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NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE A FAILUREOpgaiikatioii uf IWf with Sight Oitihs jflrtrt jNu Bfllarv Limit and Lasted Otie YearofOSHKOSH WON tNE PENNANTRtaripd to Beettre filg League Players and it la Hepotifd Flag Cost Them *n0*000Th«* history of baseball, the frettf. Athbtffdh came, in La ('rosso, according fr« th** most authentic rer-ords available at the present day, covers a ported of fifty-three years, varied with many stylos of the garde from Its infancy to its present sclen tifie development. and from the ord1’-nary town nines of the little village to the present professional eltib in an organized. league, under the jur-isdietfen of ihe nattona! rommiiairrh. The history of the early garde IS the city is beyond the mpmorr Of most of its ettlzens of the present day, Seven years before the outbreak of the war of the rebellion fn the year 1*RJL if is recorded that two amateur nines of the village of tM €?tpss* met at the foot of what fs nOw Mafrt street in what is known to he th® first *ame fn this ioeafifv. Records of the game are not available and the dfsenssfon of fho«e eariy stages of the pastime has been left fo Leonard Loffrtdge, West Fatdrd; who O' 'sptalned the first loeaf nine. f*l From the early date of i fcisy np to hasehait In this cfty was b* | ^ofifiner] mostly to foeal amafetrr p?T nihes whlrh played the rime solely !fed* sport's sake. The same, however, nfOnsed the interest of local lovers I of the sport and agitation was started fate fn the year iXSA, to secure p #or the cfty a franchise fn some probe !fessfonal organizat ion.Oft t*orm Northwestern Teatgwo in- About this rime rrmn interested in id- ’the eamA began the formation of no wlrat was to he known as the Vorth-| western f*agde an organization ^ j whtehf wlfhotrt • alary limits, or any defintte tn eg or regulation# regard-• :#g the safe, purchase and releasing of plavers. or an iron hand to man-ff* r*e lt;tt was honnd to he an unsuc-on .-essful ftnanciai Venture and doom-ry- od fo a diss strong endine: after the »rs initial season of l?7 Vhen the ac-fo fnal organization of the league was a£; effected tj Crossn together with the - ities of Ph patii. Minneapolis, Duluth, fipthkosh. Rau Glaire, Des •^ Moines and Milwaukee were grant-ed f^inehiseg. hlt;* At the first annual meeting of the 'of local stockholders .George Gund was fly i elected president, F. H. Kan leer son was made treasurer and Ed Rudolf secretary Mr. Rudolf afterward me moved to Milwaukee and John D. Wilson accepted his position, this oc~iContinued on Page 21.)
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La Crosse Tribune
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Jul 29, 1910
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