Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-25
Sunday School League Notes.

Following is the schedule for this week
MISUNDERSTANDING vs.. Langdon. .
| Tuesday-Peck W. st. Paul.
| MISUNDERSTANDING VS.. Hamline.
/ Thursday-Peck vs.. Langdon.
| F'riday-Ninth VS.. st. Paul.
! Saturday-Open date.
| Billy Hands continues to swing his will
| low with telling effect. He got three
| clean singles in Tuesdays contest
| Oh, my, didn't the Bethany team and it's
| many followers receive an awful shock
! .ast Saturday when st. Paul slipped the
| short end of the score to the Blooming
| dale aggregation" This game. which the
| Baptists were confident of winning, Is liza
| BILE to cause considerable worry in regard
! to landing the flag.
Despite the fact that he is credited with
| two errors. each of which proved costly,
| Geibel caught good game for Hamline
| Tuesday. He got under foul flies in the
| sixth and seventh innings that were both
| hard chances.
kerper is on the warpath because his
name was mentioned in this paper several
days ago. We always looked upon Pop
as being a well-anchored man.
Sam Wood has no mercy whatever on a
| pitcher They all look alike to him. He
has played in three games with the Ham,
| line crew, and has a batting average of
| 1857. He has made eight hits out of
| twelve times at the bat, and has scored
| five runs. Handy man to have around.
The third meeting in regard to the game
played July / between the Peck and
Bethany teams was held last Tuesday
evening and at this meeting it was at
last decided that the ruling of Umpire
Hughes was correct. Bethany getting the
game by forfeit. The score stood to in
favor of Manager Stokes team when Mr..
Hughes forfeited the contest because of
the dla'ory tactics of the Georgetown
aggregation. - .AAt
| when he held the Methodist troupe to six
| hits. In only one inning could Manager
| Holmes boys get more than one hit, and
| this was the ninth, when they threatened
| q rally. The first three batters singled
| and two runs resulted, but at this stage
| m" frightened up and retired the side.
Yum Moreland made his debut in this
league last Tuesday with the Ninth
| Street aggregation. Out of five trips tC
| the plate he beat out hit down the
third base line and laced out two.
Dagger. His playing in the field was also
| throw TO the plate from center field in the
| first inning, mailing Stuckert on close
play.
The last scheduled game is billed fol
, Friday. after which the postponed en-
gagements will be settled.
Charlie Fefoe's playing AT the keystone
sack Thursday was brilliant. Charlie
gathered in several hard ones.
Hamline broke St Paul's winning streaf
Thursday. Previous to this game Mama
ll.1l Inc
| contests, defeating Bethany, Peck, Ham
line and Langdon.
Benson played a good game for Hamint
| Thursday. The big boy scored two runs
hit safely three times. for two triples an6
a single. sacrificed once and stole one
base out of five trips to the pan. liz
also played well in the field.
Birch pitched a good game for the Ham
line Methodist aggregation last week
Wednesday Birch tWirled for the st
Stephens squad in the Capital City
League and the following day he held the
st. Paul troupe TO three scattered hits
two of which were Scratchy. He would
have scored shut-out but for the loose
fielding of his teammates in the eighth
inAing.
King. southpaw. pitched two innings
OF Thursdays contest against HamIine
was hit safely seven times. Four or tins
number were triples and one was a dou-
bic. He was taken out in the seventh
after three runs had been scored and
no one out. Better luck next time old
boy.
Charlie Watts. one of the faithful pen
cil-pushers of the Marquette League. is
a curious sort OF a fellow Charles
tone of speech is hardly admirable, bu,
\ on side n This and m nor pnny
faults he is fine fellow. When talking
he Is frequently interrupted by a balk
/ and IL takes very large space of time
for him To reach his destination in the
smallest kind of story. Charlie was
| telling us the other day how to reach
| the Marquette League grounds if we had
any desire to witness Il good ball game
| He started in at a fair speed, but could
not hold II. Shortly after he began sew
eral of us went TO lunch and when we
| returned Charlie Gas changing cars at
| North Capitol and II streets
Athletic events We're held by the league
on the playing grounds at 18th and ID
| streets northeast last Saturday evening.
! All OF the events were closely contested
and interesting. The event of circline
the bases was won by A. G.. Buchler of
| the Ninth team His time was fifteen
i seconds. He was presented with field
ers glove. Harry Dodd of Bethany was
| two-fifths OF second TO the bad of
, Buehler's mark and received box of
/ chocolates as second prize. YUM More
| land of Ninth received fielder's glove
1 for finishing in front in The second event
which also was a trot around the sacks
i His time was fifteen and two-tifti. Sec
onds Buehler was second. The third
! event. which was 1gp-yard dash was
won by Harry Dodd. He received an or
! der on Hickman & White for his victory
| The second prize. stick pin, was won by
yum Moreland of the Christian team.
| Waldo Palmer of st. Paul was third and
u was presented with a tieIders glove