The Washington times., 1913-04-19
Capitol Hill Lads Never Let Uc.
Johnson Displays Quantity
of Nerve and Wins.
THE LOSERS GAVE UP SOON
Stenographers Make Many Err
rors in Field, and Lose to
Gamer Bunch.
By BRYAN MORSE.

Superiority in team work, hitting. and
fielding, with better pitching, and all of
on paper and in talk, has never yet won
high school baseball game. At least
this is Eastern's contention today after
asnding Business the neatest surprise of
It's life at the ball yard yesterday to the
tune of z to s.
Business looked better than Eastern,
would look better today II the two
teams stacked up against each other
again, but Eastern had the jump, better
pluck, less fancy motion in the in1eld,
and above all determination to win.
which was apparently lacking in the
Business makeup yesterday.
Eastern will be no contender for the
high school championship, indeed 1t Is
ioubtful IL the light blue and white Will
win arother game. But Business was
beaten yesterday by better hitting. a
few lucky breaks and the ability to stay
closer to the earth at all times.
Credit to johnson.
To johnson, who shot them over 10
and at the Business players. for the
Capitol Hill boys, goes the bulk of the
credit. The youth used the best he had
II his command. refused to go up in IN =
air and showed that he had nerve
enough to stick il out after Business
had walked on him in the first round
for three runs.
The game as a whole was interest
ng to all of the followers of the teams
and many of those who root for the
ether schools, but who we're in the
stand for the sole purpose of getting
line on Business, which expected to
win hands down.
After that first inning Eastern was
expected to crumple up and fall away
before the Orange and Blue. but Freddy
Dyer, who is captain of the Capitol Hill
boys, had different ideas and with
Johnson sticking to his knitting pro-
ceeded to get runs back until Business
was far behind.
Eastern failed to score until the fourth
round, when four runs We're tailed. In
this session Umpire Colliflower allowed
foul ball which was a foot wide of
the bag, to count as safety. This
aided materially in the scoring, and
calls to mind the fact that two umpires
might have been provided as they have
In regular baseball games.
Showed Flagging Spirit.
It was along about the sixth inning
that Business began to snow signs of
tagging spirits. It's shame to be
beaten by a team like this" said one
of the Business players. which plainly
showed the temper and spirit of the
Orange and Blue players. Other re-
marks showed that Business had about
shot its bolt while Eastern sailed along
with a scant margin of one run to
lead.
Business began making errors and
Eastern loaded two more across in the
seventh and added another in the
eighth, which was enough to win. Rusi-
ness made an effort and managed to
land other runs in the last two rounds.
A tendency to hit at almost anything
caused Business downfall. while East
ern played as carefully as possible with
weakened and less seasoned material at
its command. The Capitol Hill PLAYERS
are deserving all they got yesterday.
and made the most of what was coming
TO them.
The score by innings: R. H z.
Business ........ 00ooll-5 6 7
Eastern ..-....... 00040 o2lo-7 . 1
Batteries-Business. Kelly and Wood:
Eastern, johnson and Dyer