Evening star., 1911-08-15
Series in Class B Will Start Tomorrow
STRENGTH OF
TEAMS WILL BE SHOWN TODAY
Results of Games Will Give Idea as to Prob
able Winners in Series Edmondson
Should Win For Cornell.

the all-star team picked from the Sunday
School League is as follows: Langford
OF North Carolina Vanderlip of Ingram
and Bishop of Hamline will play the
outfield; Meyers of Hamline, Spalding OF
Buscher and McGrath of Anacostia will
hold down the infield jobs; Wood of
Hamline. Goeble of Ingram and Fletcher
of Anacostia will do the receiving. while
Phfpps of Anacosta, Beach of Hamline
and Heinze Of North Carolina will do the
pitching Sherwood will present its reg
ular championship lineup.
The game is to be played for the bene-
fit of Robert Cameron. who was injured
by the spikes of one of the players of
the Anacosta team in a regular Sunday
School League game.
The claim of the Bladensburg team in
regard to the championship of Prince
Georges county has brought a storm of
protest from almost every town in the
county which supports a base ball team,
and 1t begins to look as though the
team from the historic old town has a
pretty hard job on its hands to prove its
contentious.
The following is a communication from
the manager of the Berwyn team regard
ing the matter:
Berwyn. Md, August 13, 1911.
The Washington Star, Washington. d. c.:
Gentlemen-I saw by article in The
Star short time ago that Bladensburg
claims the championship of Prince
Georges county by virtue of defeats ad-
ministered to "Berwyn, Hyattsville and
every other claimant to the title
Speaking for the Berwyn Athletic Club.
! would like to say that the game played
with them was SO early in the sea son
that overcoats were worn. Since that
time Manager Deeck has written to Bla
densburg for games and has challenged
il repeatedly through the daily papers,
but to no avail Again. in claiming the
title, l would like to ask, Has Bladens-
burg defeated Laurel?' / think not.
Neither is it likely to-
1t would be wise to defeat Prince Georges
county teams before claiming the title
and challenging Montgomery county and
city teams as the champions of Prince
Georges.
Yours truly.
JEAN R. BREISFORD.
Manager Berwyn Club.
The Starlights defeated the Esmeralda
A. c. Sunday afternoon by the score of
to ? The features Of the game were
the pitching of Burley and the batting of
ing out fourteen. walking one and allow.
ing but four hits, while Turner got two
doubles and single out Of four times
at bat.
SECTION AA
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
4: $. 7, Co. 1000 r.tvorth ;. . ! go
TODAY's GAME:
Manhattan vs. Petworth. 18th and D
streets northeast, 5:15 pm
Twas a weird game of base ball in Sec
ton "A of the post-season series yester-
day afternoon when the Manhattan team,
champions of the Independence League.
nosed out Andrews, champions Of the Com
mercial League. in seven innings, to B.
On the form displayed by either OF
these teams 1t looks as IL the Bankers
are going to have a walkaway in this
ter team has not met either Of the other
two teams, yesterday in its game with
the Petworth team it showed that it has
a strong aggregation. OF course, the
but at the present time the boys from
the American Security and Trust Com
pany have the dope on all o. the others.
Both teams played in luck yesterday,
although the Commercial Leaguers got
the best of good things. Hits which ought
to have been easy outs went for extra
bases because of the leather taking bad
bound when a player was set to make
the play.
Oakley started the twirling for the In
dependence League. but only lasted one
round. as his opponents landed two runs.
Burley took up the flinging after that and
twirled good game. He was touched up
for six hits, famed three batters and is
sued two free passes. In the time Oakley
was on the rubber he was hit for three
sacks. gave base on balls and landed
the leather in two of the Andrews players
ribs.
Chism and Flynn were used by the An
drews team in an effort to stop the Man
haitian boys. The former worked for four
and one-third innings. In that time the
winners landed five Of their seven hits.
Flynn got away well In the remainder
of the fifth, but two hits were recorded
off him in the last inning. No runners.
however. scored while he was on the
mound.
double play in the third inning which
went long way toward giving them the
game. as the Andrews boys certainly look
ed dangerous at tnat stage. The play was
executed by Fegan. s. Dampier. ]. DON
nelly and c. Dampier.
The Manhattan boys pulled seven hits.
OF these w. Donnelly got two a double
and single: s. Dampier landed a triple
and Rapp. j. Donnelly. Walter and Herri-
man each got a single.
OF the seven hits made by the losers
Howell and Flynn landed triple each.
Milans. j. Mulvey, Miller and D. Mulvey
each connected for a single.
Three errors were charged against the
losers, while Manhattan had five miscues.
OF those made by the Andrews team j.
Mulvey had two and Miller one. s.
Dampier had two for Manhattan, while
w Donnelly, j. Donnelly and HERMAN.
his teammates, were charged with one
each.