Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-12
TRINITY GETS
CHANCE TODAY
Marquette Champions to Pit
Strength Against Petworth,
Weather Permitting.
HOFFECKER PITCHES
IN EXCELLENT FORM
Holds PetWorth to Two Hits
and Wins EasiIy-Dean Is
Good Player.
BY n. C. BYRD.

BY n. C. BYRD.
League has a chance to show its strength
this afternoon. providing the weather
conditions are such that the contest can
be played. The champions of the George
town league are booked to meet Pet
worth. and II they win will class with
the best mines in section A.
The Trinity nine Is one that has been
more or less overlooked in the general
doping out Of the probable results of the
series. The Marquette Leaguers may
prove a harder nut to crack than any
body is expecting. The team has proved
itself capable enough during the regular
league season and has done some good
work in games played with independent
clubs. 1t is said to have a bunch OF
hitters above the average. and also has
fair pitching staff At least. those two
factors have been shown in the regular
league season. and whether or not the
club will be able to evidence the same
characteristics against the aggregations
In the post-season series is what the
contest of today is expected to show.
A rather peculiar play was made yes
terday in the game between Petworth
fecker had struck out Wood. Wood walk
ed over toward the bench after dropping
his bat. and Zachary, the Bankers
catcher. thinking that ended the play
threw to Riddle at first. The ball was
between Riddle and the sun. and rather
than get hit, Riddle stepped out of the
way and let it go on into right field.
Wood had gotten almost to the bench.
but when he saw what had been done
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There was nothing that the umpire could
do but call him safe.
Country Morris twisted his knee out
of place yesterday in fielding line drive
into right field. Morris also gave rather
a nice exhibition Of nerve in catching the
ball. too. After going over to make the
play he got In front Of the ball, but, as
he was turning, twisted his knee and fell,
not being aole to bear his weight on the
limb. AS he was going down he still
kept in mind that 1t was his business to
catch the ball. and he did just that. get
ting the sphere just before he hit the
ground. The joint was put back in
place. and Morris finished the inning In
the field.
This lad Dean, who is holding down the
shortstop's position for Petworth, is a
very clever little performer. He can
field his position well, and can throw
across to first with the best Of them. It
is very seldom that player Is seen in
amateur ball who can peg to better adj
vantage than this youngster.> One game
is not sufficient to show whether or not
the plate and took some good, square
wallops at the ball yesterday. He got
one hit
Hoffecker pitched a mighty good game
of ball yesterday for the Bank team, and
he deserves all the more credit for what
he accomplished when 1t Is considered
that he worked with but one days rest.
having pitched against the Mount Wash
ington club in Baltimore Saturday. He
won that game also Hofecker had ex-
cellent control Of the ball. and, while he
did not have as much stun as usual, he
had enough to cause ten OF the opposing
batters to strike out. while only two hits
were made against him.
The Mohawks took their game from the
Emmanuel club rather easily. notwith-
standing the fact that Emmanuel scored six
runs. Emmanuel did not secure the ma
jority Of its tallies until after the Mo-
hawks had gained a good lead.
Ricketts, did the best hitting for the
wallops. out Of Ave trips to the plate. One
Of the hits was for an extra base.
Plunkett and Dean. holding down the
Petworth. are two capable youngsters.
Their work yesterday was OF high class,
and there are not many teams IN the
District that have. men who could nave
done better in the two places. Dean made
several good stops and throws. while
Piunkett's best was when he went back
of second base and got Morris hard-hit
grounder directly over the bag. throw
ing him out at first.
Bernie Gallagher still has some stuff
on the ball. Notwithstanding the fact
that he has been pitching ball among the
amateurs in Washington for a long. long
while. he is still able to cut the ball
across the plate with lot more speed
than one would expect, and he also has a
curve which still breaks. Gallagher will
be troublesome for any club in the Dis
tSict he may face during the post-season
series.
The diamond on which the game be-
tween Petworth and the Bankers was
played yesterday would be enough togive
ranged from an ounce to two pounds COW
cred the infield, and out outfield. too. for
that matter. Strange to say. during the
entire game there was only one pail that
bounded badly. 1t was not to be expected
that any of them would bound right, but
1t was rather remarkable that not once
did a man reach first as a result OF the
ball taking an cratic bound because of
the rough held.
Ninth is scheduled to meet Emmanuel in
the section B series this afternoon. 1t
would be the greatest surprise in the
world IL the Ninth team were to lose.
1t is hard 10 see how the Emmanuel club
has much chance to get away with the
contest.
Much interest will attach to the game
between Petworth and Interior on Friday.
Petworth has a team that will be liable
TO hand out a defeat to any OF the clubs
in the series. 1t has an infield as good as
the average, and its outfield will field
about as well as any Of the clubs The
work OF the two men around second base
for the Petworth club Is above the
ordinary. and as a whole the club is
really little stronger than was expected.
There Is one BUNCH of players who are
going 10 be pulling for Petworth TO win.
the members Of the Bank team. They
know that the Suburbanites have an even
chance to beat the government league
champions. and II will help them out a
lot IL they do.