Evening star., 1912-08-30
SHOULD NOT PERFORM AS
WELL TO-DAY AS YESTERDAY
Standard of Play Between Cornell and Pepco
Should Be Lowered Because Of Prob
ably Less Effective Pitching.

work of Hurley there is no doubt that
| the game would have gone in favor Of
| the Pepco club. In the early innings he
| stopped plays that looked like sure safe
| ties and had men been put on the bag
at such times they would have scored, as
hits followed. And then it saved his
! pitcher from having to work SO hard in
/, the first part of the contest.
| That game yesterday was one of the
! hardest kind to umpire. There We're sew
| eral plays which We're so close they could
| have been called ther way and there
would have been little kick coming Both
| clubs We're fighting for everything they
| could get, and there was not close de-
cision about which issue was not taken.
! There was one decision, though, in
which it looked very much as though an
error was made. Noyes. who led off for
] Cornell in the ninth, was safe. He went
to second and while running back to the
| bag when Barton threw to catch him
mapping he slid into the sack The bags
] We're very light, and even when the second
| base was tied down it could be moved
/ around a radius of foot and half. As
result Noyes struck the bag and kicked
| 1t foot or so away from him. He was
| called out. Noyes walked to the bag
af er be ng called out and it was so loose
ly held down that he picked it up and
| held it in the air.
OF course, the umpire was closer to the
| play than the spectators and 1t is possible
| that Gill may have had Noyes before he
| hit the bag at all, in which case, of
course, he would have been out anyway.
! The work of the two umpires was
about the best of the series, though
and, especially under the conditions, tney
deserve a great deal of favorable COM
| ment on the way they handled the game
generally
Owing to a misunderstanding yesterday
the Park club failed to show up in suffi-
| cient numbers for the game scheduled in
feited to the Southern club. Park had
only eight men on the field.
The contest today in that class will de-
eide the championship. Southern and the
for the title. The fact that Park for
! feited to Southern yesterday will help
he Railroaders a great deal in view of
the fact that they have but one pitcher
upon whom they can really depend.
With Elmer Smith and Strobel hooking
up in what should prove pitching duel
in section {. the game should be well
worth seeing, although it will lose much
Of it's prominence because of the greater
amount of interest in the fight being
waged for the championship of section A.
The intersection games will start to-
morrow. The winner of the game today
between the Cornell Company and the
meet the Ninth Street aggregation win
ner in section b.
The game tomorrow will give a line on
whether or not there will be any kind of
battle in the inters ection series. Ninth
Street is undoubtedly a stronger combi-
nation than either of the teams now play
ing in section &. and If there are any
close games to be played they should
take place between that club and the
winner of the championship in section A.
| Following is a list of the games to he
played In the intersection series: August
31-A vs.. B. September 2-B VS.. c. Sep
tember &c VS.. A. September 4B VS..
| y. September &c vs.. B. September q
A vs. {.
| 1t is reported that Hayes, the star
catcher OF the Battle AK Club, which
will appear here next week in a double
! header the amateur champion of Rich
mond, will not be eligible to play in the
series against the winner in this city be-
| cause OF try-out he had with the Vir-
ginia League club Of that city. dt is stated
| that Hayes caught three innings Of
game for the Richmond club.
He has probably done no more
| than have the men who were playing
amateur ball here, secured a try-out with
the professional club, and, II he has not
signed a contract, 1t would be q fine piece
| Of sportsmanship to allow him to play in
the series Even with him in the game
| than even chance to win, and even
though it were to lose. II Hayes has not
| signed with the Richmond club. then he
| has done no more than have the men
| playing with Pepco now. They have
been trying out at American League Park
| and are only waiting until after the series
| is ended to sign contract
The Maryland Athletic Club wants to
| get In the intercity series again. 1t is
| probable that 1t will not be competitor.
| though. because of objections raised here
and in Richmond. 1t rather appears that
| the MarylanderS should mot be discrimi-
mated against. especially when they are
! governed by code of rules more strin-
gent than those under which the local
| clubs play.
| About the only reason that has been ad-
| vanced why the Baltimore club should
not be allowed to play in the series is
| because it is able to get together a
stronger club under its rules. AS mat
! ter of fact. by the rulings under which
| 1t is more difficult to get together a
| really strong combination Of players than
| 1t Is here. Then again, the followers Of
| amateur ball are going to think, even
| though it is not the case. that the team
here and in Richmond do not want to
| play against them because of the fact
! that they won the series last year. There
is room for thinking just that. Had the
series last fall then 1t could have been
| excluded from the schedule this year
/ without the least chance Of q comeback,
but now it certainly has room to talk:
| All this talk about the Maryland club
being such strong combination, too
strong for the winners here and in Rich
mond, is something not based on fact.
Any competent Judge OF base ball who
saw that team play last year would not
for an instant think that 1t was as strong
| a combination as the American Security
and Trust Company, and 1t Is the general
opinion of those who ought to know that
IL taken in the series now the Maryland
ers will not be winners when the last re-
| suit Is known.