The Washington times., 1914-08-10
AMATEUR ARMIES ENTER
INTOBASEBALL WARFARE
TODECIDECHAMPIONSHIP|
Upward of 200 Players Pecptated Into the Sectional Seres
Which Will Take Elimination Process One Step Nearer
the Decision of Seasons TiehoIder.
By KIRK C. MILLER.

Upward of two hundred amateur
baseball players, members of the
Washington Amateur Baseball As
sociation, will be precipitated into a
batIle which will not end until next
Saturday afternoon, today at 8
o'clock, when the sectional series for
the selection of slocal champion will
ne started.
Six teams figure in today's con-
fiicts and tomorrow three new ones
will he ushered into the fastest sand
lot elimination contest that has ever
been staged to decide Washington
amateur title. Nine teams, repre-
senting the best in as many amateur
wheels of this city are pitted IN this
weeks intricate schedule. they hav-
ing been divided into three classif-
cations, A, B, and &. In each of
these sections a team will be de-
clared winner in its own little circle
and the three sectional champions
will clash next week in a post-sea-
son series.
So close have been the games OF re-
cent weeks to decide league title hold
CTS that it would be folly to attempt.
CT this time. to indicate a possible nine
Tor the championship of the entire as
ISOLATION, and to draw ones self into
a. discussion las To which club the
wreath of glory will finally be awarded
IS nothing short Of premature.
Of the nine organizations which are
today thrown into the first heat OF the
elimination process, two-thirds OF them
might, by the dope route. be figured
cut as having the best chance for the
local gonfalon.
A tangible comparison of these nine
1ghting clubs is also practically impos-
sible as none of them has ever been
seen in action against another. OF
course the type Of play presented in
the various leagues might easily have
been established by closely following the
games throughout the season This
Is the nearest that anv parallel may
he drawn and il is decidedly warped
number of players who were declared
ineligible fer these games and also
the handicap under which the players
will be working in performing on strange
grounds in many Of the games
There seems to be q general impress
ion prevailing among the amateur fol-
lowing to the effect that the Eastern
Club. of the Potomac League, is going
20 rush right in and gobble up the gon-
|alon, bones and all; and while there
IS no denying that the Anacostians have
a great little baseball machine, they
have plenty Of equally strong material
% dispose of before they can begin TO
-1It NJ rnfnP IN Richmond
The same goes for the other eight -eems
FOR they all have a long route to travel
re they enter the charmed society OF
champions.
For instance, that Tenleytown team
which waded through the Central Or
Tanization is a contender over which the
.thers have no right to do any Growing.
Tenleytown is distinctly within the
lass Of league champions which have
'ust been declared which looms up most
lightly on the amateur horizon and
The Section A title is almost going to
evolve strictly around that club ana
he Potomacs. These teams play to-
,ay and one or the other is going to
nave its opportunity severely blighted
hefore shutdown. Much Is expected OF
luck Becker and King Cole. the East
N Clubs pitching backbone. out the
tack of which ever one Of those two
W no twiris today will be well met bS
c1e Vernstein. who seems to De Ten
,eytown's one best bet
Also let 1t be stated that the Treasury
club. champions of the Treasury League,
ere not to be sighted when probable
richmond excursionists are being dis
. used It is another team which has
zen drawn in the first DAYS scheoule
nd with Downey on the hill 1t Is an
1lcipating a sweep right on through the
nitro list of Section c uines.
Ninth Street Christian Church seems
- be making extensive plans for pocK-
Ting the honors in the c section, put
the Brentwood outfit, Of the North-
vest Sunday School League, can hard
T.. be overlooked. Brightwood won
LEAGUE title from such teams as Whitney
venue and Emmanuel and these three
sJcceeded in keeping the race at white
neat up until the eleventh hour the
--erv class Of the teams which Bright
v-ood downed TO get to the head or
80 league brands II as an organization
= hich can be expected to be round OUT
there fighting every inch OF the way |
Here is an eligibility code which has
reen nassed upon by the amateur com !
and from which the various
r1snagers may draw their players for
the games which start today:
CENTRAL.
EmeraId-oakIey. NcDonough; Norris
fines. Murphy. Donnelly. HoI,eran'
:nssck Rawlings, O'Donnel. r. ]
callan. Parrot, Desnan'
Fury, Lemeric, and Varela
DEPARTMENTAL.
Postoffice - Anderson. Barnhart.
Beard, Bradley, Dodge, Fenton' kerr r'
Kraft Lyons, Martin. Mccoy: Neff,
2ossiter, Ryan, Schrider, Stanton
e 'aughn, and Warthen.
EAST WASHINGTON SUNDAY
SCHOOL
Ninth Street-Madigan. Pee. Kerper'
Carrico, Steele, Marceron, Moreland.
King, SaIb, Kelley, Giovannetti, Cheney
VI on Herbulis. c. Broome, NJ. Broome,
5Eountree, Harris. and Bryant.
MARQUETTE.
renleytown-Beach. Blinkhorn, Kirk
= nd. Derrick. Donaldson, Hager, How
> I'd, Jones, March, Oldfield, Riley, Ris-
ION. Shalin, II. Stadler. ]. Stadler.
stewart, Vernstein, and Wise.
NORTHWEST SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Brightwood-Charlton Dudley. Dyer,
r astwood, Flood. B. Gist, G. Gist, Herr.
inn, Mccarthy, Roberts. Rupert. ].
-tatz, B. STATE, Stanley, Thomas, Stew
art, waldron and Torney.
POTOMAC.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Dean, HUNT,
sforar, Fitzgerald, Plunkett. Varela,
mithson. Spaulding, w. Brewer z.
Brewer, johnson, Green. Murray. Beck
.r, Cole, Kelly, Mitchell.
RAILROAD Y. II. c. A.
station--J. Thompson, T. THOMPSON.