Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-03-16 | Page 17 | Coast Plan Big Baseball Season

COAST PLANS BIG BASEBALL SEASON SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. March 16. Followers of baseball express their opinion that never before in history of the amateur, gamo has there been so much activity as now is being shown. An unusually large number of games are scheduled to bo played ovory Sunday Sun-day on every available field that is fit to play on. This is ascribed to the many baseball teams which have been organized among tho soldiers and sailors sail-ors who aro stationed in tho various cantonments and naval stations on the Pacific coast. As many of tho major and minor league players aro included . in tho ranks of tho sailors and soldiers, many first class teams may bo seen in competition. com-petition. "Wo can sec a big league pitcher at work now for a bush league prlco, or oven freo" Is tho way ono enthusiast en-thusiast put it. WASHINGTON ADOPTS NAME. SEATTLE, Wash., March IS. California Cali-fornia may have her "Bears" and Princeton her "Tigers" but tho University Uni-versity of Washington is to have its "Cougars." the university board of control having officially adopted that nickname for tho varsity teams of the northern institution.