Evening star., 1914-08-21
EASTERNPUT0UT
BY N|NTH'S TEAM
Practically Eliminated in Race
for Amateur Base Ball
Championship.
ED KELLEY BIG FACTOR
IN CHRISTIANS VICTORY
Pitches Superb Ball Against the Po-
tomac Leaguers, Allowing
Only One Hit.
BY II. G. BYRD.

BY a. G. BYRD.
Eastern is practically out Of the run
ming for the amateur base ball cham
pionship OF the District Its defeat at
the hands Of tho Ninth Street Christians
yesterday completely upset any plans
It may have had for entering tho In
tercity series. The only chance Eastern
has to win tho title would be for it to
take both games 1t has remaining and
for the other two clubs to split even;
then q tie would exist between all
three. and in tho play-on the Potomac
leaguers might come out ahead. Such
an outcome Ii not only very improbable
but is almost impossible.
The result Of the series almost hinges
on the contest today between Ninth
and Treasury. That whichever OF these
clubs takes the long end Of the score
will be the one to win the champion
ship seems reasonable to assume The
lead gotten by the victory. although
small, will likely be sufficient to stave
of the other organizations for such a
short time. Treasury has one mighty
good pitcher. and, II he can stand the
strain, 1t would seem that the chances
favor that nine considerably; but II
Ninth is the victor today, then it will
be an extremely difficult matter to dis
lodge it from first place.
OF course. the teams now playing in
what Ii the final part Of the amateur
schedules are SO equally matched that
almost anything may happen. When two
ball clubs are about on par IT takes
very little to turn the trend of events
considerably from the EEK expected 1.s1n. course, :
prediction as to the absolute result. 1t
would appear that Ninth. fresh from q
series in which its pitchers were not
used especially hard. would have the ad-
vantage over Treasury, even with such
capable hurler as Downey on the
mound against 1t. Even the best of men
cannot pitch every day and all the
time. and the strain is sure to tell on
the big left-hander. It Is not likely that
Treasury has another pitcher capable
Of defeating either Ninth or Eastern.
Ninth gained a complete victory over
Eastern yesterday by scoring four runs
in the last inning. The contest was the
second shut-out for Ninth In two days.
and both games were won by the same
count. Union Station was beaten by the
Eastern. four scores being registered IN
the last inning after both clubs were un-
able to reach the plate in the previous
part Of the contest.
The surprise of the contest yesterday
was the pitching Of Ed Kelley for Ninth.
Kelley probably never worked in better
form than against Eastern's bunch OF
only one hit. which was made by Mike
Moran. who played shortstop. Just how
effective was Kelley's pitching is shown
by the fact that he famed nine men
the same kind Of work he showed yes
terday 1t will be q difficult matter for
any team to beat Ninth with him in the
box, because with the kind Of service
~ n
never be an easy matter for his op-
ponents to get men across the plate.
"Flnney" Kelley. after pitching Tues
day and part Of the game Of Wednes.
Of yesterday. with the only result that
could be looked fora defeat He got away
well in the first few innings. but began
to falter toward the end. Kelley Is
much too small q fellow to be worked
for q, big man to pitch as
Kelley has attemped to. do within the
last four days, but for q fellow Of
Ke4ley's build 1t is almost an impos-
for him to do 1t successfully.
Giovannetti of Ninth is probably the
best catcher playing in the amateur
ranks in this city. Giovannetti is one
of the few that can throw fairly we'll,
and his work behind the bat generally
receivers show.
Carrico will be selected to do the
for Ninth today. and in the
event Of him being unable to go the
route, Cheney will likely be substi-
tuted. Carrico may give Treasury a
hard battle, inasmuch as he has shown
excellent form on numerous occasions
this season. If he should get going in
the same way as once or twice during
the regular Potomac League schedule
he will be hard to score on. Downey
seems to be the only man Treasury
can depend upon. and he will likely
be seen on the mound again.
A rathr remarkable feature Of yester-
days game was the scarcity of assists
for the Eastern club. only two being
made by 1t. Spalding and Kelley were
credited with one each. and the other
three opportunities had by the Potomac
League aggregation failed because Of
errors.
Harris at short for Ninth proved con-
clusively that his splendid fielding of
the previous part of the season was not
due to anything other than real
prowess. He handled all his chances
and played in such a manner as to
stamp him as a dngerous defensive
factor.