The Washington times., 1906-09-09

Zanneui's two errors at critical periods,
coupled with mastertul twirling by
Sanders. of the Agricultural crew gave
that aggregation its second victory over
( the Immaculate Conception lads yester-
day afternoon at American League Park
I'm the second game OF Jhe District am
ateur championship series. by p 10 o.
Immediately after the championship
game. the Columbia Athletic Club de-
feated ST. Stephen on the same grounds
by 10 8 thus tying the Atianucs for
the Capital city League honors, and
necessitating a game between the two
latter teams 10 decide which shall repre-
sent the organization in the District
series. The game Will be played Mon
day.
Close Game Throughout.
The contest was exciting throughout.
and the closeness Of the result best tells
OF the manner in which the two rival
teams strived for hOnOrs. Although the
Departmental team won. it only did so
after one OF the hardest uphill fights II
has had during the present season. and
hut for the fact that the winning pitcher
had the better backing up the ARRAY
would have gone into extra innings. for
were able to cross the counting block
Gallagher, the Marquette pitcher who
made the record Of nineteen strikeOuts
in that league. was touched up for a
total of nine hts, which were kept
we'll scattered, no more than two being
made in any one session. He gave but
one base on balls. Sanders allowed but
three safe hits. issued four passes.
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Several times he appeared 10 be stuck,
but good coaching and team work pre-
vailed. and he invariably pulled him
self out OF the mire. The three hits
and one ball which was captured by
Hoffman in left field. were the only
ones which the Immaculates could get
outside of the diamond.
Mess Was the Star
Braggetts great work behind the bat
was big factor in keeping down the
runs of his opponents. as was also that
of Mess on third. The little Immaculate
third appeared 10 be everywhere at
once. a number of times he ran almost
10 second base and snatched In what
ought 10 have been clean hits and got
them over 70 first from difficult rOsi-
tiOns in plenty Of time 10 get the run
ner. Goodman. who replaced RistOn at
first after the fourth inning was another
TO tut up a good article OF ball His
scooping in of low. mean throws was
decidedly a feature. Winston, Taylor.
and Wiley, of the. Aggies, carried of
the ba ting hOnors with two neat singles
apiece Agriculture won the game, and
won on merits, but the feature work
was easily captured by the younger
artists.
In the very first spasm the losers
started OF well by moving down their
older rivals in order. Taylor. for Agri-
culture. pounded "a nasty foul over by
the third base bleachers, but a beautiful
catch by Mess sent him 10 the bench.
A moment later. Mess got a high one
off Honman's bat. and Riston got over
to first with Weber's grounder just in
side the line. Sanders hit Mess, who
was first up for ImmaC, LimbuTger
waited was rewarded. went TO second
on ZanneuTs single and landed on third
on Brennan's out from Sanders 10 DOYLE.
The Farmer twirler got busy. however.
and shut them out for the time by
punching Gallagher.
The Farmers Score.
W lhhIoh leu OH IN the second by uElhB
To Limburger. Wiley hit safely and
went to second on Doyle's bingle Then
occurred the little incident which gave
the winners the first tally. Rose smash
ed into what should have been an easy
double. Zannelli got the formers ground
er. touched second. retired Doyle. and
in attempting TO double Rose on first
threw wild 10 the stands. allowing Wiley
TO count. Brown flied to Brennan. For
Immaculate Mess drew & mass but was