Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19
AGRICULTURE IS
STILL IN THE LEAD
Events of Past Week Upset All
the Previous Lines
of Dope.

Events of the past week have consider
ably upset all previous dope" as to the
outcome of the pennant race in the De-
partmental League. Not only has the
standing of teams received shaking up,
but the standing in individual and team
batting shows number of changes pre-
ylously unthought of. A compilation or
batting averages for all games to date
shows Agriculture still maintaining first
place by a narrow margin. Treasury In
second place two weeks ago has suffered
a severe slump. and for the first time this
season is last in team batting, as we'll as
In the race Justice, although having lost
games steadily. has moved up a peg. and
stands second. Commerce and Labor Is
maintaining the wonderful batting squirt
that 1t started way back In midseason'
and as a consequence has also moved up.
this time two pegs. and stands third. only
one point behind Justice. Post Office has
moved back to fourth and Interior, after
all season. has jumped Treasury War and
Navy and stands fifth. A few hits one way
or the other will again considerably upset
the standing in team batting. as the first
four teams are only separated by nve
points
Farmers Good Run Getters.
The Farmers are far and away the bes.
Iun-PetteTS, With LIZ, tHciE HedIcSt NV diS
being Justice, with 1O2 The other six are
all closely punched in this respect. and this
is the best evidence possible to show just
how close and well contested the games
played by the Departmental League teams
have been.
The Sailors still lead in base stealing.
with sixty-e.ght good figure for sixteen
and running Navy close. Justice brings
up the tail end, with only thirty-four in
sixteen games played.
To get back to the pennant race Navy.
touted as the dark horse to beat the Farm
ers and generally accepted as such. has
both surprised and disappointed all its fol-
lowers. The two games lost by the Sailors
the first of last week have put them COM
pletely out of the running far az the
pennant Is concerned. and the best they
can now hope for is to maintain their po-
siton In the first division. Had the re-
verse occurred, as was generally expected.
and they had won these two games. one
from Interior and one from Commerce and
Labor. it would have put them in second
place and consequently nearest the Farm
But. like many another good thing,
Navy failed to mater.alize when the time
came. and instead of playing championship
ball the Sailors blew up and handed both
games to their rivals
AS result of these two games the race
Is now between Agriculture. Interior and
Commerce and Labor. and the question still
remains. can the Farmers be ueitcn? Popu-
lar OPINION among the ldHS Sce1HS u ne
about equally divided between the three.
with Agriculture a pretty strong favorite
There are three remaining games between
these teams. two between Agriculture and
Interior and one between Agriculture and
Commerce and Labor Interior-Commerce
and Labor have finished their series. and
haven't a remaining game. There Is no
telling who will be the victor In any of the
three games mentioned. and the question
asked Is admittedly too hard for the writer.
All guesses are pretty apt to go wrong, anu
this was brought home by developments of
the past week. Interior has the hardest
row to hoe. it's schedule for the remain
der of the season is difficult one, while
Agriculture and Commerce and Labor Will
have pretty easy sailing and this is a
strong factor to reckon with.
Good Batters Scarce.
AS was predicted, Individual batters in the
Departmental League of the 400 class have
become scarcer and scarcer until only two
remain-Herbert of Commerce and Labor
with .422 and Wolfe of War with All. Her
bert is easily leading the league and should
properly be classed the only 400 batter,
as Wolfe has played in but four games
Wolfe has furnished the biggest batting
surprise of the season, all last year he
went the season through with but one hit,
and was classed among the joke batters
of the league.
The 200 class has also dwindled consider
ably, only seventeen men holding above this
mark. Kinney, Commerce and Labor. is
second to Sabins, with Bacon Post Office,
and V. Bielaski, Treasury, ahead of Capt.
Harry Bryan of Navy, who was leading
two weeks ago. Agriculture, leading in
team batting, has only one man-Hofmann,
with 3fS-in the 300 class This Is ex-
planned by the fact that the Farmers are
we'll balanced and there Is no dead timber
on the team, every man standing well up
In the .2C0 class. all of them punched.
w. Taylor of Agriculture Is the best in
hart Interior and B. Bielaski, Justice, are
running him close, with nineteen and
eighteen. respectively.
Torney of Commerce and Labor continues
to hold his lead in base stealing, with TWEEN
tytwo. his nearest rivals being Taylor of
Agriculture and Barnhart of Interior, with
fifteen each.