Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-08-25
Series Between Alexandra and Car
dinals is Attracting Interest of
Baseball Fans.
Won Lost Ave.

Alexandria B. 3. Club. 81 II ITO
The first game OF the local cham
pionship series was somewhat OF
disappointment to the fans. Every
one was led to believe that the games
would be close, yet the initial con-
test was an easy victory for the Al
exandria Club. There is reason to
hope, however, that next Saturdays
battle will show a closer score. The
Cardinals were without the services
of Shalin and GioVenetti, the star
battery, and to battery errors were
many of the Alexandria runs trace
able. O'Brien was wild and Mcbride
was unable to hold him. Wild pitch
es and passed balls came with fire.
quency to throw any amateur team
off its stride Better battery work
will make the Cardinals look like a
different team, and better battery
work is assured for Saturday.
There is no doubt but that the
Cardinal team is fast on the bases.
With one or two exceptions the men
can travel the paths at lively clip.
The judgement shown by the run
ners on Saturday, though, was poor.
One run was thrown away and a
chance for scoring another was lost
by failure to watch the play. In the
fourth inning, Williams was safe on
first by virtue of an error. The ball
rolled about six feet away from AS
tryke and Williams was run into GER
tain death at second. In the sixth
the Cardinals had the bases full and
none out With the score heavily
against them the men should have
played the game safe. Instead OF
so doing they took foolish chances
and in consequences no run was scor-
ed. Of course it should not be for
gotten that Burrells pitching and
excellent support also figured in the
failure to score.
The seventh inning Of the Fairfax
Court House game was a notable one.
In that round the visiting team re-
tired four of the Alexandria men be-
fore coming in to bat. No one seem
ed to notice the mistake until it was
too late. Burrel, the first batter in
his inning, hit safely and was forced
by Pitts. Martin hit over the fence.
Snowden took second on an error by
short and scored on Scrivener's sin
GLE The latter was thrown out at
second. Lynch flew out to first. This
made the third out, but Trenary went
to bat and was thrown out by the
pitcher. Fortunately. the error did
not count in the run getting.
Some members of the two local
teams reported at he Park Wednes-
day afternoon for practice. They
found the diamond occupied by an
immovable stand, SO practice was out
Of the question What this stand
was placed there for, no one seems
to know. But this much is known.
The Park Association should either
use the grounds for a ball park and
keep the field in good conditions for
the games, or the base ball feature
should be eliminated and the ground
thrown into Hippodrome. A sham
battle on the grounds Friday night
is not going to improve the condition
of the infield to any great extent.
Add few hundred empty shells to
the numerous bumps and rocks now
in the field and no one can tell where
ball will bounce. Some little con-
sideration should be shown the play
ers whose efforts alone can make the
Park venture financial success.
The pitching records for the AL
exandria twirlers are as follows:
Won Lost Ave.
Miller n 200