Evening star., 1914-07-07
BY n. C. BYRD.


Four of the amateur pitchers who
took part in games yesterday did some
brilliant work. Dixon of Oxon Hill
fea tured the day with no-hit, no-run
game against Congress Heights: Evans
of Library held Statistics to two hits
and did not allow a score, while Coe,
Young and Grady. pitching for st.
PauIs and Highlanders. in the Rose
dale circuit carried their teams
| through eight innings without either
j side getting man across the plate
Dixon pitched an exceptionally good
game for Oxon Hill. He.was somewhat
wild. but that matters little when a
twirler is able to keep any of the men
from reaching the plate and does not
allow hit. Dixon struck out ten
men. though he walked six. Evans
delivery was almost invincible as far
as Statistics was concerned and that
club was easily held by him. There
was not time when 1t looked as
though it would score. let alone win.
Library got ten runs.
The game in the Rosedale League prob
/ ably was the most spectacular of the year.
| 1t is the first time that two teams have
| gone through a contest without either side
| scoring. Neither nine was able to hit the
| delivery of the opposing twirler. Coe being
| invincible for the St. Paul aggrega ton
while Young and Grady of the Highland
ers had enough stuff on the ball to pre-
vent any of their opponents from crossing
the pan. Two hits were made by each
team.
Interior won another game in the De-
partmentaI League yesterday, defeating
Commissioners by to 4. The Baptists
were victors in the Brookland Church
circuit by II to ., Wesley being on the
defeat in the East Washington Sunday
School organization, United Brethren be-
ing the victor this time by : to .. Sta
ton won from Car Department in the
Railroad ~" getting runs against ..
Brightwood and Mt Pleasant engaged in
| contest in the Northwest Sunday School
League, in which neither found it diff
cult to score: the former won though, by
to I. St Stephens went down to defeat
| before the Tenleytown Club in the Mar
| quette circuit by to 3.
Ferguson played a splendid game at
third for Interior. while Bauer's work at
short was but little inferior to that of
his teammate. Each man handled seven
chances. though Bauer made one error.
There was not the least fault to be found
with the manner in which Ferguson COW
cred the ground around the hot corner
Hager had a great day behind the bat
for Oxon Hill. He caught one of the
best games shown by any backstop in the
Potomac League in quite a while. He
| threw to bases well and his handling of
the delivery of Dixon was almost per-
| feet. Besides having no errors and eleven
put-outs, Hager also caught four men in
attempts to steal
| Notwithstanding that De- held Con-
gress Heights helpless with his puzzlers,
! the Oxon Hill aggregation hit the ball
almost as it pleased. Twelve safeties
were made, every man but one connect
I'M or 1t lna or lon
peculiar. too, that the only player fail
! ing to get a hit was Hager, who caught
| SO well. Fisher and Wood did the be-
batting. each driving the ball into safe
territory three times.
| Despite the fact that it got ten hits,
Ninth went down to it's second defeat
within a few days in the East Washing
| ton Sunday School League. This time 1t
was the United Brethren club which
| proved the victor. Ninth seemed unable
| to make its hits at the right time, and
| as result did not score nearly as many
runs as an amateur nine would ordi-
narily have done with that many safe
| ties to its credit The Brethren also bat
| ted the ball hard, connecting for eleven
safe wallops Bischoff, pitching for the
Brethren. and Marceron, in the outfield
for Ninth, were the leaders with the
stick. Bischoff got three out of as many
attempts. while Marceron made the same
| number of hits out of four trips to the
plate. The only extra-base hit of the
game was made by Bischoff, when he
connected for two-bagger
Both teams scored one run in the first
inning. and neither tailed again until the
fourth when Ninth got one tally across.
ming looking as though Ninth was going
| to win by the small margin of one run.
| but the unexpected happened. and the
| Brethren got across six runs in that
PERIOD AS the contest went only one
| more inning, it gave the opponents of
last years champions an easy victory.
| The Wesley team. which took the place
\ or the Catholics in the Rrookland Church
| League, is not doing as well as its prede-
cessors. The day before the Catholics
were notified that their place would be
taken by the Wesley nine they defeated
the league leaders by to /. and since
the Wesley nine has been in the league it
mas been defeated, usually by big scores
/ several times
| Yesterday Wesley went down, before
Baptists by 12 to 5. 1t out-hit the Bap-
| lists. but fielded poorly at critical times.
ond inning. which would have given it the
game had it not been able to score an
other.
| The Insular and Artillery teams en-
gagged in a regular slugsing match. The
| former connected with the ball for eleven
safe hits, while the latter made fourteen.
Insular made its safeties at more oppor-
| tune times, though, and won despite its
iive errors and the superior slugging OF
its opponent
Station got away with a good game
over Southern In the Railroad Y. M. c. A.
| League, winning by to 3. The contest
was not so one-sided as the score would
seem to indicate. though, as all the runs
made by Station were gotten in the last
two innings. For the first five innings
Southern held the lead by l to O. but in
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