Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-05
FEW GOOD PLAYERS
BEING TURNED OUT
Local Amateur Leagues Are
Sending Practically Nobody
Into Professional Ball.
THREE YOUNG PITCHERS
ARE SHOWING GOOD FORM
Carrieo. Nops and Cole Have Been
Doing Good Work-0ther
Athletic Gossip.
BY n. C. BYRD.

The local amateur leagues are not de-
veloping men capable OF making sood IN
professional base ball Just why this is
cannot be told. because the reason Is not
apparent. but it remains fact that not a
single player went into professional ball
last spring for the first time and stayed
Formerly there were few years that one
or two sometimes several. men did not
join some minor league club and do good
work. but conditions seem changed now
So much changed. in fact. are things
that it has really been a good while since
the sardlots have sent man Into better
base ball
No doubt there are several boys here
who played last season who could have
gone up and made good. but for some rea-
son they did not choose to do so. There
are a great many players in the Distrlct
of Columbia, though and many OF them
would be mighty glad Of the opportunity
to take up the professional end OF the
sport, but they have not shown suffi-
cient amount OF stuff TO warrant them
<Nsknx sent to some league. or else. after
being sent. they have failed to deliver
enough TO stay.
II certainly seems that out of some
the District. there ought not to be year
that less than two o. three make good,
but IL seems that rarely does man show
stuff enough to warrant being retained
when he is given the chance. There have
been boys that have made good and are
now doing well, and some of them are
scattered all over the country in various
circuits. but lately. it seems. none of suf-
ficient caliber have been turned out.
one reason for the lack OF development
<sf ,al hara Al fe
due TO the fact that there are no good
semi-professionaI clubs-those real build
ers of competent players IT is in semi
professional bah that the majority OF
players get their start, and that there
are no teams of that class here or in this
vicinity may have a great deal to do with
the failure of Washington TO send more
Tr~n into professional ball
There are several boys from Washing.
Ton who have been pla wing professional,
hall for some time. The most proni-
rent of these are Robinson. Geibei. Rich
mond. Sterzer. Crooke. Cantwen Barton
Davis. adams and Stanley None oi
these has gone up within the last year
though. one Of the players doing re.
niarEabie work this year is Adams He
IS in The southern Michigan League ant
his playing AT first base has attracted at
tention from more than one big leagu.
scout He has been hitting the bail hard
has been fielding brilliantly and is rated
There il not a PLAYER from Washing
ton in either Of the two big leagues. wit!
the exception OF Joe Engcl. and h.. 20,
his training in one Of the MARYLAND col
legrs and rot on the sandlots hcrcaboUts
Doc White. Washington's most noted
representative in base ball, = out oil the
Pacific coast managing the Venice club
while Arthur Deviin was in the same
league, but was lately released
II was rather a remarkable coincidence
that the first time any American crew
was represented IN the finals of the Eng
fish Henley, both starters carried the Red
White and Blue. figurativeiy speaking
anyway The Harvard and Union Boat
Club crews raced in that last contest yes
terday. the former winning by small
margin. And, as matter of fact, il
was almost two Harvard boats rowing
against each other. as the members OF
the Union eight are all former Crimson
odrsmen
That two American crews should con.
test the final race for the Grand Chal
lenee cup. when TO other American rep
resentafiNe had ever gotten that far be-
fore. must have been a decided blow t,
English oarsmen- That blow must hav,
been all the harder when it was realized
that Il was the substitute eight of only
one university that was the victor. The
crew that represented Harvard was it:
second eight, and not the best cOmbina
tion-the one defeated by Yale
One rather important fact attaches II
the race won by the Harvard secon(
crew over the English Henley course
as compared to the defeat sustained b,
the first eight in the race with Yale-th.
best men Harvard had. rowing unde
American-taught methods. lost TO VIVA
was considered a mediocre combination
wearing the Dark Blue and taught BY a,
E-ngiishrnan. but the second Harvard
eight. coached in the English style o
rowing, went to England and defeated
the pick of the oarsmen of that countr,
and Canada. These two factors seem I,
indicate that american rowing does no
get the best out of the men: especial,
is this true when il is considered tina
Pennsylvania and Yale. under English in
structiou, have had their aest seasons il
a mighty long while IN fac when il i
considered that Pennsylvania deieate,
Cornell. which r5s worked Year afte
year under what we're conceded to be tn
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