The Washington times., 1905-10-08
BIG BASKETBALL
LEAGUE STARTED
Crack Local Teams Form
for Season.
GAMES FOR EVERY NIGHT
Colonel Britt President-CarroIl Insti-
tute and Corcoran Cadets Will
Begin Season.

Plans looking to the formation of
basketball league in the District of Co.
lumbia. which would comprise all of the
crack teams of the city, were finally
brought to a head when the Washington
City Basketball League was formed at
the National Guard Armory on Friday
last
Five teams OF the National Guard sent
representatives, the Corcorans being
represented by Capt. c. E. Edwards;
Company A. Second. by Moriarity;
Washington Light Infantry, by Sam
Shreve; Ordways, by Bryan. and Com
pany d, by Britton. Carroll Institute
sent as its representative James A
O Shea. chairman of it's gymnasium com
mittee, and E. B. Robey, physical di-
rector. The Young Mems Christian As
sociation delegated c. Beckett. who has
exclusive charge of all basketball mat
ters at the Y. NJ. c. A, and the Column
bia Athletic Club was loked after by
Mr.. Batch and Mr.. O'Connor.
a constitution was considered and the
various articles taken up separately and
passed The document was then refer
red to a committee on revision and cor
rection. consisting of Messrs Batch,
Bryan. and Britton
Officers Elected.
After the adoption of the constitution
the officers were elected without any op-
position. except in the case of the treas
urer, when OConnor and Britton were
named. The National Guard representa-
tive was elected. The call for nomina-
tions to the presidency brought out the
name of Colonel Britt, of the United
States army, and he was unanimously
elected. Lieut.. ]. w. Crawford. of the
Young Mems Christian Association. was
unanimously elected for the vice presi-
dency. Capt. c. E Edwards. who was
temporarily filling the chair of the sec
retarY. was permanently retained in
that capacity.
y schedule committee consisting of
Beckett, Edwards and Shea, was then
selected to arrange for the games. Every
week night will be used. and the teams
are SO fixed for hall accommodations thai
the games will be evenly distributed
Several of the teams that attended the
first meeting held for the formation of
league failed to show up at the sec
ond session and had to be dropped.
Season Starts.
The season will start on Tuesday. the
24th, with Carroll Institute and the Cor
coran Cadets clashing at the Carroll In
sttute gymnasium. This game should
prove one of the strongest cards that the
league could offer Both teams are con-
sidered as the natural rivals OF each
other. They have not been seen IN contest
for the past two years. as last year
Carroll Institute took the stand that il
would not play with the Corcoran Cadets
t1ala l,e lasr Ill -.
Athletic Union rules. The Corcorans re-
fused to- do this. saying that they would
play one game under the National
Guard rules and the other under the
Amateur Athletic Union rules. Carroll
refused to play under these conditions
and the matter rested in allegiance until
now
Only One Official.
Several changes of minor importance
are to be tried in the league this year,
the most important of which will be the
one official system. collection OF
names was submitted to the president
and from this list will be picked the
officials. 1t is the intention of the
league to gather in the best available
official material in order that the usual
pickering OF player and official may be
eliminated as much as possible Men
playing on teams must be registered in
the league and in the Amateur Athletic
Union thirty days prior to playing with
teams, but this rule will not effect men
who start out with the original teams.
With the list of teams in this league
basketball this winter promises much.
The style Of game PLAYED will be of the
fast amateur kind. and a particular
regard will be made to ket