Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30
FATHER EMMETT IS ATHLETIC
SUPERVISOR. AT GEORGETOWN
Succeeds Father Anglim, Who Has Been in
Charge for the Past Year-Ninth's
Defeat Not Unexpected

I amateur championship Of the District
| of Columbia has been decided and the
Ninth Street club is playing the Aico
| team of Richmond, Va, for the inter-
| city championship. I would like to
bring another phase of the matter to
your attention.
"In the adjoining county of Mont
gomery there are at least two amateur
clubs (and, SO far as l am aware. a
third one is entitled to the same con-
sideration) of high standing, SO far
| as playing is concerned, that ought to
| be entitled to have an opportunity to
| play the Ninth Street Church team.
The team which 1 have particularly in
| mind, the Washington Grove base ball
club, is in every particular strictly
amateur team, composed wholly of men
who belong to the immediate vicinity
of Washington Grove, and are resi-
dents thereof, none of whom have ever.
to my certain knowledge, been paid one
cent for playing with that club.
men composing this club have been
playing with it for at least three or
four years, and are young men of high
caliber in the art of ball playing. We
are conceded to have strong batting
club. The team has played clubs of
| about the same professional standing
as the average amateur clubs Of Wash
ington city. and those of us who have
followed the general run of such
games are confident that the grove
team is fully capable of giving the
Ninth Street club a very close run for
first honors, If not capable of beating
it. We feel that in all justice a
to test our contention, and while I have
no official connection at present with
the grove team, I know from fndi-
vidual expressions of it's members that
they are very DESTROYS of arranging
such series.
"I send this letter to you in the hope
that this matter may be brought out
and an expression of opinion gained
being arranged. I should be glad to
hear an expression from you in regard
to it"
There is not much doubt that victory
for Richmond this year in the inter-city
series. as now seems fairly certain, will
be thhe best thing that could hap
pen for amateur ball in Washington.
Such defeat for the local championship
organization would stimulate interest and
would certainly bring forth three or four
stronger mines next year than played in
any of the amateur circuits during the
past season.
When the post-seaSon series for the
championship Of Washington started the
opinion was expressed that Richmond
had better chance to win this year than
at any previous time. And it also was
stated then that that would probably be
the best thing that could happen for
amateur base ball in the District Just
such stimulus is needed to bring back
into the game interests which dropped
out because of a lack of real competition,
and an absolute statement might be JUS
TITLED right now to the effect that at
least two stronger mines will be on the
field next summer than the most capable
that has played during the past season.
Fred Drummer, coach of the Washing
ton Swimming Club, deserves a lot of
credit for the work he has done in
developing boys along that line. He
has brought out several youngsters
that have accomplished a great deal
in events against much older and more
experienced competitors. His boys
show capabilities astonishing in per-
sons of such youth. Particularly
might 1t be mentioned that the two
Cherry brothers have been doing
mighty well, and yet neither is at the
age when he is anything like at his
best. They are little more than chill
dren, and yet Drummer has taught them
to swim so effectively that they often
vanquish their older opponents. One
of the boys is fifteen and the other
fourteen, and both are small for their
ages.
Madden, former Amherst halfback,
will coach the Catholic University
eleven this fall. Madden was spoken
of in connection with the job just be-
fore the close of school, but it was not
until the middle of the summer that
the selection was made with absolute
sureness.