Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-04
Street Railway Employees Are
Forming Nice Little League
Among Themselves.
BY SEMl.pRO.

A trolley baseball league, composed
Of the teams representing the different
car barns in this city, will be organized
soon. 1t is expected that every barn
will enter the proposed circuit, all
games to be played on the grounds
at Hilton. 1t is expressly stipulated
| that no team play another unless the
men are actually in the employ of the
division which they represent. Each
division stands on it's own merits, and
It behooves the captains and managers
of the various mines to hustle. AT the
conclusion of the season the team hav-
ing won the most games n a nine
composed by the players of the several
divisions viii play off a three-game
series. The winner will receive a silver
cup offered by superintendent of
Transportation N. w. Bolan.
.
1t is likely that the Manufacturers
Baseball League will complete Its cir
cult at the meeting in the Colosseum
tonight. Whether the shop organlza-
ton will be composed of six or eight
teams will be decided. It is hoped that
the schedule committee will be able to
start to work during the next week.
Close to sixty candidates for the
Barringer High School baseball team
were out on Roseville Oval yesterday
afternoon. The boys vent through a
stiff batting practise, n should be fit
for their opening contest a week from
tomorrow with Paterson High School.
Ronald Smith, Girshum White, NAP
Napoliello and David Rashkover are
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Dempsey is the possible regular back
stop.
Mills will in all probability look after
first, although he is being pressed hard
by Ward and Foster. Second base
position is still undecided, while third
base will be looked after by Jose Or
Driver. Ralph Johnson has the call
for shortstop. Valentine, S. Ward,
Stackhouse and Lambert are trying for
the outf1eld.
The Prospect B. B. c., of the Jr. Q.
U. A. M. League, will meet in the Ar
cade tomorrow night. First practise
will be held Saturday afternoon.
Members of the East Orange Ath-
letics are requested to report at Ash
land Oval, East Orange, for first prac-
tise Saturday afternoon.
Henry Merklin, formerly of the Bay
View Wheelmen baseball team, is open
for an engagement with a big local
sandlot aggregation. Merklin plays
second base md shortstop in clever
style. His address is $40 Bergen street.
.
The Center A. A, of East Orange,
will i%haugurate the season on the
Athletic grounds Sunday afternoon,
meeting the Harrison A. c., of Passaic.
Martin Calabrese is one of the finds
of the season, according to Manager
Anthony Paris, of the Diana A. C.
In a practise game against a team COM
posed mostly of Madison A. A. players
Sunday he beat his opponents handily.
j. Bean, of 81 William street, Belle
vile, who manages the Tigers, of
Belleville, wants games with 1~3-14-year-
old teams such as Cliftons, Belleville
Athletics, Tigers of Kearny and others
of like strength.
Andy Speary, the local lad who is
with the Richmond Virginia League
team, was tried out at right field two
days ago, but he was too light for that
position, 1t was said. Andy looks bet
ter at second base than any other posi-
ton.
The police of Harrison and Kearny
are talking of their annual baseball
match which takes place during May.
Andy Walsh, of the Harrison aggrega-
ton, declares his team viii come out on
top. Jerry Sawyer. of the Kearny nine,
Is just as confident.
The Junior o. Z. A. M. Baseball
League win open the season on May 4
with the following teams: Buck, last
year champions; Putnam and East
End, of last years league, and these
new teams: Boyd, of Bloomfield, Irv-