The Washington times., 1913-07-10
By BRYAN MORSE.

The fate of the Southland team as
member of the Capital City League viii
rest with the players today as L
whether they will continue on the rostel
of the league. or be dropped in favor
of another aggregation. Manager Litch
fields nine will be given another chance
today. and failing to appear it is moi
unlikely thet President S. Edward Beach
win call meeting of the circuit, ant
bounce the aggregation out of the
league.
Southland has failed to show up or
three occasions now. yesterdays sched-
uled game with Bankers being the third
time the nine has failed TO come ou,
to play. Today the Southland team is
scheduled to appear against the Cornell
team, and there is strong probability
that Manager Litchheld will again be
unable to get his men in line.
According TO the Southland manager
several things have prevented him from
getting his men out, and circumstances
over which he has had no control have
served to put him in a bad light Sew
eral of the players are content to play
Sunday ball, others have signified their
intention of playing with other teams.
and the manager is at loss to know just
where to turn.
The matter will probably be taken up
by the officials of the Capital City
League at a meeting to be called.
SHOULD the Southland team come out
today and give promise OF future ap-
pearance nothing will be done, and the
scaedule will be played out. At this time
last year trouble broke out in the cir
cult, Sewerage Pumpingg Station play
ers falling 10 appear. The league was
disrupted for awhile until ii was re-
organized
Just what a great spurt is being made
by the Aggies in the Departmental can
be seen from the addition of Kraft and
Kerr. These veterans of amateur ball
have done wonders to the team which
is now within striking distance OF In
terror, and is thought by all of the
White Lot fans to be in line for the
title this year.
Yesterday Kerr poled out four safe
ones in the game with War. One hit
went fer the circuit, two others went
for doubles, while the fourth was a
single. Altogether the former Postoffice
player had a fine day with the fail.
O'Neill and Rhodes got back again
into the game for Sherwood, and the
first half the season leaders managed
to win over Northern. The score went
at 10 to 3, Rhodes pitching four-hit
game, passing five and tanning eight.
The lure of the kale is driving some
OF our best little amateurs to playing
independent Sunday baseball. Several
teams have been gotten together. and
there promises to be a merry time get
ting out of each others way At the
present time there are three independ-
ent teams recruited from among the
amateur teams. and there will be a
number OF players dropping out of the
leagues instead of holding to their con-
tracts. While the amateur commits
sion has nothing to do with Independent
baseball. il is thought that the signing
of players with the independent teams
will have much TO do with lessening
interest in the amateur games.
While il is bit early to figure upon
winners in the various leagues the
fans like to dope out the teams likely
TO enter in the post-season series games
Bankers and Cornell. in the Capital
City. are racing a long neck and neck
Ninth looks good for the East Wash
ington S. S. League: Sherwood looks
good for a repeat in the Central cir
cult over the first half of the seasons
whole; Aggies. though two games be-
hind in the Departmental, are expected
to rush ahead Of Interior.