The Washington herald., 1914-08-31
AFTERMATH OF
NINTH'S failure
Sickness Of Churchmen's Big
Hurler Offered for Poor
Showing of Club.
ALCO CLUB LOOKS GOOD
A I NJ.
American Locomotive Company Nine
Are Well Balance Team of
Youngsters.
By WALKER II. coLsToN.

The Alec team. representatives Of the
American Locomotive Company. of Rich
mond, which put one leg on the Inter
City title by taking both ends Of the
double bill from the Ninth street team,
in the Virginia city on Saturday. looks
TO be the best amateur team which has
yet been placed in the Inter-City fight
by the Virginia city, and the local rep
resentatives will have to fight every inch
Of the way TO get even an even break
| in the games scheduled for Saturday
here. at American League Park.
True, the AIco's did not play up to
| form in the curtain raiser on Saturday.
having no less than eight errors charged
up against them, but the local team
took the field Just after having eat
big dinner. which turned the men half
! sick. making II impossible for them TO
| take advantage Of the winners miscues.
| Eddie Kelley, after pitching air-tight
| ball for the first two innings. turned
sick, but refused to quit, as his team
mates had scored three runs in the third,
and pitched that frame in which the
| Engine Builders tied up the count
| Kelley managed to finish the inning
| getting worse on every minute and fell
into the arms OF Dr. Parker. well known
| to local fans as the manager Of the Bat
| tie Ak team, thrice competitors in the
I lnter-City series, who attended the big
| hurler and forbid him to get back in the
game. Others who later fell by the way
side from the same cause were Charlie
| BroOme and Bill Marceron, while Frank
Pee was ailing from the start Of the
trst contest but gamely stuck until the
finish OF the final game.
! Had the Churchmep played their usual
snappy game n the opener there is no
doubt that they would have been return
ed a winner.
The second game was sewed up in the
! very first inning, when the Alco club
showed three runs across the pan. and the
locals could do nothing with the spit
ter served over the plate by Sanderson.
big right handler, who had worked hard
laying brick. out in the suburbs until l2
O'Clock, driving into the city in a buggy
and Just managing to get in his uniform
| in time for the game
The five hits registered by the Chris
tians were widely scattered. and the big
hurer was only once in danger Of being
scored Sn. while Won Harbules and Larry
Cheney. who also did relief duty in this
game. were hammered TO all corners of
the lot.
The manager Of the Engine Builders
gave a banquet 10 his team in Murphy's
/ Hotel directly after the games. and when
the ball players filed in it was for the
| first time seen that they were compare
lively a bunch OF kids. seven OF the ten
men who took part in the two games
being between the ages Of eighteen and
twenty.
Asher guardian OF the middle field for
ha
bat and on the bases. getting seven hits
out Of eight times at bat. drawing a base
on balls and scoring FIVE runs in the twin
sketch. Tinsley also batred well in the
final, managing to connect for four safe
ties ont Of five times at the stick while
Tignor accomplished A feat which had
been turned only four times before. in
lifting a ball over the high fence in right
field for a homer. All OF this goes to
show the the Coolers are extra good
batters. while Anderson. Amos. Bigble
and Tinsley look to be as good ielders as
can be found on any sand lot. and. in
fact. the whole team worked like a we'll
oiled machine in the final game. playing
errorless ball.
Tommy Harris and Blick Rountree
| looked good in the field for the local
| team making several swell stops and
| pegs while Ray King on the hot corner
played his usual steady game. handling
| everything that came his way with the
| gracefulness for which he is noted.
! Giovannetti also put up his usual heady
| game behind the bat, but with the rest
of the team failed woefully with the
| stick.
| OF the outfielders Frank Pee looked the
| best, both of his catches being of diff
| cult chances and racing over on the
foul line, grabbed another with one hand,
holding II momentarily. but the umpire
| refused to call the batter out Had Pee
| held the ball. II would have been one OF
| the best. II not the best, catches ever
pulled off in the Broad Street Park Earl
| Steele also grabbed off his shoe-tops
| what looked to be a hit with three on the
sacks, holding the runner at the third
bag.
Saturday was declared a half holiday
/ by the American Locomotive Company
| and special cars were run TO the ball
/ park for the employees, who came well
| supplied with megaphones OF all de-
! scriptions, automobile horns, and every
I sort of noise-making devices that could
| be gotten together and whooped things
/ up from the time that the first man
| grabbed his war club in the first. till the
| last man vas retired in the final game.