Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-26
THREE CITIES IN SERIES
BAL TIM0RE AMATEURS ASK
FOR ADMISSION NEXT YEAR
HIVE Organized Along Lines Found
Successful by Richmond and WASH
tnEt0n Hall Players.

Official notification that Baltimore
amateur baseball has been organized
on lines similar TO that Of Richmond
and Washington. and that the Monu-
mental City players want 20 participate
in the next iutercity series, has been
received by President Julien H. Hill,
of the Richmond Amateur Baseball
Commission. y meeting Will be called
Ivy President Hill. to be held about
January -, when the local commission
Will pass on the application of Balti-
more. Should that city be admitted to
the series, and Washington has al
ready consented, delegates will be APP
pointed to attend n conference in Wash
lngton, when representatives of the
three cities will make plans for the
tri-city series.
The Baltimore organization will
closely follow that which has been so
successful here. y commission COM
posed OF nonpartisan men interested
in sport will be the governing body,
and the leagues will be formed much
as they are here. with the exception
that there Will be two classes, closed
and open. The closed class leagues
VIII be those in which members OF the
teams must lie employees OF thc. con-
cern which stands sponsor for them
those in this city. The difference was
made necessary by the large number
OF teams in the Monumental City.
The same amateur rules have been
adopted. No player or manager shall
oncr. give or receive any money or
anything OF value, promise OF remun-
Grafton or valuable consideration for
playing on Il team. No wagcrs will be
permitted on the outcome of any games
DIVISIONAL WINNERS WILL.
PLAY FOR CITY TITLE
Al the end of the playing season the
pennant winners in each league Will be
divided into sections and will play for
the divisional championships These
winners VIII in turn be mat he'd for the
city championship. the winner OF which
VIII be entered in the tri-city series
President Hili yesterday stated that
he would not attempt to get the COM
mittec together before the middle OF
next month. on account of business
NJ that time, however, the question of
admitting Baltimore to the series Will
b. taken up. 1t Is expected that the
matter viii be ratified without diff
Guilty, is the only thing that has kept
baltimore out of the series in recent
years is the lack of organization and
definite standard OF ainatctIrism.
Washington officials helped in launch
ing the orSaniZation and i'm framing
us constitution and bylaws, guaran-
t'cinS that the BaltimorcanS will not
have any advantage
Amateur baseball according m Pros
icent Hill. should he more interesting
next year than during the past season.
Baseball players wiz he plentiful next
year as there will be little effort for
the amateur to break into professional
pan Oh account OF the material put on
me market by the disbanding of the
Federal League.
Managers of the teams which wore il,
the held last year already are busy
SctllhS their forces together II is
inc wise manager who gets a line ON
his men in the winter months. and
while there has been no snow vet 10
t'k about. 1t is fac; that the days
are beginning to get longer, and i'm a
little more than two months The soun1
.. hall cracking bat will he heard on
the local fields.