Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-07
WESLEY FORFEITED.
A Rattling Game Between Fourth and
Temple Expected Today.

place in the Church Base Ball League,
were present at the league battle ground
yesterday afternoon in numbers almost sur
fcent for a game between themselves, but
two of the WesleyanS evidently got enough
of mud larking in their recent sloppy set
to with the Red Birds and were frightened
off by indications Of another dose of earthly
adhesive plasters.
Gunton took tho field and Welsey took
their bats, but didn't do anything with
them except tear holes in the air. After
the third Slugger had retired and the ab-
sentees failed to materialiZe Umpire Belts
sang his short forfeit ditty and the Grays
were one game further away from the
Blues and two ahead of the Reds. This
makes their percentage Ii points beh1n1
Temple on account of having lost one more
game.
The Grays have now only one more game
to play, that with the Tigers of Sixth, the
date for which has not been set, and they
must now stand back and watch Fourth
| and Temple fight 1T out today and Templs
and Calvary on Monday.
There will undoubtedly be tremendous
crowd out today to see the Blues and Reds
cross bats in what should prove one of the
prettiest contests of the entire season. as
both teams are playing great ball. at bat as
we'll in the field, and each will have out
its strongest players The roofing will be
strenuous by the followers Of both aggre-
cations, but the Blues will probably receiv
more vocal support, as the fans love
close race, and should Fourth lose it will
be out of the running for first place, while
q defeat for Temple would give the Blues
a chance to tie for the lead and make three
teams In the race at the stretch instead OF
two
Fulcher Is slated for slab duty for the
Reds and Jones will put 'em over for the
Blues. The lineup will be as follows:
Fourth-Jones, pitcher; Bradley, catcher;
King, first base; Rhodes, second base; "
Bielash, third base; Billy Warman.
short: Magoffin. center field; Burbank
right field, and Green or Sindle, left field.
Enlchnr n1fcher. Harding,
catcher; Quantrell, first base; Bateman
second base Babson. third base; Sterne
short; Anderson, right field; Rea, center
field, and Much or Earnest, left field.
Rea and Shoemaker. who have been
summering at Colonial Beach. tossed up"
to see who would come up to fight against
the Blues, and Shoemaker lost so Rea will
have another chance in today's game to
beat out Green for the Tappan prize for
cushion larcen1eS.
sixth forfeited to Calvary" sounds
strange. Gunton should have fallen in line
and given Wesley one the same way, and
Temple should have evened things up by
FORGETTING to Calvary on Monday. Turn
about Is fair play
Gunton has two clever catchers In Speak
man and Mckinney. When it came to a
question of who would go behind the bat.
the lot fell toMcKinney because he lacked
confidence in the outfeld, while "Speak"
plays the outer garden like veteran. And
they can both hit the ball for keeps. Speak
man, who is away on his summer vacation,
is expected back in time to go in against
Sixth-the Grays' last game Of the season.
Calvary has one home run and one game
to play. Who is going to add to CARROTS
nest egg?
Did 1t ever occur to you how many hard
hitting and warm fielding players in the
league have names headed by B? The
following "B'' team would be a hot prop
ostion for any amateur team to go against:
Beckett, p; Bradley. c.; Ballenger. H.;
Babson or Bishop, 3D.; Bruce Bielaski S.;
V. Bielaski. 3D.; Beall. IT,: Briggs. cf.:
and Burbank, RI. with the Birckhead fam
lily as substitutes.
Several managers of crack local teams
have expressed their intentions of challeng-
ing the "champeens'' in the Church League.
Some interesting games could be arranged,
or, better still, by selecting picked nine
from the six teams
Sam Seay's reputation is spreading. A
match game between Edinburg and Wood
stock had been arranged. and, as the Edin-
burg team secured three crack Harrisburg
players, the manager of the Woodstock
bunch came down to the capital and per-
suaded Sam to go against the hard hitting
Edinburgers last Monday. He won his
game and owned the village. The score
stood. Woodstock, 10: Edinburg, g Sam
punched thirteen, and allowed only three
hits The two runs were scored on errors