Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-19


amateur game played yesterday. There
was scarcely a single contest in which
some pitcher did not get his bumps in
good style, and there was not a game in
which the hit columns did not register in
double figures.
In the seven games played in the anna
teur leagues yesterday there were one
hundred and fifteen hits made, for a total
of one hundred and seventy-four bases.
| out of the hundred and fifteen hits there
were scored one hundred and eight runs.
There We're but three games in which the
runs did not go into the double figures
for one or the other of the contending
teams
the greatest amount of hitting done in
any game was that accomplished in the
Marquette League contest In the game
between the Tenleytown and st. Stephens
teams, the former getting ten and the
latter twelve hits. The honors in the
team hitting We're carried off by the
! Cornell Company and ST. Stephens club,
each getting twelve safe WallopS.
The individual batting honors were won
by Stuckert. who played right field for
Hamline in the Churh League. and Stad-
Ter. who held down the first bag for the
Ten!eytown club in the Marguerite
League. Both men connected with the
ball for two home runs.
| Technical High found the Georgetown
Props rather easy yesterday on the Hill
top the Manual Trainers winning the
game played with the Blue and Gray
Youngsters by a 4to-1 score. The offer
ings of Talbot We're hit to all corners
of the lot. the Tech crowd getting a
! total of thirteen Safeties.
| Both Garland and Austin pitched good
ball in the time they were on the mound,
the Props being able to connect with
neither of them when hits meant runs.
Six hits were all that the Props could
do with the offerings of the pair of high
school twirlers. Mccarthy. who played
left field for the Georgetown youngsters.
showed again that there has been moth
ing fluky about the hits he has been
getting this spring. as he connected with
the ball safely three times out of four
trips to the pan.
While the track meet is being held at
Maryland Agricultural College tomorrow
the base ball team of that school will
journey to Westminster, where 1T Will
meet its time-honored rival, Western
Maryland. The Farmers. although in a
crippled condition, are putting up a good
brand of base ball, and expect to get away
with the Methodists when the two nine
line up tomorrow. Last year the Farmers
beat about the strongest team West
ern Maryland ever had, and 1t is expected
that with just as good an aggregation
of ball players as represented them last
year the Farmers will repeat the victory.
The Sewage Pumping Station met It's
first defeat of the season yesterday. when
il went up against the Cornell company
and lost to that team by the close tally
of 6 to d Green's pitching was in the
main responsible for the victory, as dur
ing the seven innings that he held down
the job the mound he allowed the
bumpers only four hits.
Hessler seems to have found his batting
eye at last, as yesterday he laid his bat
against the ball for three drives which
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versity star got three safe ones out Of
four trips to the pan.
Martin for the Sewage Pumping Sta
ton was hit hard for the first time this
year, and had to be replaced by Moore.
Only one college game is scheduled to
take place in town tomorrow, and that is
a minor affair. The Catholic University
meets the Rock Hill College team at Uni
versity Field.
Georgetown will journey to Annapolis,
where it will meet the Naval Academy
The Sailors have not been putting up
any too good an article of ball this spring
and the Blue and Gray should land the
contest.
Chestertown. Md, will be the scene of
the endeavors of the Gallaudet nine
team.
It is stated on almost positive authority
that Shipley. the Maryland Agricultural
the Sewage Pumping Station this sea-
son. The Farmers leader has put up a
good game around the second bag in the
two games in which he has held down
that position for the bumpers.
Next Wednesday the Georgetown nine
will again go up against the Catholic
University team. The Hilltoppers are ex
pecting to repeat their victory of two
weeks ago, while the Brookland crowd
is banking on winning this game, so
that third one will have to be played
to decide the championship.
| The Trinity Athletic Club claims the
championship of Washington for all
| teams eighteen years old, and would like
| to arrange games with any disputants OF
| the title. Those wishing to arrange
games should communicate with Joseph
Barron, $500 o street northwest.
| The Sligo team, in the Olympia League
and the Congressionals, in the District
| circuit, forfeited the games scheduled to
! be played by them yesterday, neither club
| having nine men on the field.
| II is the first time this season that a
| forfeit has occurred in the District
League, but the games which have gone
! to opposing clubs in the Olympia circuit
| have been numerous, and there is every
reason to believe that there is due TO be
| a shake-up In the circuit before long
unless an Improvement is shown in the
mentioned matter.
There will be change in umpires In