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LYON& HEALY BASEBALL CLUB WINS
A Handsome Silver Cup and Amateur Cham-
pionship Won by the Baseball Nine of the
Celebrated Chicago Music House.
(Special to The Review.)
Chicago, 111., Oct. 14, 1907.
Just to show that they could play baseball
as well as the piano, mandolin, guitar, etc., the
Lyon & Healy baseball team strained a point
and won the championship of the Chicago Manu-
facturers' League. Not only did they come out
on top, but their percentage of games won was
THE LYON & HEALY BASEBALL
so large as to make some of the other fellows
wonder "where they were at."
The Manufacturers' League was organized last
May as a successor to the Examiner League of
1906, and was made up of eight teams from the
largest Chicago manufacturing concerns. The
season began in the early summer and ended in
September, and the contesting teams were com-
posed of some of the best amateur baseball talent
of Chicago—which is saying a great deal, for the
"Windy City" is as prominent in baseball as it
is in business.
Lyon & Healy had for opponents clubs from
such well-known concerns as Rand-McNally Co.,
U. S. Gypsum Co., and Cluett, Peabody & Co., but
went through the entire season with only one
defeat charged against them, their percentage
of games won for the season being .928. How-
ever, this does not mean they had a walkover,
for several of their opponents were close upon
their heels most of the way—notably, the Rand-
NtcNallys, who finished second.
The games were played every Saturday after-
noon and the attendance was always large, espe-
cially at the Lyon & Healy grounds, for, next
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to playing themselves, there is nothing Chi-
cagoans like better than watching a good game
of baseball. A crowd of several hundred loyal
rooters, headed by a band of pretty girls from
the store and factories, is said to have been a
big factor in the success of the Lyon & Healy
team. Losing was out of the question with
such a> staunch, enthusiastic crowd of "rooters"
always at their backs to cheer them on.
Congratulations are still coming in for the
fine showing of the team, which was organized
two years ago, and was one of the prize winners
in the Examiner League, in the season of 1906.
At its close, they made a trip to Cuba, where
they
met with
great
success
against the native
Cuban teams.
The season of
1907 was officially
ended by a banquet
tendered the team
by its admirers
Saturday evening.
The Championship
Cup, which is a
handsome
affair,
ten inches in
height, and made
t h r o u g h o u t of
wrought silver, ap-
p r o p r i a t e l y en-
graved, formed the
centerpiece at the
celebration. When
the last remnants
cf the feast had
been cleared away,
the valuable trophy
was carried to the
team's club rooms,
there to be given a
EAir
-
place of honor un-
til next season, when the n i n e is confident they
will add a n o t h e r to t h e i r collection.
DRESS A FACTOR IN WAREROOMS.
In line with the constant reforms or attempted
reforms in piano retailing is the attention paid
to the dress of the salesmen in certain ware-
rooms. In the Wanamaker department especially
is this carefulness and uniformity of dress notice-
able. The majority of the Wanamaker salesmen
are tall and of athletic build, and are clad in
long, dignified frock coats and sober black ties,
said to be in accordance with the desire of Mr.
Chapman.
The majority of the other local warerooms have
also put the taboo on the noisy apparel and de-
mand dignity of dress, as well as demeanor, and
as a result there are a number of salesmen to be
heard grumbling about having their rights re-
spected and what a salesmen's association would
do in such a case. But "the reform in dress is
here to stay.
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