Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-14
BY n. C. BYRD.

Even now, after every team has been
seen in action, it is impossible to pick a
winner in the post-season series. The
American Security and Trust, Pepco and
the Cornell Company are SO evenly
matched it is difficult matter to figure
as to which of the three will even finish
second.
While Pepco won yesterdays contest,
it was by a margin SO small that little
superiority could be conceded the club.
The Bankers played just as good ball as
did their opponents. and it was the
breaks in the luck which won for the
Electricians as much as anything else
Next time the breaks may go more the
other way.
Also the Cornell club will be in the
running with these two, and, if the Paper
hangers can keep their pitching up to the
standard of the other two, will undoubt-
edly have better than an even chance to
win. The Cornell Company looks to be
able to score runs against any of the
other mines, and the great question which
confronts it is whether or not it has
pitching good enough to hold the other
clubs in check.
Notwithstanding the fact that Security
Company is in the rear now, the other
clubs do not have much the advantage
of it. and in it's next contest it should
show Improvement because of the fact
that the game of yesterday Is ABOUT the
only real hard one 1t has been compelled
to play this season.
1t was stated Sunday that if the Potomac
Electric Power Company made the best
of its resources it would stand the best
chance to win. That Still seems to be
the case, although not as much so as was
at first thought. Cornell displayed more
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thought it would be able to show. and the
American Security and Trust Company
played better ball than would ordinarily
be the case when a club is taken out of
a series of contests in which 1t has had
to meet only second and third rate teams
and placed in with the best.
All in all. the three clubs mentioned
seem to be even up, with the ODDS very
little favorng either The greatest series
ever played for a championship is being
contested between them. and for real
playing strength there does not appear
to be the slightest margin of difference
between them.
The club that gets the best pitching
and the most breaks in the luck will be
the one to win out.
The addition of Fury was the factor
which gave the game to the Potomac
Electric Power Company yesterday. Had
he not been in the game the other club
would have won as surely it lost un-
der the existing conditions. 1t was point
ed out day before yesterday that with
Fury in the lineup the Electricians had
at least an even chance to finish in front.
but that with him out of 1t it's chances
would be diminished to a considerable
extent. Yesterdays game did not show
the least fallacy in the prediction. He
vas the unit that turned the tide in IA
vor of his club.
The work of Gill. the Potomac Electric
Power Companys shOrtstOp, has for the
most part gone unrecognized in most
quarters this season, and little mention
has been made of his playing. Yesterday,
however, everybody was compelled to take
notice The little shortstop really did
some wonderful playing around his posi-
ton. He seemed able to get everything,
and that with absolute accuracy.
1t was not so much the number of
chances he took care of. but the kind of
chances they were. He cut of several
hard-hit balls that looked like hits and
threw out the men at first Gill. for
small man, is what is generally termed
in base ball "a peach"
There was little to choose between the
work of Fienle and Barton. Both men
did very creditable work and both de-