. The Chicago amateur base ball annual and inter-city base ball association year book. ns was sustained and the Swifts were the only formerpennant winners in the league. The teams besides the Swiftswhich signed the schedule were the Tom Murrays Kids, KelloggSwitchboards, Cranes. Peerless, Angus Morrisons, Illinois Steeland the American Trust and Savings Banks. The Kellogg Switchboards won the 1903 pennant, beating theAngus Morrisons by two games, the American Trusts runningthird, while all of the clubs made a good race. In 1903 the league proved the first of the local amateur organi-zations to
. The Chicago amateur base ball annual and inter-city base ball association year book. ns was sustained and the Swifts were the only formerpennant winners in the league. The teams besides the Swiftswhich signed the schedule were the Tom Murrays Kids, KelloggSwitchboards, Cranes. Peerless, Angus Morrisons, Illinois Steeland the American Trust and Savings Banks. The Kellogg Switchboards won the 1903 pennant, beating theAngus Morrisons by two games, the American Trusts runningthird, while all of the clubs made a good race. In 1903 the league proved the first of the local amateur organi-zations to provide for official umpires and score-keepers, whowere paid, the Commercial setting an example which has sincebeen followed by every other league of any importance inChicago, while leagues in other cities have modeled themselvesupon its lines. A charter was secured by the league in that yearfrom the State and its affairs have since then been carried alongon strict business lines. A handsome silver cup, donated byA. G. Spalding & Bros., is competed for each year by the
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