Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-06
BY n. c. BYRD.

The majority of the teams in the anna
teur leagues gave very poor exhibitions
yesterday There were few games play
ed in which a bunch of errors was not
more or less responsible for running the
| tally of one or more teams into the dou-
| BILE figures
| In six of the games that were played
| there were 11S runs scored. an average
| of nearly twenty per game. In the same
six contests there were fifty-six errors
| made. an average of more than nine.
There but one contest played
| in any of the leagues which could be
| termed a real good ball game That took
place in the Independence League, be-
tween the Aloysius and National clubs.
There was but one miscue charged
against both teams. and the pitching for
| both clubs was exceptionally good.
| The Loff1er club is after couple of
good men to fill in weak positions on the
| team. The game against Southland de-
| veloped that one or two places need to
| be filled with better men If he standing
| now held is to be maintained. and Man
ager Hill is doing his best to secure them.
| Manager Hill desires any good ball
player who thinks that he has a chance
] to make good with his club to present
himself at 1896 New Jersey avenue after
| 2 pm. and receive a contract that he may
be given a try-out Any players who
I nave ROOQ reCOTOS VIII ne SlNcU up
portunity to get on with a team which
appears to have an excellent chance to
win pennant.
] 1t is reported that George HORNE clear
| ed the bar at 6 feet 50 inches yesterday
| in practice If it be true that the height
was really accomplished, then the Cali
| fornian stands an excellent chance to
| set the worlds mark for the high jump
| at a point where 1t will not soon be bro
H. Y< ;c INN iYnnngGihla n conceive
| that the mark for the high jump can
! be raised much higher. To see the bar
set at the height that has been accom-
plished by HORNE causes it to appear i'm
| only the use of his legs in G free jump.
| and that a much higher distance will
| ever be gone over is not to be readily
| believed
Besides the high jump there is one other
event in which man has almost reached
the limit of his endurance-the century
dash. Experts have figured that there
will never live the man who can cover a
hundred yards in less than 9 % seconds.
and there are those who claim that it has
never been done. although one or two
men have been credited with that kind of
a performance. 1t is said without hest
tation by great many men who have
been in touch with athletics for years
that the only man who has ever done the
distance in 93-5 is Arthur Duffy. 1t
would seem that they have some grounds
for their contentious when the records
of several others are investigated. 1t is
a well known fact. or leastwise the state
ment has been founded on good author
ity, that the record credited to Dan Kelly
is fictitious one and was made under
timing that was done with a watch fixed
to give Forest Smithson the mark. Kelly
got the record because he happened to
beat Smithson when it was figured he
could not.
vile several years ago that Jim Rector
| had run the 100 yards in 8 2-5 seconds,
| but it was found that he was decidedly
| favored by a wind that was blowing at
his back and also that the track had a
| slight downgrade.
The man who runs the hundred yards