The Washington herald., 1911-02-27
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games, and the club was given control
of the park for all open dates. Author
lity was also given the Aloystus Club to
| treat with the Capital City League re-
garding the use of the field for the COM
| ing season, and Maurice O'Connor was
appointed a committee of one to notify
the Capital City organization OF the ac-
tion taken by the athletic council.
Provided the Capital City League can
come to terms with the Aloysius Club,
the league may use the grounds as for
merly. and a meeting of the Capital City
League will be held this evening at the
residence of Vice President Ross ]. Bios
scr, 81 K street northwest, to take UP
the matter. On next Sunday morning
another meeting of the athletic council
of the Aloysius Club will be held at the
clubrooms. and any proposition which the
Capital City League cares to make will
then ne take under consideration
Capital City Park is no more. for the
field will hereafter be known as Con
zaSa Park. This was finally decided
yesterday, and arrangements have al
ready been made TO fit the grounds up
In dandy shape for the spring base
ball season. a suitable sign marking the
Oh park Will DE pOS60S eA4N
other changes are being planned.
Plan Athletic Meet May 80.
May % Gonzaga College will hold a
grand athletic meet and field day at the
park, clubs, schools. and colleges from
Washington and nearby cities being in
vited to compete. 1t is said the grounds
will be in almost constant use all the
year, and will, become a landmark in
the local amateur sporting world.
A committee consisting of John Luitich.
chairman; John Hurley, and John Cor
rigan was appointed yesterday to recon-
mend improvements. Another committee
to recommend various amateur events,
for which the park will be used during
1911, was also named.
AS pointed out in The Washington
Herald several days ago, Gonzaga Col
Iege will now be able to take its proper
place on the local amateur sport calen-
dar and the boys from North Capitol
street win undoubtedly be heard from
in every branch of outdoor sport during
the coming spring and fall Good ath-
letic grounds are hard to find and Capital
City Park is the most convenient place
the Gonzaga athletic authorities could
obtain.
That the Commercial League WIN be IN
the field the coming year was definitely
decided at a meeting held in The Wash
ington Herald Office yesterday afternoon.
when the managers of four Of the clubs
gathered to decide its fate.
William Peet was reelected president
]. Lynn, vice president, and w. NJ De-
Neane, secretary, while the office of
treasurer was left vacant until the next
meeting.
William B. Moses & Sons applied for
admittance. and together with the Poto-
mac Heights Land Company was allowed
to enter the league, while the Southeast
Y. M. c. A. franchise was declared for
feited.
While neither the Berry & Whitmore
nor Potomac Heights Land Company nine
was represented, it is understood they
have already begun preparations for the
season and will present strong line-ups
Same Field VIII Be Used.
The field at Georgia avenue anu Kenyon
street northwest, used last year. will
again be the playing ground of the league.
Those at yesterdays meeting were
Charles Graft. of The Washington Herald;
William NJ. DeNeane, of r. P. Andrews
& Co.; J. H. Gassoway, of d. NJ. Wal
ford, and Charles Hoffman, of William
B. Moses & Sons.
Forest Thompson writes US that he will
report to Savannah, Ga, March l for
practice and that he expects to have
prosperous season. Forest is one of our
leading citizens in the amateur baseball
world, who is making good in profess
sional company, and we wish him all
kinds Of good luck for 1911.
Karl G. schwegler. secretary OF the
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petent umpire for that organization. An
ex-prize fighter, who is unmarried and
who has already taken out a life insur-
ance policy, is preferred. Mr.. Schweg-
ler's address is 1929 F street northwest.
THE nineteen-year-old rule used sue
cessfully in Philadelphia, is not practical
in Washington" said a member of the
amateur commission yesterday. Tn Phil
adelphia the Inquirer has a firm grip on
the amateur baseball leagues, and is rum
ming them with great success. Most of
the players are OF the high school age,
and the nineteen-year-old rule in no way
interferes with the average club there.
But in this city we have an altogether
different case. as the average age OF the
amateur player Is considerably more than
the nineteen-year-old mark.
Some age limit might be placed he
continued but 1t Is almost impossible
20 get any two teams to agree on any
proposition which will in any way tread
On their toes. For this reason the prob
lem before the amateur commission is a
stupendous one. This fact cannot be
appreciated by the average person. To
say that Washington should have strict
ly amateur baseball is one thing, to make
a general cleanup another Bob Young
is on the right tack. and IL any man can
get results he is the one
The Auditors and Law clubs win play
the first game in the Southern Railway
League. and appropriate exercises will
mark the initial contest This was de-
cided at meeting last week. The sea-
son will begin the early part of May and
continue to the middle of August From
present indications, the league will have
a very prosperous season.
The Augusta Herald OF February 2
prints the following regarding ''Curley"
Brown, who played with Cornell Com
pany the latter part of last season:
'Curley' Brown, one of the mos.
promising young infielders in minor
league company. was signed by Manager
Stouch a short time ago. and a half
dozen other clubs were trying to get him
az the time He was with the Goldsboro
team, Of tAe Eastern Carolina League,