Imperial Valley press., 1909-10-16
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 ID PLAY BALL How the Six Desert Towns Will Line Up On Sixth
 of November.
Not Weak Team in the League and Prospects for the Fast est Winter Baseball on the Coast Many Class A Players Signed, In- cluding Easterly for EI centro.

Three weeks more and then the baseball season will begin. Already few of the players have begun to come into the valley and all have agreed to report by November 1 so that every team will have at least one weeks practice before the open- ing game on November 6.
 The league has been organized and preliminary arrangements between the six towns satisfactorily arranged for a fast season of twenty games. Yuma will be formidable antagonist but it is up to the five Imperial towns to see that the pennant does not go outside the county limits. Yuma has engaged George Wheeler, that fam ous utility man who has proved a valuable player in many leagues, as captain and manager of their team. Wheeer played good ball in 1891, when with Stafford and Mains, he did the twirling for Lewiston in the New England league. The next year he went to Bangor and helped that team win the pennant against Fall River, l the latter team, having the redoubt- able Laioie as second baseman. It never made any difference to Wheel CT whether he hit right or left hand ed and in recent years 1t has made | little or no difference to him in what position he played. Nagle is coming to Yuma and with these two veter- ans and number of players whom they have engaged Yuma will be dan gerous.
 Holtville, having the best local baseball team in the valley has en- gagged a trio of fast ones to make the situation more binding. Brown ing, Berry and Zeider of the Frisco team were slated but it is now un- derstood that Browning will be un- able to come and that big Jim Wiggs, who shoots them over as fast as a cannonball and ats big as a pea, will come in his place. That ought to be about all for Holtville if they want to give the other teams fighting chance.
 Little can be learned concerning the makeup of the Brawley team, but the fans up there are wearing a con- fidert smile and it is rumored that they have something up their sleeves that will make the rest of the val ley go some.
 Griffin will not play winter base ball this year and Brawley will thus lose the services of that energetic captain, but with a few good local players, crack battery, and one or two first class infielders the north enders will be much stronger than last year.
 Imperial will have crack team that is certain, although the exact personnel has not yet been definitely decided upon. If Scott pitches, as is probable, the chief part of the prob lem is solved but up to date the ne- gotiations with him have not been brought to a conclusion. The Broad bents, Ordway and a few fast ones from the coast and other leagues have been lined up. so that Imperial will have the best team in her his tory. Manager Breedlove isn't saying much but he is out to win and doesn't propose to watch this baseball pro cession from the rear
 CaleXico has been preparing for this baseball season for months and has a great team lined up. Barry McCor- mick. veteran of skill and eXper- fence will be captain and second baseman. Walter Smith, gentleman college graduate and ball player, vii play at third base and will be Mo. Cormick's right hand man. Smith i' a fast player and, although young chief object in CaleXico is to rise 1T his chosen profession of engineer
 but incidentally he will play base
 ball and play 1t for all he is worth , George Anderson, who used to b'
 Holtvllle's crack infielder, will pla . shortstop and we all know that h
 is fast. Calexico has been nego
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