Evening star., 1914-08-07
Northwest S. S. and Central
Leagues Have Teams Bat
tIinq for First HonorS.
HIGHLANDERS MUST PLAY
HOLY NAME TEAM AGAIN
Protest by the Latter Is Sustained
and Game Will Be Played
Over Tomorrow.
BY n. C. BYRD.

Northwest Sunday School and the Central
leagues are the ones in which teams are
battling for the highest honors their or
ganizations afford. Brightwood and
Whitney Avenue are struggling in the
aforementioned. while the Emeralds and
the Kenilworth club are to meet in the
latter
Whitney Avenue. which is playing
Brightwood for honors in the Northwest
sunday School circuit, is out Of the run
Wing for the pennants as far as 1t Is con-
cerned itself, but whether 1t wins will
mean tho flag to Brightwood. I'm
manuel is the team which Brightwood
has to beat out and II is now leading
that club by a slight margin. If Bright
wood wins the final contest today with
Whitney Avenue 1t will have the cham
pionship undisputed.
In the Central League the Emeralds
and the Kenilworth club have been put
ting up great battle for first honors.
The former has won two contests ana
so has the latter. The two teams have
We'd with each other so far, kenilworth
having taken the first and third games
and Emeralds the second and fourth
1t would appear to be Kenilworth's turn
again. but at any rate the result or
tie fifth meeting this afternoon will
determine which club is to represent
the league in the post-season series
The game between Emmanuel and Bright
wood yesterday resulted in a victory for
the latter. which was mainly caused by |
a home run drive by Torney with a man
on. That smash scored the two tallies
which won the contest. Had Emmanuel
got the long end of the score 1t would |
have had the championship without ques-
ton, but now is seems that Brightwood
stands better than an even chance to I'M |
ish in front. |
Stanley and Gessford. the star pitchers |
of the Emmanuel and Brightwood teams.
failed to hold their opposing clubs to
minimum of hits The Brightwood nine |
connected safely ten times and the I'M |
manuel aggregation drove the ball where
casions. Stanley had the big margin. |
though. in strike-outs eleven being made |
by him. Gessford famed only three men.
Stanley did not give single pass to first
base, and he gets the credit for winning. |
Brightwood played a brilliant game in |
the field behind Stanley. Not an error was
made, and many of the players handled
some very hard chances j. Statz, who
caught Stanley, had the most opportunities
for plays, as might well be known, and
he made good on every one. He had mr.
teen put-outs credited to him. Contrary
10 Brightwoods faultless fielding, Inn
~ nuel had three misplays charged
against it.
H-hc best batting done by the Bright
od players was accomplished BY Torney.
40 got three hits out of four trips 10
: 90 plate. one of Torneys drives went
Ia four bases, but his other two were
-ies. strait was the foremost OF the
! manuel batters. also having three safe |
/ 3 out of four attempts. Strait did some
], der hitting even than Torney, as ne |
- ouy got home run, but smashed out
two-hase wallop and single. |
The Emeralds got a lead at the start |
q, the game with kenilWorth yester-
day and kept it to the end. The wear
crs of the green scored a run IN .ne
har n Qhd-
cd two more in the third and then got
another man across in the sixth. all
before the keni1worth club had count
ed once. Kenilworth made game eff
fort to overcome the big lead held
against it in the last inning. but could
not quite make good. 1t got four men
across the plate, but could not regis
ter the run that would have evened
things up. The score was TO 4.
Hines pitched the entire contest for
the Emeralds and his work was good,
10 say the least. He was effective at
all times, with the exception of that
last period Hines carried his team
along without allowing score until
that time, but weakened somewhat
then. Hines allowed only five hits.
gave three bases on balls and struck
out four.
The Emeralds stole bases at will on
Krafts. which was an extremely big
asset in the winning of the game.
krafts failed to stop them at any
stage. Eleven times did the Emera1ds'
base runners purloin sacks without
much hindrance and without help from
their teammates. through inability of
the kenilworth catcher to throw aceu-
rately. O'ponnell. Oakley, Rawlings,
ponnelly. Lemeric got two each, while
Cusack had one to his credit.
Fred Heck again played a splendid
game at short for the kenilworth club.
His work was extraordinary. No errors
were charged against him, and he took
Nf hon nf h t,k
was a double play. Leeric, Donnelly
and oakley did the best work for the
Emeralds.
At the meeting of the amateur com
mission last night a protest by the
Holy Name club was sustained. The
protest was against the Highlanders,
who beat out the Holy Names for the
pennant in the Rosedale League in a
three-game series early this week. The
Highlanders won two out of three con-
tests. but they have been notified to
play tomorrow to decide the title, it
having been shown that they played an
Ineligible man in one of the games.
The one meeting, the result of which
will determine the winners of honors,
Is 70 take place on the Railroad
y NJ g. A. League grounds shorty"
Hughes and Harry Shurtleff will UNI
pire.
There We're no other protests sus-
tanned at the meeting last night. The
eligibility of several of the men con-
uected with the various pennant-w
ming clubs were questioned, but the
only one sustained was that by the
Holy Name nine.
Bureau and Treasury are to play in
the Treasury League the game that
will give Treasury the championship.
providing ~ wins. II Bureau takes the
long end OF the score il will tie Treas
ury for first place. and the two clubs
will meet tomorrow in special con-
test TO play OFF the tie. The Treasury
club Is now one fun game in front of
Bureau. and victory today, Of course,
will give il the championship.
By winning two matches in the singles
yesterday the Australasian tennis team
got good lead in the race for the right
to the challenge round with the United
States for the highest honors in the tennis
world. With the advantage gained yes
. ferday II seems almost certain that the
Australasians will he the chaliengers
And there does not appear much doubt
that they will be the most formidable op-
ponents for this country. Their style of
play will be different from anything the
United States men have met and that is
certain to prove a big help to the invad-
ers. If England were to brace sufficiently
to win the Americans would be against
the same kind of work which they beat a
year ago. but with the Australasians op-
will be far different matter.
IT,