The Washington herald., 1911-06-27
One-tean Rule
Only SaIpation
With Only One Nine Upon Which to Play, Pay
ing and Jumping Would Be Stopped.
Nv G. w, SWAN.

clean the amateur ball situation OF the
many charges Of paying players and the
such is a foregone conclusion, and the
only remedy that appears at the pres
ent time is the one-team, one-league rule
that has been agitated by the various
amateur baseball writer's.
With rule limiting a man to one
team. this evil Of the paying Of players
would be done away with to certain
extent, as then there would be no induce
ment to draw a player from one team to
another, as it is at the present time.
True, q player could leave a team for an
other. but with only one team sllowed
to man. this Jumping Of teams would
he held down to g smaller degree.
There will never be time in the his
tory Of amateur ball in the District as 1t
is carried on at present that ball play
ers cannot be paid for, as President
Beach said at the last meeting Of the
amateur commission: The manager
gives the money to a friend. who gives It
to friend, and the third friend gives 1t
to the player?
There is absolutely no way in which
to convict the culprit unless the commits
sion is given the power to swear in the
witnesses and then fine them for per-
jury. should they be found to be lying.
AS it is at present, lies are told and there
is no way In which to find out the truth.
Let us all pull for that one-team rule.
May the commission get busy next year
and do something worth while
The following releases and additions
were turned in to Secretary Shurtleff
recently:
CAPITAL CITY LEAGUE.
seamen Gunners-Added. Warmath,
Watson, Snyder.
Navy Yard-Added, Frank S. Miles.
John Roundtree: dropped, W. L. seaton,
william Sullivan.
U. S. NJ. C.-Added, Joseph T. Apple,
Thomas F. Perry, Charles Haywood.
Eastern Athletic Club-Added. Cock
rill; dropped, Joseph Engel.
Cornell Co.-Added. Noyes; dropped.
Leverton-
SUBURBAN LEAGUE.
Silver spring-Added: Basil Boykin. C.
Fienle, W. Toison. Dropped: A. J. Cum
mings.
Brightwood-Added: E. Grant. Law
renee B. Mcintyre. Dropped: W. Berg
man. r f1uCk
Petworth-Added: King, Joe Epgle.
Dropped: C. E. Ford, Burgess.
Brookland-Added: Robert F.. Kause.
Dropped: A Baldus.
Parkview-Added: James A Rogers,
Walter Frosdick, Charles Becker, Henry
F. Mess Dropped: P. Belt C. Meyers.
Takoma-Dropped: D. Muloy, H. Han
Oboe. Added: Loveless, Carroll
Silver Spring-Added: Lynch. Dropped:
Gordon, Wise, Mess.
INDEPENDENCE LEAGUE.
Kendall-Released. Fred TansiaI.
st. Martin's-Added, Randall Holden;
dropped, Loveless and vivien Holden
r. R. Y. NJ. C. A. LEAGUE.
Union Station-Added, Asa A. Wantz
and Thomas R. Carr; dropped. c. T.
Liuthieum and W. ]. Knighton.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LEAGUE.
HamIine-Dropped. P. D. Holmes and
E. c. Engel; added, Pierce Riddle
Navy Yard-Added. Frank T. Miles
and ]. W. Robertson; dropped. Ted Sui
lIvan.
Commerce. and Labor-Droped, Nor
leon and Richmond; added. T. P. Shoe
maker and John Bay.
Ninth-Released Jaeschki
COMMERCIAL LEAGUE.
W. B. Moses-Drops Elmer Doleman
and adds w. R. Owens.
Willard Hotel-Drops Nick Bailey and
Joseph Craven and adds Ed Conover and
Pierce Riddle.
D. N. walford-Drops r. King. George
Rawlings, Joe Engle, Norman Kraft,
Chris Walters, and T. Hauser. and adds
Clyde Richmond, Earl Collingsworth,
John Carpenter, Frank Gait. Kendall
Myers, and Bernie Hummer.
Chesapeake and Potomac-Added. Will
lam Mcbride. Edward Delahunt. ]. Field
renee Ely. Cardinal Mcbride. F. DAILY and
c. Sullivan.
The Seamen Gunners' entrance into the
Capital City League proved rather un-
successful. as they dropped both the |
games played. one 70 Cornell and the /
other to Navy yard. The trouble with |
this club is lack Of practice, as there are |
some good ball tossers signed. and with |
q little more play they should make |
good. The writer overhead one Of the |
players on the sailors nine remark that |
prior to last week they had not played a |
game for two weeks. No team playing |
Sn any organised league regularly sinfe |
the opening Of the season can make good |
unless they are properly trained. II this /
team can get together and play oftener 1
thar they do now they viii soon be able
10 cope with the leaders in the fast cir
cult and give them q good fight before
they win suffer defeat