The Washington times., 1905-04-10
CHURCH LEAGUE
OPENS SHORTLY
Fourteen Teams Will Try
for Pennant.
WATCHING LEADING TEAMS
Fourth Presbyterians and Gunton Will
Both Have Strong Aggregation
During Coming Season.

Two weeks from tomorrow the Sunday
School League. which has grown into
such popularity in the District of Co
lumbia, will open its third season, and
indications point to the most successful
year in its history.
There will be fourteen clubs this year.
composed of nine of last years mem
bers. and five new ones.
The old clubs are the Fourth, Gunton,
Gurley, Foundry. Mt. Pleasant Congre-
gational, Mt. Pleasant Methodist, St.
Stephens. Sixth, and Mt. Vernon. The
five new clubs include Calvary Baptist,
Metropolitan Baptist, Douglas Memo
rial and two others.
Line-Up Unknown.
Just how the new teams will line up is
not known, but the old clubs have
strengthened their teams as much as
possible.
The center of interest will be in the
Mt. Pleasant grounds, where the seven
teams which finished nearest the pen
nant last year will play. The other
teams will play on the White Lot and
on grounds to be secured in the North
east.
4aS seven tedillS WHICH VIII play On
the Mt. Pleasant grounds are Fourth,
Gunton, Gurley. Mt. Pleasant Congre-
gational, ST. Stephens, Mt Pleasant
Methodist. and Foundry.
Two Strong Teams.
OF course. the two strongest teams
last year will naturally be watched with
special attention this year The Fourth
Presbyterians finished far in the lead.
with but one team anyway near their
equal. This team was the strong aggre-
cation from Gunton-1 emple 1t is true
that the Mount Pleasant Congregational
team defeated the Fourth two out of
three games. but they fell down against
the other good clubs. Gunton lost two
or three Games with weak clubs when
everybody looked for victory In the
nnal W1nd-up with the champions, how
ever, they defeated them by the score
OF to 6.
The Fourth will present practically the
same team, with the exception of a
stronger pitching staff. They have such
excellent box artists as Clark. Donald
son. Jones, Cunningham. and Wahler
Bradley will be behind the bat and
captain King will hold down first. War
man was shifted to third this year ard
nic Bielaskf took his place at second
Inns change is not working so well. as
Warman Is not a third baseman. and
Blelaskl will be new at second. Achi.
son will cavort around shortstop again
Outfeld Arranged
The outfeld will be composed n
Bishop, in left; Rhodes, in center. anf
Mckinney or Magoffin in right.
Gunton WI have several new faces oy
The team. but will be stronger perbap.
than last year. The bulk of the catch
Ing will be done by Woodward. Centra
high Schools backstop. and Hutchin
son and Brown, the Maryland AgricrI
Iurai College boys. will do the pitching
with r1ght-hander and SouthpaW II
aIternate, Gunton will have as strong
Pltchlng staff as any team in the league
weber, the George Washington TJniyer
s1ty first baseman, will play first. witt
Langley as substitute. At second Gu,
Lay VIII be seen, and Bruce Bielaski vii
hold down shortstop, with Eddie As
qufth at third. In the outfieId will b.
Harding, in left; Price in center. anC
Langley IN right. with Brown and Hutch
inson to fall back upon as utility men.
Both Strong.
From the lineup of the two teams +
will be seen that they are strong. Th,
game between these clubs the first weel
will be the feature of the openins
games.
Mt. Pleasant Congregational has {
strqng hne-up, including, such player,
as BeaH, Ballinger, Xander and others
The st. Stephens bunch is also to b,
watched in the race GlIrley is q IftfI.
injured by the loss OF BeaH and Xander
but still has a good team. with IIarrins
and Collie to do the battery work
The prospects for a season of fin.
baseball are bright, and the patrons o
the Sunday School League may well ex
pect many exciting games.