The Washington herald., 1909-06-24
RIGGS BANKERS LOSE
A. S. & T. Co. Wins First
Game in Years.
CONTEST IS LOOSELY PLAYED
"HOOlSs" Taggart, for winners, Al
lows bat Eight Scattered Hits
While Three Riggs TwirIers Fall
by the Wayside-Seventeen Errors
Made During the Struggle.

Ever since the days OF old man Noah
and the Ark League. the Riggs National
Bank baseball nine has been handing out
q fine line Of trouncings to the boys Of
the American Security and Trust Com
pany. but yesterday afternoon at Ma
uonal Park all the dopesters went wrong,
for with Hooks" Taggart in the box
Riggs went down 13 TO 10 in a loosely
played. but interesting. struggle.
In addition to several heartbeat pros
trations there was one casualty-sOme-
body stole the Riggs mascot. three
week-old kitten, and dropped him into
the nearest watering trough. Mr.. Childs,
OF the Riggs Bank, picked up the kitten
just before the game. and held It on
his knee during the battle For the bene-
1T OF the society with the big name. it
must be stated that the kitten was res
cued by boys after he had gone down for
the seventh time.
Comedy of Errors.
The game itself was a comedy Of errors.
in which bits OF good baseball flashed in
termittently- To Taggart's pitching and
the ability OF American. Security batters
Riggs owes it's defeat
BY winning yesterdays game, the Amer
lean Security and Trust Company has
clean lead in the Bankers League. with
four victories against no defeats. Riggs
has already played its last game. and II
American Security captures the next two
scheduled they win the championship
Little Boykin was the star Of the after
noon. He played a great fielding game
at short for the winners, and by his
timely hitting drove home four runs for
his side. For Riggs. SnOwden, Pitts. and
Moorehead played the best game.
Seldom has an amateur game been pull
ed off here where errors counted 50
heavily in the hunt for runs The win
ners earned but two OF their thirteen tai
lies, while the losers earned but one run.
Riggs had seven black marks IN the error
column. while American Security had ten.
Taggart Wild as Hawk.
The game started in weird style. Tag
CART was wild as q hawk, and the men
bshind him contributed error after error.
Riggs scored two runs. American Secur-
ity came back and grabbed one in the
second half.
Errors. combined with timely hitting
added three for Riggs in the second,
T.
the losers added another, and the winners
virtually knocked Dawson out OF the box.
scoring four runs on bits and fielding
misplays. Security finished the job IN the
fourth, and Dawson gave way TO Pitts
TWO runs were scored OF Dawson and
one of Pitts. The fourth inning put
American Security in the lead and they
were never headed. Pitts was hit hard
in the seventh. and Fleming finished the
game.
The winning team with Vice President
Reside and Mrs. Reside made a tri-
umphal tour from the ball park to Mr..
Resides home in big Sightseeing auto.
and later the boys sat down 20 dinner,
at the vice presidents expense.
Riggs Team at Banquet.
N. z. Allies. vice president OF the Riggs
National Bank. gave a banquet to the
Riggs team last night at the New VII
lard II. II. Father, cashier at the Riggs
was POSTMASTER.
W. n. Childs responded TO a toast to
Mr.. Allies. Joseph Evans, r., responded
20 a toast TO Mr.. Reside. vice president
Of the American Security and Trust Com
pRny
During the course Of the dinner, An
drew Dent sang a solo and sextet COM
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P. LOCKER. G. Dexter. a Dent. and F.
Howard. managed 10 get rid Of several
semi-classical selections.
Those present were ". z. Flather. r..
Robert Fleming. II. 6. Pitts. H S Onutt.
B. @. Dent. Milton Jones, Howard
Haines. William Flather. Jr. Paul Daw-
son. A T. Dent. D. A. W Snowden.
Vincent Moorehead. J. c. Williams. 5. D. /
Waters, @. o. Vass. and II. G. Hoskins. /
Score: