Evening star., 1914-08-17
CLOSE COMPETITION
MAY Be EXPECTED
IntersectionaI Amateur Base
Ball Series Should Be Best
of the Year.
TWO TITLES MAY BE WON
IN CONTESTS OF TODAY
Section A and Section c Honors Are
at Stake-New York Writer Com
ments ON Tennis Matches.
BIZ Il. O. BYRD.

Tho final serios in the post-season
schedule should bo weli played. There
seems little doubt that tho arrange
ment of tho clubs In tho different Soc
tions is such that tho three winners
will be the most capable In the city,
and these arc sure to give an interest
ing account of themselves, Also tho
best base ball of the anaAeur season
is likely te be seen.
Just what clubs will be In this series
is not definitely known, but the
chances are geed that Ninth, Treasury
and Eastern will be the oentending or
ganizatiens, OF course, the events OF
the last few days would seem to indi-
cate the impessibility of making pre-
dietions with any degree of certainty
as to the outcome of the sectional
games, but these are the organizations
that ought to finish on top according
to all conditions,
The championship may DO decided In
two of the sections today. The Teniey-
town club will have the title in SEQ
tion A If it wins from Eastern. while
in 9 If 1t Is able to administer q defeat
to Post Office. The other game sehed-
uled for this afternoon, that between
Brightwood and Union Station, will
have little bearing on the title.
Tho prediction made at tho begin.
ming Of the series that the teams would
battle along on pretty even terms
seems to have been fuliiled. Take, for
instance. section A. In that class Ten
game from the Emeraids. the next day
Tenleytown was defeated by Eastern
by to l. but Oh tho following after
noon the Emeralds turned around and
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In section B the forecast has been
carried out by Ninth trimming Bright
wood and Union Station and then hav-
Ing Union Station completely upset
things BY beating, Ninth by to l. II
Post Office turns the tables on Treas
ury this afternoon, the result probably
will be tho most closely contested set
OF games in tho three sections ever
known to amateur ball.
Just what will be the result of the
Tenleytown- Eastern game Is, of course,
impossible to say, but 1t is safe to say
!nat tho Tenleytown players will work
like nends to get in the final race for
the title. especially as It has what is
portunity. II the Marquette League
organization wins 1t will have the
nonors In section A, and Eastern, the
CLUB boasted as the probable city
championship organization, will be out
OF the running entirely.
It Is certain that Downey will be
ION the mound for Treasury against
Post Once. Downey is about three
touI.ns OF the Treasury team. and it. is
he that Post Office must beat IL 1t is
TO stay In the running II Treasury
wins today's game it has the title. and
there Is no. gainsaying that Downey is
going to put his whole effort into scor-
ing victory over the Mailmen.
The problem confronting the Eastern
Athletic Club in regard to pitchers is
not an easy one. unless Cole should show
q lot OF stun this afternoon when he
that Buck Becker is the man on whom
the Potomac Leaguers must in the main
depend. and whether he is in good enough
shape to work today, and tomorrow il
pear to be good judgment to work Cole
today. II he looks anywhere near right,
70 Keep Becker to go against the Emer-
AIDS tomorrow. 1t is said that the latter
been able to hit him in every game in
which he has figured against It. Had
Cole pitched against Tenleytown and
Becker against the Emeralds in the other
now be leading without the loss of
contest.
Herbert, writing for the New York
Irlpune. gives the following resume of
the work Of the Australians in winning
the Davis cup. and says something con-
cerning the defeat of Mclaughlin and
Bundy in the doubles that is extremely
interesting:
THE victory of the Australia slams was
well deserved. Both Brookes and Wild
ing are beyond the zenith of the years
that mark a mans most effective work
on the lawn tennis courts. and they
accomplished monumental task in
winning the much sought Davis cup
Few, perhaps. have stopped to realize
the amount of work, of careful atten-
ton to detail and of unremitting labor