Evening star., 1919-02-18
PLANS To REBUILD
AMATEUR LEAGUES
Maj. Robert H. Young to Call
Meeting to ReorganIze
Base Ball Body.
BY Il. C, BYRD,

J IL ~ d n
! Within the next few weeks a strong
effort will be made to reorganize and
rehabilitate the Amateur Base Ball AS
sociation of the District OF Columbia
and place amateur ball on high plane
tduring the coming season Maj Robert
! H Young, president of the association
| for a number of years, believes that the
isituation in amateur base ball this sum
mer will be such as to cause revival
| of interest generally. and that the return
of soldiers to their homes, the lessenng
of the great stress of work and favor
able conditions generally will tend to-
ward the development of more amateur
| ball than has been seen here in years.
| Richmond is getting back into the
game, as is attested by a letter received
| by Mai. Young from z. r. Fuller, presi-
I dent of the Richmond amateur commlS
/ sion Here is Mr.. Fuller missive:
| THE amateur commission OF Hlch-
mond held its first meeting of the year
last night. We had & splendid attend
officers of last year were elected to sue
ceed themselves, we. as such. appre-
cia ting the honor conferred.
! plans were started for the season to
come. several applications were re-
ceived for franchises, and more are to
follow from day to day. This coming
season bids fair to be the best ever. sc
far as this city is concerned. Some OF
the boys are back home and others are
istrolling in daily, and we take 1t that
very soon larger number Of our lads
will be back.
! Il told the commission last night
/ that 1 should use my best efforts tc
bring forth again the intercity series
between Washington, Baltimore ano
Richmond. / take it that Washing
ton will soon be enthused with the
base ball spirit and that the ANA
teurs again will be seen in action, and
Idesire to state for the Richmond com
| mission that we will welcome re
sumption of the tri-city series.
| shall be glad to hear from you in re-
gard to the situation in your city"
Mai Young, the logical man to lead
amateur base ball interests in Wash
| ingtop, stated last night that he in
| tended to call together within short
while several of the representative in
terests of the sport, talk over the sit
uation in it's big phase, after which he
would do whatever seemed to be the
consensus of opinion of the meeting.
Maj. Young gave among those he ex-
poets to call to the meeting the names
of DIR. Joseph Kaveney of the Navy
Yard. Lane Lacey of the Government
League, Cy Macdonald, c. Eugene Ed
wards, Bob Doyle. Clark Griffith. Ed
Beach and Representatives of the four
newspa pers. In the meantime Maj
Young says that he will be more than
glad to get suggestions from any
body who has an idea to ofrer, and
| thinks it would be a good thing if a
great many written suggestions were
| left for him in care of Cy Macdonald
at 613 14th street.
heTiave amateur haSe hall will
come back into its own again this
summer" says Maj. Young. even
though it may not reach the high
standard set in some former seasons.
The boys are coming back, and be-
lieve that we ought to provide then,
for everybody, and think that ANA
teur base ball offers greater oppor-
tunities than any other sport for
pa rtici patton for great numbers. The
development of amateur base ball is
something that older citizens may do
for the community, and / want to
urge all that are interested to come
forward with whatever suggestions
they may care to make"
Princeton has done for next fall in
| foot bali what many of its alumni have
counseIed for many years-scheduled
| two games with strong elevens direct
| iy in front of its contests with Har-
ward and Yale. 1t has been Princeton's
policy TO try to go up to the games
with it's two great rivals without a
| defeat but that policy usually has
development. Next fall Colgate and
West Virginia University are to ap-
pear in Tigerown, and both those
elevens are pretty sure to give the
New Jerseyites all they want in diff
cult preparation
| Anybody who thought that athletics
might be curbed in some of the larger
universities because Of the war had
better think once or twice about the
action taken by Yale before carrying
that opinion any further In the first
place-shades of Pur1 tans, shudder--
Yale intends to open the Yale bowl
and Yale field on Sunday afternoons
for athletics and general recreation.
1t intends to give free board to any
athlete who is working his way
through school It intends to have
teams, will initiate preseason foot
ball practice, and appoint a permanent
director of athletics.
Two of these actions are bound to
cause lot of comment. The giving
of board TO an athlete who is working
his way through college is commenda-
BILE in way, but it is sure to arouse
no end of criticism. But, at that, it
might as well be announced as it is
done frequently, anyway. Also there
has been quite hue and cry against
preseason foot bail practice, and
there will will be quite lot of ar
gurnent pro and con about that.
Whether Harvard and Princeton in
tend TO concur or have concurred in
Yale's action is not known. However.
when Yale comes out and makes an
announcement concerning radical
ic ha
whole situation has been talked over
| in detail with the second and third
m EN- bers of the big three"
Two games are to take place this
afternoon in the high school bask ct
ball series. Central being due to meet
Western and Business to play Eastern.
Neither contest will have real bearing
on the title, as Business already prac-
ticaIIy has won that. Central and
Business should be victors today.