The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-07-31


Christians are game. and every man on
the team has his weather eye on the
rag and says She's mine"
The Sunday School League recorded
its first forfeited game yesterday. owing
to the nonappeaTance OF the Enacostia
club II was also the last scheduled
game OF the season.
Birch, Of Hamline. has done some
splendid work in the box for the present
league leaders during the present sea-
son. The ''capper'' has pitched five times
70 victory and lose none
President H. A Meyers, Of the Sunday
School League. got into harness yester-
day. playing right garden for Langdon
during the exhibition game. He smote
the ball hard both times up. and on each
occasion reached first base safely
Pop" Keeper. the ex-professional.
signed by Anacostla. in the Sunday
School League has done some good work
for the "over-the-river" hand this sea-
son Though his hitting has not been up
TO the standard, in the fielding line he
has accepted thirty-six chances with but
one error.
shorty" Hughes took in the Ninth
Navy Yard excursion down the river yes-
terday, and Mr.. Thomas. who halls from
Langdon. handled the indicator.
For sale, cheap. a fast baseball team
made up Of stars from an corners Of the
District. The only thing needed is
pitcher. Apply Anacostia Baptist Church
and receive reward.
wrangling and dlspuung OF the UNI
.pire's decisions marred yesterdays game
In the Olympia League. between the
Georgetown and Tennallytown teams.
one play that had the officials and the
fans puzzled came off in the NTH iu-
ming. With the Suburbanites al bat. two
out and Odgen on first and Hurley on
second, Jones hit long ny 10 left center
that fell safe. Odgen turned second and
went 20 third. while Hurley Scored. Angel
at second called for the ball. and when
the sphere was put on the bag. Odren
was called out The Tennarytown team
claimed that the run that Hurley scored
counted. while the losers Claimed that
the tally could not count. as there were
two out and that a forced play had
taken place. The run did not count and
the batter did not get a hit. on account
.of Odgen's failure 10 touch second. This
is a similar mistake 20 that made by
Merkle Of the New York C ants
The game between Manhattan and Mas
sau, which was won by the lasl-named
tribe. has been protested by Manhattan
and it is probable that the game will
either be played over or awarded to the
Bloomingdale lads Manager DonneIy in
his protest calls the Nassau tribe to ac-
count for four different rules which he
states were broken. The matter viii
bcome up at the next regular meeting Of
the league.
The amateur commission should inves-
tigate the case Of Kraft. the Post-ofice
player, who has been playing in four
different leagues; /. e.. the Departmental,
Sunday School. Capital City. and Inde-
pendence. Besides being the regular
catcher for the Mailmen. Kraft is the
backstop for the Ninth, Kenilworth. and
Manhattan teams In this connection
Maurice O'Connor stated that the anna
teur commission refused him permission
TO play Rober tsOn, even though the De-
partmental Les que has finished its sched-
ule. other Departmental League stars
] 4 ~ MI - hot
come TO mind at this time are Geibel.
Lynch, Bruner, Ferguson, Graham, Oak
ley. and a host o. others. The commits
sion takes the stand that the Depart
mental League is still in existence until
the post-season series is played. That is
all well enough, but the commission
should see that the rule is enforced in all
quarters.
The team that beats the Southern Rail-
way outfit In any game from now on in
the Terminal Railroad Y NJ c. A
League will win the S25 purse hung up
by Adams sympathizers.
The Marines will clash with the vir-
ginia Athletic Club at Seventeenth and
D streets this afternoon at 2:3O o'clock.
The Sewage Pumping station nine is
the first team to beat club managed by
Maurice arConnor in a series Of games
in three years. IN the series Just closed
the Sewage Bumpers won three out Of
FIVE
Moreiand and Marcerol, OF Ninth. make
a pair Of sIuggers that can hardly be
beat about the city. In the recent games
they have been numbering the ball with
a vengeanc.
This afternoon az 4 o'clock, Kenilworth
will cross bats with Aloysius at Capital
City Park and a good game should result.
Douglas Bullock late Of the Central
High School team. is pitching winning
ball for Berry & Whitmore. 1t was due
to Bullock's victory over Andrews last
Monday, to 4, that The Washington
Herald nine was able to crawl into the
lead. Bullock famed ten men in this
game and let the paper boys down with
three hits Friday he won from the
Southeast 7. NJ. c. A. Z ID, 5. Besides
pitching good ball. Bullock is some hitter
and has been lining the ball out lately.