Omaha daily bee., 1917-04-22
BALL SEASON HERE
IN ALL ITS GLORY
Two More Leagues Open Sea-
son Today-Bloomer Girls
Get Flying Start.
PLAYERS ARE IN FINE FORM
By FRANK QUIGLEY.

Last sunday 1Our leagues animated
with the Omaha Amateur Base Ball
association started on that long base
ball procession for the coveted flag
OF honor awarded at the expiration of
strenuous diamond campaign.
This afternoon the American and
City leagues will make their initial
bows to the local fans and fanettes.
This season finds the association
with only three Class B leagues, one
of which, the Metropolitan, opened
the gates last Sunday. Since the in
ception of the Omaha Amateur Base
Ball association the City league has
always been recognized as the best
bet in Class B circles, but from pres
ent indications it will have a rocky
road to travel this season to beat the
other two contenders.
Here is how and where the teams
of the American league will hitch up:
Townsends VS.. Magic Citys at Thir-
ty-second street and Dewey avenue,
$50 p. M; Walnut Hill Athletics VS..
National Cash Registers, Twenty
fifth and w streets, $50 p. M; Omaha
Bicycle Indians VS.. McCarthys, River
view park, $3.50 p. m.
In the City league, the Murphy Did
Its, 1916 champions of Class B, will
battle the Carter Lake club on the
Carter Lake diamond. The Walter G.
Clarks will open up with the Grain
Exchange at Fontenelle park, $3.50 p.
M, and the Richardson Drug COM
pany will tangle with the Omaha
Crockery company at Elmwood park,
$3.50 p. m. A band will be at the Wal
ter G. Clark-Grain Exchange game.
No Meeting.
Last Monday night the board of
directors did not meet. But they will
meet tomorrow night in the City Hall.
Two games were protested last Sum-
day, although only one protest has
been received by President Isaacson.
Both protests were from the Inter
City league. The Montclairs protest
ed their 5 to 2 game with the Park
Avenue Florists and the Tomaneks
protested their S to 4 game with the
w. H. Newsboys. Both contests are
protested because the adjudicator
stopped the fracas at the termination
of the seventh round.
In the Greater Omaha league, the
Melady Mavericks, 1916 champions of
this league, were smothered by the
Armours, city champions of 1916.
Holmes White Sox looked sweet and
the Te-Be-Ce's fooled the wiseacres
by besting the Council Bluffs DeVol
Victors. 1t is possible that the Coun-
Gil Bluffs DeVol Victors might hand
a defeat to the Armours, with whom
they are billed this afternoon.
The highest amount of runs chalked
up on opening day was eighteen, col
lected by the Tradesman team. If the
Tradesman keep on handing out such
poison its opponents will have to
learn something about toxicology in
order to preserve their base ball life.
Ernie Holmes White Sox congrega-
ton also marathoned a few counters
over the Crockery, picking up a total
of seventeen. This bunch acted as re-
lentlessly as Germans. The Alpha
camp boys of the Woodmen of the
World accumulated fourteen runs and
plastered their opponents with an ele-
CANT coat of white-wash.
As customary during the absence Of
the Rourke family, the Brandeis base
ball manipulators will use the Rourke
base ball theater. A base ball matt
nee was booked there for this after
noon between the All Stars and the
Brandeis troupe, but was cancelled be-
cause the diamond has been filled in
with dirt and the additional downpour
left the diamond in punk condition.