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Show .YELLOWSTONE LEAGUE : ! HOLDS FIRST MEETS! j Representatives From 6 Towns i Discuss 1920 Season at' Idaho Falls REXBURG. Idaho. Jan. 10. The! i first meeting of the Yellowstone Base- ball league was held at Idaho Falls ' Representatives from each of the six towns in the circuit were present to I discuss the 1920 season, and were en-ithusiasticv en-ithusiasticv over the coming year's prospects. i Tho towns now represented in the 1 j league are Rexburg, St. Anthony, Ida-1 I ho Falls. Sugar City, Ashton and1 Driggs. Blackfoot and Pocatello made application to enter. These teams, however, were not accepted at the. meeting on account, of the long dis-( jtance and expense attached to travel- ing. , Twenty games will be played the. coming season, beginning May 12, and ' Wednesday afternoon will be declared ' a half holiday during the baseball sea-1 son. ' A split season will be played, the' i winners of the first half season plav- I ing the winners of the second half. 'These winning teams will not be al-lowed al-lowed to exchange players, as last! (year, but this will be allowed by the' next teams on tho list according tot percentage. Each team will be allowed four professional pro-fessional players, the remainder to be "amateurs," in order to make more! evenly matched teams. t Rexburg won the baseball pennant last year, supporting one of the best teams in Idaho, and is again in the running for tho pennant. oo |