The Washington herald., 1909-08-23

The games played this week should de-
eide the championship OF the District FOR
1903. as Brentwood and the Agriculture
team viii meet at American League Park
again on SATURDAY.
Brentwood. champions OF the Capital
City League and at the present time lead
ing In the series for the District cham
pionship. is In all probability the strong
est club OF amateurs ever brought to-
gether here and is fully 20 per cent better
than the Columbia Athletic Club. which
won the District title in 1905
The first for the flag between Treasury
and the Columbia Clubmen last year was
a see-saw affair. and the Departmental
boys were beaten in the final game,
to O. Columbia had good pitcher in
Bernie Gallagher. and it can easily be
said, without a chance Of refutation, that
1t was this twirler who landed the cham
pionship for O'Connor's tribe.
Bernie was not on the firing line the
first time the Columbus played Treasury.
and Lttchfield who pitched. was bumped
for ten hits and beaten. 6 to g. When
Gallagher did face the Departmental
champs, he allowed but four bingles. and
bea; them. to l. without any trouble
The series resulted in a tie. and a game
was played between Treasury and Column
bia to decide the winner. the honor going
TO the Capital City Leaguers IN a shut-out
game.
The final standing was as follows:
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The Columbia Athletic Club was com
posed OF Taylor. Lay. Clear Hurley,
Atchison. Kinney Muffin. Smith. Gala
cher. and Litchheld. OF these ten play
ers. Mullin. Smith. and Gallagher are
now with Parkv'ow. Kinney IS IN the
ranks OF the Brentwood aggregation.
Taylor is with Agriculture. and Itch
field is with Bethany. while Lay Clear.
Hurley, and AtchisOn are out OF the
series.
Brentwood. with Kerr. Balzer and
Gray has a strong pitching staff. and
although none Of these twirlers are as
good as Gallagher when he Is in form.
yet they should be able. with the heavy
batting OF their teammates, TO win out
in the present series
Sanders is the equal. and by many IS
claimed 10 be the master. OF any OF
Brentwood's pitchers. but his team Is
not as good with the willow as the sub
urbanites
Taken man for man, and compared
with the lineup Of the Columbia Ath-
letic Club OF last year, II is easy 10 see
how far superior the present champions
OF the Capital City circuit are to the
winner OF 1908
Judging from the way youngsters have
been showing form back OF the bat in
the local amateur games, some OF them
are destined TO go higher IN the sport
Good catchers, so essential In present.
day baseball, are none too plentiful. and.
the lads who are coming to the front on
the lots stand a splendid chance or
branching out into larger fields before
many more seasons have passed.
Clever base runners on many of the
local teams have found Il difficult 70 do
much stealing on the catchers. Good.
fast peggng by the backstops has cut
down the scoring in many important
games.
Menefee. with Bethany. is one Of the
best finds Of the season, and his work
in Saturdays game was the feature OF
the contest. and NOyes. Of the Brent
wood nine, Is another player who s
doing clever catching.
There has never been a series OF games
for the District championship that sur
passed the great fight for the title in 1907
between the Trinity and AlOysius clubs,
which Trinity won
These mines. composed Of the cream
Of the citys amateur talent. played be-
fore immense crowds. and the interest
was intense up TO the last game. Each
player received about six or seven dollars
for his share in the receipts, and fans,
players. and everybody. in fact. were
satisfied
There probably VIII never be another
series Nike the one three years ago, as
there were conditions entering into the
battle for supremacy that can never be
duplicated.
The Aloysius Club was leading in the
Capital City League and the St. Stephens
boys were hot after them but whenever
these two mines would clash the crowd.
which was always with Aloysius, would
break up thu game by running on the
field whenever their favOrite aggregation
ran behind In the score.
Becoming tired Of such treatment. Jim
my Kerr and several other St Stephen
ties jumped to Trinity, in the Marquette
League. and were later Joined by more
of their fellow-players. helping Trinity
TO land the flag in the Catholic organiza-
ton.
When the post-season series was played.
Trinity, with fair umpire and with the
crowd kept within reasonable bounds.
trimmed their rivals.
The amateur magnates seem to find
It impossible to submerge their personal
interests for the sake OF the good Of
the baseball game in Washington, and
persist in forming petty schemes to get
one another's players. Money Is offered
the greedy ball tossers to lure them about
from one nine TO another, and many
good sportsman has had to quit the
baseball game because it broke him
running a team.
Those who are In authority among some
of the Section A leagues are very much
dissatisfied because the Section B boys
are going to use American League Park
for four Of their games, and 1t has been
said that next year the A part OF the
commission win cut away from the B
| leagues.
Why the Section A organization should
be so unfair to the younger leagues is
! hard to understand, except that the older
! org mig tinns are looking at the game