The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-25
BIG SEASON IN
SIGHT FOR SCHOOL
LEAGUES THIS YEAR

Indications are thai the s~choolboys'
season in Newark during the year win
be the most successful since attention
has been paid in Newark to the devel-
opment of schoolboys as baseball play
ers. The schedules for the various
leagues will be ready some day next
week. Nothing definite has yet been
pires, but all important details will be
arranged before the season is under
way. A meeting was held yesterday
afternoon at the Normal Training
School in Washington street and repre-
sentatives from thirty-nine different
public schools attended. Four leagues
were formed. to be known as the Senior
Northern. Senior Southern. Junior
Northern and Junior Southern Leagues.
No boy over Is years of age will he
eligible to play on a senior team and
no boy over IA years of age car be a
member OF a junior team.
In the Senior Northern League there
will be nine teams, in the Senior South
ern League eight teams The junior
leagues will be larger thar either of the
senior leagues. The same rules will
govern all of the games to be played
in the four leagues.
On account Of so many teams being in
the four Leagues, and as IL would be inn
possible to secure grounds enough to have
each team play each other team. 1t WAS
decided that each team should meet each
son will be played at both Branch Brook
and Weequahic parks. and possibly on
outside grounds.
How Lengue VIII BE Made Up.
The teams in the Senior Northern League
Avenue. Franklin, Central Avenue. North
Seventh. South Seventh. Thirteenth Ave-
nue.. Burnet Street and Newton Street.
The Senior Southern League will be com
posed Of Miller Street, Hawthorne Avenue.
Berger Street, Belmont Avenue, Hamburg
Place, South Market Street, Alexander
Street.
The Junior Northern League will be
composed Of the following schools: Sew
enth Avenue, Lincoln School. North Sew
enth Street. Warren Street. Franklin, Thir-
tenth Avenue. Newton Street, Burnet
Street. Sussex Avenue. Summer Avenue,
Elliott Street. and Central Avenue.
In the Junior Southern League will be
the following schools. Camden. street,
Elizabeth Avenue, South Sixteenth Street.
Fourteenth Avenue, Miller Street. Bel
mont Avenue, Charlton Street, Hamburg
Place and hawkins Street.
All of the games In the Senior and jun
Tor Northern leagues will be PLAYED at
bfhHCu bIOOk Idfk. Milit Tue sSeiitOI anu
Junior Southern League games will be
played at Weequahic Park. unless some
of the other schools have good nearby
grounds, and as many games as possible
will be played on grounds located near the
schools.
Principal r. X. Sexton, of the Central
Avenue School, was unanimously elected
president of the Senior Northern League;
Christopher Wilson. Burnet Street School.
Yice-president; Gray Litteli, Elliott Street
School. secretary, aud Edward Furcey. of
the Franklin School. treasurer.
In the ~eleetlon of, officers for the Senior
Southern League Robert A. Macdonald,
principal of Hawthorne Avenue School, was
elected president; William Perina. Eight
zenith Avenue School. vice-president; Ben
tamin Rachlin. Miller Street School, secre-
tary. and John Schwermmer. Bergen Street
School. treasurer.
Principal S. II. McIlroy. of the South Six
teenth Street School. was elected president
of the Junior Southern League, and Eric
Tesche. of the Fourteenth Avenue school,
secretary and treasurer. In the Jnnlor
Northern League Edgar S. Pitken, principal
of the Seventh Avenue School. was the
choice for president. and Alfred Schmitt,
Of the Thirteenth Avenue School, was elect
ed secretary and treasurer.