Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-11
FEW GAMES WILL
BEPLAYED TODAY
Only Three Contests Scheduled
to Take Place in ANA
teur Leagues.
AGRICULTURE AND NINTH
WCT0Rs BY BIG SCORES
After Successive Defeats, These
Clubs Win Easily From War
and Fifth Mines.
BY H. c. BYRD.

This seems to be more or less of an
off day for the teams in the amateur
leagues. only three games being sched-
uled. Central. East Washington Sun
day School and Rosedale leagues are
the ones in which contests are to De
played. In the aforementioned organi-
cation Waverly and Sherwood are to
meet. in the second Keller and Reforma-
ton will try conclusions, and Columbus
and Holy Name will be the contendins
mines in the last
Teams that ire in the running for the
championships will play in two of the
circuits. Holy Name, in the Rosedale.
and Sherwood and Waverly, in the
Holy Name has been touted as the
probable victor in the playground or
ganization. while Sherwood and WaV-
erly are both strong enough to give
are looking for in the way of strong
opposition. The game between Keller
and Reformation will not have much
bearing on the title. as neither is apt
to win that honor.
Six games were played yesterday In
leagues which come under the Jurisd1c.
ton of the amateur commission. and
other organizations. The Printers for
feited their contest in the Central
League to the Favorite club: the Agri-
cultural Department came back strong
in the Departmental and defeated War
by Is to 1: Ninth also won a game in
the East Washington Sunday School by
a decisive margin. the score being IA
to 2; Station handed the Car Depart
ment an STOP defeat in the Railroad
Y. NJ. c. A: Library won from Inter-
Congress Heights sprang surprise in
the Potomac and won from Fairlawn
by to 3. In the Brookland church cir
cult and the Rosedale League. indie
feated Baptfsts. to 3. and the Trojans
won from the Highlanders by to 4.
Fairlawn got rude jolt at the hands
of Congress Heights in the Potomac
League. Its victory over the Eastern
club the other day put 1t we'll in the
running for the championship, but the
defeat of yesterday gives it a decided
setback, from which it may never re-
cover.
The pitching of Moore was mainly re-
sponsible for Congress Heights victory.
He held the opposing batters under his
that real rally might be started, and
emerged from the contest with a well
earned triumph. And Moore's victory is
all the more credftable when it Is con-
sidered that he did well enough to keep
his opponents from getting runs despite
six bases on balls given by him. Five
errors by Fairlawn contributed largely to
the scoring by Congress Heights.
The game between Library and Inter-
state was full Of errors and base hits.
The former made five errors and con-
nected with the ball for ten safe drives,
against it and made ten hits. Both
teams f1elded about the same kind of a
game. nine assists being credited to each
Evans who did the pitching for Lii
orary. struck out eleven men and had
a good day otherwise. He accepted five
chances in the field and made two hits
out of three times at bat.
Fifth team. Its batting was the big
feature. fifteen hits being made in the
seven innings of play. Coupled with the
terrific batting of Ninth. Fifth made sew
en- errors. which aided largely in the
run getting.
Harris. at short. and Steele. in center
field. for Ninth. did the best batting for
that club. Each man got three hits.
though Harris was up four times and
Steele only three. Only one of the safe
ties made by this pair was for an extra
base. and that was two-bagger secured
by Steele. Havenner and Rhinehart led
Fifth with the bat. each man getting two
safe wallops.
Ninth started out by scoring five runs
in the first inning: then it got one II.
the second, and four more in the third.
That put to flight any fears Ninth may
have had of defeat. Fifth got one run
each in the sixth and seventh innings
Chaney had an easy time winning his
game. as most any pitcher would with
such big lead. He let up. though,
after his team was ahead by big mar
gin and did not more than half try
Station scored eight runs in the first
two innings of its game with the Car De-
partment team. which gave it the long
10 hNr ,.tytr, n
teams fielded well. one misplav being
scored against each: but it was little use
for Car Department to play after Thomp-
son got that eight-run lead in the first
nngs, though. Hughes. who did the pitch
ing for the Carmen. settled down and
gave a good exhibition not allowing an
other score.
Pugh. at third for the Car Department. |
did the best fielding shown by the play |
ers. Both men accepted all their chances. |
five being handled by each.
Agriculture came back in the Depart
League with a vengeance. win
ming from the War team by lS to 1. ]
The Aggies were on their mettle for the |
first time in quite a while. and their i
playing gave evidence of it. The Farm
junction with nine errors by War, al |
lowed them to score about as they |
pleased. The work of the War nine
was way below the usual standard of |
play by the Departmental League teams |
and the Aggies. playing hard to win, had |
not the least trouble finishing with the
long end of the score.
LIE Due and McLarney did some good
batting for Agriculture. LIE Duo made
three hits out of four trips to the plate
two singles and two-bagger. while Nc
Larney got three singles out of as many |
attempts. With these exceptions. there
culture won as easily as it could have
done. and the whole thing developed into
more or less of a farce after the third
period. In the first inning the Aggies got
three runs in the next two. and in the
third they chased ten men across the
plate.
The Trojans and Highlanders, both in
the running for the championship of the
Rosedale League, played a close game
until the last inning. when the Trojans
scored three runs. Both teams got the
same number of hits. but seven errors by
the Highlanders helped their opponents
in the making of several Of
their runs
Hines pitched brilliantly against the st.
club in the Marquette League
while holding down the mound job for
he Emeralds and got shut-out game
scattered hits and struck out eight men.
Perfect fielding by the PLAYERS behind him
helped much to prevent score being
-egistered. Oakley. behind the bat for
he Emeralds. handled the delivery Of
[Ijnaa perfectIy and aided his hattery /