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Troubadours To Practice At 1:30 P. M.WITH the first practice scheduled for this afternoon at Copeland park, the La Crosse Troubadours will formally usher in their sixth season. All hands, both old and new to the club, will be on hand at 1:30 o’clock.The club will again be under the management of Bobby Moore, bespectacled infielder with a wealth of semi-pro and minor league experience behind him. Moore is no longer a youngster as baseball players go, but he has shown no serious signs of slowing up, and looks forward to a successful season.At the moment, the club is somewhat concerned over its financial affairs, and has been seeking an individual or concern to sponsor it.A drive for funds is also under , way.Last year the Troubadours? went through the season with but one defeat in IS games. Thirteen were recorded as victories, and four as ties.Among the veteran help on hand ‘to form the 1934 edition are Cap-py Groth, Jack Dunham. Harold and “Dubie’ McKenzie. Bill Nes-seth, Joe Larson, Joe Weber, and Don Wartinbee. New players are sought, and at this stage of the game no returning veteran may be sure of the job he held last year, it is announced.The club is dickering with “Chuck” Van Koten, former Drake University star and a pitcher, “Steamy” Huennekius and Tony Prelesnik, three youths who came to La Crosse last fall to play with the Lagers professional football eleven. and who have remained to make themselves known in practically all fields of sport. The three wish to be together, it is stated.It is expected that the first game will be in La Crosse with the Madison Blues, on May 20. The club may meet the House of David as it goes through this territory on its 1 way west, and is also booking games with Winona and Wisconsin Rapids.Definite assurance that the Troubadours will again be in the field means that La Crosse will have two strong nines this season, instead of one, and some observers looked upon the circumstances as one which could only be favorable to baseball in the city. It is pointed J , out that the intense rivalry between the old Nelson and Montague teams, which led to the greatest baseball years La Crosse ever had,’ may find a 1934 sequel in the Trou-' badours and Cully Johnson’s Franz [ nine. Already, it is reported, there is no love being wasted between I the two organizations.L Further announcement comes ( that the Troubadour club officials and players will hold a meeting Tuesday night in the Weiss shoe shop, starting at 7:30 o’clock.
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La Crosse Tribune and Leader Press
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Sun, Apr 08, 1934
Page 14
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