Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1909 — An Illinois Town Is Base Ball Mad. [ARTICLE]

An Illinois Town Is Base Ball Mad.

Moro, 111., is the most base ball mad village in the world. Now the preachers have become fans, as the result of a truce with Manager Fritz Boettger, of the Moro Maroons. The town’s two preachers wanted Sunday base ball stopped. Manager Bottger changed his big games to Saturday afternoon, and the preachers are always on the sidelines, shouting encouragement to the Maroons when they play the Staunton Braves or any other nearbush teams that thrive thereabouts. Bottger wants the two ministers td z be his battery some afternoon, and they say they’ll accept the offer. The car department of the Southern railway shops at Princeton, Ind., which has been running light nearly two years, is recruiting to its full force and full time, preparing for a rushing fall business. Increases of forces are being made all along the line.