Evening star., 1911-08-21
CORNELL TEAM FAVORED
IN T-SEASON SERIES
Everything Seems to Indicate That Paper
hangers Will Win--One- Team Rule Will
Not Decrease Number of Leagues.

around work has characterized the game
put up by the trust company team.
That ii will round to form soon is almost
assured, but that ii may not play up to
it's standard until too late is what IS
feared by the hackers cf the club
This afternoon the real test for the
team will come. when it meets the Man
haitian club again. The Bankers nave
made statements as to what was gong
to happen when next they got against
the Independence leaguers, and now Is
their opportunity to make good. Ihat
Manhattan. with Burke in the box, Will
prove a stumbling block is certain. and
that with him working in the form that
he did in the previous game between the
two clubs he will be almost impossible
to beat. Another advantage that the
Manhattan club will have is that 1t will
be playing. on its own grounds, something
that will work greatly in its favor. The
grounds are not the best in the world.
and the fact that player is used to the
wild bounds that the ball is apt to take
will aid him greatly in fielding.
Whether the Naval Medical School can
win the pennant in its pcst-season series,
section 3. seems to depend on whether
Jimmy Rice, its mainstay in the box. can
work the majority of the games. There
does net seem TO be much question as to
whether Rice can win his games against
the other two clubs in the section. as he
has trimmed both of them in the two
games that have been won by his club.
If he can stand to work the decisive
games there is every likelihood that the
Naval school will come out of the series
ahead.
Post Office has another chance to stop
the Cornell team this afternoon. The
other game in which the two teams met.
and which was won by Cornell. was un-
doubtedly the result of fuke and
should have gone to Post Office on the
face of it. At the time that the f1uke oc-
CURED. though. the Paperhangers mad
three men on and only one down. and
everything seemed to indicate cne of the
batting rallies that have made the club
feared by all pitchers alike.
Fienli will probably pitch for the
American Security and Trust Com
pany this afternoon when it meets the
Manhattan team. and 1t is not likely
that the Independence Leaguers Will
be able to do much to his benders. In
the last game that was played between
the two clubs Fienli did good work.
allowing but five safe bingles- Fienli's
work during the whole season has
been consistent. there being few times
that six hits have been made in any
game that he has worked.
Just what effect the one-team rule
Is going to have on the various leagues
next season is difficult to judge. That
IL Will cut uOWH the nuHiUeI VI iedS ueS
in the city has been stated. but 1t is
probable that it will not. There are.
at present, about 1900 ball players
registered with the amateur commits
sion eligible to play in the various
circuits. These 1900 players now con-
stitute the makeup of eleven leagues.
Taking an average of six teams to a
league. which Is a higher one than is
justified by the real number, that
would make sixty-six teams to be sup
piled with players. For these sixty
six teams there are 1900 players. an
average of more than eighteen to a
club. just as many as are carried now.