Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-10
nas Team Does Not Show Class Expected Amateur Base Ball News
CENTRAL FAILS TO COME
UP TO EXPECTED STANDARD
Team Plays Raggedly in Game Against
Eastern, Not Doing as Well as Was
Looked For-Other Gossip.

In yesterdays game in the high school
series between Central and Eastern the
former failed to show the form expected
Of championship aggregation. and
looked like a much weaker ball club than
was expected to represent the school this
spring.
/ About the only redeeming feature to the
game was the pitching of Boteler. that
youngster allowing but seven hits and
striking out ten. He pitched in good
form. not giving a single walk to first
and being steady al all times.
The work Of the Central team as IA
whole, though. was far below what had
been expected of it. With three bases
on balls and nine hits the team failed
to score but four runs and one of these.
the deciding tally, appears to have been
the result Of poor play on Eastern's part.
Poor support was given to Boteler Also
there being a marked lack OF tight and
consistent play on the part of the Blue
and White during the entire game
1t may be. though. that instead of Cen
trail showing a weaker team Eastern has
taken a decided brace and will play Il
much better quality OF base bali than
| IL has so far this season Eastern did
| not show up poorly at the bat, and by
| all accounts the team put up about the
| best exhibition in the field that has been
| seen in the whole series. 1t would not
| be at all surprising to see the team prove
! troublesome in the rest of its games, al
though it would be practically impossible
for 1t to get away with the championship.
as 1t has suffered two defeats.
Coach Donnelly is doing good work with
| the Eastern team, despite the fact that
| he has had very little material to work
| with this spring. Coaching team that
had TO make an uphill fight from the
| start to make any kind OF a showing at
! all, he has developed IL until now 1t bids
| fair to do very creditable work, begin
ming yesterday i'm its game against Cen
trail, in which 1t held the O Street team
better than was hoped for even by its
stanchest supporters.
| The Maryland Aggies are booked to
meet the Fredericksburg College
team this afternoon at College Park.
/ Catholic University will leave to-
morrow afternoon on a three-day trip
in the north. The first game will be
played against the Seton Hall team, at
South Orange. N. j.. tomorrow after
noon. Friday Delaware College will
be played in Newark, while on Satur
day the Manhattan College team will
be the opposing aggregation in New
York. Manhattan has been played
once this year, and won over the locals,
6 to 8.
Georgetown opens it's northern en-
gagements this afternoon against the
Army. While 1t was at first thought
that only a part of the regular squad
would be taken along. 1t developed
| that the studies that were feared have
been arranged for, and the nine will
put its full strength in the field
against the northern teams
Cy Macdonald is at last getting into
Lila. 80
game between the Cornell Company and
tl1t Navy Yard he clouted the ball on the
note more consistently than at any time
! this season and played the bag in much
better style than heretofore. After the
former Georgetown first baseman loses
about ten more pounds he is likely to put
up about the best game Of his career.
Smith. who Is pitching for the Ingram
team in the Church League seems to
| have something on the best of them i'm
that circuit. Three or four days ago he
blanked the Aracostia team giving it
but one hit. while yesterday he went
against the supposedly heavy-htting
Ninth. the aggregation which copied the
pennant last year. and the best it could
do against his assortment OF benders was
to connect safely twice.
Smith while pitching good ball. Is a
| small fellow. Weighing hardly more than
1:M pounds. He has plenty of stamina.
though. as shown by the fact that last
week. on two successive DAYS. he went In
and pitched winning ball in the Church
and independence leagues.
There are two things possible in the
Bankers League. One Is that the Amer
lean Security and Trust Company will
drop out and allow the other teams in
the league to form a four-club circuit.
thus stimulating interest among the
teams. because of the fact that they will
be given chance to win the pennant,
which they have not with the Security
Company In the game. The other sou-
ton Is that the American Security and
Trust will refuse to drop out OF the
league. I'm which event 1t is fairly GER
tain that the league will go to smash,
be cause there Is not one chance in
hundred OF the other teams continuing
able to win practically every game it
plays by large scores. Just what will he
done is no; known. but the matter will
be settled at the meeting of the league
scheduled for Friday
| If the Bankers League goes to the wall
a new league will probably be formed.
| so that the games on the White Lot will
| not he done away with, and that the per-
nit can be retained.
The Columbia Juniors beat the River
Sides in a fast game on the Monument
grounds yesterday afternoon. The score
was to - The batteries were Miller and
| Elicit for the Columbia team and White
and Garner for the River Sides. Miller
had the opposing batters at his mercy
throughout. while Ellet did good work be-
hind the bat for the winners.
The st. Peters team defeated the South
Capitol Athletic Club yesterday, to o. In
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