The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-05-26
OFFICIAL RULES [ l ARE ADOPTED BY
 BASEBALL LEAGUE

Members of the Gastineau Chan nel Baseball League met last night and adopted official rules for the 1850 season. Announcement was also made of the first games to be played as follows: Sunday at 2.30 o'clock, Elks meet the Moose and as Tuesday is holiday, the Monday night game, for this time only, will be played instead on Tuesday after noon at 2:30 o'clock and will pit Douglas against the Coast Guard.
 Officials rules adopted last night include the following:
 Through the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department, the officials ot the league are appointed each year, and shall consist of President. Vice President, and Secretary. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all meetings of these three officials, and it is the duty of the Vice President to take over the duties of the President in his ab- sence. It is the duty of the Secre- tary to record all action taken at meetings, and to assist the President at all times. These three officials shall be known as the Executive Board
 The League shall be governed by Spaulding's Official Rules insofar as the game shall be applicable.
 The season shall consist of two halves, and the winner of each halt shall play each other at the end Of the second half to determine the League Championship.
 All weekday games shall start promptly at 6:30 p.m., and all Sun day games shall commence promptly at 2:30 pm. All weekday games shall be of seven innings duration, and all Sunday games shall be of nine innings.
 sponsible for preparing and pub fishing the schedule of games to be played, but such schedule shall be approved by the manager of each team.
 All appeals made from a decision of an umpire shall be made in writ ing to the President of the League within 24 hours following the end of the game involving the decision, by the manager of any team, and appeals and protests not made within this time will be ignored The Executive Board shall have the authority to decide all protests, after hearing the appeals of all interested parties. The decisions of the Execu- tive Board shall be final in all cases.
 No player may play with any team in this league unless he is officially signed up by team manager. The roster of each team shall be limited Co Is players, and this shall in- clude the manager in the event he is active as a player. Each team manager shall be required to fur nish the League Officials complete list of his playing roster, and 1t shall also be his duty to keep this list up-to-date by releasing any player to be dropped from his roster and advising the League Officials of any player to be added. This shall be done in writing by the team manager. No player officially member of one team shall be al- lowed to play with another team in a regularly scheduled game. Any team unable to field a complete team from their own roster may obtain any person as substitute whose name does not appear on the roster of another team in this league. Players shall not be traded by managers unless it is satisfactory to the League Officials and the players themselves, and also the managers of the teams not involved in the trade.
 All postponed games shall be played in the same order that they are postponed, regardless of the schedule.
 The. time of 5 o'clock pm, on week days and o'clock pm. on Sundays shall be the deadline for the postponement of games by League Officials.
 It is understood and agreed that the umpires for each game shall be assigned by the Executive Board.