Evening star., 1914-07-08
BY H. C. BYRD.

There is no doubt that considerable i'm
provement has been noted in the play
Of the amateur base ball teams here
best contests of the year have taken
been noted style of play above the
average of the earlier part of the sea-
son. The fielding and pitching have
especially been better, while there has
been more consistent work done in the
other departments
In the last TWO days there have been
games played in which neither team was
able to score. The day before yesterday
such contest took place in the Rose
dale League, and yesterday one was
staged in the Brookland church or
ganiZation. Nor is that all The scores
in nearly all the games have been much
smaller than at the start of the schedules.
For instance. yesterday, besides the 90
contest in the Brookland circuit, there
were played 2-to-1 and 1-to-1 games.
These are indicative of good all-round
porters of the amateur sport to notice
the betterment of conditions.
The games in the amateur leagues
yesterday. besides the close contests.
were featured by the performance of
the Printers in the Central League.
when they handed Kenilworth 6-to-1
defeat. The Typesetters have been
the great majority of their games by
close scores. 1t was a case of coming
into their own at last. though. and
their victory was well deserved.
There were several other contests in
the amateur circuits worthy Of special
note. Agriculture struck another
rough bump when it played Post once.
losing by 3 to 6: the Trojans took a
fall out OF the 1roquois in the hosedaie
League by to 1; Keller defeated st.
School circuit. to 4: the Car Depart
ment won another game in the Rail
road Y. NJ. c. A. organization by to
5. Emmanuel completely outciassed the
ONO Club in the Northwest Sunday
School League. winning by II to 3: the
Marines bianked Civil Service in the
Treasury by to o: Fairlawn won from
Eastern over in the Potomac circuit
by to 0, and st. Martins was defeated
by Emeralds in the Marquette, 2 to /.
1t was certainly tough luck for the
Eastern Athletic Club that Its game
with Fairlawn had to be called at the
time it was. At the end of the eighth
inning Fairlawn was ahead by q mar
gin of one run. the score being l to 0.
In the first half OF the ninth Eastern
got two men across the plate, and 1t
looked very much as II 1t would win,
as COle was pltCulA6 6oou udll, ana lHe
first man up in the last half of the
ninth had been retired and the second
up had two strikes on him. 1t was then
that Fatrlawn began to play to delay
proceedings. The players began to fool
around and to take about twice as
much time to do a thing as was neces-
sary. The coacher at third base went
back to the fence. touched a match to
a big wad of paper. and then carried
1t out and placed 1t in the diamond be-
side third base. presumably to pro-
duce light enough to show the players
and spectators where tho bag was.
There was delay while that was being
done away with, but that was not the
end. An old colored man. whose sym
pathies must have been with Fairlawn,
drove his horse and carriage out on the
field of play. The horse appeared to be
but it was remarkable that as soon e.
the umpire called the game that horse
moved off as naturally as he had moved