Evening star., 1912-08-31
BY n. c. BYRD.

Two weeks ago it was predicted in these
Columns that the Cornell company did
not have the championship won as much
SO as was generally thought for the rea-
son that its pitching staff was too weak
to carry 1t through the series without de-
feats. Happenings of the past few days
have proved that to be true. and in
yesterdays game 1t was brought even
more forcibly to view.
For the first three games, all of which
were Won. the Cornell team found it
necessary to send in Thompson in order
that it might be assured of victory. and
that pitcher could not stand the strain
of hard series. 1t was impossible for
him to get in three tines in week and
do creditable work and there was none
other on whom the Paperhangers could
depend. Consequently it was pointed out
that very reason.
And ii came to pass. Had there been
as capable pitching i'm the Cornell ranks
as there has been in some of the previous
series. Pepco would never have secured
it's chance to play off the tie because
that three run lead over the American
Security and Trust Company would have
been sufficient for the Paperhangers to
win that game, which would have given
them the championship, in view of the
fact that no trouble was experienced in
beating Post Office the following day.
After the agreement was made to play
the deciding game yesterday, the day
following the nine-inning tic, the
chances were that Pepco would finish
in front. Cornell did not have as good
as an even chance to win then, because
of the ineffectiveness of it's pitchers.
while the Electricians could come right
back with Barton. which they did.
hecanSa ii did not have
than one capable pitcher that Cornell
did not win. Had Thompson been a
man to stand q great deal of strain
the story might have been different but
he was not
After ali the majority of the credit
for ti,. championship should be given
to Barton, not only because the pitch
ing is three -fOurths of the game, but
for the reason that he was in there in
as ne knew how and putting forth
every "L:.ce Of energy of which he was
possessed. Barton delivered the Soois
frop; the moment when he Went in TO
pitch the first game played by Fepco
against the American Security and
Trust Compamr urtil the end of the
series yesterday. First he beat The
Bankers. wnen it was the general
opinion that the result of the contest
would go the other way. Then he went
when he pitched his second in two
days, and performed brilliantly.
Barton is the mainstay of the club and
has been through the entire series. al
though he has been given consistently
brilliant support by his comrades in every
contest Had 1t not been for him, though.
it is safe to say that the championship
would not have been won by the Elec-
tricians.
Il ;tal,a
used by the Cornell Company yesterday
was not much. Strange to say, though,
the man who performed best against them
was the veteran Sam Edmonston. Al
though Edmonston was hit for three runs
in the last inning. he got away with two
innings without a tally being registered
against him. more than any of the other
twirlers used could say.
First Jackson went in. He did not last
two innings. Then Abe Martin went in to
take up the burden. He did not have
much luck. because had he been able to
get his spit ball over the plate he would
not have been hit as hard was the
case. Martin had his spit ball breaking in
Il way that would have precluded any
possibility Of his being hit effectively had
he been able to get it over the plate.
After ii was seen that all the stuff Mar
tin could get over the plate was hittable
he was yanked and Thompson. who had
worked brilliantly the day previous, was
sent " TctINe "dIlIlS IlOptS I1c 1OOhtu
good for few moments, but he was soon
taken out and the veteran Sam Edmon-
stOn walked in to take his place. Sam
got away all right for two innings, but
the third one he pitched was more pro-
ductive of base hits and runs for Pepco.
there being three tallies registered against
him.
Barton never was in trouble. there was
never period when he did not have
things his own way with the exception
or one inning. and had 1t not been for
misplays behind him, there would have
been no hole for him to be in. After his
team had secured five-run lead. with
the kind Of ball he was pitching. there
was not one chance in a hundred that
the Paperhangers would win. They did
not have the batting strength to score
that many runs off the kind of stuff
Barton was dishing up, and that was the
only hope they had to secure tallies
There was not much speed in the team
and when il could not hit effectively
enough to win then it had to lose.
Barton has a spit ball which is far more
effective than his curve. And, strange to
say. Barton has better control of his
spit ball than he has of his curve: That
hardly seems compatible with what is
generally thought of the wet delivery,
but 1t is a fact, nevertheless, that the
Pepco finger is able to get his spit ball
closer To Wnere he wants 1t than he can
his curves. Anyway, that has been the
case In the series just ended. Whenever
the lad was in tight place he would
drop his curve and fall back on the
splitter. and it generally got him out of
the holes.
1t was one grand series. Never before
in the history of amateur base ball has
a series in one of the sections been as
we'll fought as that just concluded in
section A. The teams in that class put
up an article of ball Of a higher standard
than has been seen before in long
period. In every game. even when the
strongest team faced the weakest with
character. and just how dangerous was
the team that finished last may well be
known when it is realized that it came
near putting the PepcO club out of the
running for the championship.
There was scarcely a game played that
was not interesting. There was never a
time before any of the contests when
it was in any wise certain as to which
way the result would go. and that the
interest of the fans was held down to the
last game was shown by the fact that
more than 1900 persons watched the de-
Gliding contest yesterday between Pepco
and Cornell.
The intersection series begins today.
The Pepco nine. winner I'm section A, will
stack up against the Ninth street aggre-
cation. which finished first In class B.
About the only chance there is for the