The Washington times., 1913-08-10
BANKERSWLLPLAY
AGAINSTPETWORTH
Loss of Game to Interior Does Not Stop Capital City Team
Ninth Looms Up as Contender for Title of City Champion
VigiIans Battle Baltimore Nine.
By BRYAN MORSE.

apparent fact that neither of the hurl.
ers was in anything like form.
1t may have been overconfidence or q
matter of undertaking the Interior team
but the. fact remains that the Depart
mental team took advantage of every
slip deby the Bankers and used their
heads at all times to score a popular
win.
Ninth, at opportune times, clouted out
a 5-to-3 win over the Sherwood team, OF
the Central League, in a game which
drew well at the East Washington S. s.
League diamond Ninth has a number
of dangerous batters and can be count
ed upon to give any of the other teams
battle for the race.
st. Stephens, which was runner up in
the Marquette League to Trinity, is anx-
ious to defeat the league leaders, and is
scheduling a battle today at the Mar
quette League grounds.
1t is doubtful IL any two teams in any
of the circuits can put up better fight
than St Stephens and Trinity, and the
two teams will offer the fans of George
town a good battle today.
Another game calculated to draw ex-
ceptionally well is that scheduled at the
Vigilants and the Marshall Athletic
Club, of Baltimore The teams are hook
ing up in a double bill today.
When it comes to picking outfields,
Ninth asks for a show at the honors.
NJ. Broome. Monk Walters, and Yum
Moreland are calculated to show as
much as any of the others. When 1t
comes to clouting Moreland and Wal
ters are as good stickers as there are
in the city leagues.
now since Interior has set a mark in
defeating the Bankers. There is no
doubt in the minds of any of the fans
that had Chris Fienle been on hand to
take up the running for the Bankers
there would have been a different score
recorded. While Dyer, Loomis, and
Holden have shown the goods for the
Bankers, it has been Fienle's work that
has carried the Bankers along ali the
while.
It was not Dusty Rhodes fault that
his team did not win yesterday The
Sherwood pitcher held the Ninth team
to six hits. and famed eight batters.
Errors behind him were responsible for
the loss of the game, as on two occa-
sions when alright fielding would have
turned back the Ninth runners MS
mates fell down.
On the offense Rhodes contributed
homer and a single. and accepted three
chances, two assists and a put out,
without an error. He was deserving OF
a win for his good work.
For the first time in many a season
Boss Cornell, of the Cornell Company
team, is forced to watch the post-season
series without finding his team battling
for the title The Cornell leader has
won and lost titles, and the fact that
the team is not even in the post-season
series is a new thing to him.
Time was when the Cornell team was
the best by all odds in the city. Other
teams have come forward with a rush,
have been developed, and
new talent has forced the Cornell team
to the wall. Cornell will come back
next year, however. with another club.
Arguments as to whether or not the
Pepco team. winner of last years title
and the intercity series, Is as strong or
stronger than any of the three leaders
now battling for the title, Is causing
lot of discussion.
Pepco presented a great battery in
Barton and Munich, and a good inheld.
Its outfield was another asset which
practically won for II the title on ac-
count of hitting. The Bankers, however,
Or Interior, or Ninth, for that matter,
are thought TO be every bit as good as
the winners Of last season.