Evening star., 1914-08-09
CITY TITLE SERIES
BEGINS TOMORROW
Three Contests Scheduled for
Opening Of Interleague
Championships.
VERY CLOSE COMPETITION
EXPECTED IN THE GAMES
One or Two Clubs Do Not Stand Out
as in Former
Years.
BY h. C. BYRD.

championship or the District or Coluln-
| bia Is to begin tomorrow. Teams are
| scheduled to meet in all three sections.
| and contests are to take place every
| day during the week, unless interrupt
| ed by some unforeseen event, until the
| honors are finally decided. The East
| ern Athletic Club representing the Po-
| tomac circuit will meet the Tenley-
town club of the Marquette League in
| section =; in section Is, the Bri&ntw ood
| and Car Department mines will test
each others strength, the former being
| the entry of the Northwest sunday
| School organization and the latter the
/ representative OF the Railroad \. NJ {.
I A: Post Office OF the Departmental cir
| cult and Treasury 81 the Treasury
/ body are booked in section c.
! Judging by the standards OF former
/ years. it appears that the representa-
tivcs OF the Central. East Washington
/ Sunday school. Potomac ana Depart
mental Leagues are the strongest teains $
! in the city, but such may not De the
! ease. 1t would seem from the general
| character of the ball played III the var
| ious organizations that this would be
| true toe. but there is plenty OF room
| for surprises to come seepIns IN Ana
| there have been many upSetS IN pre-
| vious post-season series. especially III
would not be a big surprise 10 see one
| of the supposedly strongest mines lose
| the first game il Is to play: It would
not be anything greatly uniooked Tor
/ if Post Office were to drop Its contest
| with Treasury, Downey IS sure to be
| on the mound for the latter aggrega-
! ton. and that he is no easy pitcher for
an amateur orga nization to beat goes
without saying when his splendid per-
formances this year are considered.
But Notwithstanding that there may
re surprises. il is more than probable
that this will be the closest contested
series in years. Splendid competition
is looked for and the followers OF anna
teur ball will be greatly disappointed
if they do not see the teams fighting
neck and neck through the entire
schedule before the championship OF
the District is finally won. The four
leagues mentioned are certainly good
enough to put up some classy exhlbi-
tions, and the chances are that the
teams that represent them Will be
worthy of much commendation before
they have finished the final game.
The games this year may or may not
draw as large crowds as has been the
case in former seasons. There are rea-
sons for believing both ways. but it
is likely that none of the games will
draw as big crowds as has one or two
contests in previous years, with the
chances good, though. that the proceeds
of the entire series will total up about
as well has any.
The schedule for the first days play
in the pcst-season series having been
given, the games booked for the re
mainder of the week follow:
Central, Potomac grounds; August
l12, Marquette Central Central
grounds; August 13, Marquette-Pote-
tral-Potomac, Central grounds; Au-
gust Is, Central Marquette. Central
grounds.
Section B-August II, n. W. S. s.
~. r. r. Y. NJ. c. A.-E. W. S. S, r. r.
Y. NJ. c. a grounds; August 13. r. r.
Y. NJ C. An. W. 5. S, r. r. 7. NJ
c. A. grounds; August IA, e W. S. s.
n. W. S S.. Z. W. S. 5. grounds; August
Is, f. w. S. S.-R. r. Y. NJ. c. A, Z. W.
S. S. grounds.
Section C-August IL, Departmental
Rosedale, Central grounds; August II,
Treasury -Rosedale, Rosedale grounds;
August 13, Treasury-Department
Central grounds; August IA, Rosedale-
Departmental. Rosedale grounds; Au-
gust Is, RosedaleTreasury, r. R. Y.
NJ. c. A. grounds.
The Terminal Railroad Y. NJ C. A.
will hold its annual outing to Chesa-
peake Beach Tuesday. As usual, there
will be many athletic events, which
will be varied enough to test the abil-
p
| men and women. There are seventeen
| contests booked for those athletically
| inclined, and the interest already be-
| ing manifested in some of them is
worthy of more than passing notice
| J. T. Nolan is chairman of the com
mittee on arrangements
Frank Hofrecker, the Maryland Agri-
| cultur !. College pitcher, has been do
| ing some remarkable work for the
! NJ a n c f1Irh
| ization with which several Washing
! ton boys are playing. Hoffecker has
been working in some close games, but
| ne has been winning the big majority
| pable hurler for the West Virginia out
| ht having pitched two shut-out con
tests within three days.
II was rather amusing, though, to
| note the result of one of the games
| HoHecker worked in. Pitching against
Frederick, he struck out about four
| teen and allowed only four hits, and
| had good control of the 'ian, but three
OF the four hits made against him
We're home runs, and he lost the game
| by to 3.
| Honecker was captain of the NJ a.
! Z; nine last spring, and would have
| played professional ball this summer.
| had it not been fer the fact that he
| his course. Had he played in some
| league he would not have been eligi-
ble to longer hold a position on a col
| lege nine.
| In the decisive game in the Roseda!t
| League yesterday the Holy Name nine
! beat out the Highlanders for the cham.
| plonship. 1t was rather tough luck fol
| the latter to lose the pennant after hav.
| ing won 1t, but 1t was the penalty fol
\ having played man who was ineligible
| 1t is much to be regretted that the occa-
| sion was called for, but there was moth.
ing for the members of the amateur com.
| mission to do but sustain the protest OF
the present pennant winners
| There are two clubs which are rathe,
i unexpected entrants in te series for tnt
4 District championship-Holy Name an(
i Emeralds. 1t was not thought that any
/ thing would stand in the way Of tn,
/ Highlanders wearing the colors of tn.
Rosedale League in the big contests bu
the protest of Holy Name was an un
considered factor, The same is true o
the Emeralds. 1t looked very much al
if Waverly had things its own way il
the second half Of the Central Leaeu,
schedule. and SO it did. as far as game
won and lost We're concerned. but tEer
the question of the eligibility OF one o.
two players came up, its standing Wal
completely thrown out. and the club il
second place. the Emeralds. was declared
the winner. The Emeralds met Kenil
worth in the final series of five games fo
the league championship with the resul
already known.
of course it looks very hard on thes,
| hat, riD