GREATER WINNIPEG SENIOR AMATEUR BASEBALL LEAGUE

Revived from the ashes after a year in limbo, senior baseball in the form of the Greater Winnipeg Senior Amateur Baseball League returned to the diamonds of the Manitoba capital and environs in 1935. Only one of the 1933 entries at dissolution, Norwood, was included in the new six-team circuit.

The resurrection, however, wasn’t heralded with any degree of enthusiasm in the local newspapers where coverage went from full-game writeups with box scores in earlier seasons to snippets with occasional line scores only. During the regular season, scheduled games were seldom listed, game results were hit and miss (mostly miss) while league standings and statistics were never published. In early August, the Winnipeg Tribune was quoted as saying the run for the 1935 pennant had developed into a three-team race with St. Boniface holding a slim half-game lead over both Norwood and Transcona. That was the final bit of information about the fate of the league that was uncovered in either Winnipeg newspaper.

It wasn’t until the following season, 1936, when it was discovered that the Cathedral City nine had indeed been 1935 champions.

TEAMS
C.U.A.C.
Norwood
Sherburn
St. Boniface Native Sons
Tecumsehs
Transcona

BRANDON

Within the pages of the 1935 Brandon Daily Sun, it was reported that members of the senior Greys of years past had briefly reorganized and had scheduled an exhibition game in mid-June with the Minnedosa MN semi-pros. However, there was no printed evidence that this scheduled event or any other baseball game involving the local club was ever played.

With no senior baseball in the Wheat City in 1935, a three-team Junior circuit was the lone amateur diamond loop functioning.

BRANDON JUNIOR BASEBALL LEAGUE

Braves
Mohawks
Senators

OTHER MANITOBA

WINNIPEG JUNIOR BASEBALL LEAGUE

“A” DIVISION
Elmwood Cubs
Red Sox
St. Boniface
Transcona

“B” DIVISION
Greenway
River Heights
Sherburn
St. James

SELKIRK & DISTRICT LEAGUE

Clandeboye
Garson
Rolling Mills
Selkirk

CENTRAL BASEBALL LEAGUE

High Bluff
Portage la Prairie Tigers