"Go Cubs!" "No, go Cubs!"

On a Sunday morning in late August 1914, as war raged in Europe, there was only friendly competition in Hobart as the Hobart Cubs played the Ainsworth Cubs. The Cubs edged out the Cubs, 12 to 10.

The Cubs got their revenge the first Sunday in September, when they went to Ainsworth and pounded the Cubs, 29 to 16. The next day they went to Deepriver and got pounded.

No record of what the Deepriver team's name was. I'm not sure I want to know.

The Cubs were one of two Hobart teams, and apparently the lesser of the two. While the News seldom reported more than who the Cubs played and the score, it always gave the other team, whatever it was called (it might have still been the Maroons, but the reports never bothered to give its name), a full summary of the action of the game, along with a list of the players and positions for both Hobart and the opposing team (and among Hobart's occasional players was George Sauter, who played second base).

By the spring of 1915, Ainsworth had two teams — the Cubs and the Athletics. Two teams, with actual names! They might even have had uniforms, too.


Sources:
♦ "Hobart Wins in Rain From Whiting Grays." Hobart News 27 Aug. 1914.
♦ "Hobart Wins Sunday and Labor Day." Hobart News 10 Sept. 1914.
♦ "Personal and Local Mention." Hobart News 22 Apr. 1915.