The Washington herald., 1910-04-07
De MOTT IN FORM
Georgetown Easily Beaten
by Lafayette, Z to 2.
ELEVEN GO OUT ON STRIKES
Blue and Gray Batters Find De Mott
a Puzzle, and After First Two
ROundE Fail to Sc0re-BaIzer Wild
in Early Innings-SOggy Ground
Makes the Fielding Difficult.
By n. t. MORLEY.

By n. 7. WORLEY.
Lafayette celebrated the wind-up Of rs
Easter weekend trip. by taking an inter.
esting game from the HiIItoppers or
Georgetown Field yesterday. Score Z to 2
The credit for the victory really goes tC
De Mott, the tall youngster who did the
pitching for the visitors, as he held
Georgetown TO five scattered bingles
struck out eleven, issued no passes, was
steady as a rock throughout and made
the longest swats of the day, a home run
and triple. which netted his side four
! scores. De Mott Is one Of the hardest
working twirlers who have done slab
work here this season, and has perfect
control His team mates made FIVE er-
rors. and but for these mispIays but one
| point would have been registered for the
Blue and Gray. the tally In the second
/ session, which was the result Of a double
1 by Cogan, and Feenan's single
Georgetown pinned its faith on Balzsr.
and after his two bad innings at the
start. Heinie" didn't pitch a bad game.
/ WildHess was Blazers worst stumbling
block, and De Mott. the LAFAYETTE
pitcher, got three Of the six hits made
off Smoke" and had he not hit the
ball each time up. Georgetown would
have won. Balzer issued three passes
in the opening round, and errors by Sit
terding and Gibson, neatly sliced in,
gave Lafayette three scores without a
bingle. In the next inning Pagers single
| to right. another miscue by Sitterding.
and De Motifs home run, that cleared
the bank in right center. brought the to-
tai up to six runs and dampened George
towns ardor.
After these two disastrous chapters,
the Hilltoppers stuck to their work in a
much better fashion than in previous
contests, and plugged along vainly try
ing TO locate De Motifs elusive twisters.
Their success is told by the box score,
as before mentioned, eleven dying q short
and painless death by the tanning pro-
cess.
Georgetown's errors were all decidedly
costly, and figured largely In the scor-
ing. but Lafayette was lucky in getting
by without damage IN this way, with
the exception OF the opening clash. when
Georgetown slipped a score past the
plate by Hunts fast running and a
brace Of errors.
Both Cogan and Feenan shone at the
bat. four of the five hits made by
Georgetown being garnered by these two
players. Cogan's double in the second
started the trouble that ended in one Of
the Hilltoppers' runs. Feenan following
at the bat with a duplcator OF Cogan's
two-base wallop 10 safe territory in the
central regions. In the fourth. these two
lads each connected safely, but their fell
lows could not do anything with the
shoots De Mott was handing over. and
they died on bases.
only one base was stolen on Conover,
SitteTding being the guilty man. The
Lafayette catcher was injured over his
eye in one Of the contests with Virginia
and was sort of wabbly, but he could
throw like a shot. and Murphys hencK-
men refused to take many chances with
his wing. Waldrons throwing to second
was half and half he making some good
throws, and some bad ones as well He
needs another season to fully develop. and
will no doubt be a corker behind the bat
by that time. His work in the battle
with Lafayette can be judged by the fact
that five bases were stolen on him, two
of them by Williams.
BaIzer Has Bad Inning.
Balzer started the days proceedings by
pitching exactly ten straight balls. Norris
and Steckel gambling down to first in
high glee Capt Kelley then dropped a
neat sacrifice. which Cogan scooped UP
and pelted TO first, the runners landing
on third and second. De Mott soaked a
sizzler down to short. and Sitterding let
1t sift through his legs, two of the enemy
counting on the muff Gibsons slip-up on
Conover's roller down to the second sta
ton permitted the third tally to go over
the tape, De Mott logging it home from
his roost on second. Melan hit TO BaIzer,
and was put out at first Williams walked,
and stole second. Altschuler popped to
Hunt.
The Georgetown aggregation showed a
man home in their trip to bat Hunt
peeled one down to williams at the third
corner that burned his hands. and made
first in record time. Murphy laid down a
sacrifice, and SItterding ballOOned TO
Melan. Dugan hit to short, and SteckeI
made his first error, Hunt counting. Glib
son looked De Motifs benders over, swiped
At three and retired.
Lafayette repeated in the next session
what they accomplished IN the first chap
ter. Eager. the Mercersberg's Academy
twirler, who Is with Lafayette this sea-
son, poked a mean one to right Norris !
fused and fUmmed at the pan and then
went out on strikes. Steckel hit TO third |
and was snuffed at first. Kelley's blow |
TO Sitterding was too much for sit" |
and Kelley was safe De Mott put the |
ball over the bank and chased in three
runs. Conover struck out.
The Hilltoppers made their last run |
1f the game in the second half OF this |
round. Cogan doubled. waldron flew out I
to Williams. Feenan doubled and scored /
Iogan. Balzer struck out and Hunt |
popped to the pitcher. Only twenty-seven I
men faced De Mott in the next seven /
sessions, and Georgetown had but one /
chance to score, in the fourth, when 1
Cogan and Feenan singled.
Lafayette's final score in the eighth /
vas the result of De Motifs triple and
| blocked ball. Murphy's throw to third