Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-26
NOTES OF THE LOCAL
AMATEUR PLAYERS
Notable incidents in the Games
of the Different Leagues.
Good Fielding and
Hard Hitting.
Departmental League.

Departmental League.
The Departmental League closed most
successful season in the past week The
game Monday between Treasury and the
Interstate Commerce Commission team.
before an attendance Of fully 5000 per-
sons. ending in a victory for Treasury.
practically terminated the race for the
pennant and marked fitting close Of the
season.
The seasons work in the Departmental
League has been notable. The depart
fnents have been represented by general
ly evenly matched teams and the pa
irons have witnessed interesting and we'll
played games.
Much credit is due to the officers OF the
league for the thorough and businesslike
manner in which its affairs have been
conducted. Some of the officers were IN
daily attendance at the grounds to In
sure games being started on time and 10
arrange other necessary details.
The umpiring has been uniformly good
not a protest having been registered.
The number of games forfeited have
been few. and none that would have az
fected in the least the STANDING OF 'ao
leading teams.
The Treasury team. under the able ieao,
ership of Manager E. c. Robinson anu
Cart O'Neill. carried off the champion
that won the pennant in 1907 with tne
exception of the pitching STAN Wnen
Donaldson, the winning pitcher In lSOa
signed with the War Department team at
the beginning of the season. was
thought by many followers of Depart
mental League base ball that Treasury
would have little or no chance OF dupll-
eating its performance of 1907. But Man
ager Robinson had big surprise IN
store for them. Hester. his star outnelo-
err. had volunteered to do the twlrling.
His success was apparent from the nrst-
During the season he p1tcneo twenty
games winning sixteen, tying TWO ana
losing two. The other members OF the
team also deserve credit for their earn
est efforts and the manner In whlcn tney
executed various new plays suggested py
their manager and captain. The oouoie
squeeze" and flake bunt." among Others
were first introduced in the Departmental
League by the Treasury team Ihese anu
other INSIDE" plays have done much To-
ward the success of Treasury TINS sea-
son. AT.
season was an uphill one, After winning
nine consecutive games, 1t lost tour In u
row. With the loss Of another game II
could not have won the pennant. Inc
players then pulled themselves togetnei,
and have won seven and tea one saine
out Of eight games played
In the last week Of the season three
games were played on three successive
days. resulting In two victories TOT ireas,
ury and a tie. All of these games were
pitched by Hester now dubbed the Iron
Man" of the Departmental League.
In the post-season series the Depart
mentars representative will place upon
the field the players who won the cham
pionship. and who hope to carry the
championship of the city's amateur
leagues to that organization.
The officers Of the Departmental Leaeue
are: President. NJ. o. Chance; vice presi-
~ a. ROOl0e
son; secretary. ]. H. Anderson.
The board of governors are: l.
Frickey Agriculture: T. L. Weed, Com
merce and Labor: James L. Parker; N
terror: r. c. Stratton, Interstate; f. X.
Holt. Navy: c. A. Conrad. Post once; r.
C.. Robinson. Treasury: Brig. Gen: Ed
wards, War Umpire. William G. Belts.
Scorer. John Lipscomb.
Sunday School League.
birch is certainly going as well as any
twirler in the league. Monday he beat the
Fifth Baptists, allowing them only three
runs. which they gathered In the first
three innings, and the seven hits which
he gave were too well scattered to cause
any harm. Although he allowed six men
to walk, his puzzling delivery famed nine
OF the Baptists. Some time ago he pitched
AGAINST the Ninth Streeters and defeated
them 7 to 2, allowing only one safety. ana
this hit, which was made by Billy
Hands, knocked Ninth's only TALES over
the plate He allowed the same NUMBER
of men to walk as he did last week. ana
had one more strike-out to his credit. ten.
Grace copied the bunting Monday when
It defeated the Fifth Baptist. The article
of ball that 1t put up against the other
five teams and the manner IN when II
came out on top indicates that 1t Will give
its rivals in the post-season series tough
fight In speaking of his team one DAY
last week Mr.. Mills said that with
Pitchers Kerr, Birch and Buscher gong
well. he has convinced the rooters of the
Sunday School League that he has good
chance in the championship series. MI
Mills is very popular among the Sunday
school fans and the following OF the
Grace aggregation will be Is numerous as
that of any pennant- winning team In the
city. ,
Dutch stuckert had a finger nail torn
from his right hand in Mondays contest
while fielding ball Dutch was IN agony
for several minutes. but despite this
handicap he would not quit. and again
took up his position in center field.
Second Stacker Heinrich Of the Grace
aggregation is certainly keeping up the
pace he set in the early part OF the sea
SON. He touched up Gordon in Mondays
contest for double and two singles.
Harris of Grace has two putouts at first
Monday. This is the smallest number OF
fielding chances handled by first base
man this season Tom Quantrelle of
Ninth holds the high number. with
twenty.
McCormicks back running catch of
Gordon's Texas Lacquer in Mondays con-
test was the fielding feature of the game
wynkoop is putting up classy article
of ball IN left for the Fifth Baptists
Jackson was laid out In the Grace-F1fth
contest last week when one OF Gordon s
shoots caught the southpaw on the right
knee The boy went down In knot. but
resumed playing after little doctoring
The Fifth Baptists forfeited to the
Grace aggregation Friday upon failure to
have nine eligible men on the field on
scheduled time. Rain put stop to the
exhibition contest. Mr.. Mills had the fol-
lowing nine with more in reserve on hand
Handiboe left field: Mccormick. short
stop: Kerr. pitcher: Krahling. second
base: Clements. first base; Waple. right
field; Walter. catcher: Buscher, center
field and Harris. third base.
Capital City League.
The following Is the schedule for the
week: Monday. Columbia Athletic Club
VS. Government Printing Office: Tuesday
Brentwood VS. Atlantic; Wednesday
Blcomingdale VS.. st. Stephens Institute
Thursday. Brentwood VS.. st. Stephens
Institute; Friday. Columbia Athletic Club
VS. Atlantic; Saturday, Bloomingdale VS.
Government Printing Office.
Since the resignation of Mr.. Pete