Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-30
ALMOST DECIDED
IN MAJORITY OF LEAGUES
Championships Of Local Amateur Circuits
Can Be Pretty Well Determined
Gossip of Plays and Players.

ant. has been chosen to fill the vacancy
1t is thought that the new man will
prove competent official. as he did very
good work for the youngsters in the
junior organization.
1t is rumored that Mr.. Shurtleff who is
the secretary Of the amateur commits
sion, has rendered his resignation to
take effect after the present season. 1t
it is true 1t will not be easy for the
commission to undertake the work that
has been carried on by Mr.. Shurtleff
nor to find a man who Will devote the
time to 1t that he has. An hour a day
would be considered an awful burden for
which to receive no compensation except
knocks to most men, but 1t seems that
Mr. Shurtleff has given four, five and
six hours Of his time to the official
records. 1t is one job that will not find
Manhattan and Kendall meet tomorrow
in the first of the two games in which
the two leaders are scheduled to take
part. 1t is very probable that the win
ner of the first game will take the series
and have the championship OF the league
to Its credit Suppose, for instance, the
Manhattan Club wins tomorrow. That
would even up matters between the two
teams and there is not much likelihood
that the Kendall Club would be able to
take two in q row from the Manhattans.
The lead which Kendall has now VIII be
made up when the Manhattan Club plays
the other two games for which it is
scheduled, there being no other team in
the league which stands much of a
show to win from 1t with the exception
of Kendall.
It is probable that Manhattan will use
Engle In the box, while Mcmahon. the
boy who worked against Manhattan be-
fore and beat them. will be sent to the
mound in an effort to repeat the trick.
Many of the boys who played in the
high school series last spring will be
school season opens next year. There
are several who did not show to any
great advantage in this years series who
1t is almost surety will be stars when
the season opens in 1912 Those who
were good players last spring are develop
ing rapidly and will be able to give their
teams much better service than hereto
fore. OF course, as far as knowledge of
base ball is concerned they are learning
practically nothing, the main advantage
Of the experience they are now getting
being in the superior physical power
which they are gaining, and the improve
ment in the mechanical part Of their
playing. Probably the man who has de-
veloped more rapidly than any Of the
others is Mclean, who Is covering short
for the Andrews club in the Commercial
League. His playing has improved in
every particular since he left the school
team, he being able to hit the ball much
better now and seems to be much surer
on ground balls and throwing.
The Washington end of the post-season
series will be played Labor day, when
the Richmond aggregation comes here
prove interesting from a technical stand
point as well as from one Of general in
terest. The club which will represent
the local amateur circuits will be a
strong one. while Richmond will make
every effort to get away with the SERIES
One of the greatest upsets Of form that
have been known in the amateur ranks
this year has taken place in the Capital
City League. The Sewage Pumping
Station started off as though there would
be nothing to 1t this summer but the
before being defeated, and leading every
follower Of the game to believe that the
Cornell Company had caught tartar
and would be lucky to beat it out for the
though. and there was hardly time
after the bumpers lost two or three
games when 1t seemed that they would
hold their position. The team failed to
iit. its pitchers did not work as well as
they gave evidence Of being able to dur
ing the first two weeks of the season, and
the consequent result was that 1t went
back gradually until it was finally showed
down into third place by the Navy
Yard
One of the big gaps that will be ore
ated in the Cornell team In the post-sea-
son series. providing 1t finally wins the
pennant, az there seems no doubt that
it will. by the absence OF Hayes and
Moran. will be ably filed by George Null
lin. Mullin has demonstrated his ability
to cover any position in the infleld In q
very creditab.e manner, and he can al
ways be counted on as being a mighty
dangerous factor when at bat. especially
with men on the bases. Unlike most
players. Mullin hits the ball harder ana
more often when the sacks are loaded
than when there 70 none on.
This Drummer. who has pitched the