The Washington herald., 1911-05-23
FRANCHISE OF SLIGO TEAM
TO BE REVOKED AT ONCE
Forfeiture of Third Game in Olympia League Caused
the Drastic Step-Micky Kelher Gets Homer
with Two on the Sacks.
By G, w. SWAN.


in the Olympia League. By forfeiting
their third game yesterday. the Sligo
team put itself liable to forfiture Of
their franchise.
At a late hour last night prominent
official of the league stated that the
Woodland Athletic Club would most like
ly receive the franchise of the Sligo
team. and that they would be admitted
at once. While the official regrets the
loss of the Sligo team, he stated that 1t
was necessary TO take this drastic step
in order to keep the league on its feet.
The class Of ball played by the Olympia
circuit has not been of the best and
taken with the forfeits that have been
ACQUIRING lately, something had to be
done
The nine that will be admitted in the
place Of the Sligo team has made a
good record playing Independent ball and
will be able to give the confident leaders
a rub for every game.
Bureau forfeited to the Columbia 101
team yesterday in the District League
when Manager Johnson had the strongest
team that he has ever been able to get
together on the field.
This is hard on the Printers as they
have been losing regular. and when they
got fast team on the field, Bureau had
to rob them of victory gained by good
ball playing.
The District League has been having
its share of rorfeits lately. and until
something is done with the teams re-
league is bound TO suffer in comparison
with the Capital City League.
Mike Keliher is now the idol Of the
Petersburg fans. Yesterday. with two on
the sacks, Mickey poled out a homer.
and Petersburg won, to = Johnny
Mace was behind the bat and put up his
usual good game
Clyde Richmond is having the best year
OF his career as a twirler. according to
many amateur fans. Richmond is doing
great work for Commerce and Labor in
the Departmental League and is also the
mainstay OF the Ninth team in the Sun
d. School League.
Manager Love, of the Ninth Street
Christians, has added another crack to
his twirling corps. Herrel the holder
of the strike-out record for the present
year, will work against the fast Ingram
team Friday.
AZ a meeting held at the home
of William Fisher, the strong Oxon
Hin independent team. of Prince
George County. Nd, was reorganized for
the season of 1911. The following Off
GERS were elected: Manager, Edward " |
HeiskeIl; captain. Bert Major: treasurer, |
Samuel Rowe; coach, William Fisher.
The Oxon Hill club expects a most !,
successful season, owing to the fact that |
ha of Ia St will remain |
practically intact. There is a possibility |
that Harvey Bush. last years star |
catcher, and leading batter on the team. |
will not be able to play. The following |
men will compose the team: Catchers, |
H Rush and Heiskell; pitchers. c. Rush.
L. Mattingly, and E. Fisher; infielders, |
Capt Major, NJ. Fisher, Perigo, E. |
Fisher, and Sweeney; outfielders. Rowe. |
G. Fisher. w. Mattingly, and Hager.
Manager HeiskelI desires to arrange |
games with strong uniformed teams of |
the District and vicinity for Sundays in |
May and June and both Saturdays and |
Sundays during July. August, and Sep |
tember, also for May 30 and July 4. Oxon |
Hill is particularly anxious to meet |
Laurel. as they are out for the champion |
ship of Prince George County. Address |
Manager Edward V. Hesikell, Congress |
D. c., R. F. D. s.
Amateur Editor The Washington Herald:
West Falls Church, Va, May ..
In The Herald this morning you print |
a box score of the game between the |
District National, of the Bankers League,
and the Falls Church team. played al
Falls Church yesterday. This score was
5 to In the District Nationals favor.
The real results were 10 to against Dis
trict National. I scored the game on
your regular sheet, wrote a few words
about tthe results, placed them in an
envelope sent out by your department for
such matters, sealed the envelope, and
handed it TO the man who pitched the
last few innings for the District Ma
tionals by the name of Hampton. who
said he would see that you received it
Now, / would not object If Mr.. Hampton
had thrown the results in the Potomac,
but to juggle the score so they win and
also give himself and friend three hits
each. when neither of them had been
able to knock the ball out Of the infeld
during the nine innings, is more than
enough for us.
Consequently I look to you. and will
feel greatly obliged If you either print
this letter in Tuesdays paper, or. better
still, write an article yourself, explaining
the little trick of the boy. or boys repre-
senting the District National Bank, did
in their anxiety to get credit for winning