Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-07
DECISIVE GAMES
WILL Be PLAYED
Bankers and Cornell to Meet
Twice This Week in Capt.
tai City League.
AMATEUR CONTESTS
BOOKED FOR TODAY
Y. M. n, A, Team to Get Real
Test in Meeting With
Sherwood.
BY II. C.. BYRD.


Two decisive games will be played in
the Capital City League this week Cor
nell and the Bankers will meet tomorrow
and Saturday, and II either of the two
can get away with both contests it will
pretty nearly mean that the champion
ship will go to that club. or course, the
title will not be made certain by the
winning OF the two games by one club,
but the advantage will be SO much with
it that the fight to dislodge it will be
OF such an uphill character 1t is doubt
full IL 1t would be successful.
The Trust Company team Is leading by
very slight margin. 1t is less than
an advantage that is almost too slight
to be noticed. A defeat handed the
Bankers by any club in the league will
send Cornell to the top. Both Cornell
and the Bankers have suffered setbacks
because of defeats received at the hands
going to be whole lot more careful
when meeting them in the future. One
of the reason why the Cornell club is
not leading Is because 1t dropped q con-
when it was not looking for anything
but a victory. The Bankers also We're
compelled to be content with the losing
end of the score in a game with the same
club at a time when they had much
ground to make up.
Just what will be the result of the race
in the East Washington Sunday School
League is hard to tell. but 1T seems to
be the consensus of opinion that the
Ninth Street Christians will win. The
majority Of those who have watched the
teams in the circuit in action assert that
the Christians have the strongest COM
bination. and. barring the unforeseen,
- aNS-
ton that Ninth will win the champion
ship is not made: 1t is simply stated that
those who have watched all the clubs in
that league play have gained the opinion
that Ninth has much the best chance.
Bell OF the Ninth Street team has
gained quite a reputation for himself
among the fans in the northeast. He
has pitched pretty good ball all season,
but his main achievement was accom-
several days ago. While Becker did not
have the best Of support in that game by
any means, Bell was the opposing pitch
err, and he gets the credit for the vic
measure by the followers Of the East
Washington league. By all accounts he
is a very capable performer. and de-
serves all the credit given him.
The following games are scheduled in
the amateur circuits for today:
Capital City. League-Comell VS.. Wa
verley.
Central League-Sherwood VS.. Y. NJ.
H. A.
Federal League vs.. Pen
sion Bureau.
East Washington S. S. League-Ninth
VS.. Brethren.
Brookland Church Observation-Disclosures
Northwest S. s. League-Immanuel VS..
Whitney.
Potomac League-Congress Heights VS..
Steel Plant.
Eastern League-Yankees VS.. MonaWks.
Marquette League-Trinity VS.. Holy
Name.
To judge by what some Of the play
ers on the other teams think, the
Young Mems Hebrew Association Is a
team in reality. One OF
the members of another nine in that
league made a statement to the erect
that the association club was going to
be a mighty hard one for anybody to
beat out for the pennant during this
half OF the season. It has secured four
new men, and they seem to have put
new life into the other players. Any
the second series; it did not win
game in the first half of the schedule.
and IL it can get away with today's
meeting with Sherwood 1t will have es-
tablished beyond doubt the fact that
the other teams will not have the
easy proposition in it that was found
in the games early in the season.
used to perform for the Cornell Com
pany. is going along at a great gait
out in the Federal League. His work
for the Fairmonts has been way above
the average. Hardly a game goes by
In which he allows more than three
or four hits and does not strike out
ton or fifteen men. He seems to have
excellent control, and is getting away
with his games with very few bases
on balls.
The Commerce and Labor team is not
making the showing in the Departmental
League that II once did. The time was
when the Laborites were right up with
many cases. They had a team renowned
Tor its hitting power. and which was
! dangerous combination in any game in
which it took part. 1t was composed for
the most part Of veterans who had the
margin on the other clubs in experience.
been more or less mediocre, with little
Or no chance for championship honors.
Give the Southland team OF the Capital
{ would make a whole lot better show
ng than 1t has SO far. There is seldom
| game in which It fails TO get severa!
runs, bat its defense has been SO weak
that the opposing clubs have nearly al
ways managed to score more. Beach is
about the only reliable man the team has
now, and he las shown a tendency to
weaken a little in the final innings. prob
ably due to the fact that he does not &c.
work enough to keep in shape. There
are not many games III which the South
west bunch does not get three O. four
runs and with good pitching that would