The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-26
Notes and Gossip Cleaned
from Local Diamonds.
COMPETITION GETTING KEEN
HamIine Pressing Ninth in Sunday
school Circuit, Southeast \. VI. c.
A. Team Throwing Hooks Into the
Commercial League Leaders, and
Manhattan's Lead Menaeed.
Bx n. T. woRLEY.


the game by round score. Post-ofice
surprised Agriculture by handing the
Farmers a neat trimming. thereby get
ting a firm grip on third place. The G.
p. o. nine managed to win a game in
the Marquette circuit, the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company being
caught mapping on the wire At Thir-
teenth and d streets northeast, one of
the biggest crowds of the year turned
out TO see Hamline and Ninth do battle.
The Ninth streeters nearly lost the
game on errors. but rallied and managed
TO tie their opponents. From the way in
which this game was played. 1t looks like
Hamline had more than fair show to
cop the Sunday School League pennant,
unless Ninth takes a brace. The South
east Y. M. c. A. team continued its win
ming streak in the Commercial League,
the Berry & WhitmOre boys dropping
live game TO the association lads by
the snug score Of 20 S. This new
team certainly has thrown the hooks
into the leaders.
If Manhattan hopes to hold its posi-
ton at the top of the independence
League heap, Krafts team will have TO
play better ball. Twining came danger
ously near winning from the Blooming
dale aggregation last week and thus far
no one has been able to check st. Mar
tins. When these two clubs meet the
1ur will certainly fly.
In all probability the postponed games
in the Departmental League will start
ON Monday, with contest between the
Commissioners and Commerce and Labor
teams Both clubs have large follow
ings and the roofing is expected to be
of the Al class.
We are stin waiting for some one to
get another home run in the clerks
league. Jack" Hurley is getting some
what chesty about his lonesome four
sacker
Wentz. of Berry & WhimOre. was hit
in the left eye by a pitched ball in the
fifth inning Friday and had to retire
from the game. His optic was cut and
badly swollen. Wentz is second base
man for the jewelers..
The BloomingdaIes Will play the Falls
Church (Va) team at Falls Church Tues
day afternoon al $50 and a hot battle
is anticipated. The Falls Church boys
won the first game played between these
two teams this year and the clubmen
are anxious 10 retrieve their lost laurels
Manager Ray" Brennan, of the
Fredericksburg team, is out with a
sweeping challenge to play the leading
amateur teams of Washington, CorneVs
Tigers" Aloysius Club. Pumping Sta
ton, Silver Spring, and Pension Bu-
r7fn
at Fredericksburg viii be played with
the Marines on Monday.
Those who persist in putting Fergu-
son in the down and out class and who
have insinuated that the blond twirler
could not hold his job with the Frank
fort Cky) team because OF a lame arm.
should hOof it down 10 the White Lot
some nice evening and see this youngster
perform. In the Navy clash this week
''Fergie" struck out eleven men. there
by equaling what was at that time the
record for strike-out in the clerks
league Friday, he not only beat his
own record of the Navy contest, but
distanced the one set by Byrd on We'd
nesday, and sent thirteen men down on
strikes. The laugh is on the knockers
Menefee is now playing steadily with
Augusta (Ga), in the South Atlantic
League. In the three-game series with
Columbus, which is two pegs ahead OF
the Augusta aggregation, Menefee acquit-
ted himself fairly well. His record is as
follows Eight times at bat. one run,
one hit, sixteen put-Outs. eight assists.
one error, three bases stolen in the three
games by his opponents. and no passed
balls. Menefee figured in a double play
The manager of the Commissioners
evidently believes in alterations. His
second third, fourth. and fifth batters
are. respectively Handiboe. Harding,
Hurley, and Hessler.
Since May 70. no score has reached
double figures in the clerks league.
Stearns. who holds down an infeld
position for POst-office. is an ex-captain
of a University of Virginia baseball
team. On the same team with him was
Jack Dalton. now with Brooklyn.
The BellefOntaines. under the manage
ment Of Leonard Collins the well-known
bowler and ball player, have organized
for the season and will play their initial
game this afternoon at Union League
Park with the strong Washington Giants
as their opponents. Manager Collins has
gathered together an exceedingly fast ag-
gregati0n. among whom are YUM
MOreland, Monk Walters, Red"
Broome Dutch" Kraft. Billy Hands.
six" Brewer and other equally we'll
I1nownf local amateurs. The same teams
met at National Park on Decoration
Day In a double-header, and this after
moons game viii prove of added inter-
est, as they broke even in the first two
games. and this viii be the first of a
series OF three out of five It is the
intention of the Bellefontaine manage
ment to book a game at Union League
Park every Sunday afternoon and only
the headliners in local amateur circles
will be given dates. thus assuring the
patrons q high-class article Of ball
To-days game viii start at 3 p. m.
starp.
Agriculture certainly has the Labor
ties goat Those two games the Farm
ers copied from the Commerce aggre-
cation brought them from first place
The Prospect boys pulled off a triple
play against st. Stephens in the Olympic
League recently that brought down the
house." and which was voted BY al
present the best play of the present sea
son in this circuit. In the second inning
A Centre Of Attraction