Evening star., 1909-07-11
Capital City League Notes.

Schedule Tor week: MondaS, ooNSih
ment Printing Office VS.. Brentwood
Tuesday. Brookland VS.. Columbia Atm
letic Club: Wednesday, ST. Stepnen m
stitute VS.. Government Print ng oince !.
Thursday. Marines VS.. Columbia Athieuc
Club: Friday, Brentwood VS.. Brookiano' ;
Saturday, Columbia Athletic Ciuo vs.. 81.
Stephens Institute.
There will be a game today peS"ee" .''e
Government Printing Office agsresatioh
and the strong Marines team. = ialse
crowd Is anticipated. Litz and Meaener
will probably be the battery TOT the Soi
dler boys, and Ferguson and fei'oh ioi
the Printers. If the crowd comes ou'
to see the game this afternoon the man
ayers hereafter Will play on postponed
games Sunday afternoons. Toeay's game
starts promptly at 2:3O pm
Thursdays game certainly was ereat
contest. The attendance was the largest
so far this season. The breht"ooos arc
now threatening to be 1909 champions
rha ,.n,a was between Brentwood and
CoIumbia. the Suburbanites winning by
the score Of to ;. 1t was a pitchefs
hattie between Litchfield and Sanders.
the former having a shade the better OF
the argument.
Only two balks have been made in the
league this season. The first was called
on Litz Of the Marines and the second
occurred Friday. when Umpire setley
said Donovan made one Donovan was
costly, as it forced in run. Berllck De-
ing on third when 1t happened.
Norman Kraft deserves much credit for
his reliability. This catcher always ap,
pears when st. Stephen is scheduled 70
play. and when in the game he Is playing
at his best all the time. In Fridays
contest he got double and single.
Donovan made his debut in the Capital
City League Friday by twirling for the
.aiIenders He performed for four IN
nings and allowed the Marines to score
one lone tally.
After nine straight defeats the ST. Ste
phen's Institute team sprung a Dig sur
prise Friday by noSing out the Marines
| in an eight-inning battle by the close
score of 10 to g.
| Jimmie Kerr, former twirler Of the
Grace Church team Of the Sunday Schooi
League winner of last years pennan1,
| is playing with Brent wood. Jimmie mas
| not yet participated in game.
Pom Hughes, Nick Altrock and Jesse
/
center field and seemed to enjoy 1t: Tom
left that night for Cleveland to hoodoo
| the Maps.
Something was wrong with Meaghel
| Friday, as eight men apilfered.
James A. O'Shea was at the park
Thursday. and voiced favorable comment
| on the grounds. claiming thai they were
the best in town. with the exception o.
| American League Park.
| Charlie Lord made his first appearance
with the Columbia Athletic Ciun Ihurs
day and played star game at short
We love the Columbias, but oh, yor
| Bren. woods.
Howard is still playing center in his
| old-time style for st. Stephens. he con
nected safely for two singles Friday.
The Marines lost two games last week
one to the Government Printing once
| team and the other to the st. Stephens
MISS the s.abman who did some goo6
twirling up in Philadelphia last season
pitched Wednesdays game for the
| Marines and was pounded for total OF
thirteen hits. He allowed eight passes
| and struck out SIX
| Clown Haywood is the boy who car
clout Them. He always gets one or tWe
| in every game, and Is full OF ginger
helping to make the game lively.
st. Stephens Institute forfeited to
| Brookland Monday, to 0, for non-ap-
| pearance.
Larry Kicker is out of the game on ac-
count of his bum ankle. Larry Is the
star left fielder on the Columbias he
viewed Thursdays game from The stano
Rider pulled off a nifty double play un-
| assisted in Wednesdays game.
Sanders got four-sacker in the big
game Thursday.
| ..Yank" Dawson was in Fridays game
PLAYING second for the West End boys
| and ne played nicely both In the nelo
and at the bat. 4ank hammered t"o
clean drives to right.
| Jack Hurley is putting up great game
| these days His record for THURSDAY
| shows one run scored. two Safe sWatS
| three put-outs and three assists.
| Arthur Moves showed his gameness
Thursday by staying in the game aftel
| being hit on the arm by Litchfieid in the
seventh inning. odds" has caught al
of the Brentwoods games this season
| and in several of them he has been MI
as many as three times by one batter
| Manager Cornell had enough men with
him Thursday to play two games. He
1 has tWenty-some on the payroll.
| TAYLOR is holding down his territory
| in the 1908 style. Very few get past him
| Mullins running catch Of Teddy Nc
Carthy's high fly in the final session was
1 the feature of Thursdays game.
4 Snyder is soaking the sphere with awful
i vigor of late.
/ Fenton caught a good game for the
4 Printers in their game with the Marines
/ This lad isn't a receiver, his position
| being third base, but it looks now thai
/ he is good as an all-around player
| Ferguson pitched part of Wednesday,
| contest, but was wild.
Fields hurt his thumb Friday while
j playing short.
| Freddy" Litchfield is still the goods
This little southpaw of the Columbia
| twirling staff is among the leaders.
| Umpire Setley's work is great. Nc
4 kicks from any one. He IS also there