
RED WING TO DROP OUT
MANKATO MAY STEP INTO THE
MINNY BALL LEAGUE.
Wisconsin City Has Never PatrOnized
the Games to the Extent That it
Should in Order to Pay Expenses;
Attendance at Desirable Town"
Net Up to Expectations; Changes
to Be Made.

With the season of the Minny league
on the last lap, there are already in
dications pointing to material changes
that will be made i'm the league before
another year rolls around, says Tine
Duluth Herald.
Down at La Crosse, the second
largest city of the league, there are
rumors credting President Henry
Rooney of that team with an intense
desire to dispose of his interests in
the team The attendance a La Crosse
the present season has been something
to try the nerves of saint on proba-
ton. and the officials of the club are
said to be losing money every day the
team plays at home.
In one of the games against WI
mona there were only l55 people III the
stands and bleachers. This is said to
he an example of the way the fans of
the German village have been turn
ing out to see the team play, notwith-
standing the fact that at the present
time La Crosse is playing he best ball
of the season.
Redwing Will Be Dropped.
Redwing will probably be dropped
from the league at the next organiza
ton meeting of the directors. Base
ball has not proved successful in the
manufacturing village, and it has only
been through the patriotism of the
citizens of that little town that base
ball was not allowed to die there the
present season.
During the present year the best
baseball played in this part of the
country in years. has been seen in the
eight cities of the league. Just at the
present time the teams of the Minny
league are playing better baseball than
any minor class ID league in the coun-
try. Many of the games OF the past
two weeks have been of the big league
variety.
Baseball has not been as successful
throughout the country the present
season as was the case last year This
fact may be considered in accounting
for the poor attendance at La Crosse
and Redwing. But the Minny league
is league that is bound to grow and
prosper, if the same high grade of
baseball is played in the future that
is being played at the present time.
and it is only suggested that two
weak sisters, snch as Redwing and
even La Crosse has proved to be the
present season, be dropped from the
league.
La Crosse a Dead One.
La Crosse. for some years past, nas
been Il dead one, as far as baseball
is concerned. Even the placid papers
of that quiet town will admit this
charge If the fans of town of
over 10000 souls do not want baseball,
it is time that their team was trans
ferred to some town that appreciates
the national game.
Duluth is ambitious in the baseball
line. The fans hope for a downtown
park some time in the future, and
also want to get into just as fast COM
pany as possible. Towns that give
the attendance that La Crosse and
Redwing do, are hurting the chances
of Duluth and every other town in
this league.
La Crosse has found it necessary to
release one of its pitchers, for the
reason that the team cannot afford to
pay him salary. That is given
simply as an example of the poor at
tendance at La Crosse. Not much
yell has gone out against La Crosse
in the past, simply because the town
is large and is also the center of
Minny league affairs. But, neverthe-
less unless that town can support a
baseball team. why continue in the
league?
Mankato has applied for admission
to the league, and early as it is to
prophesy at the present stage of the
game, it would not surprise many
baseball men to see the Southern Min
nesota town a member of the league