The Washington times., 1911-07-03
Batting Averages Show
Slight Falling Off, But
Fielding Improved.
TWIRLING ON WHOLE
NOT UP TO STANDARD
In the Perfect Batters Glass But
Two Players Quail
fed.

In the amateur leagues playing undel
the amateur commission, there were
forty-four games played during hc
week past. Five were shut-outs, four
were won by one run and one resulted
In a tie.
The grand batting average reached the
.25S mark, which figure is three points
less than during the preceding week.
The teams fielded at an 1897 clip, 3 per
cent greater than last week.
Cornell and Pumping Station eQuaIed
the record set by Aloysius and Adams
In that they played an errorless game.
The best game OF the week was played
by Marines and Pumping Station. who
battled twelve innings, the Marines
finally winning.
Total of Errors.
Exactly 1896 chances were offered the
felders and 354 errors were made. The
number of put-outs was 2,I23, while the
assists totaled s19. A total of 2,Sl2 bat
tiers are credited with having faced the
pitchers and upon ZIG occasions safe
hits resulted.
The pitching as a whole did not COM
pare with that exhibited during previous
weeksfi There was one one-hit game,
InllISu ny 4LOIlIpSOIlg Ol L. anu I.
The one hit which was made turned the
tide Of the game and the pitcher had to
be charged with a defeat. There were
no two-hit games pitched and the best
that could lie shown was six Utrecht,
five four-hit and four five-hit con-
tests
two players qualifying. Hines, of Com
mercial National, and Kidwell. of Will
lard, each connected for four safeties
out of four attempts.
Errorless Ball.
Five teams played errorless ball:
First. Cornell, Sewage Pumping Station.
Southern, and Marines. The number of
teams that went through contests with
only one slip-up appearing were nine,
namely, Car Department, Marines, st.
Martins. Petworth, Commissioners. Com
merce and Labor, Commercial, Navy,
and Adams.
or the batters who attempted to land
for safeties, 623 were retired by the
strixe-out route. Bases on balls num-
bered 237. while the pitchers hit the
batsman on sixty-five different occa-
sions.
Base stealers had a good week. Sl5
being the total reached. Sacrifice hitters
did their work 81 times, and the feeders
pulled off Il double plays. OF the 7l6
hits made, 104 were doubles, A. were
triples, and 10 were home runs.
The following releases were reported |
to Secretary Shurtleff, Of the amateur |
commission, July l:
District League.
Co m m 1 s i o n e s-AddeI, Thomas |
TT ompscn; dropped, Raymond King.
Columbia, l0l-Added, c. J. Bussius, J.
S. Price; dropped, John Dilsaver, VIII
liam O'Connell, Harry Lewis.
Capital City League.
Cornell Company - Added, Stuart
Hayes; dropped. William YettUn.
Olympia League.
White Haven-Added, joan Jones, Mel
son George; dropped, p Scherler, Jo-
Seph Sullivan.
Southland-Added. John Warmth,
John Blair, Julius Ristoc, James Beck
released, Rogers, Reed, Watson, Buck
t.oltz
Immanuel-Added, Keerer Dev:ne. Ed
ward Carroll, Robert Cunningham, Ross
Hunter, Jules P"tI!: .-.nas"4, BullJck,
lay Tor Ray Thompson, Gcsslcr
Silver Spring-Addei, Ollie Clark; re-
eaSed, Russell Gill
Northumberland, EIwsrI Thomp-
s0n.
Bra ddock-Re'eased. Russell Lynch.