Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-26
AMONG THE BALL PLAYERS.
The Columbia Team Soon to Contest for
the Amateur Championship.

All the base ball pride that was left by the
ignominious failure of the late unlamented
Senators is now being concentrated by q some
what lsnguid public upon the performances of
what is now washington's crack ball team, the
Columbia Athletic Club nine. This team is a
strong one. as the game it won from Manager
Suilivan's scrubs just after the collapse evil
denced, and it has made an honorable record
this year under the efficient management of
Mr.. Chap Simms, but there. is some hard work
yet ahead of it. 1t is member Of the Amateur
Athletic Union League, composed Of about If
teen ball teams, representing various athletic
clubs that are members OF the union scattered
over the country, and the contest for the cham
pionship is soon about to eliminate.
DIVIDED INTO SECTIONS.
On account of the large number Of clubs
and the wide territory which they cover q
schedule whereby each club could play GER
tain number OF games with the others is i'm
practicable and the teams are divided into
three sections. One consists Of the clubs
around New York and in New England. the
other of all the western clubs. and the third Of
the Columbia Club. Each OF the drst two sec
tions has schedule, but the Columbias play
no games until it is determined who wins the
respective championships of the eastern and
western clubs. Then the Columbia boys play
the winner of that contest completes with the
western leader for the general championship
OF the league. 1t is now very certain that the
eastern championship will be won by the New
Jersey Athletic Club of Jersey City and that
of the west by the Detroit Club. and arrange
ments are being made for the final games.
GOING TO NEW JERSEY.
The Columbia team will 20 on the 9th Of
September to Bergen Point, NJ, and there
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City team. On the 18th the second game will
be played in this city. 1t is not certain, at
present, whether the game will be played on
the grounds ut Analostan Island or az Capitol
Park, this depending upon the sort Of diamond
used at Bergen Point II that should be COW
cred with turf the island field will be used,
while II 1t Is 'scalped'-as that on the island
is-the game will be played at the park.
THE COLUMBIA TEAM
The following is the team that is to compete
in the Bergen Point game: DAILY, c.: Keyworth,
p Wells. h.; Green. 2b.; Sprigman 3D.; Boil
way. S.; Walsh, L.; Burke CT, and Dickin-
son, RI. with Jones' Beall or King as substitute.
The team Is now playing in such good form
that Manager Simms has strong hopes of its
being chosen to meet the western nine. In
case OF a tie in the eastern series a third game
will be played on some neutral grounds.
The \. NJ. G.. A. nine beat the II. and d. r. r.
nine Saturday by the score of Is to 2. The
features were the heavy batting and errorless
fielding of the Y. NJ. c. A. boys and the excel
lent battery work of Catlin and johnson. To-
morrow the y. u. c. A. play the Mt yernons
at y. NJ. C. A. park, corner New York and New
Jersey avenues.
YESTERDAYS CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES.
Yesterdays championship games resulted as
follows:
National League.-Philadelphia S; Cleve-
land. 2. Boston. Is; Pittsburg, 2 Chicago, 6;
New York. ). Cincinnati. 4; Brooklyn. l.
Players Observation-Disclosures 6; Cleveland
2. Boston. 5; Chicago. l. Buffalo, 5; Brooklyn,
Twelve innings). Pittsburg, 9; New York g.
American Observation-Disclosures, 5; Roches-
ter. eleven innings) st. Louis, ID; Louis
ville 2 Toledo 8; Columbus, O. Syracuse, 5;
Brooklyn, 4.
Atlantic Association.-New Haven, Z; Leba-
non. t. Baltimore, 6; Newark, /. Harrisburg.
8; Wilmington, 5.