Clipping:Spalding elected president of the Chicago Club

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Date Saturday, May 6, 1882
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In 1876 A. G. Spalding became a member of the Chicago Club as its secretary and manager, and the success of the club in winning the pennant over the previously successful Boston team attested the ability of Mr. Spalding’s work as manager that season. The next year he entered into business in Chicago, and practically ceased to be a professional player. Fortune favored him in establishing the largest sporting-goods house in the Western States, and, though he still continued to be club secretary, the management of the team fell into other hands. The recent death of the president of the club obliged the members to elect a success, and on April 26, at a meeting of the stockholders, Mr. Spalding was unanimously elected president, and a better man for the position could not have been selected. Though his extensive business in Chicago and manufactory at Hastings, Mich., command his attention, he still finds time to attend to his club duties, and now, as its president, he will devote more of his efforts for its welfare and success than ever before, considerable as his services have been. The election of the new president was followed by the choice of the following well-known and influential citizens of Chicago as the club’s new board of directors, viz., Messrs. John B. Lyon, Chas. T. Trego–members of the Chicago Board of Trade–John R. Walsh–President of the Chicago National Bank–and a. G. Mills, with President Spalding as a member ex officio. The new secretary is John H. Brown. The club is to be congratulated upon the high character of the gentlemen who have been chosen to govern it this season.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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