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Show NAVY BASEBALL LEAGUE. Eight Tenms of TJncle Sam's Jackies Fighting for Pennant. N'pver before In the history of the American Amer-ican navy has the baseball fever been so prevalent among the crews of the ships frcm tho battleships to gunboat aa it is at tru- present time. Evtry veSM has its team, and sevoral days every week the various teams meet on the diamond to struggle desperately for the pennant thnt awaits the winner of the majority of the games played. "Fighting Bob." So far the honor of leadership belongs to the battleship Iowa. Admiral "Flghllhg Bob" BYmns's ship at tho battle of Santl-nK.. Santl-nK.. but the load Is held by only a slight margin, the battleships Kearsargo and Missouri being close up: each with tour games won and two lost. The Xbwa'l record to date Is four won and one lost. 1 In Gunntnnamo, Cuba, where practically tho whole North Atlantle squadron ron-, ron-, caroused a few works ngo, thorp was a gStni ot : o'clock rvery other day in the v . . k In n.blltlmi to the regular gamos Of Saturday Sntt Sunday. 1. The (tames always created the Wildest crrt of enthusiasm) officers elbowing with 1 i.-kl'S to Ptioiirago tho team representing represent-ing thoir ship to vlctorjr Kverv offlrer who Is not on dtity at the time of the game attencls. and. to show tnp demoeratic spirit thai rules the sport. tt Is only necessary to state that on many ..f the ti-ams ore to lo found some f the best plavers thnt have played ln the Annapolis An-napolis teams ln recent years. T.ir Instance, Mldshlpiwin W, U K:ni-denburg, K:ni-denburg, one of Annnpolls's greatest ex-pltchers. ex-pltchers. is tho Ptar of the KcHisargo team. Star Players on Teams. According to the officers of the battleships battle-ships which were In QuantanamO, that place so far as playing fields are con-cerned, con-cerned, is one of tho llnest baseball towns on earth v i There are In the vicinity of the place at least throe baseball fields, one of which Is so big that lf the necessity should oyer urleo no less than twenty teams could play at the same time and not interfere with each other. The result Is that when th ships are ofT the Cuban port there are generally three games In progress at the name time, each with Its own partisan "rooters cheering like Indians for the team that wears the colors of their ship. ill thr . ..mmandlng officers of the nrlh Atlantic fleet, the biggest and most powerful power-ful over orgSnlsed under the American flag Vdmlral Evans, the commander-in-chief Is well known ns a thorough believer be-liever In all athletic sports, and the team that represents his flagship has no more enthusiastic rooter than he. i-.i.t Rodgers of the Illinois and Capt. It. eder of the Alabama nro among the enthusiastic 'rootewr In the commls lonel line of the service, while Admirals Whiting. Bradford and Slgsbee the squadron commanders under Admiral Evans, are nlmost as active. U g !S without Saying that every one of 1 he i oungi 1 offlc. rs Is a .1 rd ln-th( -wool partisan, while ns for the Jackies and marines, ma-rines, they simply go wild every time a game Is played. |
