The Washington times., 1905-10-15
NO CHAMPION IN
AMATEUR LEAGUES
District Baseball Suprem-
acy Undecided.
lie D Err S FAIL TO MEET
Suggestion Is Made That Winners in
Various Leagues Play Post
Season Series.

After an amateur baseball season with
more teams banded into leagues than
washington has ever known the ques-
ton of the championship OF the District
is still undecided
The end of the summer rolls around
and no arrangement has been made to
draw any OF the leaders of the different
leagues together for post-season series
save in one instance, that OF the Church
and the Capital City leagues.
Commissioners Strong.
The Commissioners, one of the strong
est independent teams in the District,
may lay claim to the championship be-
cause OF their record. but the champion
ship should net be SO lightly placed on
the shelf. The progress Of the real con-
tenders. that is, the winners in the va
rious leagues. and the Commissioners
has been watched by many followers,
who would appreciate contest for the
actual championship.
The leader of the Departmental
League. the Agricultural team, Gid
beat the Gunton Temple team, but IT
was only as an afterthought OF an ex-
cursion committee that these two mines
met each other.
Gunton and st. Stephens Institute.
the latter the winner of the Capital
City League. arranged a post-season
series. The games were ali scheduled
for the Sunday School League grounds.
Gunton, largely through the fine pitch
ing of Sam Seay, who had been playing
in West Virginia, walloped the st.
Stephsn's Institute team, 4 to 1. per
mitting but two hits The second game,
played about two days later. was won
handily by the St. Stephens Institute
team, to 3. The final and decisive
game, which would settle the suprem-
acy question, was scheduled two days
later. but postponed apparently indefi-
niteiy.
The two league leaders had worked
their respective partisans up to a high
pitch of enthusiasm and then allowed
the most important game to go by the
board. From present indications with
the weather turning colder, unless these
two teams get together and play of.
the hnal game very soon, the champion.
snip win remain I'm the afr.
Same Condition Last Year.
Last season the same unsatisfied feel.
ing existed ST. Stephens won the
Capital City League pennant. and the
Fourth Presbyterian team landed the
trophy in the Church League. The only
time the two teams were brought To-
6etaer was under the auspices of the
Georgetown University Rowing Aseo-
ciation, which held a field and track
meet on Labor Day. Fourth won east
~ and on one game was declared cham
pion of the District This year IN.
same thing is on the tapis, for there is
no probability now that the leaders Of
tne respective leagues and the strong
independents should meet.
Solution of Problem.
The solution of the probleu liz. -
tween the three leagues which are in
the city TO stay. The Depart.sse :,
League will be stronger next year Tbe
other two leagues will remain intact nm
less the leagues start to kill each other
and then amateur baseball in the cItv
Is a thing of the past. Good players
are rather scarce and IL Inducements
are held out to men there will be a con-
tnual jumping and utter disregard for
any league. Their should be a committee
TO settle the eligibility of the players.
and this committee could decide uoon
some time when the leaders of the
leagues might meet on the diamond and
decide the championship An earIy
gathering of such a committee would
irsure more interest in the race, for the
league would want its best team ia
win out, in order that the supremacy of
the league might be maintained