Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11

tunties. Too much of a straightaway
game mas been the result of the efforts of
the men, they having depended too much
on their clean hitting ability. to get runs.
Inc American Security and Trust Com
pany is going to be hard to beat with
the quality of pitching it will have
coupled with its excellent defensive abil-
1ty: Cornell will be a combina ton hard TO
Keep from getting runs enough to win
an ordinary game; Pepco appears TO class
up with the others. both on the offensive
and defensive. and thu Post Office nine
is one that will be dangerous from the
after the last game is played. They all
appear to balance pretty evenly. None of
the clubs appears to have enough edge on
the others to warrant a prediction that il
Will win out. So what are we gong TO
do but wait until the last game is played
and see how it all turns out?
The game yesterday between Ninth
and Union Printers in class Il of the
post-SeasOn series causes it to appear
that the championship of that section
will be decided between Ninth and the
Nativity club of the Sunday School
League. The Nativity team has shown
consistent form during the season and
will probably prove stronger opponent
for the Christians than did the Printers
in the opening bill.
At meeting Yesterday lans for an
tured. will result in Washington being
represented by an up-to-date and well
financed athletic association. Some of
the most prominent men in local amateur
athletic circles We're behind the move
ment and with their aid it should prove
more than mere bubble.
At the meeting Yesterday only a presi-
dent pro tenn. was elected and a secretary.
but 1T is expected to hold another in the
near future at which more certain action
VI ha fal- xr-l,, to
ured very prominently in amateur base
ball. wa; elected to fill the president S
chair. while Mr.. Irving was chosen for
the secretarys place. Both positions Will
probably be conferred on the men when
the association holds its next meeting.
The new club will be known as the
Washington Athletic Association and
will be organized for the main pur-
pose of the development of track ath-
letics in this city. 1t is realized that
way of track athletics is a big club
to back the sport. and it is intended
that the proposed organization shall
fill that position.
The organize ton of the new athletic body
probably means the end of the Ire
mont Athletic Club. The men who
have backed the Tremonts during re-
cent years are the ones who are be-
hind the new body and they will
hardly try to keep up both. Also the
men who have done the most to keep
the fremont club in the lmelight by
real competition on the track Will be
members of the new association. The
whole relay four which ran for Ire
mont last year will compete under the
name of the body organized yesterday
during the coming winter.
There is every reason to believe that
the new organization Will be the great
est kind of a success.
1t is very probable that Post Office
Will send Ferguson TO the mound to-
morrow In the opening game OF the
Company will probably pitch Forest
Thompson or Edmonston, both of those
having been going better than any
of the others on thesstaf
Ferguson. if he pitches in the form
he did at times during the regular
league season. will be a toush propo-
sition even for good hitting team
like the Paperhangers. The Paper
hangers had trouble connecting with
his curves in one of the games last
year and if he is not wild this time
from the long layoff he has had he is
likely to prove a kind of a puzzle
again. Thompson held the Post Office
to minimum number of runs in the
exhibition contest in which the two
clubs took part last Sunday week ago.
and because of that he Will probably
be the choice of the Paperhangers
when the two organizations meet for
the first set-to in the highest class of
amateur ball.
There are likely to be some very well
pitched games before the end of the
series in section y. Each of the four
clubs scheduled to take part in the
games in that class are well supplied
with twirlers, and it would not be sur
tn al
cided by margins of about one or two
runs.
The American Security and Trust Com
pany nine has Fienle and Green, two OF
the best college pitchers in the south. 10
do it's pitching and they should certainly
hold their own against the batterS they
will face. Post Office has Flannery and
Ferguson, and on what they both nave
shown in the Departmental League should
contribute some mighty fine work to the
records. Cornell also has some good
pitchers. Edmonston and Thompson VIII
probably be the mainStays and both nave
had experience that makes them doubly
dangerous to the club facing them. No
matter what pitcher may not have if he
does possess the ability to study his bat
ter as do the men who have had eX-
perience among the professionals, they
stand a much better chance to bring their
team into the stretch winner than
would otherwise be the case. Also the
Potomac Electric Power Company will
have some very dependable men to fail
back on. Barton and Sullivan have both
been doing consistent work all season,
Barton having been especially effective.
Three of the best shortstops playing
amateur base ball will come together in
the series in section A Hollander, who
held down the short field job for George
town this year. will be seen in that posi-
ton for the Cornell Company: Hayes of
the American Security and Trust, who
played with Catholic University, and Gill
of Pepco. All three men, while not heavy
hitters. are the classiest fielders in the
District. They are fast and handle ground
balls in better style than do the others.
They are able to peg with almost perfect
accuracy 1t is seldom that either of the
pair makes an overthrow or wild peg OF
any kind
Manager Gray of the Pepco club thinks
pretty well of Beall, his new tWlrler, and
has stated that he will work him in one
of the games in the post-season series
Beall is Montgomery county boy, and
is capable of doing good work, as was
shown when he beat National the other
day in a regular game in the Indepen-
dence League In that contest he let the
Sportsmen down with but three hits and
struck out twelve.
With that Ieft-field fence so close in
the Capital City League Park. Cy Nc
Donald is apt to prove mighty danger
Gus man at bat The big fellow is con-
left-feld hitter and nearly al
not take much of a hit to go over the
fence Last year Cy broke up two or
three games by clouting the ball over
into the street.