The Washington herald., 1911-05-25
SLIGO'S FRANCHISE GOES
TO FAST WOODLAND CLUB
Nomad Team Not Considered by Head of Olympia
Lacquer. R. Y. M. C.. A. Circuit
Playing Fast Ball.
By c. w, SWAN,

President Copp, of the Olympia League.
announced last night that the first team
to be considered for the franchise Of the
Sligo nine, the Woodland Athletic Club,
would get the franchise and not the
Nomads, as stated Tuesday night by a
prominent official of the circuit.
The Woodlands are a fast, aggressive
bunch of ball tossers, and while they are
not in the Cornell Iigers' class, they will
put up a much better article of ball than
the majority of the teams in the league.
To date, the newly organized R. r. Y.
NJ. c. A. League has played six games,
two of them being ties and three being
won by a lone tally The other one was
won by two runs. This augurs well for
the continued success of the league, and
when the many fans who were on hand
at every game last year realize that the
games are more evenly contested and
better ball is being played, they all will
return to the railroaders' circuit.
While there is lot OF truth in the story
published few days ago regarding the
playing of the st: -s'' on more than two
teams, 1t Is hard to get any reliable evil
dence to hold up the protest
Petworth and Parkview are putting up
hard fight for the leadership of the
Suburban League, and from the looks of
the Parkview tribe, they will be able to
give the Baby Dolls a rub for the pen
nant. Many fans of the Suburban circuit
favor Parkview in the betting but the
Petworth team plays well together and
are all good stickers. The Silver Spring
crew have been strengthened consider
ably by the return of Sid Lodge from
the Virginia League and promises TO
make them all hustle.
Lefty Wooden is back in his old-time
form. if the games that he has twirled
TO date are sample of the work he will
do the remainder of the season. When
he is going right, no pitcher in the Dis
trict has anything on Lefty"
"Doetie'' Baldwin, the former star Of
the Peabody team, will shortly join the
professional ranks. "Doetie'' has always
been famed for his ability to hold all
that came his way, while with the stick
he is good for the circuit. His pegging
is better than ever in the practice games.
There will be no game to-day in the R.
R. Y. NJ. c. A. League owing to the cele-
bration of the third anniversary of the
raiload banch of the Y. NJ. c. A.
Amateur Editor The Washington Herald:
read an article printed on the 23d
instance. in one of our evening papers, |
referring to the violation of several rules |
of the amateur commission. About seven |
ty-six violations recorded one in partt- |
cular referring to the manager of one
team playing with his team without be-
ing registered with same. I have been
informed that 1 am the manager re-
ferred to. l wish to state that on the |
Sth instant I gave to the secretary of |
our league revised list of my players,
and 1 was mentioned among them on
the list. numbering twenty. The secretary |
of the amateur commission spoke to the |
president of our league the following Fri |
day night concerning same. and our |
president, Mr.. Rockies, in the presence of |
Mr.. Fay, asked Mr. Shercliff to register |
my name along with my players, and |
we consequently thought the matter |
closed until the article referred to ap- |
peared on the 23d instant. 1 know there |
has been some mistake at the fountain |
head, and if the matter is carefully look
ed to everything will be adjudged cor
rectly. know our president. Mr.. Rockies.
will not permit me to suffer for some
ones negligence in this important matter
J. NJ. WILKINSON. Manager
81. Martins. Independence League.