Evening star., 1914-07-15

over Sherwood. one Of the real contend
ers for the title. Sherwood held the
lead until the seventh inning, when the
Favorites went in and got six runs.
They added another in the eighth. Sher-
wood held the lead by to until the
seventh.
The Favorite club out-hit and out
fielded the Sherwood aggregation.
Ninth got away with another easy
game in the East Washington League. Its
playing in every department being much
better than that of Reformation, Its op-
ponent. Reformation made seven errors
against only one for Ninth, while the
latter clouted the ball all over the lot al
most
Harris and Roundtree did some fine
fielding for Ninth around short and Sec
ond respectively. Both men got every
thing that came their way, and oe.Ween
them they handled eleven chances. There
get. and few better exhibitions have been
given in the league this year.
About the only feature to the play OF
the Reformation team was the batting OF
Daughton. He got hit every time up,
and he went to the plate on three occa-
sions. None of the hits was longer than
a single.
Dillon did some mighty good work at
shortstop and at bat for the 1roquois IN
ly, accepting every one of his six chances.
and got three hits out of four attempts.
One of the safeties was drive that went
for two bases.
The batting Of the entire Iroquois team
was heavy. The players hit the ball
about az they pleased. there being but
two out of the ten that figured in the
contest who did not get at least one safe
drive Two of them made three-Dlllon
and Sower-and three of the others con-
nected safely twice. total of fifteen
hits was registered. and several went for
extra bases.
Government Hospital team against Fair
lawn. His work was good enough to beat
almost any amateur organization, while
there was little fault to be found with
his support. That not a run was scored
against his team Is evidence enough of
how well Henderson pitched. Hender-
son fielded his position well. too. having
five assists.
The fielding of both teams was above
the average. Fairlawn did not have
single miscue charged against it. while
the G. H. I. nine made but one misplay.
The one error Of the game was charged
to King at first base.
A slight change has been made in the
schedule of the Brookland League. The
Methodist and Wesley teams, which were
scheduled to play today will meet to-
morrow, while the Baptists and Wesley
will try conclusions Friday. special
tween Episcolal and the Fort Myer team.
This will be made a feature occasion.
and music will be furnished by the In
dustrial Home School Band.
A game played yesterday between Navy
and Forest Service resulted in a victory
| for the former by 6 to g. The playing of
Jamison for the losers and work of Ho6-
man for the winners were the features.
1t looks very much as if the tr-outs for
the Davis cup tennis team is losing the
| tice. OF course. the individuals are get
| ting all the work they want, and the va
| riety of the play they are meeting will
serve them in better stead than if they
were practicing against the same oppo-
nents all tbe time. but 1t isinthedoubles
that the trouble may come. Two men
playing together in tennis must essen
! TALLY understand each other as thorough
I feld-even more So because their play
cannot be regulated by signals. The two
| men who are to take part in the doubles
for England and Australia, which seem
to be the strongest of the challenging
countries. are working together even now.
| and have been for some time. while the
American pair has not yet been selected
| 1t is worth while. though, to note that
England's weakness in its matches with
, France appeared to be in the doubles
| which were lost. because the chances are
| that unless pair is selected to represent
| this country SO that they can work to-
gether for sometime that may be the
| weak point of our defense.
OF course. 1t Is by no means certain that
| England is going to win the right to the
| challenge matches, because Australia has
i two of the greatest players In the world.
| Brooks and Wilding. and with such
| strength to fall back on Australia must
| be seriously considered