Evening star., 1909-07-11
Independence League Notes.

Games next week: Monday. Agricul-
ture VS.. Twining: Tuesday, Advent VS..
Manhattan: Wednesday. Advent VS.
Ninth: Thursday. Twining VS.. Advent:
Friday. Wallach VS.. Agriculture: Satur- =
dsys Manhattan VS.. Ninth.
The change in the schedule ~ tho
coming week gives Advent three games
in row-Tuesday. Wednesday ana
Thursday.
A large and enthusiastic gathering
turned out Monday to celebrate the glori-
Gus Fourth.
the field Monday morning but the
scrubs made Advent hustle and only lost
by one tally in a game replete with
neavy swattlng.
Manhattan won three games last week.
defeating Advent Monday, Twining
Wednesday and Agriculture Thursday.
This places the Rhode Islanders in the
limelight for pennant possiblitiea and
| the crowd on McDevitt's Field is pull
ing strong for Manager kraft's lads.
Senseney. on the mound for Advent in
Monday afternoons game, twirled bril-
liant ball. but luck failed to come his
way.
| Twining lost Wednesdays game against
Manhattan owing to the absence of its
oox artists. Burke was sick. Powell had
pitched in the Sunday School League the
day before. and Ruark was not In con-
ditlon.
H. Pennington. Advent's newcomer on
second plays fast game and handles
throws with accuracy.
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ing staff. Rawlings recently pitched .
| no-hit game against Wallach. limbaugh
gave Twining one scratch single. and
Kraft held Advent in the same way.
Harry Dodd. the Aggies' latest intieid
acquisition, put up great ball in the
Two games last week He made several
miraculous pick-ups and throws in Tues
days game against Ninth, and showed
strong at first Thursday against Manhat-
tan Incidentally, he is also heavy with
the stick, securing three binges in clean
style in two games.
Mcmahon. Ninth's winning sphere
singer, had finger badly bruised in the
holding the leaders to one bingie in four
rounds. This injury caused him to retire
in favor of Cruicksanks.
Donnelly's work on second for Manhat-
tan is spectacular. He handled thirteen
clean chances in three games last week
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coming almost impossible chances.
McQuinn of Agriculture plays a star
game in left garden. and is swatting the
horsehide for keeps.
Jaeschke Advent's new center fielder,
cops every chance, and his throwing has
won him a home In the hearts of the
faithful.
Ferguson's twirling for Agriculture
roiy1 1Sr Nav hot ffan of fha
highest order. Entering the box In the
first round after three runs had been tai
lied, all sacks occupied and none out. he
punched three in a row, and allowed but
four scattered hits during the remainder
| of the game, punching eight
The race is getting more interesting.
likewise the enthusiasm from the stands.
and the fans are pulling hard for Man
haitian. The latter team has made
great squirt during the past two weeks.
but IL will be hard matter to beat out
the fast-playing and heavy-htting Ag-
gies. The clerks have one of the fastest
sand-Iot aggregations in the District. and
continuance of their plucky game VIII
eventually land them the bunting Some
one on the side lines says IL Is all luck
with the Mall boys, but. as Napoleon
said, Luck comes from behind the heay-
lest guns" and il must be conceded that
a team batting over $50 carries with
store of better stuff than luck. Twining
cannot by any means be classed out OF
the race. and with the return of its
star mound artists the New York avenue
bunch is bound to make the fur fly
During Thursdays game between Agri-
culture and Manhattan, Davis, the lat
ter teams third baseman. exhibited an
abundance of hotheadedness. In the sec
ond round Murphy of Agriculture was
| running down to third on sacrihce. and
! in his endeavor to land safely accidentally
bumped into Davis. Umpire Handiboe
saw the play and knew that Murphys at
tempt was legitimate. Murphy was tag
ged three feet off third, but while walk
ing away from the bag Davis ran up'from
behind and punched the heavy lrishman,
which blow Murphy returned before the
scrap could be stopped. Davis was not
ousted from the game, as the umpire, not
seeing the rowdyism, did not know who )
was in the wrong. and the Manhattan
third sacker should be cautioned that his
good looks, as well as his bail playing. are
liable to be impaired by another repefi-
ton of this nature. The Independence
League deals with rigid arm against
any attempts at rowdyism, and VIII In
sist upon clean playing.