The times., 1899-10-15

some silver trophy cup donated by the
South Washington Business Mems Club.
He is also a candidate for the team and
in practice has kept the veterans hustling
to beat him out He is credited with the
following good scores: 1S7, 1S9, 149, 139, 15S,
203, 16S, 1ST and 169.
Tony Rice, for many seasons one of the
best and NEST consistent bowlers in the
District, has decided not TO bowl this sea-
son. much to the regret of his eliminates.
Armstrong, as already stated here, Will
bowl this season with the Golden Eagles
Bowling for averages Will begin tomor-
row. and the candidates will be required
to bowl twenty games.
From the practice seen it would look as
if the team will be made up of Harlow,
O'Connor, Merritt German and Cox, with
Wimsatt and Stanton as subs. Ine
team will bowl its first games in the
league series with the Saengerbunds on
November s.
The gymnasium has well-attended class
es, and Professor Joyce expects very
busy season.
The amusement committee is busy at
work preparing a programme for the sea-
son. and a number of attractive entertain
ments are promised. The season VIII De
opened with ladies night" October
Club as feature.
The basketball players held a meeting
last Tuesday, and after discussing the pros
poets of the season a practice game was
had in which the following showed some
of their old-time form DAILY, Pearson,
Brick, Ourand, Bauby, Bateman, Burgman,
Guista and Berbsrich.
Bauby, one of the best backs the team
ever had, will play again this season.
in
in the league, will probably insist upon
playing all home" games in its own
gymnasium. It will also insist that the
membership of the league be confined to
teams having clubhouse and gymna-
sium wherein the game can be played and
it must be shown that there are no players
in the game for merely what the gate
receipts will bring them.
Light Infantry Athletes.
The indoor season in athletics at the
Washington Light Infantry Armory prom
ises to be an immensely active one The
members of the corps have the use of a
well-equipped gymnasium and nights not
set aside for drills will be taken up for
class-work and the development of gym
nasts and acrobats and other athletic work.
cur all-around athletes, will have charge
of athletic matters and his classes begin
Tuesday and continue each succeeding
Tuesday and Friday night during the
season.
There are a number of new men in the
ranks who VIII take advantage OF the op-
portunity to take regular exercise. and
from among them several good workers
may be developed The basketball team
promises to be fully as strong as last sea-
son, notwithstanding several of the star
players have decided to drop out of the
game this season. Among the new candi-
dates for places on the team are Holmead,
formerly of the Mount Peasants; Jim
Lynch, of last seasons Carroll Institutes;
Burgess, OF the Queens, and Joe Grant. and
these appeared for opening practice with
the regulars last Wednesday evening and
gave promise of doing good work. Among
the veterans who took the floor were:
Shreeve Burnett, McCabe, Hughes, and
Kendall The players met last Sunday and
organized for the season by re-eleeting
Edward H. Neumeyer, manager; Sam
Shreeye, captain, to succeed Harry Nc
Cabe, last seasons successful leader, and
Fred Burnett, one of the most popular
members of this corps, was eleetsd seere-
very proud of his teams record last year
and hopes TO again put out winner-one
which will continue the Infantry's un-
broken and unbeaten fve-year record of
victories.
1t is said that the infantry team will in
sist upon playing the league series with q
seven men" team, as in former years ana
under the same rules
The matter of forming a league and the
size of teams and other important details
of the coming seasons work will be dis
cussed at the opening meeting OF delegates
10 the league to be held at the Infantry
Armory tomorrow night. The matter of
appointing umpires viii also be taken up
for serious consideration, as it is proposed
this season TO have as good if not better
staff than that of last year. Members OF
teams have expressed themselves as being
opposed this year to appointing members
Of the umpire staff, captains or managers OF
league teams.
Corcoran Cadet Players.
The Corcoran Cadet basketball players
have taken up the game in business-like
fashion and whether they win or lose they
propose said one of the members, Ito play
the game properly and for the exercise and
glory there is in it and nothing else
The player candidates for the team
signed the following contract at a meeting
held last week 1--WE the undersigned dc
hereby agree TO train On such dates as may
be selected by the manager. We also agree
to train under the instruction of the mana
ger and team captain, the latter TO be Sc
leeted by the players; the regular players
TO be selected at such time as the manager
and captain may deem proper after two
weeks training. The management agrees
that there will be no fayorites played, but
men will be selected for their playing abiIi-
ty only. Signed: G. R. McGlue, o. Wal
ters, J. Moriarty. J. Rowland, W. O'Con-
nell. W. E. ZelI, L. A. Boulay, r. Evans
w. E. Thompson, j. Carew, c. W Bouvert
". L. Hazard, r. Lockhead, w. Nash, A,
c. Codson, and f. Forester"
From the above list of names 1t will be
seen that the Corcoran management has
signed lot of good piayers-many of them
seasoned and ready TO play even now
number of the above men have ex-
pressed themselves in favor of playing
only with FIVE men aside and only witt
teams having a club backing and a gym
nasium.
| a league with "fve-men" teams is spo-
! ken of and upon this subject number o
| players have expressed themselves favora
| bly,, but they are also of the opinion 'tha