Show ball club working to enter dormit league about thirty ambitious ball players engaged la in a very spirited practice and corli v 0 rk out on the local diamond under the t h e direction of 0 f manager tom T m ryar ryan last su sunday aday afternoon we the weather a ther conditions condit t lo 10 rat at the time were very unfavorable fo tor practice atice work all recruits were given special instructions to use extra precaution and not overexert over exert themselves and and thereby invite muscular complications the T players although working under such instructions gave early promise that a splendid club will be developed from the many anxious athletes W who bo are fighting tor for a place on the team A laige number ot of pitchers were afforded arl an opportunity port unity to display their curves and control joe Gla glacoma corna harry miller john grechen Grech tn hugh chamberlain and blondle blondie johnson each were permitted to 10 pitch one or more innings while jack green who was the only southpaw south paw on the diamond was kept in the pitchers box tor for six innings hewitson and green showed sho v ed up very well as batters each delivering alve r ing three well placed hits out of tour four times to bat derry smith will jackson and gordon each knocked out long hits tor for extra bases the boys win will be kept at steady practice whenever the weather conditions permie until the opening ot of the ball season when a team of regulars will be selected to represent park city in the opening games all 10 local cal players who desire an opportunity to display their merits will be afforded that opportunity or it if they make app their wishes known to iia manager nager ryan byan or any ot of the C lub club officials jackson rex bex thomas archer and lowe who made up a large part of last ast 1 years team did not put in an appearance pe sunday tor for practice it Is hoped that all ot of these boys will soon come out and try for their old positions on the team all players are going to find very active competition this year and each place will be hotly contested by byrbe the many younger students who are giving promise ot of becoming real ball players many new faces were seen at work last sunday in the initial practice gams cams showed shoved up well at second while martinez and eberley who worked behind tho the bat will certainly develop into either regular or relief catchers tor for archer and mcalevey the work of derry haran and ryan kyan have caused the fans to believe that an infield defense will soon be developed to balance the remainder of the park team this was the very noticeable defect in the team last year if the local diamond Is ln in playing condition next sunday afternoon a practice game of nine innings will be played an equal division of the best players on each team should provide both an interesting and speculative problem tor for the many supporters of the club who may be a counted upon to patronize the games this season manager tom byan of the park city club has decided to call a general public meeting for all interested in promoting baseball in park city this summer this meeting will be held in the elks hall next sunday afternoon at I 1 all players and tans fans who intend to patronize the games this year and all the good friends of the club who have already donated to the fund tor for suits and playing equipment are cordially invited to be present it will be necessary at this meeting to determine it if it ts s possible to enter a high class team la in the county league and it if such a team can be developed ve will it be possible to support and finance it from the gate receipts taken in at wednesday afternoon games in park city the prospects of park city being able to enter the Mor mit lt league received a very decided setback last monday night when the directors met at coalville Co alville it was disclosed to the local representatives who attended the meeting that only three outside teams would be permitted to play baseball on sundays these teams would be coalville Co alville echo and It morgan forgan the teams from these towns would be far from the playing standard of the teams that represent these places on wednesday as their best players are un able to ae leave their church on sunday afternoons it if park city will not be able to join this county league it may lose the equipment and supplies allotted to the other seven towns of 0 summit county the county commissioners are very anxious to encourage wednesday baseball in the two counties and have requested that a county holiday be observed every wednesday esclay afternoon during tile the playing season there will be little or no prospects ot of park city obtaining any sunday games in park city from the teems teams of either morgan or summit county as these teams have a full schedule of 0 games each week until labor day the representatives ot of part park city at the mondays monday meeting in Co coalville alville prevailed upon the directors directors to hold bold the schedule open until next monday night the action and attitude that will be taken at the meeting sunday afternoon in the elks hau hall this city |