Seward daily gateway., 1926-01-20
|ARBITERS ARE NAMED TO HEAD SEWARD ATHLETIC
 CLUB; TEAMS LINED UP

hard playing, by the approximate thirty athletes interested in indoor baseball, to determine the ability of each devotee of the worthy sport as we'll as to ascertain just who could and who could not find it pos- sible to consistently appear a. the gymnasium when his team was sched- uled to play, in order that an equali- zation arrangement could be worked out that would distribute the avail able talent into four units as evenly as possible.
 This tedius task was assigned yes- terday to a commission of four men we'll qualified to perform it: Irwin Dyer, w. R. Shellhorn, Prof. Bar nett and B. M. Snyder. AS judges of the local baseball personnel, and for ir-mindedness in assigning the players, better arbiters and organi- gers could not be named.
 Being guided, chiefly, by the fact that Seward townfolk have demon strated that they like the game and want to see a league of four evenly matched teams put on bi-weekly nine inning games in the s. A. c. gym, the above gentlemen, in most serious frames of mind, seated themselves about Prof. Barnett's table and in private and undisturbed session de- liberately began the complete dis mantling of the four temporary teams that had been playing the game with utmost rivalry and pep since its in troduction here some six or seven weeks ago. Player were matched, weighed, balanced and counter bal anced. They were shuffled, then re- shuffled Pitchers were turned over their peculiarities discussed, and their abilities on paper subjected to the most scrutinary inspections. Catch CTS, basemen and fielders were treat ed in like manner until nearly ex- act valuation was placed on the head of every man, and in the end twen- ty-eight players were divided into 4 groups of as even strength as their performances to date warranted.
 Team number one embraces: Hop kins, Swetmann I.Dyer, Thinker, Paul r,1 Dol int
 Number two: Shellhorn, Valade, Gus Manthey, R. Manthey, Ratliff, Protzman, Urbach and Nip Johnson.
 Number three: Snyder, Barnett, McEwan, Sheldon, Hickman, Urbach and Fucker.
 Number four: Mclaughlin Lein Robison, lessen, Bolem, Selby and Bowley.
 For time, it will mean the play ing of the game with seven men on the diamond instead of nine as here tofore; but the condition is far from handicap. Indeed, in many instances the fewer men on the defense man tend to show more of the batter's punch and cause less booting of bat ted balls. There will be no borrow ing except in extreme cases where illness or some other good reason may cause the absence of player, and then, according to an arrange ment to be submitted within a day or two, a player of the same abil- itv may substitute for the occasion. Monday and Thursday of each week continue to be the official nights for indoor baseball, and the games play ed according to schedule. Thursday, of this week, teams two and four, headed by Shellhorn and McLaugh- lin, will start the race for the bean feed. Teams one and two meet next Monday, and three and four are to clash for the second game of next week. Each organization will elect i it's own captain, while the matter of names for the teams is to be given further consideration.
 The arbiters have also appointed a staff of eligible umpires, and given them unlimited powers to exercise while on the diamond, in dealing with diciplinary behavior of players, the coaches and spectators during the progress of a game Umpires are being named by the board who are meeting at Barnett's office this morn