The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-21
MAY 10 DATE
FOR NORTHERN
LEAGUE OPENER
Duluth and Superior Withdraw
From League---Minot and War;
rem Are Given Berths
H1BBARD OF FARGO
SUCCEEDS BURMEISTER
Calls Issued for All Teams to Re.
port for Training on April
Is and II

Fargo, y. D.. April 2l.-With 4 new
president. new managers, two new
teams and a new circuit which com
prisss only four clubs for the first
time in the history of the Orsaniza
ton. the Northern league will for
mally open its 1917 activities on May
10 with a schedule. of 207 games,
covering Ill dates and running
through September 8, according to an
announcement here today by Presi'
dent NJ. L. Hubbard of this city.
Two Teams Withdraw.
Months OF negotiations. following
withdrawal from the 1916 orsaniza'
ton of Duluth, Mimi. and Superior,
Wis, have resulted in the formation
of a circuit including clubs repre-
senting Winnipeg, Man, Fargo.Moor'
head. Minot, N. d. and Warren. Mimi.
Minot receives the franchise relin.
pushed by Superior last fall and TEN.
porarily held early this year by Thief
River Falls, Mimi, while Warren fills
the berth vacated by Duluth. The
coming season will mark the first
taste of organized baseball for tle
two towns supporting the new men,
bers. .,,g..-
The schedule as announced today
by President Hubbard. calls for sever.
ty-two home games for the Fargo-Moor-
head team, s%ixty-nine for Winnipeg,
thirty-seven for Minot and twenty
nine for Warren. Nine double-head.
ers are scheduled.
Start Training Wednesday.
Calls have been issued for all the
teams to report for training between
April 25 and q. All excepting Win.
nipeg will train at home. The Cana
dams expect to Timber up in Wiscon.
sin.
Prospects for the season are very
good" DECLARED Mr. Hibbard, who
succeeds John Burmeister of Mime
apolis as head of the league after a
season as resident secretary of the
local club. !1We shall have a strong
team at each place and the race
should prove close with the number
of clubs so few. The fact that there
are only four teams will mean the
places may be shifted easily"
One Pennant Offered.
Contrary to the policy of the league
last year, only one pennant will BIZ.
offered the coming season. In 1916.
when M flag was awarded for each
half. Winnipeg carried off the .lonOrs
of the midsummer winGup and Fargo.
MOorhead won the second lap. These
two Older clubs are viewing their 1911
outlook with considerable speculation,
owing to the entrance of two new
members whose strength is practical
ly an unknown quantity.
The Team Managers.
Each Of the hold-over aggrcgatiOns
will enter the race with a new man.
ager and minus five veterans. Win
nipeg's activities will be directed by
Charles F. MOll. manager the past
two years Of tie st. Boniface team.
formerly OF the Northern league.
Denny Sullivan, a veteran of the
game through fifteen years expert
cnce, a part of that time with the
Boston Red Sox and the Minneapolis
club Of the American association, will
manage the Fargo.Moorhead team,
succeeding the late Robert A. I'm
glaub, who was killed last November
while at work in railroad shops at
baltimore, Md. Sullivan managed tie
Ft. William Northern league team in
1918 and last year had charge of st.
Joe in the Western league.
The quintet Of players lost locally
this season includes: Ellis. rightfield.
or, who has been drafted by the Pitts
burg Nationals; Herbert Rock, pitch
or, nov with Chattanooga in the South.
ern association; Ralph Bell, pitcher.
who recently rejected an offer from
the Des Moines club Of the Western
league In favor of a position on a
scmi-professional team at Hibbing,
Mimi: Gus Smith. catcher. of Balti-
more, not returning, and Joe Weidell,
eenferhelder. who has decided to con.
tinNe as 1 railroad brakeman.
Among i've reported to be dropping
ut Of the Winnipeg lineup are
AAims. first 'baseman, and Hank"
center6elder. the two leading
httfefs III tho Northern league last
leaDOm, via, together with Stevenson,
Ifcher q 80 same ctah, ara Sisted
n - tn6 Deuoklyn Nationals. The