. The Chicago amateur base ball annual and inter-city base ball association year book. eam should win the pennant. The decisionwent in that game to the River Forests, who defeated theAmerican Trust and Savings Bank team by the score of 7 to ibefore one of the most enthusiastic crowds which ever crowdedinto the River Forest Athletic Associations big park. All through the season it was a case of playing every game tothe limit for the three leading teams, the River Forests, AmericanTrusts and the Angus Morrisons, and the nev/ team in theleague from the western suburb carried off the honors from t
. The Chicago amateur base ball annual and inter-city base ball association year book. eam should win the pennant. The decisionwent in that game to the River Forests, who defeated theAmerican Trust and Savings Bank team by the score of 7 to ibefore one of the most enthusiastic crowds which ever crowdedinto the River Forest Athletic Associations big park. All through the season it was a case of playing every game tothe limit for the three leading teams, the River Forests, AmericanTrusts and the Angus Morrisons, and the nev/ team in theleague from the western suburb carried off the honors from theteams which finished second and third the year before, theAngus Morrisons and the American Trust. As for the KelloggSwitchboards, the third survivor in the 1904 race from the 1903schedule and the pennant winner of that year, they provedunable to get their team working as well as in former years andthey finished at the bottom of the first division in fourth place. Rivalry was so keen in the league that it unfortunately leftsome stings which not even the winters rest could heal and. COMMERCIAL LEAGUE TROPHY,Awarded by A. G. Spalding- & Bros, Spaldings Chicago Amateur Base Ball Annual. 49 when the league was reorganized for the 1905 race but one oflast years teams answered the roll-call. This was the RiverForests, the pennant winners, the American Trusts, AngusMorrisons and Kellogg Switchboards declining the issue andeither disbanding or going into other leagues. The four tail-enders dropped out of the field entirely, as far as league gamesare concerned, and are now in the free-lance ranks. With River Forest as the surviving element of the league, fiveother strong teams offered to compete who proved acceptable,many others being turned aw^ay m order to have only the pickof the local talent in its ranks. These teams were the Morgan& Wrights, famous in every line of athletics in which they haveessayed to enter; the R. P. Smith Sons & Co. team, winners ofthe Boot and Shoe League las
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