The Washington times., 1931-04-30
WILL FINISH.
SCHEDULE
TODAY.

In order that the official open.
ing game of The Times Junior
Baseball Association be a huge
success, the managing director of
the league is making every effort
to have various high officials Of
the national and city govern
ments present when the opening
gun is fired.
AS has been previously an
nounced in this column, the Of
ficial opening games will be
played at the Monument Grounds,
which are located at the base Of
the Washington Monument, on
Saturday morning. In this column
tomorrow the names of the teams
who will be the contestants in
these games will be announced.
Due to the fact that the period
for entering the various leagues
did not close until last night at
8 o'clock, the task Of making up
the schedules will not be COM
pleted until late today. However.
the schedules will be in your
hands tomorrow morning. The
reason for telling you all this is
because late yesterday and last
night we we're besieged with tele-
phone calls requesting informa'
ton that is now being given.
Another point to be made clear
Is all of the teams will not swing
into action this weekend, because
of the great number Of teams
that have entered the competi-
ton.
There is no need to fear that
If YOU do not play this week
end that you will not play the
required number of games.
This situation will be taken
care of by arranging a double
header some time during the
season to make up for this un-
played game.
In order that the umpires will
be fully aware of their duties when
the opening flag is raised, meet
ing of the umpireS with the man
aging director, has been called for
Friday evening at $50 p. m. in
room 408 Times Building. At this
meeting all details pertaining to
the duties of the umpires will be
carefully gone over with the boys
who are going to officiate in this
capacity. We are mentioning this
fact in the column today in order
that all of you players may feel
at ease over the matter of compe-
tent umpires.
The cooperation that the young
sters of Washington have shown
to the officials of the Times Jun
ior Baseball Association in the
work of getting this idea across is
indeed worthy of the highest
praise. Ever since this plan of
forming numerous baseball teams
among the members of the young
er generation of Washington was
started they have thrown them
selves Fundamentally into making
the plan a roaring success. And
now it is just the question of two
more days before the association
will be chugging along on all eight
cylinders.
CheeriO, my lads, Saturday
will soon be here and you will be
listening to that sweet music of
Q bat resounding against the old
hOrSehide.
On Monday The Washington
Times will carry complete box
scores of the games that were
played on Saturday. Along with
the box scores there will also be
Q bit of chatter concerning the
high lights of each game. In
this manner this junior asSocia-
ton will be given as much pub
licity as major league games.
In order to put some more
punch in your playing, you young
Sters who are members of the
various teams, can get a lot of
information concerning the fine
points Of the game from a series
of articles written by the mem
bers of the World Champion Ath-
letics, now running in The Wash
ington Times. No matter how
good a player you might be, you
will do we'll to read the advice
Of the world champions.