The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-25
CROWDS
GENUINE JOKES
Clean Baseball Not Being
Supported III Big Min
nesota Town.
A FORKS DOES
North Dakota City is Won
der and Backs the Team
Win or Lose.
INV Bruce.N

Duluth. June 25.--wi.n Finer
Miller. late of ST. Louis. with tho
team, the White ScX have at the pres
ent time the best team that mas rep
resented this city since the a=-re-
CATION that wore Duluth uniforms
back in the opening year of the Min
lead of the See-Eye race since about
the third game of the season-and
Yet the attendance has been such as
to put shame on a city of the size of
Duluth.
Young Bluhm on first is a wizard.
and it is worth the price of admission
TO see the boy play He is dopeG for
the draft route. Lou Criger already
having put the seal of approval ON the
younester. He is hut ~ years vi aee
and has all the earmarks of a real
baseball player.
Leher is going great. and Sours has
also been playing some nifty baseball.
Sam Meneice is hitting as he never
hit before in his long career on the
diamond, and Musgsy MoGraw is iii
the hest form of his diamond da"$.
The fans are getting the very best
baseball that honey al buy. Well,
the answer is Indifference.
Some fans say it is because the
park is too far from the city. The
Winnipeg baseball grounds are sev-
eral miles from tho CITY. and Vet the
attendance at the Peg has avera-ed
near the 1000 mark. and this. too.
when the team has not been playing.
near the game that the Sex have
been putting UP.
business men IF Duluth have per
sistently refused to support the team
here. Yet there would he an awful
fuss should this citv. tho third lars.
est in the state. he without ~orsan;zef
baseball. Grand Forks. a CITY nj
some 10000 population. or there
%ahouts. is o~utdraring Duluth.
Winnipeg m here for a SHri6
of four games. Just at the rre.en
time tho Pegsers are tra"~'tog at
the series will I've one of the hest -
the season. But the exhibition o
baseball recently PLAYED with Crane
Forks could hardly be improved in
minor league.
On Wednesday evening the inno-a
ton of having a game PLAYED in I'll
evening will be tried out. There vii
he a douhle~header or that dav. thar
being several postponed m to pla'
off with the Winnipeg Naroons. TIL
first game will he called at the usua
'iIiie. 'i!t SS'tiNl t'li!'Sl pe!ilS SE!!St
nled to start at $50.
Evening games proved mishtv pop
ular in both Winnipeg and Gram
Forks. At both of the northern cit
les the parks have been ~literall'
packed with rerspirins and putin
autos. fans coming from miles arounf
Grand Forks tn witness the games.
DR.. McCuen, President Harr,
Blun1e and the directors of the loca
club are e~ndeaVoring 10 give Dulutl
the hest baseball ol~,tainatle this sea
son. these gentlemen lie At til,
start of the season that tho bushes
men of the city would recognize an'
therefore appreciate ~business-lik'
MANAGEMENT and clean. f'st baseball
This season the contests have bee,
played faster. there has been les
~wransling. and a better article q
haseholl has beer PLAYED than wa
the case last year. But the attend
anre has been miserable and the ef
forts to give the own tive hest oh
tainable in the line of tho t ma
tional game are met With a disccnr
aging reception.
Some of the large bus 'nuse
of the city have refused to even sui,
scribe for one ticket. At the sam
time a pennant-winning team, for Du
lnth is not without its benefit 20 1hes
same business houses. Duluth i
growing. and mos; nf us he'ieve i
will continue to row hut with tn
kind of crowds that have ATTENDED
the so far the rra~~~. saasc,
It is the veriest Joke 70 talk. or evel
remotely suggest better things i'm tn,
WAY of baseball.
With the present management il
control of baseball here it only mood
some slnpor to result IN ~--~v effor
to get this city into IF the hes
leagues in the country. 4 downtown
park is not an imrossihilitv. R,l
when efforts to give the town decen
baseball are laughed at bv bushes
men. IT is indeed difficult to sea wher
there are any shining beacon lights i,
Duluth's baseball future.
" has heen suggested that the Du
luth Commercial club do snnnethin!
in promoting interest in the eane
This has been done at Grand Forks
with the result that enthusiasm
there is at fAver heat. At least th,
present brand Of baseball is worth
nf ONE effort upon thu part of M
business men Of Duluth.