The Washington times., 1913-08-04
By BRYAN MORSE.

Bankers and Cornell and Petworth
and FairInont are furnishing the ex-
citement in the amateur leagues to-
day. The title In both circuits depends
in a measure on the result OF today's
games. The Capital City League flag
viii be cinched il the Bankers lose.
although it will mean that two more
chances in two other engagements will
be offered to the American Security
and Trust team.
Petworth and Fairmont in the Fed
erai circuit are expected TO draw good
crowds today. The scrap between these
two teams is one which is stimulating
considerable interest President Rob-
ert Johnes, Of the circuit. has succeed
ed In bringing order out Of chaos and
must be gwen the credit for his good
work.
Should either Of the two teams men
toned get a look in for the District
title there viii be many who will turn
out for the contests In which the teams
engage. While neither is calculated to
show the strength of Interior, of the
Departmental. the Capital City winner.
or Ninth Street Christian Church. the
Federal wirner is expected to take its
place at the front rank Of section B.
Fairmont will qualify men for the
post-season series as follows: Bauer,
Dyer. Doleman. Davis, 0liveri, Shipiey,
]. c. Statz, Harry Statz, Stanley,
Thompson, woodard. Zachary. Linn.
Hanlein. Ochsenreiter. Woodtn, Russo,
and Platt.
Petworth nominates the following:
Mac Brown, Roland Clayton, Ferguson
Fague, r. S. Jones, jr., John r. Miller,
c. w. Stauton, Jesse Baggette, George
Seitz Paul A. Hines, jr., c. w. Plunkett,
Bernard J. Gallagher, Charles ]. Arm
buster, H. II. Kidwell, Sam Johnson,
Warren Dean. John Ebert, NJ. P. Wood,
J. Riston.
The Amateur Commission meets to-
night at the office of President Robert
II. Young, in the Southern building, TO
settle all plans regarding the post
season series and those which will take
care Of the intercity series.
The question of umpires to be desig
mated and the playing grounds will also
come In for consideration today. Teams
viii be classified according to strength,
and the three sections Will be drawn
for games to be played starting Satur-
day.
Manager Joe OIiver1 Is casting about
for another team to tackle next Sun
day afternoon His Vigilants team ham
dily won double-header from the Holy
Cross Lyceum team, Of Baltimore, yes
teFday at Vigilant Park, by the score
of 6to 4 and 10 TO 2.
Ty Cobb umpired in the second con-
test as per schedule, and was accepta bic
in every way. The famous Detrofter
was forced TO leave the contest In the
sixth inning in order to get to a train.
But eight hits were obtained of OF
Oiiveri's pitching selections. Thompson
and Giovannetti, in the two battles
Many errors were made By the Yigi-
lants in the first game, but the team
settled down TO good baseball In the sec
ond contest.
0idfield, OF Trinity, In the Marquette
League, is given top honors in the aver
ages published today. with a mark of
800 in six games played. The real
leader is Rrkley, OF Holy Name, who
participated In fifteen games for a mark
Of -.
81. Paul and Emmanuel, Of the North
west Sunday School League. are playing
OF their tie game Of last week Cn
wednesday afternoon The teams
hooked up In a 4-to-4 tie last week. and
the contest Is announced for wednes-
day, instead OF today.
Petucrth is likely 10 be without
batter for today's game. following the
announcement that two Of the players
have gone out OF town with an inde-
pendent team.