Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30
GEORGETOWN LOSES
Chamber of Commerce Team
Takes Its Measure.
BECKER PITCHES FINE BALL
Blue and Gray Unable to Cope
With Team Of Veterans and
Loses by 10 to 5 Score.

| Playing base ball In q Wear1ed SORT
| of way and seeming to care little
whether it won or lost. the George
town University team went down to
| defeat yesterday at the hands Of the
Chamber Of Commerce. nine by the
| score of 10 to 5. 1t was a slow con-
test from its start, and each team
seemed to take the whole thing as a
joke; at any rate 1t looked like that
| If the amount of energy displayed by
the players is any criterion.
It was thought that the game
would be a practice affair, and 1t was
for that that it was arranged, but the
Chamber Of Commerce seems to have
made a grand play to trim the Hill
toppers. About the best team that
could be picked from among the anna
tours and former professionals in the
city was what opposed the Blue and
Gray when the game started. Cy Mac
Donald, Vaughan. Hayes. Bryant and
others who belong in the same class
composed the nine.
Best Of all the men who had been
hunted up by the Chamber of Com
merce manager was Pitcher Becker.
For the six innings he occupied the
mound but two scratch hits were all
| the Hilltoppers could annex in their
hit column. Becker. while 1t was the
first time he has been on the rubber
this season, made the Blue and Gray
| batters bite the dust pretty easily.
| they not having chance to do any
thing against the balls that he sent
smoking across the plate. Besides hav-
ing good fast ball with good break
working very nicely, and between the
| two of them Georgetown had just
about as much chance to score runs
against the Commerce nine as would
| a high school team.
Mitchell started on the mound for
iGeorgetown, and lasted two innings. He
was wild, and when he did get them
over the Commerce aggregation pep
pered the ball for keeps. In the first
two chapters Ave tallies were scored
against him. At the end Of the second
inning Dave White appeared on the
scene, and was ordered to take up the
burden. For four innings everything
went along fine. Then came the seventh.
In that period White, who had been
complaining of sore arm, eased up.
and three hits and an error scored two
more runs. Wabby Oeonnor was then
without mishap, but in the ninth a bat
ter hit and two clean bingles gave the
Commerce aggregation a method by
which they chased two extra runs over
the pan.
The game from the start was poorly
played by Georgetown, there being a
whole lot of very loose work, both In
the field and at the bat At critical
stages of the contest somebody would
come across with a wild throw. or else
ono would be booted that either paved
1.-THE way to score runs or scored runs
on the same play. The pitching of the
men the Hilltoppers sent to the mound
was the poorest that has been done In
recent
the only one to get by with anything
THAT looked like a clean slate. Whlle
he allowed two runs In the last in
ming during which he offciated. he was
much the steadier of the trio who did
work on the rubber
The Chamber of Commerce team began
the slaughter in the opening round.
Mitchell was unsteady for Georgetown org own
bunted and beat the ball to first: Cecil
fiied out to Hunt, Macdonald dumped
an easy one down in the diamond and on
Mitchell's attempt to get the runner
muffed the ball. Taylor scored and so did
Hayes In the second inning 1t was the
same story: two hits and unsteady work
both in the box and in the field gave
the Commerce team three runs. In the
sixth another run was added on two
hits and a stolen base and in the seventh
three hits and an error sent two more
runners across the plate. The other two
runs were scored in the ninth on two hits
and an error.
Georgetown didn't have a ghost Of a
show to score until after Becker was
taken out Of the box. only twenty men
facing him during the first six innings.
When Ferguson was substituted he was
wild, and this, coupled with the fact
that Georgetown began to hit the ball
little, gave the Hilltoppers three
runs in the eighth and two in the ninth.
There was no time, though, when the team
had q chance to overcome the lead
which the Commerce nine had gained in
the early innings and which 1t kept in
creasing as the game went on.
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