Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-27
BY WILLIAM O. BLOZ1ES.

season will officially close this after
noon in practically all of the leagues
members of the Municipal Amateur
Base Ball association, and when the
battles are over, the teams, except
the champions of their respective
leagues, will have finished another
prosperous season.
Although this season has not been
as successful as former years, on
account of many of the teams dis
banding before the season was hall
over, nevertheless the teams who
finished the season have demon
strated to the many thousand fol-
lowers of amateur base ball that
they are the coming big leaguers"
of tomorrow.
1t was estimated that nearly $780,
600 people have attended the various
amateur games during the season
and have cheered their favorites on
to victory. In practically every
league the teams have played re-
markable ball and have staged many
extra inning contests.
Many of the tailenders lost heart
during the season because they lost
a few games, and decided to quit.
thereby causing hany forfeit games
throughout the season.
In the Church league, the Pearl
Memorials, composed of old heads,
easily copped the flag, not being de-
feated throughout the league sea-
son. The Union Outfitting COM
pany won the championship of the
City league, losing but one game
Out of IA, while the Highland Parks
carried off first honors in the Inter-
City league, class c organization.
With the closing of the leagues
today, all attention is now being
drawn to the city series, to deter
mine the champions of class B and
c. the series will probably start
on August 10, although no definite
date has been announced as yet.
From present indications the city
series this year will be the greatest
ever staged here, as the teams in
the respective leagues have been
playing great ball. Where the
series will be staged is still uncer-
tain, although it was published last
week in one of the newspapers that
the games would start at Luxus
park.
In former years it will be remem-
bered by the many thousand of fans
who witnessed the series, that Luxus
park was entirely too small to
handle the crowds. The majority
of the teams who took part in these
series were not satisfied with that
park, but on account of no other
place being available the games
were staged there.
1t has been rumored this season
that number of the teams are op-
posed to playing at Luxus park, and
when the directors of the Municipal
Amateur Baseball association meet.
probably this week, to decide def
nitely on the series, many of the Of
ficials and members of the cham
pionship teams will oppose playing
at that place this year.
Since the teams have played on
Muny diamonds during the season,
and are acquainted with the dia-
monds, it is understood that they
will ask the officials to stage their
series games on the muny fields.
Those who have witnessed games
at Luxus park, and the teams who
have played there, know that the
field is too small for fast playing.
Balls knocked over the right field
are good for two-bases, on account
of the short field.
Pennants in the Booster and Gate
City leagues will be settled today.
The World-Herald team, leaders of
the Booster league, will clash with
the Leavenworth Merchants, at
Elmwood parR, west diamonds at
$50 O'Clock. Should the newspaper
lade lose and the Trimble Brothers,
who also play the Merchants in the
first contest. at l 80 O'Clock, win the
league race will wind-up in tie be-
tween the Heralds and the fruitmen.
Many of the followers of the Boost
er league are predicting a victory
for the Merchants over the World
Heralds.
Both of these contests should
prove fast and snappy and a large
crowd is expected to be on hand.
These will be the only two games
scheduled in the Booster league.
At Riverview park, l:30 o'clock,
the Omaha Printing Company Jun
iors, leaders of the league, will cross
bats with the Hermansky Phar-
macys, and should the printers lose
and the Townsends, who are in
second place, defeat the Beselins,
the race in this circuit will also
finish in tie between the Printers