White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-30

SHELTER TOWN Is STRONG FOR
THE NATIONAL GAME AND
TWILIGHT LEAGUE ANNOUNCES
SEASONS SCHEDULE.

week nave Deen against int SPINS
training stunts but at that several
veterans and recruits have taken
chances by starting the season with
a sore salary whip by Drawing the
frosty winds in order to get a crack
at the ball, says the Copper Ore.
The association is fortunate in
getting four sterling men to look
after the executive and financial end
of the league. Jimmy" Watson as
president is a hustler and one who
will take an active interest in the
affairs of the league and he has a
willing substitute in Frank Jameson,
the copper eompany's master
mechanic who will act as vice presi-
dent. r. E. Middagh who was un-
animously elected as general man
ager of all the teams is a dyed in
the wool fan and has had a great
deal of experience in running SEMI
pro ball teams Both President Wat
son and Manager Middagh are work
ing on plans for improving the
grounds at the local park. Their
present intentions are to rake the
entire field and fill in with two inch
layer of black soil, which will make
the infeld considerably faster and
less chance for the players TO be in
jured by sliding on rocks. c. W.
Bagwill of the general office stan is
to look after the leagues money af-
fairs for the coming season and all
he wants now is capital to work
with. Role Wright, last seasons
"dopester," is on the job again this
year and has prepared a 52-game
playing schedule which will appear
later in this article. The season
opens on Sunday, May 18th and
closes September 10th. The schedule
calls for three games a week, play
ing days to be Tuesday, Thursday
and Sunday. The games a be
sarted at 4s3O which will give ample
time to play seyen innings before
dark. An admission of Csc will be
charged for all Sunday games and as
no season tickets are to be sold the
league should receive a pretty fair
revenue from these games.
At a meeting held last week new
bylaws were drawn up and adopted
by the league officers. One interest
ing change was the adoption of the
rule limiting each team to twenty
men up till May 1st, when that num-
Der must be reduced 10 fourteen men.
The rule stipulates that the men TO
be released lin order to comply with
the fourteen man limit, can be
drafted by the other teams in the
league which gives the weaker clubs
a chance to strengthen their forces
by claiming the surplus material
from the stronger clubs.
A commission of three men was
appointed to look after the league
affairs and to settle all disputes.
Thos comprising the new commits
sion are President Watson, Manager
Middagh and c. j. Barnes, the father
of baseball in McGill.
Mondays dance was a decided
success, the dancing floor at the
school house being filled to its cap
acity. The league will have a net
profit of about $4,000 derived from
the dance which will help consider
ably to cover the running expenses
during the season. Another dance
will be given shortly after the first
of April and it is to be hoped that
the fans will contribute as literally
as they did to the initial affair. 1t
takes loyal supporters to make base
bail a success and McGill has lots of
them.
SO far the bad weather has pre-
vented the managers from getting a
line on the material they have at
hand. But from the present out
look it seems that there will be four
strong teams in the race for the
pennant, viz: Mill, Shops, Office and
Shelter.
Manager Lawrence Preston will
have charge of last years champions
and will have several of the 1912
vets in the lineup. Beatty, who slab
bed for the Smeltermen last season
will probably be his leading pitcher
and Dutch" Griffith, whose name is
dear to all the 1911 fans will more
than likely cover the short field.
Beatty and Griffith are expected to
arrive the latter part of the week.
Billy Halves will be seen playing the
keystone sack and Manager Preston
will make all the recruits go some