Evening star., 1909-06-20
Capital City Notes.

Mr. Rain had to spoil everything. 1t
was a great game on when he made his
appearance. The battle was between CO.
lumbia Athletic Club, who were the top
notchers, and that strong bunch Of SOL
dier boys from the marine barracks
Jack Leonard, who was umpiring, called
the contest in the second round, with
the score. 1 to 0 in favor of the boys in
blue. Columbas went to the bat first.
Taylor went down, Berlick to
Nuss: Bradley, next up, famed at three
wide ones. The third out was Vaughn
and he went out to Berlick. O'Connor
led off for the Marines. He drew a
pass, stole second and third on Smith
and came home on Haywood's out Ber
llck struck out. Snyder got safe at first
on Jack Hurley's tumble. and Meagher
retired the side by clouting grounder
to Hurley, he throwing the ball to Null
I'm, catching Snyder. Only two men
went to the plate In the second. Hur-
ley, frst up In that session, singled. but
was caught at second trying to steal on
Meagher 1t was perfect throw. John
ME Priest out to Amey. The right fielder
made good catch of it in a downpour
Of rain. At this stage of the affair Jack
Leonard called, Game on account of
rain" Everybody was soaked to the skin.
Setley, the arbitrator of the CAPITAL
CITY League, went up in the bunch with
BrenfWoods to Winchester last Monday
morning TO umpire the game No sooner
had he got on the field and made a few
decisions than the fans took a liking to
him. When the Washingtonians left Tues
oay nlgnt they left Set" up there. Some
one said. he has regular job and the
people are going to keep him there, but
You can bet the officials Of this league
aren't going to let valuable man like
MN get away SO easy, Manager Connell
and Manager Shurtleff say he is half the
game. 1t is true, good umpire is half
the game
Some Of the Districts amateur fans
may have an opinion that that Marine
team has lots of young blood on it. but
ABOUT this they are mistaken. Four or
five of the boys are old leaguers. That
boy Buesse, who holds down the tNrd
cushion, Is one Of them. He used to play
with the Jacksonville team in the South
Atlantic League. Haywood is another
He halls from the Newport squad in the
Rhode Island State League. where he
played last season at short Amey
is also an old-timer. and has drawn
salaries from several of the minor
leagues The Marines have still another,
Donahue. He arrived In town Thursday
from the great railroad city team, Altoona
of the Tri-State. Don" says he also
played with Willamsport.
the st. Stephens rooters as the
star box artist, came in the grounds last
Tuesday and after looking around, seeing
that he was going to have a weak team
behind him. left the place. When the
papers came out the next day Murphy's S
name was seen in the Peck teams lineup
in the Sunday School League. What do
you call this?
Seventeen composed the crowd that
went to Winchester last Monday They
played two games, one Monday and the
other Tuesday. The first game went to
Winchester by the score OF to 2.
Buscher was on the mound for Brent
wood. The last game was pitchers bat
tie and tie affair. Score, 1 to l. Saun-
ders twirled this.
In Wednesdays contest Arthur Moves,
catcher for the suburbanites, was struck
three different times during the game by
the ball. First he caught it in the neck
the second one, foul. tipping him on the
little finger. and the last time. while at
heel by ope of Meningitis wild ones. with
all this odds" wouldn't give uD the ship
Berlick's batting was the feature of
tuesdays game He clouted the sphere
safely for a double and two singles out
of four trips to the chopping block.
Ritter, little deliverer on the Marines
pitching staff twirled a shutout and four
hit game Tuesday against st. Stephens
He was in excellent form: not a man
reached the initial sack on wide ones
The showing the Georgetown boys made
against the Marines was fierce This ag-
gregation certainly weakens the league.
Buscher's twirling was the feature OF
Wednesdays battle with Brookland. The
Onn0npntS fn
four bingles, struck out ten and passed
only one.
John j. Widmeyer. third baseman on
the Brookland nine. who some time ago
fell and ripped his leg with his spikes, has
returned to the game and had his picture
in Wednesdays Star for winning the
scholarship of the Catholic University
and also gold medal for oratory.
The leaders have two new players.
They are Bradley and Vaughn. The for
mer Is a right fielder and the latter an in
fielder. His station is third.
Chief Greene put up good game for
Brookland at first Wednesday,
Billie Keane is batting 800. That isn't
bad.
Teddy Mccarthy has the grand bat
ting average of $40 for the three games
he participated in.
"Curley" Brown leads In stolen bases.
The swift third baseman has to his credit
nine. 'Curley" is now playing with the
Winchester team and is doing great work
has six sacrifices. This leads the league.