Arizona republican., 1909-12-09
FIVE SCHOOLS IN LEAGUE
Strong Mines Are Being Developed in the Val ley Schools Change in the Rules Twenty Games to Be Played.

The interscholastic baseball season
 which will comprise series of games between the five schools of the valley
 for silver cup which has been offered | dis trophy by The Republican. will open January 1 with a game between 1 the Phoenix High School and the T. ] .. Indian School at the latter's grounds The complete schedule of games-to b. ! played is printed witL this article. There will he five teams in the val ley league this year as against three last season. Tlcy are Tempe High
 School and Normal. Mesa High School. the Indian School and Phoenix High SchcOL TAe season will extend from the first of the year to the first of April. Twenty games are on the schedule in The Republican cup series. Besides these games there will be a few open dates when each nine may play other teams if they desire. There will probably be series of games be- tween the Phoenix High School and the University of Arizona.
 The series of baseball games this year is to be a distinct event in ath- letics. The first game will be pre- ceded by street parade and the game itself will be opened by three prominent citizens of Phoenix who long ago forgot how to play ball. The first ball of the series will be pitched by one of the three aforesaid promi- nent citizens. one of the others will attempt to bat il, and the third will be catcher.
 Throughout the valley great deal of enthusiasm over the opening of the season has been shown in various ways In some of the schools the boys are already at practice. At the Phoenix High School the boys will begin regu lar work next week. They wanted to begin sooner but were gently restrained by the faculty members of the athletic association. who wanted to see foot ball done with first The success of the local team in football has added an incentive to do big things in base ball and the boys will go to it with all the energy they possess. For the encouragement of this branch of ath letics this paper has decided to pre- sent the winning team with a silver cup, as was done last year. The trophy last season went to the Tempe Normal after series of very interesting and close games. The ownership of the cup was always in doubt up to the very last game played.
 The games this year will be under the direction of the Arizona Inter scholastic Athletic association, which is. comprised of the five schools repre- sented on the schedule. It is a new association. formed few months ago for the general supervision of ath- letics The association is governed by board of directors with one mem Der from each school They are F. c. Aver. Tempe Normal. president: R. J. Holzwarth. Indian School. secretary and treasurer; John. Dykes. Tempe High School. and C. D. Jones. Phoenix High School. meeting of the board will be held next Saturday at D. m. at the Tempe High School to discuss arrangements, the selection of umpires, etc.
 The games will be governed by diff ferent rules from those of last year The important changes are: No player shall be allowed in q game who has not a record of S5 per cent of attend ance at his school since his registra- ton. Any case of sickness will, how ever. not prevent his playing. All play CTS will have to register in their schools at least sixty days before the first game in which they play. The purport of these rules is obvious. Another regulation is that members of the faculty shall not be allowed to play in the battery This rule will affect s.ft nf thn Norm a who pitched last season. and Profes sor Jones of the Phoenix High School, who caught. Both Aver and Jones will probably play in the infield.
 The general outlook is for some fast hines. though it is too early to get good line on the different schools. Tempe High is an unknown factor. but there are some young men in that school who are showing form and class At the Normal. Standages will be one of the pitchers and Habey will probably catch. Pierce. the pitcher for the Indians last year. will not be here and the makeup of their nine is un- known. over at Mesa a strong nine Is being developed. There will be the old pair, Cuber and Morris, as the battery. Last year these two were in the Normal school, but they seem to have retrograded. Another strong player on the Mesa nine will be Williams, who is said to have made the leagues of both Arkansas and Kansas. He is the Noah of the ball players, though of course he isn't that old. However, he played ball when some of the others were fooling with milk bottles. The Phoenix nine will have to develop catcher to replace Jones. and they may be a long time doing it. If they can find a catcher as reliable and sure as Jones there will be prayer of thanks among the rooters. Hahn is pretty sure to be in the box for many of the games. but there is good chance for some other twirler to make reputa-