Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25
PREPARING FOR
NEXT SEASON
Prospects of the Departmental
Base Ball League.

The board of directors of the Depart
mental Base Ball League will meet this
week to make arrangements for the playing
season of 1906. The Indications are that
the season will be more propitious in every
way than that of last year, when. next to
the games of the professional league, the
contests among the athletes of the depart
ments were the most attractive hereabouts.
There were nine teams In the race last
summer, but IT Is almost certain that the
number this year will be reduced by one.
the Library of Congress dropping out. This
will give the circuit much better oppor-
tunity to arrange its playing schedule, as
1t will allow two games to be played every
day during the season. 1t will also allow a
schedule of games that will not conflict
with those being played here by the pro-
fessionals at American League Park. Two
schedules have been prepared, one for
single game a day and the other for double
series. They will be submitted to the board
OF directors at the coming meeting This
board has had no meetings since the close
of last season, and hence the affairs of the
organization. as far they relate to 1905.
have not been closed, a state of affairs
brought about by the inactivity of some of
the members of the board.
Proposed Salaried Manager.
It is expected that some radical measures
will be discussed at this meeting. the most
manager, whose duties will be to look after
all the details of the playing season. sched
ule. uniforms, department, with power to
suspend all refractory players. There will
be salary attached to the position and
one of the leading candidates for the place
is A. G. Rice, who did practically all this
work last season. The league has arrived
at such a state now that it Is almost nee
essary that such an officer be created as
the various chief clerks of the depar tments
have their hands full of routine work relat-
ing to their offices, without multiplying 1t
with base ball work. In fact. several of
those who last year acted as managers of
the teams are more than anxious to allow
some one else to do it in their place. hence
they are pleased with the suggestion of a
salaried officer
The officers now in charge of the league
are Edward M. Dawson of the Interior Mr.
Merritt 0. Chance of the Post Office, Mr..
w. B. Robinson of the Treasury Mr. John
c. Scofield of the War, Mr.. Grin j. Fields
of Justice, Mr. Frank Fl. Bowen of Com
merce and Labor and Mr.. H. B. Burch of
the Agriculture The Navy is without repre-
sentation because of the resignation of
Chief Clerk Peter last fall. In case of the
election of general manager, the board of
directors will act in the capacity of a re-
viewing board. and will not interfere in any
act of that officer unless charges are pre-
ferred against him.
1t is also expected that the two premier
umpires, Messrs Belts and Collifiower. will
again be secured to manipulate the tickers
on balls and strikes The eight teams that
are at present represented War. Navy,
Treasury. Interior, Post Office Justice
Commerce and Labor and Agriculture are
all at work arranging the details of the
season, and there is a. lively prospect ahead
for all. There will be plenty of new ma
terial in the teams. the service lately
has been pretty well enhanced by the en-
ut h or frnr
leges, while the disintegration of the Sun
day School or Church leagues will give
them plenty of new material. The teams
of last year will all remain intact, with a
the season. has deserted the Post Office and
gone into professional ranks: Young Fen
ton, the clever third baseman of the In
teriors, will be found with the Post Office
and Chittenden, one of the stars of the Ag-
riculture. will probably be kept out of the
game because of absence from the city.
The Department Teams
The men who will play and are on the
lists of the teams are as follows:
Commerce and Labor-Messrs. Kinney Hart
Tierney, Terry. Colcock. Schreiner, Kirby Koehl
Jermaine, Jarvis. Hillman, Kitch. Thompson
Gordon, Young. King and the Evans brothers
Treasury Shepherd, Tate, Bernard. winans
DAILY, Loving, Newman Brown. Rogers McCauley
Lord. Beard. Thorp, Smith, Leakin, McKfllen,
Walker. Leet Fulcher. V. Bielaski and Brooks
Interors-Leahy, McCabe Lott MeGofin, o'Con-
nell, Erwin, Tracy, G. Waller, Madden, Bum
Cramer. Carr Raab. Shoemaker Nash Greene
Ba teman and Mcknight
Justiee1Hal harrington, Keifer. Young Dali
rympie, Halves, Honlehan, Hen1rickson, Reed
Harveyeutter, DeWood. Burbank, Mcmahon Klein
schmidt, b. Bielaski and the Beckett brothers
Agrculture-osgood Billngsly, Osborne, Plumber
Bean, Doyle. Thompson Brown, sasscer, Mont
blatt. Winchester Tolman. Moore. f. F. Steven
son, Weir: McGirly. Taylor Sanders Weber,
Fields Hoffman. Chittenden and Johnson
War-Wolf. Mahoney, Eliason. Everett. Pierce
Fenwick. Patterson, Shaw, Finnegan, CorTigan
Geb. Donaldson, Bolts, Lutz. MCGOWAN, Ernest
and Asquith.
Post Ofiee-Sprignan, Landrick Day Haring
Bishop, V. W6hier, Berkman Thomas Tierney,
Mathews. Pennington, Bradley. c. Stevenson,
Adams, Bacon, Gates. Riddle and Fenton brothers
Navy-Barry, Powers. BurIngame, Briggs. Buck
ingham, Clements, Loefiier, Sullivan, Dawson
Jones Dougherty, Lauder, Sutton, De Mar Ellis
yenable, Quinn, Rea, Cooke, Carver, Kraft, Nc
Carron, Bryan and Capt. Hughes.
Library altman. Brown, Matthews, Waters
faux. Matthias, Leitch, Linthcum Donns
Andrews, j. Fenton Sicily. Woolworth Ruedy
Sullivan. Ambrose Oyster, Walker, Landsittle
Herndon, Blessing. Nes and Dixon