The Washington herald., 1914-04-23
Eastern and Western
Battle to a Draw, 8-8
Red and White Comes from Behind-Johnson is
Knocked Out of Box-Coutest Is Exciting
Throughout-ROyer Stars.
by CHARLES w. SWAN.

Eastern and Western met yesterday IN
| the second contest in the Scholastic
League. and after battling through nine
exciting sessions, the struggle was de-
clared a draw by Umpire Handiboe. with
each club having registered eight tallics.
The game itself was a repetition Of the
opening game of the season Tuesday.
Many errors cropped out, some more
foolish base running was in evidence. and
the crowd again interferred with the
players.
Scheduled to start at $50 O'Clock. 1t
was close to 4:l5 before the game was
started. due to the failure of the athletic
| board to have bases on the field. After
| a hurried trip had been made to Spald-
ing's. and bags procured. the contest
started. The crowd surged on the field
several times, necessitatlng the halting
| OF the game. and this. together with the
many word battles, made the contest
long drawn out although exciting until
the last man was retired.
johnson Knocked Out.
Clair johnson. who won the champion
ship for Eastern last year by his work
on the mound, started the contest today,
but after going seven innings he was
forced to give way to Frank Greer. who
the ninth frame. Here Capt. Dyer took
up the hill duty. with two sacks occu-
pied, and he succeeded in blanking the
Red and White. Then Umpire Handi-
Doe called Game"
On the other hand Jack Adams, West
ern's big hurler. worked the entire
game. and only allowed four hits. in
cluding two triples. Adams walked
seven, two of the lads getting walks
later scoring. The fielding OF the West
ern club was much better than Eastern.
although neither team looked good in
the field.
Earl Roger, Jefr Thornett. and "Catsy"
Dean furnished the fielding features of
the engagement. Roger made two swell
Dean worked well together around the
keystone sack.
Many Changes Needed.
II any Of the remaining games sched-
uled are played at the r. r. Y. NJ. c. A.
Park a great many changes will have
to be made before the contests will be
run on in smooth manner. A rope
should be stretched along the foul lines
to keep the spectators of the field the
base lines should be marked, and the
crowd should be kept away from the
players. Yesterday, the crowd was all
over the field. and interfered several
times with a player catching the ball In
one case. a foul fly hit into the crowd
and a Western man went after II. Just
as he was about TO grab the ball. a spec
tator jumped in the way. and the next
minute the batter, who would have been
out, trlpled to left. Had this batter been
retired on the foul fly. Western would
have won.
Eastern broke the ice in the second
inning when Greer tripled to left. and
scored when Stearns allowed the throw
in to get away. Again in the third East
ern forged to the front. With two down,
Fisher bingled and swiped second stand
ing up. -hornett followed with a base
blow to night. serding Fisher home and
going to second on the peg home. JEFF
hiked to third on passed ball, and after
Dean had walked, engineered a double
steal, crossing the plate. while Katsy
drew up at second. Dyer was safe on
Adams error. and Dean scored when
Stearns threw wide to the plate. Dyer
was retired at third.
Western Scores.
Western counted in the fourth stanza.
Stearns walked and went TO third when
Watkins dropped Adams infield tap
Sergaint famed, and when Collins hit to
Dean Stearns was caught at the plate.
Adams scored when Flaherty allowed a
last one 10 go through MIN.
The Red and White forged to the front
in the sixth inning. Several errors and
hits by Collins and Nichols turned the
trick, while N the eighth frame the lads
from across the creek scored three more
tallies.
couple of Eastern miscues sent
these tallies across the pan. Eastern
came through with a rally In the eighth.
Fisher walked. and was forced at sec
ond by Thornett. Jeff scored when Dean
slammed the pill through the left field
crowd, and Ratsy counted on the next
pitch when Nichols allowed the ball to
roll to the backstop. Dyer was safe on
Rogers error. while Greer walked. Dyer
hiked for third when Nichols pegged into
center field, Greer pulling up at second,
and when Watkins lifted a long fly to
Scrgaint, Dyer and Greer counted.
Dyer Comes Through.
1t looked bad for Eastern in the ninth.
Roger opened with Drive to Fisher,
but Stearns walked and stole. He went
to third on a passed ball Adams walked,
and Greer hit Sergaint- At this stage
OF the battle Capt. Dyer went into the
box and forced Collins to hit to Thornett
who caught Stearns at the plate. With
three on and two down, Dyer opened up
wide, and sent Nichols back to the bench