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Show LEAGUE IS FORMED 111 TIEJ1L zone: i Eight Clubs to Take Part in Circuit Formed of i Amateur Players. ! PANAMA, Feb. 20.' With the beginning: of the dry weather which lasts until May, t ha baseball sen son on the canal zone bees n in ea most with the formation of a now eight-fiuli league. AM the players are either employees of the Panama canal or enlist men in the various military organizations stationed on the isthmus. Already a number of ganien have been played, r-nouh to show that the teams a re very evenly matched and that the nice for the pennant likely will prove a very close and interesting one. The games arc usually played on SnndavK and holi- 1 clays, a regular schedule having been pre- I parpd. ! Every loam is pledged to refrain from ' profesioiK)l practices, and bettlnsr on the tames is absolutely forbidden by the Pan- ' air a canl government which will dlsnupa anyone from its service found guilty of dohii? so. ImnV'diately aftr ihe formation of (lie rew league Colonel George W. Goetlialp. governor of the Panama canal, announced that he would not only present the winning win-ning team of tl"e season with a handsome pennajit. but would also give various valuable val-uable prizes to individual playrti. |