The Washington herald., 1911-09-03

Logan Cunningham. the former Cen
traI High School football and baseball
star who will coach the Princeton foot
ball eleven this fall directed the Ameri-
can Security and Trust Company team
from the bench Yesterday as the Bank
Crs' regular coach was forced to he
out OF town on business "Cunny's'
2ood judgment in changing pitchers dur
ing the second game virtually won the
amateur title for the bank clerks.
'Cunny has been playing ball up in
British Columbia this summer and looks
the perfect picture of health.
According 10 the list OF American
League drafts. Cleveland has obtained
Dave Bunting the Worcester New Eng
land League, third haseman. Bunting
vas with the Nationals down in Atlanta
last spring ard looked fairly good. He
was turned over to Jesse Burkett, Of the
Worcester club. for development. and
has been going we'll for the New Eng
landers all season It is hardly likely
that Bunting will make good with the
Maps next year. as he needs more sea-
sOninc
When the championship interCity games
start Al National Park tomorrow. Wash
inCton will he represented by the Ameri-
can Security and Trust Company team.
one of the fastest amateur organizations
the District has ever turned out. With
the exception OF Pitcher Fienli. every
member Of the team draws wages for
work in the bank and a cleaner set of
bows never lived This team is a credit
to the District: We are all proud Of them
and the fans should turn out in goOdly
numbers to give them the support and
encoura cement they richly deserve.
Charley Donnelly. the former Eastern
High School football and baseball coach,
who will pilot the destinies of the Mary
land Aggies this season. tells the writer
that his brother expects to enter George
town this fall The younger DOnnelly is
a football PLAYER Of some note. Last fall
he was halfbaCk and end on the WOrCes-
ter High School eleven. and those North
ern schools turn out some crack-a-jacks.
1t is understood that young Donnelly will
be a candidate for the Hilltoppers'
eleven.
Says well-known New York baseball
writer: How old Is Ann has now given
away to a query more vital to the ma
tional happiness, to wit: Why is Horace
FOgel?"
There are two big reasons why the
Athletics are hoping that the New York
Giants will he the winners of the Ma
tional League pennant this season. says
the Philadelphia Telegraph. II the
White Elephants get into the world
series, which now appears 10 he fore
gone conclusion. and they had the chance
to pick their opponents, it is certain
that the Giants would he their selec-
tion.
In the first place there would he much
more money in a series with New York
than would he the case with Chicago or
although the Pirates, in 1909. |
established the financial record of S4l.- !
SS4.50 for one game. and more than AO,- |
reason for the Athletics desire is the !
fact that they have always wanted TO !
get an opportunity to get even for the |
defeats which the Giants handed them |
in the worlds series of 1905.
dispatch from Detroit says that
Hugh Jennings has given up in the race
for the American League pennant.
Maybe that's so. but we doubt IT,
II. Jennings doesn't give up He isn't
that sort. He Will give up when he is
more games behind the Athletics than
there remain games to play. At that time
he will Quit trying for the pennant-but
hot until then. H. Jennings belongs to
The hold-fast department. He doesn't let
20 till ii thunders-and thunders mighty
Oud, at that
Pitcher James. Of the Maps, who was
Ait on the shoulder by a ball batted by
Salter Johnson, tearing loose several
Gaments is now being treated by a
surgeon at Cleveland. but without much
prospect of being able to work again
his season. and possibly never. 1t was
fortunate thing that the ball did not
lit him in the head, or there might
lave been a fatality
Charles Comiskey is greatly peeved
when one of his pitchers fails to cover .
irst base on a grounder to the first base
nan. Commy is a bug on the fielding
" pitchers. He claims that the twIrler Il
Always the Same