Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-19
Sunday School League.

Inc nrSt game or the season 10rfo1te0
by the Ninth team came Monday when IL
was shy Of one eligible man, and thereby
the Fifth Baptists took the contest, 8 to
o. A great crowd had gathered on the
hill at the time called for the game to
begin and In order not to disappoint the
fans, the teams lined up and played an
interesting exhibition game, Ninth win
ming, 6 to 4. Dick Connor, Ninth's re-
liable little shortstop, was In the CEN
ter Of the diamond and served the balls
up in grand style. Only two hits were
made off him in the first six innings. but
Dick weakened. allowing six hits and four
runs in the remaining three sessions.
Three double plays were made by the
Fifth Baptist boys in Mondays contest,
one Of which tickled the fans to such an
extent that laughter held the situation
for a few minutes. This came in the sew
and Billy Hands caught one Of Dutch
Stuckert's twisters and sent the ball
right where 1t came from, In the pitch
er's box. Dutch didn't have time to move
and threw up his hands. where the sphere
stuck. To the Dutchman's surprise he
held the ball and threw 1t to first. com
pleting the double.
Wynkoop seems to have found his bat
over the lot at the rate Of .312. His field
ing in last Mondays contest was easily
the feature Of the afternoon. He ran
through the crowd OF "fours" over the
left field foul line and pulled down Rich
monds high foul. In the eighth inning he
received much applause when he came
racing in and took a line drive at his
shoe laces. Had the ball got away from
him, the batter. Pop Kerper. would easily
have made a circuit Of the bases. for the
sphere would have cleared the hill.
Dutch Stuckert is clouting the sphere
for the Fifth Baptists at lively rate.
He has played in fifteen games and has
failed to connect safely on only two oc-
casions. Home runs are the Dutchman's
favorite. He put three over the hill last
week. His batting average Is .3N.
The Official batting and fielding aver
ages Of every man who has donned q
uniform this season will be published In
full in this section Of the paper at the
close Of the season. which Is near at hand.
Tuesdays contest between the Grace
and Fifth aggregations was brought to
standstill after the third inning by
heavy downpour Of rain. The game, az
far as it went, gave promise OF being .
corker. When Umpire Hughes called time
the standing was 3 to 8. The captains OF
the teams convefsed few moments ana
agreed to postpone the contest to future
gle being made in the three innings. and
he had a strike-out for every session.
Jimmy" Hughes, the popular umpire
Of the league, has signed with the 81.
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short season Of the Sunday School League
will give him a chance to get In several
games with his old teammates. Jimmy
knows the game from A to q and will
greatly strengthen the team that il fight
ing so hard to beat out the Columbia Ath-
letic Club for the pennant.
Mr. Stokes. manager OF Bethany, has Q
quartet Of High School boys playing for
him, and from recent showings they are
all making good. Donnelly Of Business
made his debut Friday and showed up
we'll with the stick. connecting for q dou-
BILE. He had no fielding chances.
Hence" Maple has no mercy on q
twirler. He got two doubles and single
Friday.
Capt. Krahlng was criticised on several
occa sions Friday for benching Harris. and
although his team won the game after
hard struggle, 1t looked like poor 1udg-
ment Tommy can be classed with any
member OF the team.
Sheaffer is showing up as well as any
PLAYER on the Bethany team. In Fridays
contest between Bethany and Grace he
made two singles and each time stole sec.
ond and third. There were two men out
in the last inning when he attempted to
steal home but was called out Should
he have been called safe the tally would
have tied things UP.
Linthicum put up his usual good game
for Bethany Thursday. He accepted nine
fielding chances without an error and
connected safely for a home run and Q
OF four trips to the plate.