The Washington herald., 1910-08-14

Jones hunOred his pets and now the
Petworth Baby Dolls" are posing for
their photos and labelling the pictures
Champions"
Whenever Garrett, Of Petworth. and
Roger Moore. Of WOODBURY. happen 10
oppose each other on the mound the
fans are advised 70 bring their break
fast and the players to learn to play
by moonlight as each OF these promising
twirlers takes all the time allowed under
the rules in pitching the bah to the
plate.
There were Ave pennant races decided
last week. The Washington Herald win
ming the Commercial League banner, Pet
worth fixing its paw on the top notch
In the Suburban; Manhattan winning
out in the independence: Ninth winning
in the Sunday School, and Adams wal
Looping Southern two straight in the Rail-
road League finals.
The Washington Herald nine deserves
much credit for finishing in front in the
Commercial League. The team was only |
recently organized among the sports In
the Office and at first these players had |
little or no standing in their profession,
(viz., as ball Players around the Office.
But. even as every dog has his day.
times have changed and now the players !
on the Herald nine are the real candy
kids and own the Office and are kow-
towed to at every turn by their less
fortunate fellows.
r. s. Jones. manager Of the Petworth /
team. has won his way to the front as
a managep by MS hard and consistent
work for his team, the Suburban League, /
and amateur baseball generally. Mr..
Jones organized the present Petworth /
aggregation and has been its manager l
ever since. The first year the Petworth
lads rounded up in third place. the
next season they had to be content with i
the fourth notch, but Oh you kid
they're on top this season, and they de-
serve their victory.
President Page, Of the Suburban /
League. states that the games in the /
post season series which Petworth in
tended to play on the home grounds may !
be played on some other field. unless the 4
collections warrant the contests being 1
pulled of at Grant oval II Is tough on 4
the Suburban League fans II they cannot |
support the home team when It lands the /
bunting
Buck" Stewart after many years OF /
baseball. has at last landed with win /
ming aggregation. Buck" has been ad- |
vertised to eat EN- alive at third base /
all season for Petworth. and he proceed |
ed to show the big crowd how he does |
It when the Baby Dolls" played Wood |
burn last week Buck" waxed so en- /
thusastic he forgot 20 throw the ball /
over the first baseman's head. as adver- /
tised.
The Rioters Club OF the Capital |
City League has submitted a team which |
the North Capitol street fans think can |
wallop the one selected by Scorer Shaw. /
The team selected is as follows: Smith. |
Carroll, Murphy. Hurley. Sullivan, Mar
ceron. Taylor, Hummer. and Mullin. II /
would be a good game il these two mines
could clash.
The BIoomiugdale Club baseball team
will play every Tuesday. Thursday, and
Saturday, beginning the 18th Of the pres
ent month. and Manager Klopfer would
like to arrange games with uniformed
| teams on their home lot The Southern
Railway. Twining Laurel md. Takoma,
/ Tennailytown. Falls Church CVa) and
Relay Md teams preferred. Address
E. B. HOPPER, finance division. Pension
Bureau.
Mr.. WOODBURY. Of Washington suburbs,
who has been suffering for some time
with a mysterious ailment, came to Pet
worth last week and was operated upon
by Surgeon r. S. Jones. Of the Petworth
garrison Surgeon Jones diagnosed the
case at once as al aggravated attack
of "apennantcitus. arising from pro-
tracted siege Of winning. which gives
the patient a swelled head asd causes the
hallucination that It is impossible for
him to lose the pennant. Mr.. Woodburn
| exhibited all the symptoms Of an ag-
! gravated case Of this ailment, and as
| Surgeon Jones at once announced that
/ the only hope for recovery was 10 have
! his pennant chances removed Mr.. Wood
4 burn appeared at the Petworth operating
room and submitted 70 the operation,
which was attended with marked success.
| Surgeon Jones succeeded In removing all
/ of the growth OF pennant chances that
| had gathered in the patients system, and
/ on Friday night Mr.. Woodburn left Pet
worth without being considered danger
/ Gus. Surgeon Jones is rapidly acquiring
reputation for these operations. having
operated upon other persons Of loss note,
his cases always being attended with i'm
proved results.
Charlie salb caught good game for
Commercial at the park yesterday. and
was very much in evidence with the bat
His bingIe In the first round scored the
first run for the losers. and his long drive
to right in the third gave them their
second run when Gray dropped the ball
He also hit safely on his third trip to the
pan
4 Followers OF the Railroad League are
anxious to know how their champions. the
Adams Express aggregation, will fare in
the coming series for the District cham
pionship The team seems well fortified
IN regard to battery material Peck is a
clever receiver and Fitzgerald is an able
assistant With Mcmahon and Harvey
on the firing line and in such form as
they we're against Southern they should
easily hold up their end Of the defense.
The inhed worked with clock-like pre-
cision in the last few games, O'Neii star
ring and Jewett at first pulling or stunts
IN big league form. In the outfield Stew
art and Violet. both chosen as all league