Crimson Clouters vs. Candidates

The local baseball season will have its real opening today, when the CRIMSON Clouters meet the Cringing Candidates Association on Soldiers Field at 2.30 o'clock. The editorial nine is in great form, and will undoubtedly continue its unbroken string of victories. At hitting the pill, pilfering bags, bagging flies and flying around the bases the CRIMSON has no superiors; while Steamship Hall, the war-scarred veteran of the pitching mound, will convince any anti-militarists among the opposing batsmen that adequate defense is the best policy. Star playing by the candidates has been carefully guarded against by an arrangement of the point credit system, whereby every offender will be remorselessly docked, and any pitcher who inadvertently strikes out the president or managing editor will be summarily fired. A water-hazard has been placed behind first base to make the game more interesting. At the time of going to press last night, Umpire Ingram announced that three strikes would be "out."