Evening star., 1903-07-21
Standing of Church League Clubs.
DEFEATED THE LEADERS.
Sixth outplayed Gunton in the Church
Base Ball League.

The Tigers Of Sixth took a good. hard
fall out of the GuntOn Grays yesterday in
the Church League series. thereby accom-
pishing the dual achievement of pulling
up within game of the Reds and max
ing the race for the Star cup and the cham
pionship still more exciting by hauling
down the leaders within closer range of the
| feet-footed Reds and their own hard-hit-
ting aggregation of willow whppers.
AS the race becomes closer with the ad-
vancement of the season toward the wind
up nothing deters the ardent rooters from
attending the games: about $50 turning
| out yesterday. the fair sex in particular
demonstrating their enthusiastic interest
by Drawing the threatened deluge an even
Thousand strong.
1t Is unfortunate that the game should
have been marred by the rain in the be-
ginning of the fifth inning. as up to that
time the contest was just what the spec
tators expected. close, exciting struggle.
Seay did not Ike the going in the mud
and his lack of control of the slippery
sphere proved the undoing of the Grays.
Brown also had his troubles in getting the
ball over the plate, but the Guntons were
not so patient as the Tigers and went out
on pops and easy chances by hitting at
many that would have been balls had they
| let them alone
Sixth put up an in-and-out performance
| in the field; fast. clean work being COM
bined with several bad errors. Bielaski
| in the second inning inaugurated one Of
the fastest double plays pulled off on the
grounds. He gathered Dunbar's grounder.
threw to Kennedy while the run. re-
firing Mckinney: Gray in turn swapping
the ball to Ballenger in time to catch Dun
bar.
Gunton faced Brown for the first time
this season and he had them guessing from
the start. not a single earned run being
scored by the Grays and only four hits
| being made With better support and a dry
ball 1t Is not improbable that he would
fraa cd
defeat.
| Ballenger was all there with his stick
! and raped out the ball squarely for three
| sa1eties and a total Of three extra bases.
Langley played lstlessly during the later
| innings and his mufr of Seay's assist in
| the sixth was inexcusable.
| Sixth started things going the first time
| up. a single by Beall. Ballenger's triple
| and Keane's double netting two earned
| runs. Ballenger registered again in the
| fourth on his single and pilfer, and Brigg' 8
two bagger to left. Then came the shower,
the hustle to cover and afterward the
Waterloo for the Grays. 1t looked at first
as II Captain Sam would prove good
mud lark as he punched out Gerans the
| first Tiger up but the muddy horsehide
was too much for him and the next two
men up took advantage of erratic ones and
| walked. Ballenger's double brought them
home. Another pass. followed by singles
| more runs Of the striped variety. One hit,
an error and gifts netted four more in
| the seventh
| Gunton scored once in the first. Keane
muffed Speakman's fly. Speak advanced
| to second on Langleys out to first. and
| scored on two passed balls. Harveycutter
| was safe on McAllister's low throw. and
! scored on Kennedy's wild throw to COM
| plete double play on Asquith's out, short
to second. They finished their scoring with
| two runs in the sixth. Langley drew a
| pass Asquith was safe on Bielaski's error,
! but was forced at second by Mckinney
| Bases on balls forced Langley home and
| Mckinney scored on Harveycutter's hit
past first.
| After Kennedy was down in the eighth
and Briggs had walked Umpire Belts called