Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-03
TEAMS ALL READY
FOR OPENING GAME
War and Agriculture Will Meet
Tomorrow in First Contest
of Departmental Base
Ball League.

Everything is in readiness for the open
ing of the Departmental Base Ban
League. which will begin tomorrow after
noon at 5:15 o'clock on the White Lot
grounds. In the past week Col. Charles
S. Bromwell the officer in charge OF pup
lie buildings and grounds, has had two
immense rollers at work on the two dia'
monds which the Departmental Will use.
and when President Chance and the board
OF directors inspected the grounds yester-
day they were elated over their condition.
The tiers of seats that Col. Bromwell
will place around each diamond will he
put in position early tomorrow morning,
and. as already announced in The Star.
they will be reserved generally for dlstin-
guished visitors and ladies who are frlenos
of the players.
The opening game tomorrow will bring
together the two teams which last year
dropped out of the scheduie-War ana
Agriculture: and their re-entrance into
the league will attract the attention OF the
other teams. In order that some line may
be gained as to their strength IN COM
parison to the other teams in the race.
Acting on instructions from the board OF
directors. Secretary John H. Anderson of
the league has sent out his instructions TO
the two umpires-Messrs. Belts and New
man-and they will be expected to live up
to them explicitly. The two important
features of the instructions bear on
promptness in starting each contest
Players will be barred from appearing
in the uniform of team not member or
the League of Departmental Clubs.
The schedule as arranged is so fixed
that eight regular games Will be PLAYED
every week. one each on Monday and Fri
day and dOuble-headers on Tuesday.
Wednesday and Thursday. leaving Satur-
day for dra Wh or postponed games.
The ironclad eligibility rule adopted by
the league will prevent any see-sawlng by
the players. for under it they cannot be
transferred from one Office to another. as
was done SO often in past seasons. The
chief clerks of the several offices must
certify to all players before they will be
allowed to figure in a championship game
Personnel of the Teams.
The players who have been certified to
Secretary Anderson are as follows:
Navy-Manager, H. r. LeClaire; Harris,
Smith, Clements. Ellis. Quinn. Sutton,
Sullivan. DeMar Lander. McCarron.
Dougherty, Brooke and Colliflower.
War-Manager. II. F. Worley: pitchers.
Finegan. Patten. Donaldson and Wolfe;
catchers, Findley, Mullin and Nicholson:
fielders. Deigis. Long. Jones. Fenwick.
Pierce. Herbert, Signer. Corrigan. Heider.
Ernest. Geib. Trip, Dewitt, Nicholson
and Everett.
Observation-Disclosures. c. Y. Duganne;
pitchers. Barnhardt. Madden, Wilcox,
Hardy, Moore Regis and Wortindyke;
catchers. Townsend and Raab; tielders,
Carr. Jones. Purcell. Thrall. Bateman,
Newman. Moore. Murphy. Limberger,
Julian. Duganne, Nichols, Tansil. Wiilftt
and Treakle.
MISUNDERSTANDING I. Thicker: pitch
ers. Sander, Seaborn and Bryan: catchers,
Taylor and Weber; fielders, Doyle, Brown.
Bryan. Rhodes. Taylor. Jones, Priest'
McQuinn. Rhodes Rose, Davis. Sasscer
and Winchester.
Treasury-Manager, Eddy c. Robinson,
and Messrs O'NeiI, Fulcher. Gertman,
Vic Bielaski. Lord. Mccarthy, Torney.
Hester, Asquith, Brown and Gordon;
Watts as coach.
Post Office-Manager. Johann Kondrup:
pitchers. Haring. Kerr, McCluskey and
c. Waller; catchers. Kraft. Bradley and
Callahan: fielders. Bacon. Barnes Burke,
McGrath. Orrison. Pennington, Ryan.
Rupert and Ritter.
Commerce and Labor-Manager. John
II. Anderson: pitchers. Kinney and Heath:
catchers. Erwin and Roff; fielders, Evans.
Bruce Bielaski. Kleinschmidt Rapp. Shill-
man. Scaggs. Greenwald. Schreiner.
White. Shoemaker and Briggs.
Commerce and Labor suffered quite
setback las. week by the signing of Muir
ray by the Washington Union team, as
the Commerce boys expected to win the
ptnnant with him in the box.
Interstate Commerce-Manager, F. {.
Sterne: pitchers. Hampton and Baker;
catcher. Hayden; fielders. Dove Tom
Quantrell, Ferguson. Hall. Tracy Har-
voycutter, Clint Quantrell Bartell Hamp-
ton and Lacy.
The Weeks Schedule.
The games of the week are as follows:
Observation-Disclosures South dia-
mOnd; umpire, Belts
Tuesday-Navy-Interio West diamond;
umpire, Newman.
Tuesday-Commerce and Labor-Post Of
flee. South diamond; umpire, Belts.
dnesday-Treas ury- Interstate West
diamond: umpire Belts
Agriculture Navy, South
diamond; umpire. Newman.
ThursdAy-Commerce and Labor-Inte-
rior. west diamond umpire. Newman.
Thursday-Post Office-Treasury, South
diamond: umpire. Belts.
Friday-1nterstate-Wa War, South diamond:
umpire. Belts.
The special park policemen who patrol
the government reservations have been
given orders by Col. Bromwell to protect
the diamonds set aside for the clerks and
to arrest all disturbers of the peace; also
to prevent any open gambling on the re-
suit of the games
Secretary Wilson Interested.
Secretary Wilson has promised to be
present at the opening game of the De-
partmental League tomorrow, if possible
If so. he will throw mt no han