Evening star., 1914-07-11
FEW GAMES WILL
BEPLAYED TODAY
Only Three Contests Scheduled
to Take Place in ANA
teur Leagues.
AGRICULTURE AND NINTH
WCfORS BY BIG SCORES
After Successive Defeats, These
Clubs Win Easily From War
and Fifth Mines.
By n. c. BYRD.

BY n. c. BYRD.
of day for the teams in the amateur
uled. Central, East Washington Sum
day School and Rosedale leagues are
the ones in which contests are to be
played. In the aforementioned organi-
zation Waverly and Sherwood are to
meet, in the second Keller and Reforma-
tion will try conclusions. and Columbias
and Holy Name will be the contending
mines in the last.
Teams that are in the running for the
championships will play in two of the
circuits. Holy Name, in the Rosedale.
Central League. have a chance to win.
Holy Name has been touted as the
probable victor in the playground or
ganization. while Sherwood and Wav-
the cAher clubs in the Central all they
are looking for in the way of strong
opposition. The game between Keller
and Reformation will not have much
bearing on the title, as neither Is apt
to win that honor.
Six games were played yesterday in
leagues which come under the Jurisdic-
two took place under the auspices of
other organizations. The Printers for
feited their contest In the Central
League to the Favorite club; the Agrt-
in the Departmental and defeated War
by IS to l: Ninth also won game in
the East Washington Sunday School by
decisive margin. the score being IA
to 2; Station handed the Car Depart
ment an S-to-2 defeat in the Railroad
Y. NJ. c. A; Library won from Inter-
state in the Treasury. IL to 8. while
Congress Heights sprang a surprise in
the Potomac and won from Fairlawn
by to 3. In the Brookland church cir
cult and the Rosedale League. inde-
pendent organizations, Methodists de-
feated Baptists, to 8, and the Trojans
won from the Highlanders by 8 to 4.
Fairlawn got rude jolt at the hands
of Congress Heights in the Potomac
League. Its victory over the Eastern
club the other day put 1t well in the
running for the championship, but the
defeat Of yesterday gives it decided
setback. from which it may never re-
cover.
The pitching Of Moore was mainly re-
sponsible for Congress Heights victory.
his control at times. when it appeared
that a real rally might be started, and
emerged from the contest with a well
earned triumph. And Moore's victory is
sidered that he did well enough to keep
his opponents from getting runs despite
six bases on balls given by him. Five
errors by Fairlawn contributed largely to
the scoring by Congress Heights.
The game between Library and Inter-
state was full OF errors and base hits.
The former made five errors and con-
nected with the ball for ten safe drives.
while the latter had six misplays charged
against 1t and made ten hits. Both
teams felded about the same kind of a
game. nine assists being credited to each.
brary. struck out eleven men and had
a good day otherwise. He accepted five
chances In the field and made two hits
out of three times at bat.
Ninth scored an easy victory over the
Fifth team. Its batting was the big
feature. fifteen hits being made in the
seven innings of play. Coupled with the
en- errors. which aided largely in the
run getting.
Harris. at short. and Steele, in center
field, for Ninth, did the best batting for
though Harris was up four times a and nd
Steele only three. Only one of the safe
ties made by this pair was for an extra
base. and that was a two-bagger secured
Fifth with the bat, each man getting two
safe wallops.
Ninth started out by scoring five runs
In the first inning: then 1t got one IL
the second and four more in the third
That put to flight any fears Ninth may
have had of defeat. Fifth got one run
each in the sixth and seventh innings
Chaney had an easy time winning his
game. as most any pitcher would with
such big lead. He let up though,
after his team was ahead by big mar
gin and did not more than half try
Station scored eight runs in the first
two innings of its game with the Car De-
partment team. which gave 1t the long
end OF the score by big margin. Both
teams f1elded well, one misplay being
scored against each: but 1t was little use
for Car Department to play after Thomp-
two periods. After those first two in
nings. though. Hughes. who did the pitch
ing for the Carmen. settled down and
gave a good exhibition, not allowing an
Young. at second base for Station. and
Pugh. at third for the Car Department.
did the best fielding shown by the play
ers. Both men accepted all their chances,
five being handled by each.
Agriculture came back in the Depart
mental League with a vengeance. win
ming from the War team by IS to l.
The Aggies were on their mettle for the
first time in quite while. and their
playing gave evidence of it. The Farm
ers hit the ball hard and that in con-
junction with nine errors by War. al
lowed them to score about as they
pleased. The work of the War nine
was way below the usual standard of
play by the Departmental League teams,
and the Aggies, playing hard to win. had
not the least trouble finishing with the
long end of the score.
LIE Due and McLarney did some good
batting for Agriculture. LIE Due made
three hits out of four trips to. the plate
two singles and two-bagger. while Nc
Larney got three singles out of as many
attempts. With these exceptions. there
was little feature to the contest. Agri-
culture won as easily as it could have
done, and the whole thing developed into
more or less of a farce after the third
period In the first inning the lAggies got
three runs, in the next two. and in the
third they chased ten men across the
plate.
The Trojans and Highlanders. both in
the running for the championship of the
Rosedale League. played close game
until the last inning. when the Trojans
same number of hits. hut seven errors by
the HiRhlanders helped their opponents
considerably in the making of several of
their runs.
Hines pitched brilliantly against the St.
Stephens club in the Marquette League
while holding down the mound job for
the Emeralds, and got a shut-out game
to his credit Hines allowed only four
scattered hits and struck out eight men. |
Perfect fielding by the players behind him |