Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-03
STOLEN BASES
ARE FREQUENT
Players Took Liberties 1913
Times in the Amateur League
Games Yesterday.
CATCHERS ARE NOT
THROWING IN FORM
Do Not Get Practice Enough
to Show at Their Best.
Other Athletic Gossip.
BY II. C. BYRD.

BY III. G. BYRD.
The number of stolen bases being Sc
cured in the amateur leagues probably
exceeds anything of previous years. In
the majority of the circuits some mighty
poor throwing is being done by the catch
ers. or else the players are doing some
exceptionally fast work on the bases. At
any rate. it is very seldom that many
bases will be stolen as was the case
yesterday in the ten circuits in which
games We're played
The total number of stolen bases was
l23 an average of more than II per game,
which seems almost impossible. That
would cause ii to seem that soon as a
man got on first he Immediately made a
dive for second, in which effort he was
successful much more often than not
Players in the game in the East Wash
ington Sunday School League were more
successful in that respect than in any of
the others Exactly twenty times did they
steal, more than three or four times as
often as is generally the case in the ma
jority of games. Stolen bases were
scarcer in the Capital City League than
in any other, only two being secured in
that circuit
Just how to account for the great
a puzzle. unless it be that the catchers
are doing such poor work In throwing
that 1t is impossible for them to get
the men. That probably is the explana-
ton to a certain extent. too. AS mat
tiers are the catchers who do the re-
ceiving seldom work more than once
every eight or ten days. and it is i'm
possible for them to heave accurately
to bases, especially is this true when
it is considered that they do not get
the least practice in the meantime AS
the season wears on. it Is likely that
the catchers will do better work In
preventing the men from stealing, but
even then without getting few work
outs they are not liable TO cause any
great deterioration in the base stealing
records of some of the players.
| Here is list of the leagues in which
games were played yesterday. and the
number of stolen bases in each: Fed
eral, IL; Departmental IL; East Wash
ington Sunday School, 20: Southeastern.
IL; Capital City. 2: Railroad Y. M. c. A.
IL: Central. IS: Northwestern Sunday
School. 10: Marquette. Z; Treasury. IL.
Jimmy Kerr OF the Post Office team, in
the Departmental League, headed the
list of individuals with four to his
credit
Another of the track meets being con-
tested to determine the boys who will
represent the several divisions Of the
meet to be held to decide the public
school championship of the city took
place yesterday. Eight schools in the
Virginia avenue division were in the
victor. scoring thirty-four points The
Buchanan School and Cranch School
were close second and third, though
the first mentioned having thirty-two
points to its credit and the latter scor-
ing twenty-nine.
The results OF the events were as
follows:
5"-yard dash-Charles Beall won: Raymond
iorsett second: Il. Queen third. Bcsll made
the excellent time of q rs seconds, beating the
city championship time Of last year by Is sec
G0-yard de sh-Alien Chase won; NJ Davis Sec
'o-yard dash-E. Walsh won: b. Chapman
second: c. Weaver third.
1o0-yard dash-I. Ready won: c. Biondi sec
ond: William Kellum third
S6,-yard relay, eighty -fve-pound c!ass-Lenox
smith II. Dorset and e. Beall. The Buchanan
school was second and The Cranch third.
School won The runners were ~ Dodge. b.
Dawson A. Cummings and 1. Ready.
Cieary won; b. wormsley second; L. Engei
third
Running high jump. 100 pound clsss-c san
differ won; &. kaufman second: l.. Mcintyre
third.
Running high jump. us pound class-w. Beall
Running high jump. unlimited class NJ Nc
Cormick won.
Running broad jump. eighty five pound class
L. Smith Won, L. Burba2e second: John Evans
third
Running high jump. O-pound class-w Ford
Running high jump 1l5-pound class-C. Boa
bers won.
Shipley and Hoffecker third baseman
and pitcher OF the Maryland Agricultural
College, played with the Towson team I'm
the 1nterclub League in Baltimore last
Saturday. and practically won the game
by their individual efforts. Hoffecker
pitched and did some very good work.
holding the opposing team safe all
through the game. Hoffecker, besides do
ing that. came up in the last half of the
ninth. with the score a tie. hit a home
run drive over the right fielder's head.
II might be mentioned that out of the
ten hits secured by ToWson. Hoffecker
got three and Shipley three. Shpley also
played a fine game on the infield
The following is list of the games
scheduled in the amateur circuits to-
day:
Capital City League-southland VS..
Central League-Twining VS.. Printers
Departmental League VS..
Federal League-Petworth VS.. Pension
Bureau.
East Washington Sunday School
League-Ninth VS.. st. Agnes.
r. r. Y. NJ. c. A. League-Southern
We. Expressmen.
Northwest Sunday School League
Fourth VS.. Emmanuel
Treasury League-C. OF Cy. VS.. Fed
erals
Southeastern Observation-Disclosures vs.
Mohawks.
Marquette League-Naval Medicos VS.
Holy Names.
Potomac Observation-Disclosures VS.. Ana
costa.
At a meeting held at Georgetown for
the election Of officers for next year
the following men won positions: Muir
ray will be assistant manager of base
ball. Phillips is TO be assistant manager
| of track. Hutton will be assistant ir
charge OF minor sports. and Boyle will
be the assistant foot ball manager. The
| sophomores won the election. their can
didates defeating the representatives of
the freshman class
1 The reports for base ball and track
were read. and 1t was found that each
| sport lost about $1,000 Basket ball
was shown to be operating about on an
| even basis.
Pitcher Chief Johnson Of Cincinnati,
VINO was working under n provs onal con-
/ tract signed new contract on May 20