The Washington times., 1909-06-30
Contentious Add Local Color
When Trade Bodies Clash
on Diamond.
CHAMBER is WEAK
WITH THE WILLOW
Winners Turn Weird Tricks With
the Stick, While. Fielding
Is Unique.
By THOMAS S. RICE.

tim of Kid Slump, the contrast By the
amateurs In the game in which the
Board of Trade beat the Chamber Of
Commerce by Il to at American
League Park was hardly startling.
All Of which is 10 say that the anna
tours played pretty good ball Their
game was fun of pith and moment, and
the players were full of Sporting blood
They did not become rabid and MAIN
one another with spikes, for most of
them were too heavy on their feet
TO wear spikes. but. they be-
Iabored one another manfully with
harsh words. and had the usual and nor
NAL dispute about eligibility before the
proceedings got under way.
Chamberlain. who started the pitching
for the Board of Trade, was Count Yep
peIin II In the matter of going up in
the air and staying there. He is prob
ably still lowering over the North Sea
at this present moment. soaring the
British yeomanry into f1ts over the pros
poets OF a German invasion. In fact,
he assembled almost as high as the tar
III in the hands OF home-defenders elect
ed on q revision-downward platform
Five bases on balls. four hits and seven
runs was the harvest of the fiighty
Chamberlain before Manager Gibson
punctured his balloon and sent the pro-
tested Dick Connors TO the slab. Dick
was the goods, although his natural
position is al second base. and he played
so much real baseball he is hardly sub
3ect for further comment on game such
as that of yesterday.
Hume Brothers Battery.
The celebrated Hume brothers battery
started for the Chamber of Commerce,
and was feature. They progressed
well enough for an inning and a half.
when Pitcher Hume smote Catcher
Hume fun soreiy upon the shins with
wild shoot. Thereafter was much
fraternal strife that was a great shock
to the uplifters, and those who advo-
cate nothing but sweet moral suasion
for a spawn of Satan who would throw
brick at his lady school teacher or
put a firecraeker under his grand
mothers rocker The demoraiizing
spectacle was brought to a close by
Capt Phil King chasing Bob Hume
from the box.
Murphy succeeded Hume on the slab,
and was a great comfort TO the Board
of Trade, which continued 10 cut down
the Chambers surplus at an alarming
rate Kneesi. who succeeded Murphy
and finished the game, bore a most
startling resemblance to that greatest
Of present-day ballplayers. Hans Wag-
ner-in the legs. AS fielder and batter
he resemhled Wagner exactly ike Nick
Altrock does.
A thrill no heart could resist was
furnished by the running Of Souther-
land, first baseman for Trade. He
scored from first in the third inning
on Vests double. When fastening
home in such cases Switzerland Is
probably the chestiest man alive His
ablilty 70 Keep MS head up his bosom
projecting into the future. and his legs
going without q sign OF interference or
overreaching is truly marvellous. His
Eeil-sustained and successful running is
truly undemocratic, and it's a cinch
that Willis Abbott never put him on a
Bryan committee.
The Silent Coacher.
A side issue neglected by the popu-
lace was he work Of Smith Hempstone.
the worlds champion silent coacher. He
stood at third base and played the game
without being in It until the last inning,
when he went 10 bat for Trade and
made single. Hempstone's actions
we're reminiscent Of the parlor enter
tanners who give a perfect imitation OF
q dog barking. so far of you cent hear
him. He was like some patrons Of prize
fights, who uneonsciously sway and jerk
IN unison with the blows and feel as
tired after the bout as If they had been
In the ring themselves. EIempstone said
not word 10 his runners that could
be detected at q distance OF three feet,
but he did a powerful lot OF reckoning,
backing, and filing and false starting
that produced results in the way OF
sending men home, even II It left no
Photographic record.
rhe most astonishing incident of the
afternoon was a triple play that was
absolutely clean. In the third inning,
when Commerce had the bases full
Harry King drove a whistling liner al
Dick Corners. The pitchers glove de-
flected the ball so that il glanced
straight into the hands OF Carlisle, al
short. Carlisle heaved 70 Switzerland,
catching Phil King Off first, and South
eriand s relay 70 Brewer at second ex-
tinguished Guy. Murphy. who was on
third was also a mile away, and could
have been nipped os easily as the 9TH
eTs, making quadrupie play, had there
been any necessity for such an innova-
tiOn. This triple execution was a classy
exhibition. and was most discoura gins
10 PM King who was so daZed that
Umpire Belts had TO whisper an ex-
PLANTATION 10 him that the side was out
Aauimdu5 Willow.
A bad man with vicious tendencies
was DR.. Harry Kaufman. He used Il
be a rah. rsh boy. just like Phil and
Harry King, and wore a razzle-dazzie
suit that looked Ike a feshman's out
Mt for a cane rush. but the doc was
there win the willow IN the first hall
Of tie game. In the second half he was
not such holy terror. and the diminu,
tive Conners had him lying down and
playing dead
Kreh, the Commerce shortstop, wore
a tight-httinz effect in the way Of a
jersey. with pants that bloomed in tbs
spring ira, la, the contrast representing
a most sprightly effect and leading q
the impression that the wearer was q
bau player He was. He was the
original land-grabber IN eovefing
ground at short, but he was a minority
report with the bat
Words OF praise and commentator
are due Church. catcher for Trade. but
not by trade He made a grand stoT