Evening star., 1918-08-17
BOTH TEAMS FEEL
CERTA|N0F TITLE
Marines and Operations Con-
fident Of Winning in Navy
Interbureau League.
By n. G. BYRD.

Marines and operations feel equally
! confident of winning the Navy Inter
bureau League championship. Rep
resentatives of the two clubs booked
to meet next week in a series Of three
games to settle the argument about
the league title have expressed them
! selves as being confident Of the issue.
And where both sides have confidence
in their superiority. q stern hight
| usually Is the result.
Lieut.. Craig, who has charge Of ath-
letics in the Marine Corps at GUAM
tico, said this:
1--WE are willing to play operations
any time and in any number Of games
they want. They have a good ball
club, but feel sure that We can beat
them"
J Last night BUS Hager, captain Of
Operations, expressed himself thus:
Personally. I think we should have
been allowed to play out the regular
| schedule and win the league cnam-
pionship in the usual way. How
ever. il the decree has come down
that we are to play a series of three
games for the championship, then
have no more doubt about the issue
than / would have had II the one re-
naming game of the regular sched-
ule had taken place. 1t Should pc
mighty good series. as 1 do not MINI.
mike by any means the strength OF
the Marines"
Several matters pertaining to tho
championship series between amateur
clubs in this section were taken up
at the meeting of the District Base
Ball Association last night. Omcial
contracts were prepared ana SUBMIT
ted to a representative OF q printing
frm for printing. The contract to
| be used is based on the one formerly
sociation of the District OF Column
! bia. Several of the clubs paid their
fees for entrance in the series and the
remainder have been given until next
Wednesday night to come through
with Sheirs. The matter Of umpfres
was brought up and each club was
asked to submit its recommendations
as to the men desired After these
recommendations are submitted the
board of governors, through the
president, will appoint the men who
are to handle the series.
Lieut. Cox of the Army Medical
School submitted a rule as an amend
ment to the constitution. which will
come up for action next week. His
amendment in effect was that all clubs
on which q majority Of the players
are in the service be considered serv-
ice teams
Following the payment Of dues next
week and the certihcation OF the
number of players and teams in the
series, the board Of governors will
get together and draw up & schedule
of contests. Efforts are being made
to get American League Park for all
the contests. or as many Of them as
One of the teams represented last
night was asked to give the name OF
the umpire in his league. The player
stood up and said:
We'll, sir, I can give you his name,
but won't recommend him..
Agriculture yesterday won from
the Supply nine in the Departmental
League by IL to 3. Emmons pitched
good bali for the winning club, AL
lowing only i've hits Kami1len and
Nestor of the winners got three hits
each.
If the weather permits . game will
be staged this afternoon between the
two picked teams from the aggrega-
tion that is to represent the Navy
Yard in the championship series. The
contest il scheduled to start at 8
o'clock,