Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-25
cond Place in the Capital City League Race May Be Decided To-day
DOUBTFUL IF AN INDEPENDENT
AMATEUR LEAGUE COULD EXIST
Conditions Not Conducive to Good Results
When One Circuit Withdraws From
Main Body - Other Gossip.

game in another circuit for another
, team and then Immediately go back
to the original club from which they
were released and on the list Of which
they had been kept eligible and pitch
during the same week.
The present status of the ruling OF
the commission in regard to the allow
| two leagues is more or less of joke
as far as its real effectiveness goes.
There are, to place it at a low est!-
mate 200 players in the amateur
ranks who have played on three teams
in as many different leagues, and there
four teams in as many leagues.
And these men have not been re-
leased from one team and then
picked up by another, but they have
gone back and forth between the d.f-
ferent clubs pitching for first one and
then another.
The practice by which the players and
managers are able to circumvent the rul-
ing of the commission is gone about in
the following manner: Suppose Is a
first-class pitcher and is working for a
team In the Capital City League and is
also holding down a box job for a team
In the Sunday School League Now, under
the commissions ruling, is not eligible
10 play with any team in any other
league, but a manager, who is fighting
for the pennant, say. in the Departmental
League. wants him to pitch an impor-
tant contest. He then instructs A to get
his release from one the other teams
IN the other leagues, and. as he has put
ms name in some time before, he will
then be eligible to play with his club
Now A does as he has been told and vet
when he is given his release he is still
kept eligible TO play with the team by
which he was given his freedom AS soon
as he has pitched the important game he
is given his release by that team and he
Immediately goes back to work for the
team from which he was originally re-
leased
The mentioned method by which the
MANAGERS get around the ruling Of the
commission has no doubt been gone
through with In hundreds of cases and
before the season ends. 1t is a plain
violation of the spirit Of the rule which
the commission has made against 1t and
something should be done to eliminate it.
It's results are harmful in every way,
even to the club which obtains the serv-
ices OF the star twirler.
The case Of the Olympia League which
came out at the commission last night
seems deserving of some leniency.
Dvery club in the circuit had the names
Of its players registered with the secre-
him to have registered his list with the
secretary of the commission. and there
seems no reason why the managers of the
teams in that league should be made to
suffer because of an oversight OH the
part of one of the league officials. The
secretary Of the mentioned circuit I'M
doubtedly thought that if the names OF
the players were in his hands before the
specified time that would be sufficient,
and on the face of 1t 1T seems that it
should. The commission, though, is stick
ing to the technicality of the ruling, per-
haps not without good reason.
The Navy Yard and Sewerage Pumping
Station meet today in game in which
the second position in the Capital City
League may be decided. Both teams be-
ing from the same part of the city num-
Der about the same following. and there
has appeared so far to be little difference
in the strength of the two clubs. 1t is
likely that one of the best games Of the
season will be the result of the meeting.