The Washington herald., 1913-02-27
NO PEPC0 CLUB
ON BALL field
Gus Gray Will Not Put
Team in League
Again.
OTHER LOCAL COMMENT
Five Good Pitchers at Gallaudet.
Battiste Confident of Sue
cessful Season.
OTHER LOCAL COMMENT
by G. w. SWAN.

."Pepco's Pcppery Pets will not be
seen on the local sand lots this summer;
as Manager Gus Gray, of the Pepco
ball club. amateur champions of the
District last season. stated yesterday
that the Electricians would not have a
team in the field.
Last year was the Potomac Electric
Power Company's second in amateur
baseball, and that Manager Gray was
able to win not only the championship
in the Independence LEAGUE, but also the
Inter-City title, speaks well for his abil
ity as a leader.
, The PeprO team last season was per-
haps the fastest in the District. and two
OF its members are now being tried out
by Manager Griffith of the Nationals
They are Buck BARTON and Dutch
Munich, the battery which landed the
title for the lads from the Power plant.
Manager Gray would like to put team
in the field again. hut the order comes
from the chief. and is final Gray would
like to stay in baseball. and may organ
IZe Pepco club to play Saturday and
Sunday hall lf he should do this he
could command the best amateurs in
the District, and would have little
tronbl" filling his park every day a game
is scheduled.
The withdrtw wal uf the Pcpco team from
baseball leaves the District without an
amateur champion. and the race for that
It'll" this year will he well worth watch
ing Manager Gray Will more than likely
hook up with Som, club in another cir
cult. as he is too able a leader to remain
unsigned for long. 1t Was learned last
night that 4 certain well organized club
IN tn" northwest section of the city would
offer Gray the managcrship of its base
ball team this season, when il became
known that PepCO would not have a team.
Rasmussen. hiE righthander. has been
setting the gym On fir" AT Gallaudct the
past few days with his steam. and it is
all Capt. BattSte can do to hold him
down Rasmussen is one of tn" new hurI-
ers at the Kendall Green institution. and
from all indications has the making of a
curkinE good man.
Capt Battiste has had the battery can
didatcs working out for the past week
and Yesterday had five pitchers and three
Chtch"rs doing duty. Thr pitchers are
1-apdes. Rasmussen. Marshall. Classcn.
and Capt BattiSte with Hiemark Ran
dell and CusCaden working with the big
mi;t.
OF the Catch"rs. Randell looks mighty
good. as he appears to bc in tip-top con-
season form. II il continues warm Capt
Battste plans to have the boys out on
the diamond Saturday morning
The high school schedule. which 10 pub
lished in another column. shows that two
OF the games will not be PLAYED at
American League Park. The games
scheduled for April 90 and - will more
than likely hc staged on Georgetown
Itai1
District outside Of American League
Park. and is almost sure to he available
for the high schools. as the Hilltop Ath-
lctiC Association has always helped the
high schools out of their troubles In re-
gard to the playing fields
Coach Robertson. of tho T"rhnical High
School baseball squad. Is banking great
deal on Galleher. a husky youngstcr who
has speed to burn and good curves The
Manual Trainers have been working out
for the past three weeks. and the battery
candidates are in great shape. Coach
Robertson has not closed a deal for a
practice field as yet but the Rlacksmiths
will more than likely be seen on the dia-
mond at Georgia Avenue and Kenyon
Street Northwest.
Greer, who PLAYED center on the East
ern football team last fall. is being touted
as wonderful finger Greer will receive
thorough trial in the box by Coach
Hatch. and if the many good things said
about him are true, then the other teams
might just rs well stop working. for the
championship belongs 10 Eastern.
Louis F. Roth. who for the past seven
years has been located at Fort Hunt
has obtained a position as umpire in the
Wisconsin, Illinois Baseball League and
he will take up his duties as such April
next. Before departing for the West
he will spend several weeks with the
Washington team at Charlottesville Va
Rye has nearly disappeared as an
American export only 500 bushels goinS
abroad last year. as against 500 900 bush
els five years ago.