. The Chicago amateur base ball annual and inter-city base ball association year book. s are paid, wdiile each teammust appear in uniform or forfeit the game. Players to be eligible to play in the league must be membersof the class from which they are registered or a member of aPresbyterian Church or Presbyterian Sunday School, whose regu-lar standing must be vouched for by the pastor of the church,the superintendent of the Sunday School and the leader of theclass from which they are registered. Each team has been lim-ited to a registration of eighteen men. Of all the leagues in the city the P
. The Chicago amateur base ball annual and inter-city base ball association year book. s are paid, wdiile each teammust appear in uniform or forfeit the game. Players to be eligible to play in the league must be membersof the class from which they are registered or a member of aPresbyterian Church or Presbyterian Sunday School, whose regu-lar standing must be vouched for by the pastor of the church,the superintendent of the Sunday School and the leader of theclass from which they are registered. Each team has been lim-ited to a registration of eighteen men. Of all the leagues in the city the Presbyterian League isgoverned by other than a directly elected board of officers, theleague being in the hands of a Board of Control which is ap-pointed by the Young Mens Presbyterian Union, an organizationembracing every Presbyterian church in the city with four thou-sand members and a large income. The base ball league is anoffshoot of this larger organization which finances the smallerbody and gives it whatever support it needs in the way of bothencouragement and finances. Spaldings CJiicago Amateur Base Ball Annual. loi Naturally enough the Y. M. P. U. feels surer of results with aBoard of Control which it knows to be thoroughly capable thanit would if the affairs of the league were in charge of a setof officers elected perhaps in a haphazard fashion, and the Unionis to be congratulated upon their choice of officers, for they arethe same men who would have been chosen in all probability hadthe question been left to an open meeting of the league. All ofthe members have demonstrated their fitness for office by thework in past years, and the success of the league in so far as itlies with the officers appears insured right at the start.
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