Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07
PREPARING FOR THE SEASON
PRACTICE OF THE DEPART.
MENTAL BASE BALL TEAMS.
Who Will Take the Place Of the War
riors Undetermined, Though 4th
Infantry a Likely Candidate.

The Departmental Base Ball League is
going right ahead with preparations for the
coming season, though the dropping out
of the War Department representatio at
this late day complexities matters for Sec
rotary Weed.
The five teams at present In the circuit
are in the meanwhile losing no practice,
but even arranging an ante-season
schedule with the mines of the other local
amateur teams, so that when the curtain
rises on the first league contest there Will
be seen none of that crudeness that marked
the first months play last year. The dia-
mond on the ellipse is in constant demand,
and the practice is witnessed with great
interest by large numbers Of fans.
The dropping out of War will throw into
the drafting mart many more eligible
players, ones that the other clubs will not
allow to remain idle long. The contests
will seem strange without the only FIN
cyan shooting them over without big Cor
rigan at one of the sacks and without such
good all-around players IS Fenwick, Woife,
Pierce, Donaldson, Taylor, Geib and As
quith. Such men would materially
strengthen the Treasury or Interior aggre-
cations, and it is not unlikely that the
players will be "farmed out to them, al
though the Post Office is making big
bid for the services of that excellent httie
outfielder, Jack Fenwick.
Who will be the sixth team in the fight
is vet a matter of conjecture, as there Is
some talk of allowing a team from the
bureau of engraving and printing or one
from the government printing office TO enter
the league and there are many looking for
! the Washington barracks team to take the
Warriors place.
The printing office has a large field to
pick from. but ii allowed to enter 1t would
want Brown, Hunt and the others VINO are
playing with Commerce and Labor, Whlle
the engraving and printing bureau would
break up the treasury OUTFIT by asking Tor
Vic Bielaski and charlie Lord. AS big
kicks would be registered against either
of these propositions, the probable admls-
sion is the 4th Infantry team from the
barracks.
1t is settled that Tracy, the clever-he.d-
ing first baSeman, who wore the judiciary
team uniform last year, will return 10 MS
first love and play with Interior, with whom
he made his debut in the first year OF the
league While the complexion of all the
teams Is not wholly settled, the fohowins
players are enrolled:
Post Ofice-Haring, Ryan, Waller Kraft
Bacon Orrison, Kerr, Mack, Bradley,
Thomas Bennington and Rite al Fenton
Agriculture-Weber. Stevenson, Sanders,
Titus. Doyle, Winston. Wiley Brown. Bry-
an Hoffman. Taylor. Rose, Sasscer, Cleve-
land Thompson and Winchester.
! Commerce and Labor-kinney, Brown,
| Erwin. Herbert, Evans, Hunt, Torrey,
| Ravens, North, Schreiner. Kirby, Rapp'
! Terry Chamberlain, Klenschmidt kitch'
Cotter and Colecock.
Urea sury-Lord, Mccarthy, Fulcher, V.
Bielaski spillane, Halleran, Carrot, smith
Graves, Judd, Daily, Walker, Newman, Nc
! Cauley Beard and Gertman.
| Interior-Barnhart, Carr. Shoemaker,
Tracy. c. Waller, Bateman, Langford,
! Wright Wilcox, Townsend. Duganne MAD
den. Kipp O'Connel and probably McGoffin.