. The Chicago amateur base ball annual and inter-city base ball association year book. nion Base Ball League is making itsdebut this year in the ranks of local amateur leagues, beingbacked by one of the strongest non-sectarian secret societies onfraternal insurance lines in the country. Over sixty Councils ofthis order exist in Chicago alone with an individual membershipof some 15,000 members. From this enormous membership but little trouble was ex-perienced in gathering together fourteen strong teams, whichgave promise early in the year of playing a fine schedule. Thesize of the league caused
. The Chicago amateur base ball annual and inter-city base ball association year book. nion Base Ball League is making itsdebut this year in the ranks of local amateur leagues, beingbacked by one of the strongest non-sectarian secret societies onfraternal insurance lines in the country. Over sixty Councils ofthis order exist in Chicago alone with an individual membershipof some 15,000 members. From this enormous membership but little trouble was ex-perienced in gathering together fourteen strong teams, whichgave promise early in the year of playing a fine schedule. Thesize of the league caused the officials to arrange a schedule inwhich each team plays every other but once, making a pro-gramme thirteen weeks long. The first round was played June 4. All of its games are played on Sunday mornings, which givesit a chance to draw on rnany of its members who are regularplayers on the faster semi-professional clubs. As president Mr. J. J. Waller, Jr., a man new to base ballpolitics, but a hard worker, was chosen, with him being V. secretary, and W. A. Weber, JAS. J. KELLY, PresidentMercantile Assn. P. J. MYALL. Secretary Mercantile Assn. E. E. DETTMAN, Treasurer Mercantile Assn. Spaldings Chicago Amateur Base Ball Annual. 137 Merchants* Association Organized 1905. Officers—President, James J. Kelly, Montgomery Wards; Secretary P. J. Myall,Simonds Manufacturing Co.; Treasurer, E. E. Dettman, Kellogg Switch-boards. Teams and Managers—Kellogg Switchboards, E. E. Dettman; MontgomeryWard & Co., G. C. Mizen; Hart, Schaffner & Marx, G. L. Shaw; SimondsManufacturing Co., P. J, Myall; Gage Bros., R. Caspary; Chicago MercantileCo., Fred A. Bowes; H. W. Caldwell & Sons, Dennison Tag Co. The Merchants Association was formed in April by repre-sentatives of several lines of business to take the place of acouple of the 1904 leagues which had failed to reorganize onaccount of there being a lack of talent in a base ball way intheir organizations, but which still pos
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