The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-02
lOPENING GAMES
 IN CITY LEAGUE
AuspiciOus Beginning For New Organization Tomorrow if
 Weather is Stable
st. Joseph'S Oval and YOSt Field to be Scene of COmbatS-
 The Line-uDS

Everybody is talking about the new
 City Baseball League which starts out
 on its season tomorrow with games at
 Most Field and St. Joseph Oval. with
 tout a doubt the two fastest diamonds
 fin the city. with the possible exception
 of Newfield Park. Four strong clubs
 lare represented. the Yosts. St. Josephs.
 South Ends and North Ends. The ob-
 Iject of the league is to promote good,
 healthy sport among the amateur play iers of the city, and to see that the re-
 ,ceipts collected at the games go to the
 flocal players. The managers have
 Hound it very easy in the past to get
 lout of town bookings but because of
 ithe uncertainty of the class of the
 .teaES, many miSrepreSentat1onS have
 lbeen made. Clubs come here with a tgood reputation, but when they are un- taer play most of them pan out as sec fond raters. It was mainly because ,of this cause that the four above men tfloned teams got together and started tthe league. It ought to be a success from the start. as every club will De Ia strong contender. being made up Of lent writing there does not appear to Il be any cinches among the uuartette.
 One of the best assets the league will s7have will be a. competent umpire staff. Arrangements have been made with Dan Shannon and Tom McCann, Su- sFervisors of umpires in the Factory land Industrial Leagues. respectively, Ito officiate at the games. MT. Mc- tCann will umpire all games at St. Jo- Eseph Oval. and MT. Shannan at Yost Field
 President A E. Veness of the league presided at the meeting last evening, with Secretary-Treasurer Boucher talk ing the minutes. During the meeting President Veness announced that he
 would be willing to give a suitable .prize to the team winning the race, the nrize to be decided by that club.
 The managers are committee to draft a constitution and set of bylaws for the league. to be presented at the
 next meeting Friday evening, July 8. An important step will be taken in the rules of the league through which the umpire will have authority to fine and order from the games unruly players. This is being done in an effort to curb all rowdyism and to play the game on a clean basis.
 The games scheduled for tomorrow are North Ends vs. Yosts at Yost Field, and South Ends vs. St. Josephs lat St. Joseph Oval. both games to be- called at 3:30 o'clock.
 Manager Al Taylor of the North Ends stated today that he would work out the following men in the game to- morrow: Joe Wells. Dubuc and Nicer bach. pitchers: Meerbach C.; Ryckman, 1b. Mcbride 2b; Slattery. 3b; Buckley. ss: McMullen. Wendt McNally, Mur- phy and Hadgen.- outfielders.
 Eddie Sullivan. the hustling manager of the South Ends. will bring out the following: Tommy Bowden. D; Elwood, ! 1b; Sawyer, 2b; O'Day. 3b; Bowden, ss: Keating, c; Calvin Murphy, Buck Hey and Hammer. outfielders.
 Tn the St. Joseph line up will be found Scanlon, D; Lavery. c; Mosher, | 1b; Loughlin, 2b; Downey. ss; Me Guire. ss; Richards. Solen and Finn. outfielders The Yosts will bring out White and Rohrbach. D; Johnson, c: Smalling. 1b; Cunningham. 2b: Reilly. ss; Wilson, 3b: Dubee, Smalwood Bowling, Reg inery, Christie and Keenan.