Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15
Sunday School League Notes.

| The games yet to be played are:
| Monday-St Paul. VS.. Peck.
| Tuesday-Ninth vs. Bethany.
| Wednesday-Peck VS.. Ninth.
The Hamlne team has batting aver
age of .3O3 for nineteen games.
Ninth played two exhibition games last
week with the Olympia Athletic Cluo.
Each team won and lost a game.
Joe Turner got four hits out of I'VE
trips to the plate in the Bethany-Lane-
don contest last week, and they were all
singles.
Sam Wood of the Printers team has a
percentage of 800 in batting. He played
in four games with the Hamiine aGsre-
CATION.
Haas of ST. Paul was called out in
last Fridays game for batting out OF
order. 1t was the first case of its KIND
this season.
Manager Love of Langdon brought a
new catcher out with his team Friday,
and the youngster whose name is Phelps.
was put out of the contest in the hrst
inning. foul tip from the bat or
Evans. the first batter. split one of the
Goodman tripled to deep right-center
in fridays contest. but failed to touch
first base. Umpire Hughes witnessed the
act. and when the ball was returned to
the bag 'Goody" was declared out.
Three of Hamline:s forfeited games
came last week. Ninth getting two and
the Baptists one. Had Hamline put d
team on the field the two leading teams
would have been made to fight for their
victories, but what's the use?
Manager Meyers is in hopes of getting
In his postponed game with Ninth. The
Georgetown aggregation beat Bethany
some time ago. letting them down with
out hit or a run, and. just to show
that there is no Partially. the Peck man.
ager says he can administer the same
dose to the Christians.
LanGdon had but nine men Friday and
when Phelps was injured general
change in the lineup was made. and
Greer was allowed to play. He covered
first.
Wooden twirled good game against
Langdon last Tuesday, allowing the sub
hits The sideWheeler was pitching under
difficulties. having a sharp pain in his
south side.
Langdon played it's final game of the
season Friday, and it resulted in the
suburbanites' 'twenty-third'' defeat.
Manager Love and his team deserve more
credit than they get for their plucky
playing. and here's hoping that the sub
urban aggregation is a pennant winner
next season.
Dutch Kinney. the leading swatster
in the Capital City League, and also a
shining light in Departmental circles,
do ste I>h, NIT 10 p4tL
cation last Tuesday. He got two sin
giles out of four trips to the plate. scored
four tallies and pilfered a couple of sacks.
He had three chances in the field and
handled all cleverly.
Langdon pulled off a freak double play
in Fridays contest With McMorrs on
first. Valaer hit one to Brauner at short.
The shortstop booted the sphere. and
luckily 1t rolled right into the hands of
Morris was forced at the middle station.
and Heald's throw to Greer at first
caught Valaer.
the Hamline crew are singing the pellet
for an average of 300, or better.
Monk Walters of the Ninth Street
Christian team returned recently from a
try-out with the Lowell team of the New
England League. Monk played in three
games in right garden, and secured a
couple of hits. He was not very talk
alive, but stated that he would be back
with them again next spring.
c.. Porter made four hits in his
last three games with the Langdon 0lt-
fit. This boy gets his little hit regular.
The Langdon crew pulled off three
double plays in it's last two games.
st. Paul and Ninth have each pulled
down a triple play this season.
Dutch Sheaffer not of the Nationals.
but of Bethany. has played in twenty
two games, and has been at the bat
eighty-three times. He has scored
twenty-five runs and has hit safely
twenty-eight times. He has pilfered four
teen bases. and has a batting average
of 1887. He has gained thirty-two points
since the averages were last published.
Charlie lie Foe is charged with but
one error out of fifty-four fielding
chances this season. He has fielding
average of .9S1