Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-01
ANOTHER GOOD YEAR FOR
SPORTING EVENTS ON RECORD
Bad Start Held the Washington GLIB to a
Low Position in Pennant Race.

Hurley. Beckett. Morse, Woodward.
Thomas and Robertson.
In the Sunday School League three
teamS-Hamline. AnacoStia and Ninth
fought it out throughout the season, at
one time one team leading and then an
other. Up until the last month OF the
season the 9th street boys had hung
around third place, but at this point they
got busy. and by their heavy stick work
won enough games to jump from third to
first i'll which position they finished
Walters, Buckley. NJ. Broome Iitz More
land, c. Broome, Miles, Hands Guam
trelle, Symonoski and Whitney made up
the team
, After seesawine up and down through
out the year the Petworth club landed
the pennant in the Suburban League.
Ia king the lead from Woodburn during
the last three weeks of play and success
fully retaining il until the final bell runS-
The race between these two teams
from the start to finish of the season. al
though at one time the BrightwOod team
cooked threatening. hut the hest ii could
do was to take third place The Wood
ourn team was composed Of I.eDuc. SeitZ.
Dempsey Clayton. Mosberg. Stewart.
o NeilI. Barnes and SiaNne
one Of the closest races of the year was
that in the Bankers League. the imeri-
can Security and Trust Company team,
composed Of Howard, Davis, Gray, Snow
den. HAYES. West. Rawlings. BOykin and
johnson. finally winning ont over the
, boys from the Commercial National Bank.
who had pushed them hard from the be-
. ginning Of the season, and who on two
different occasions pushed them out of
the leading position The Washington
Loan and Trust Company finished third.
IN the Independence League the closest
race of the season was run. and the Will
ner could not he decided upon until the
last game of the season. In which the
,, TwininS Athletic Club team. composed of
Clements. DowneY. Diver. Gicbel. Hiser.
Graham Burke, F,ngIe, Balzer and Wyn-
coop, defeated the Manhattans. The Man
nattans received a splendid start and got
such big early season lead that it did
not look possible for them to lose out.
but they got mixed up in a losing strea,'
at the same time that the WINNINGS hit a
winning streak. with the result that the
latter caught them al the last game OF
| the year. and by defeating them in that
| one took the title.
| Adams looked the winner from begin
ming to end in the Railroad Y. NJ. &. A.
! League. and finished ahead with COM
! forta BILE lead. Southern and Car Depart
/ ment finished lsecond and third. respec
/ lively. The ADAMS team was made up OF
| o Neill. Stewart. Beck. Jewett Harvey,
Violet. Fitzgerald. Adams and Barron.
! In the Commercial League the Andrews
: Paper Company took the lead and held
: il until the season was abOut half over,
when the Washington Herald came up
I rom pPtIlUu puSicu IL Oul vi iIISl pace
/. and held this position until the end. Gill
/ RANSOM Crabbie. Rawlings. Noone, Tip
:uu Smithson. Dodge, keane and Dole
! man composed the newspaper team.
, Columbia, No. 1o1, was easily the class
! OF the Marquette League. taking the lead
from the first and retaining it until the
end OF the season The Pension ONCE
team. which finished second. lost Severa
of it's best men on account OF them sign
ing up with professional teams. or the re-
suit might have been different, as Sergt
Robbins boys were going at fast cliI
and were winning with great regularity.
] AT the conclusion of the season the