Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-21
WAY NOT PLAY SERIES AT
AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK
High Schools Will Probably Not Have Use
of Grounds for Coming Games
Notes Of Interest.

pitcher this spring. If he is able to keep
the men who compose the Bankers nine
from hitting. he should certainly be able
to give the high school lads all they are
looking for.
White is slated to do the pitching for
Georgetown this afternoon against Penn
sylvania, while Clark. who is touted as
being almost the equal of "Toots'
Schultz, is almost certain to start the
mound work for the Quakers. In the
game Monday against Princeton White
showed that he is fast coming into form.
and if he works as he did in that con-
test Penn will not have it easy getting
away with him. Clark has also done
some great work this spring. and, q bat
tie royal between the two men may be
looked for this afternoon.
The same two teams will also meet to-
morrow.
Catholic University is booked to meet
the Delaware College team tomorrow aft
ernoon. while Gallaudet will go to Bal
timore to play the Mount Washington
Athletic Club Of that city. Both teams
are in good shape. and should be fit to
give the best of them a good run for
their money. Ryan will more than like
ly do the pitching for the Catholic Uni
versity, while Battiste is about the only
reliable that Gallaudet has to depend
on since Brick was put out of commits
sion.
About the only requisite which seems
necessary to insure the Midway club
finishing well up in the Capital City
League will be the addition of a couple
of good twirlers. So far the team has
gathered together good. fast infield
and fair Outfield, and these, with one
or two men who can hold the runs of
the opposition to minimum. should in
sure the clubs winning majority of its
games.
Murphy made a difficult and perfect
throw from center field to first in the
game against Yale Tuesday. when he
doubled up the man who started for sec
ond on line drive to deep center. The
Yale man played the game all right by
lance down to the second bag. but he I'M
derestimated the throwing ability of the
Georgetown centerfelder. At that
though. it is not probable that the. base
runner would have been put out had it
not been for the fact. that the throw was
absolutely perfect and Feenan in ac-
cepting it did not have to bulge off the
bag.
Even though Brick has been the
mainstay in the box for the GaIlaudet
team for long. time. it is possible that
as far as pitching goes his absence from
the box during the remainder of the
spring may not be missed to such a
Battiste, the captain of the team. is not
poor pitcher by any means and if the
form he has shown in the last two
games is any criterion the Kendall!
Greeners will not be lacking for good
twirling material. even though their ac-
copied star IL probably out for the re-
mainder of the season. Against Johns
Hopkins Battiste struck out seventeen
men and allowed but two hits, and last
Monday he shut out the Baltimore Poly
technic Institute in great style. 1t would
seem from these performances that the
Indian has the goods to make good
pitcher and all that he needs to win
games is an even break Of luck. which he
does not seem to have had. Moore looks
to be a conner. but it is doubtful if he
has had the experience to shoulder the
burden of a mainstay in the pitching de-
partment.
During the three innings that Jack
Leonard occupied the mound against the
Petworth team for the Aloysius club the
other day he allowed but three hits and
looked to be better than ever. Leonard.
though always was one Of the best am
ateur pitchers in the city. although in
clined to be little erratic.
In the first game of the high school
SERIES which is to be played Tuesday
between Western and Tech, the former
school will be at a great disadvantage
in that great deal of time has been
both mines have lost the same amount of
time. it nevertheless will injure West
ern's chances more than it will Techs in
that the latter has a team composed in
the main of veterans. while the former
is simply a green bunch, with only two
or three men on the team who have ever
had any experience at all outside of
playing catch among themselves on the
back lot The Maroon and Red has had
excellent material out of which TO build
a ball team, and it has probably taken
advantage of the fact to put out one of
the best teams in the five schools. Every
thing being taken into consideration, 1t
would seem that the chances are decid-
eddy in favor of Tech getting away with
the first game. 1t would seem that West
ern's only hope lies in the ability it has
shown in one or two games to get in and
clout out two or three runs at a critical
moment 1t is certain that Tech has not
a pitcher who will have much on the Red
and White hitters. and it may be that
the game will be won in the way men,
toned
"Shag" Rawlings will probably start on
the mound for the American Security and
Trust Company in the opening game In
the Bankers League next Wednesday.
He has shown by beating the Georgetown
nine that he is in good shape this spring,
and he should have little trouble dis
posing of the Washington Loan and Trust
team. which is to face him in the opener.