The Washington times., 1912-08-25
Tigers Will Have to Defeat Postofce and Bankers in Or
der to Take Title in Section A of
Amateur Race.
Batting and Fielding of Section A Teams

But two more games remain in the
post season series which will make or
mar Cornell Company's chances for the
pennant. Cornell has Postoffice, which
threw down the Pepco team on Friday
and the Bankers, yet to beat before
the title in Section A will go to the IT,
gers.
While not getting as many hits as
Pepco in the games played in the sec
tion A series to date, Cornell has
played better ball, according to the fig
ures compiled, and has succeeded in
making the few hits count for more
runs than Pepco, It's nearest rival. Cor
nell has played two games less than
Pepco, which is hardly a fair compari-
SON of batting, since the Pepco players
happened to get Postoffice when the
pitchers were going poorly in one game
and hammered out thirteen hits.
In hitting, the slugging Tigers have
been up against Barton, the Pepco star,
twice. defeating him once and losing
one game to him. In other games
they have more than held their own in
the matter of making their hits count,
having scored in four games within four
runs of what Pepco has done in its six
contests.
Cornelrs fielding has been far and
away better than any of the other three
teams, the Tigers having made but four
errors, sharing the honor of having an
errorless game with the Bankers. Pep
co, while leading in batting, is next to
last. having made fourteen errors in its
games
Without attempting to disparage
Pepco's hitting ability. the fact that
manager Gray's team was able to get
but q runs from ,4a hits cannot be
counted as exceptionally good work
when the Cornell team amassed Ia
runs off of "a hits. Pepco has aver
aged trihe more than seven hits per
game. while Cornell has gotten a mark
of six for Its four contests.
Oddly enough. Postoffice, which lost
games to both Cornell and Pepco,
turned out to be the team which threw
Pepco out of its stride. The Mailmen,
with Ferguson in the box. got the bet
ter of the Independence League win
ners just when tie with Cornell for
the honor seemed assured. Cornell by
no means has the title cinched, since
loss to either Postoffice or the Bank
ers in the two games yet to be played
may force tie with Pepco.
The Cornell team will probably face
cAris Feinle. the Bankers star pitcher
In one game, and Walter Ferguson in
the other, and the results of the two
conests are by no means certain for
Cornell. Both of those games should
draw banner crowds, as each team has
It's many followers with those who will
be pulling hard for Postoffice or
Bankers win in order to favor their
favorites on the Pepco nine.
At the start Of the post season series
the teams were expected to finish with
Cornell leading The Bankers, Pepco
a"d PostoffiCe were doped to follow in
order. 1t was thought that with Feinle
and Greene the Bankers would at
least be runners up to Cornell. Pepco
was not thought to be stronger than
the Bankers. but Barton showed such
exceptional form that the power COM
panv team was able to fight Off the
Bankers.
The Bankers failed because they had
no team in the Columbia League that
could keep them up to form. Last year
number of games were arranged be-
fore the post season serdes started,
and 1t was thought that the class of
teams in the most season series this