Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-09

IN game IN which both hit the ball
about as hard as they cared to and
scored runs almost at will. Five times
were men chased across the plate in
the first inning by each club. Mt. Pleas
ant, although it lost the game. got more
hits than did St Paul. it connecting for
fourteen and the latter twelve. Delahunt
and Maxam of Mt. Pleasant led in the
batting with four hits each: the former s
average was perfect. as he was at bat
that number of times, but the latter
was up five times. Coe starred for ST.
Paul at bat, getting three safeties. two
of which were two-base hits.
The Baptists defeated the Methodists
in the Brookland Church League by 6
to g. The winners got the jump on their
opponents in the first inning, when they
scored four runs, and they held the lead
thereafter. The feature of the contest
was the fielding of the Baptists. not a
single miscue being charged against them
1t was one of the very few amateur
games played during the season in which
not an error was made by one of the
teams.
The game in the Interurban League of
the Agricultural Department resulted in
a victory for the Office of Public Roads
over Animal Industry by margin of
one run the score being - to II. Both
teams hit the ball hard and neither had
much trouble scoring runs.
A fifteen-innng contest was played be-
tween the Purceyville, Va, team and the
Drillery nine of this city yesterday. The
contest took place in the Virginia town
and was won by Drillery by / to |. Only
one run was scored by each club until
the first half of the fifteenth. when Drill
lery got three men across the plate. The
home team was unable to score.
A rather interesting communication
has been received by the writer from
Baltimore oarsman relative to the
race won by the Analostan crew at
Philadelphia last Saturday. This mis-
sive tends to indicate that there was
no real reason why the event should
have been forfeited to the Undine club
after the Analostan boat had won de-
cisively.
Here Is the letter:
Being a participant in and an in
terested spectator of the Cup and Peo-
pies regatta, held in Philadelphia July
i 4 last. and having been a witness of
the Junior eght-oared shell race in which
the Analostan Boat Club Of your city won
by coming from behind in the stretch
handily by quite little margin, was very
much surprised to learn that the referee
had disqualified this crew for fouling
The writer. with a party of friends. fol-
lowed this race from start to finish in
an automobile and paid particular atten-
ton to the Analostan and Undine crews,
who were leading the procession at about
the halfway mark. About a quarter Of
iiiiiG iioil lHe ll!liSn the crew
flashed past the Undine boat with ap-
parent ease and If the oars of these two
crews touched In passing there was no
means of detecting it and it in no way
lnterfered with or had any bearing on
the ultimate result The Undines were
completely rowed out at that period of
the race while the Analostans were row.
ing in almost perfect form and with as
much vim as at the start. The decision
was a great surprise to all of the spec
tators and 1t was the general opinion that
it was unfair to the crew that really won
the race.
This letter is written to you in the in
terests of fair play and l was one of
the many present who felt that the de-
cision was an unjust one to the Ana
lostan crew. CHARLES T. HOWARD.
A new team will appear for the first
time today in the Central League. 1t
will be the Favorite Athletic Club. which
is taking the place of the spartans, who
lately dropped out. The team is com
posed mainly of old Aloysius and Holy
Name players 1t is claimed that the
new organization is strong enough to
make the other mines hustle Waverly is
to be the opponent of the newcomers
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