The Washington times., 1901-07-12
ENLISTED MEN AT THE BAT.
Their Game To-day viii BE n Great
Event In the Service.

The championship Of the Army, Navy,
and Marine Corps of the District of CO.
lumbia, Maryland, and Virginia will be
decided this afternoon at American
League Park The Headquarters and
Navy and Marine Corps baseball teams
will cross bats in what promises to be
one of the hottest games of the season
outside of those waged by the profession
ais. Indications point to an immense at
tendance. over thousand tickets have
already been sod.
All branches of the service will be rep
resented al the game. Many prominent
officers of the Army and Navy as well as
the Marine Corps nave expressed the in
tention of being present. General Hey
wood, the commanding officer of the
United States Marine Corps, will occupy
a box.
The supporters of each team will be out
in force and the roofing done by the ma
rines on the bleachers promises to be
quite as much of a feature as the work
of the men behind the bats.
1t is extremely difficult to forecast the
outcome. The Headquarters team sus-
tanned defeat at the hands of the Fort
Hunt Coast Artillery team on July 4. The
record of the Navy Yard team is trifle
the better, and toward them, perhaps, in
cline the chances of victory. The game
Will be called promptly at ) o'clock
fIach team numbers among its players
several eX-college stars who are serving
in the Marine Corps at the present time
with the intention of ultimately seeking
1mmissions.
Walter j. Coombs, ex-IIniversity of
pennsylvania football and baseball play
er, is captain and first baseman of the
navy yard team. He IS probably the
strongest man on the team, with the ex-
ception of Bound and Kelly. He played
on Pennsys teams on diamond and grid
iron for three years. Boland is an old
University of Illinois player and has
made a splendid record on the slab for
the marines this year. His batting rec
ord is especially good. PontZ, who works
at the receiving end of tne battery, is an
old player from Pennsylvania, and Wal
ters, who covers the second cushion, for
rnerly played in the Interstate League.
Than Kelly there is no faster amateur
infielder in the District of Columbia. The
other players are all men of more or less
experience and know the game from the
backstop to the fence.
The Headquarters team can also hold
up its end well when ii comes to a mat
ter of stars. Babylon, the pitcher. is one
of the best outside OF the big league and
has number of offers from semi-pro
fessional and minor league teams. He
has twirled for the Headquarters for the
past two years and is greatly feared by
the Navy Yarders. Smith. the other mem
ber of the battery, is an old Raleigh,
N c., player. Larimer. at third. is
crack player from Dixon College, of Illi-
nois. Centre Fielder Watt is from the
Interstate League. Turner is another col
legian with an enviable reputation, from
New England. The complete lineup fol-
lows:
Navy Yard-Coombs. first base; Boland,
pitcher; Pontz. catcher; Walters. second
base; Kelly, shortstop: Reynolds, third
base; Murray left field; Hechathorne,
centre. field; Baker, right field,
Headquarters-Orsen first base;
Babylon, pitcher; Smith, catcher; Turner,
second base; Esmond, shortstop; Larimer,
third base; Jones, left field: Watt, centre
field; Krummer, right field.
Substitutes-Navy Yard, DAILY and
Woodlan; Headquarters, Tucker and Ash
back.
Mr. Ryan, of the Fourth Artillery, sta
toned at Fort Washington, will act as
umpire. The game will be called at
o'clock.