The Washington times., 1931-07-07
TIMES MINES
To PLAY IN
BALTIMORE

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Champions of The Washington
Times Junior Baseball leagues
midget and insect classes will meet
teams of similar Classification rep
reSenting the best in Baltimore In
. series during September tc de.
termine the intercity champion
ship.
Games will be played in Balti-
more and Washington, probably
IN the Oriole Park at the Mary
land city and in Griffith Stadium
here.
Rules of eligibility in force in
The Times League and in the
Baltimore organization Will rule
during the series.
ARRANGEMENTS for the cham
pionship contests we're mapped
out yesterday at Baltimore be-
tween officials of The washington
Times Junior League, the Baltl'
more News and leaders in the
Baltimore Amateur Baseball AS
sociation.
Times Sponsors
The Washington Times and the
Baltimore News will sponsor the
series, and will arrange tor suit
able trophies for the winners,
transportation and other essen
tialS.
The proposition Of Ghe two
Hearst newspapers to sponsor
the series were presented to
mass meeting of baseball man
ayers and officials last night at
the Baltimore Athletic Club and
was enthusiastically received.
Keen interest has been mani
fest in Baltimore for many years
In amateur baseball and this
year interest is at the highest
pitch in over a decade. An inter
city series to determine cham.
pionships formerly was feature
81 each years play among
amateur ball players in the
Baltimore city, but that was
abandoned in 1915 after meet
ing between the champion Baltl-
more amateur team and a similar
outfit from Richmond, Va.
This year Baltimore'S amateur
fasehall fans inaugurated a
movement to renew the inter-city
championships and The washing
ton Times was asked to assist
in the movement by providing the
Washington competition.
Details Of the series are to be
ironed out at conference sched-
uled for next week at Baltimore.
While only the Midgets and
Insects will play in the series
with Baltimore plans are now
under foot for an intercity series
In which the Peewee and Class D
champions will participate.
Teams -Tust Conform
Officials of the Times League
met last night and ruled that all
teams must conform to eligibility
requirements on July Is, and
that after that date no player
can transfer from one team TO
another, no new players can be
signed, and no player can play
whose contract has not been ap-
proved.
The officials decreed that no
player can play on a Midget
team who was II before June
!, 1884, on an Insect team
who was Is before June l, 1881,
and on a Peewee team who was
Is before June 1.
Several teams in the Insect
class who are now playing 15-
year-old players. and whose
organization would be disrupted
II forced to get new men at this
season, will be transferred to a
Junior Midget section.
Several good games were
played in the Time League Satur-
day and yesterday.
The Lawrence Midgets. playing
their first game Saturday, had
, baptism of fire, being forced
TO 60 IA innings before downing
the st. Paul nine. Greenberg,
pitcher for the Lawrence outfit,
was the star of the contest. He
struck out Is men, hit a homer
In the eighth to tie the score and
handed in several sparkling plays.
Taylor, catcher for the Lawren.
cteS, scored the winning counter
In the fourteenth.
The Hawks Midgets defeated
the Burroughs nine. 13 to II in
o Fourth Of July celebration at
Eighteenth and Otis Streets N.
=, and won the four bats offered
to the winner.
Yesterday Sacred Heart Insects
defeated the Orions, 8 to 3, Sim
mons. Sacred Heart twirler, hold
ing the Orions to two hits. The
ShamrOckS beat the Joe Judge
peeweeS, z to 4.