The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-01
LOCAL PLAYERS
STAR in minors
Babe Adams and Chick Davis
Playing Great Games in
Western Towns.
OTHER LOCAL GOSSIP
Bankers Receive Setback When Feinle
and Greene Fail to Stop the
Southland Team.

Babe Adams, former star of the Post
once team, of the Departmental League
is holding down first base for the Luding
ton club, in the Michigan State League
and putting up a clever game at tn.
initial station.
Reports from the Michigan city say
that Adams is making hit and is aisc
hitting the ball hard. When Babe left
Washington TO join the Evansville team
he was In poor condition, but he is now
in shape, and Is putting up whale OF
a game. meeting all corners and holding
his own.
Another local boy who is more than
making good is Chick Davis, at present
playing third for the Erie club of the
Interstate League. Chick is the best
fielder ever turned out of Washington,
and is setting the fans wild in Erie with
his sensation work around the hot corner.
Chick is also hitting well. and seems sure
to stick with the Interstaters.
The defeat of the Bankers yester-
day at the hands of the Southland
tribe was a big disappointment TOT fol-
lowers of the Trust Company boys.
Greene and Feinle the two mainstays
the mound, and still the Southland
sIuggers managed to win out
To Jack Spsulding goes the lions
share of the glory, for it was this little
short fielder who drove in the runs
which put the Bankers to the bad.
Spaulding is playing great ball this
season. being the best short fielder in
the Capital City League, which is say
ing a great deal
"Finney' Kelley, who was released
from the First NJ. P. club. of the SUM-
day School League, TO the G. P. o.
outfit, OF the Central League, cele-
brated his entry into President Corne-
Illus circuit by beating Sherwood in a
great game and tanning eighteen bat
ters Kelley was master of the con-
test from the start
Kelley, with proper coaching. and by
using a little headwork, will develop
into a great pitcher. He shows signs
of being a wonder, but by working
too often the promising youngster will
soon be a member of the has been"
club. with the addition of Thornett,
the star Eastern High School third
sacker. the G. P. o. club should be in
the running for top honors.
Manager Butt, of the First NJ. P. team,
of the East Washington Sunday School
League. is after the star battery of the
Gallaudet College team, Rasmussen and
Kendall. While nothing definite was said
last night by Butt regarding the ac-
QUESTION of this pair. II is understood
that these men have each attended Sum-
day school, and will be eligible TO play
this week Should this prove to be the
case, the First NJ. P. outfit will have
secured a battery able to hold its own In
any amateur league in the District
Kendall is one of the best catchers in
this section of the country, and is also a
hitter OF the first rank. Rasmussen will
develop into a star college pitcher, and
today is above the average amateur
hurler A big fellow, Rasmussen, has
a world of speed. and good breaking
curve ball. Rasmussen and Kendall may
work in the game Thursday.
Al Handiboe. Dick Robertson. and Joe
Geibel are playing good ball for the
Savannah club of the South Atlantic
League Handiboe is getting his bin
ing gilt-edged ball
Another local boy in the South Atlantic
League who is going good is Gould
Menefee, who is catching for the Charles
ton aggregation. In recent game
against Savannah. Menefee was the only
man to connect safely with Robertson's
lenders. the local lad getting a pair of
singles.
Mickey Keliher is going good with
Hartford, in the Eastern Association,
batting IN the cleanup position and de-
livering the goods. The Hartford fans
are all pulling for Mickey, and as the
Northwest lad is keeping in good shape
he should g. up this fall
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