S. Army baseball teams from the 15ih Infantry at Tientsin or from the Philippines that visit, Shanghai in the future to cross bats, with Herby Gallop's nine must [composed normally of enlisted men, fand not have three or four officer stars on the team, according: to orders issued! by the War Department to-day.
The orders do not refer sposift cally to Army teams in the Orient, hut are gonoral orders sent to all Commanding Generals and provide that after January 1 no Army athletic team shall have more than one officer on any team at any time, The general idea behind the order fused by Secretary Weeks is to encourage more enlisted men to £0 {in for athletics. Tu the past it is the belief chat when an Army team was organized where a number of officers, who possibly wore stars at West Point or at college, wore available, they were placed on the team. The War Department. frowns. on such teams and the orders. issued to-day put an end to that practice.
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