Evening star., 1911-08-20
CLUBS ARE PL AYING UP TO
STANDARD IN BIG SERIES
With One Exception Teams Are Doing Bet
ter Work Than During League Season.
Other Gossip Of the Amateurs.

had Post Office played the game against
Sherwood In the opening contest that 1t
did against the Cornell team Friday 1t
would have come nearer being the vic
tor instead Of the vanquished.
If Ferguson could have the stuff in
every game in which he worked that
he did against Cornell Friday and have
control with it he could pitch in any
minor league in the country, and do
good work, too.
That Cornell Company team has the
unhappy facility for it's opponents of
doing the majority Of it's hitting in one
inning. 1t will go along looking
like very mediocre aggregation of
ball players until what always seems
to be the psychological moment. and
then 1t seems to rain base hits In the
majority OF the games 1T has played
this season that has been the method
by which 1t has scored nearly all it's
runs. For Instance, in the first game
which the team played in the post sea-
son series.( Bob Hummer had it at his
mercy for the first five innings, not a
man seeming able to solve his mys-
ferrous benders, but in the sixth he
was hit for four runs, which tied the
score and lost Aloysius the game.
Jimmy Rice is one pitcher who is de-
serving Of whole lot of praise for the
ing out in the Capital City League with
the Seamen Gunners, he did great
work in the box against every nine
against which he was pitched. al
though his support at times was
he has been with the Naval Medical
School he has done even better work
than he did while in the Capital Citv
League. He practically landed the pen
nant for the Meds. as 1t is doubtful IF
for him.
b, Besides being good pitcher, Rice is
also a good hitter. seldom playing in a
game in which he falls to get a hit " :
Rice has easily won the two games he
has pitched for the Medical school in the
post-season series In class B.
Mess. who has been playing with the
Manhattan and Petworth clubs during
anytbn ane neason S lust pa has failed to show
ized his work whi'e holding down the
third sack for the Georgetown team three
years ago. While playing on the Blue
ana cray team he was at the same time
one OF the fastest fielding and best hit
ting college third basemen in thts sec
tfon, but he fails to measure uD 10 that
standard now. He seems to have slowed
up considerably in the last two years.
Fienli. the Georgetown man who is
pitching for the American Security and
Trust Company, has probably been over
worked as he failed to show much class
against the Manhattan Club. As was
shown last spring while on the Hilton.
f1enli Is not able to stand too many turns
in the box. After pitching superb bali
against Cornell. one of the best college
teams in the country last spring, and do
Ing good work In several games follow
Ing. he pitched mediocre ball on several
occasions and did not work in his ac-
customed form until given a long rest.
The Post Office team has undoubtedly
SHOWN better form In the last two games
played than 1t has at any time this sea
son, either In It's regular league games
or In the post-season series. The club
has given every evidence OF being
championship possibility in its two last
contests instead of a cellar prospect. as
was expected it would be after It had
received its first defeat at the hands of
the Sherwood team, champions of the
Sunday School League. In the first game
played the Mailnien failed to make any
bases being slow and Their play in other
departments bordering on the mediocre.
one fact that causes the team to show
up especially we'll is that from now on
IL VIII have two pitchers whom it can
work In regular turn, and there is little
doubt that both of them can win games
If they can deliver the goods they did in
the games played Friday and Yesterday
Both ferguson and Kerr pitched good
enough ball and received good enough
support in the two last games played to
W n post-season championship There
Is every reason to believe that If the
Mailmen had played up to the standard
set yesterday and continued playing i'm
that manner the post-season champion
ship would likely have gone to the De-
partmental League.
Jimmy Kerr's work yesterday was GER
tainly revelation to those who saw him
shut out the Aloysius club to O. When
he stepped in the box 1t was whispered
on all sides that the Aloysius club was
going to have an easy time winning. but
such did not prove to be the case as he
had little trouble in keeping the opposing
batters from hitting. and at no time after
the first inning was he In danger of being
scored on. II Kerr and Ferguson con-
tinue to pitch winning ball it may be
that the Post Office will still be In the
running for the flag. although 1t Is doubt
full II there ia chance for II to win.