The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-26
AFTER
DULUTH CLUB
Would Have Representation
in Central international
League This Season.
HI BUSINESS IS POOR
Zenith City May Have to
Pass Up Games Because
of Slim Crowds.

Duluth: June 26.-The handful Of
real yed-in-the-wool baseball fans
mat this town supports were put on
Keen edge and set attacking this
morning when an unofficial rumor,
said to have ONE from the office of
president Blume. gained circulation
and was to the effect that Fargo bust
ness men are making an effort TO get
into the G.. l. league and take the Du-
luth team.
President Blume would not discuss
the situation. Our crowds are a dis
appointment" was all he would say.
The attendance at the Duluth games
inns year has been very poor. Even
with a winning team in the field the
rams Will not come out. Ever since
Grand Forks raised $4,000 in a hurry
to place a club in the new league,
Fargo has been crazy to have a repre-
sentation In the league and get a
whack at her old time rivals-Grand
Forks Now that Duluth is falling
down miserably in attendance, gate
city boosters believe they see a chance
TO land a place in the league and beg.
borrow or steal the Duluth club. It
IS known h a former baseball pro.
motors In Fargo were in Duluth this
week and now hat the rumor of Far
go taking the club and getting on the
circuit has been circulated. it is not
doubted here that an effort is being
made to transfer the Duluth club to
the North Dakota city.
Those who are heartily sick of tht.
baseball Indifference of Duluth, who
realize that the earnest efforts of DR..
). "A. McCuen to place a crack baseball
team here have been met with indif-
ference upon the part Of the fans and
the business houses of Duluth, are
hoping that the White Sox are sent to
a town about one-seventh the size of
Duluth. in order that some crowds
would turn out inc the management
get some of its money back before the
close of the season.
Fargo is so small that everyone in
town would know of the team and
would find that it was playing great
basepall. Sometimes there are advan-
ltages In a small town.
A year without baseball would be a
corking remedy for Duluth. Maybe it
ought to go several years without the
game. There are those who STAY
haven't even seen the boys play and
don't even know the members Of the
nome guard. These enthusiastic pro-
motors of the boosting spirit Of the
town judge the present by the past
hence the knocking Of a team that
right at the present time is giving the
meager handful of fans who attend
the games some Of the best baseball
that can be found anywhere in this
section of the country.
The way Winnipeg and Grand
Forks are drawing at the present time,
there is moi h least danger that the
Central International will go adrift on
the rocks of disaster. Winnipeg is
averaging around 1000 to a game and
Grand Forks is drawing fine. It is on
~ recorded here that it is very unfor-
ganization should be in about the
worst baseball town for its size in the
country.
Hargrove has been bought and good
money spent to make the team the
best that has w played here. One
wonders why. One vaguely wonders
why men have the courage to spend
money to provide Duluth with a good
BASEBALL team.
But, anyway. the evening expert
ment Of playing baseball games is 60
ing to be tried out, for it would be
impossible for the attendance to be
any worse than it is at the present
tilne-and 1t might be added here that
1t would be pretty hard to find a min
or league team that is playing any
better baseball than the White Sox at
the present time.
In an effort to discover whether
there may not be some good fans in
this city who remain away from the
games because they have to work dur
ing the afternoons, the innovation of
having evening games will b. tried
out this evening. the second game Of
the d~oubleheader with Winnipeg being
started at $3.50.
Some of the good sports of the town
called at the baseball office yesterday
and complimented President McCuen
on the team that is representing the
city at the present time. 1t helps a
little to know that there are a few
who have awakened to the fact that
class A. baseball is being played
at Athletic park these sultry after
moons.