Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-01
F|RST-PLACE MINES
WIN TWO GAMES
.linth and Eastern Clubs Hold
Positions. But the
Trojans Lose.
HARVARD HAS CHANCE TO
WIN IN ENGLISH HENLEY
No American Eight Has Ever Fin
ished First in This Great
Rowing Event.
BY H. c. BYRD.

There Were three games yesterday in
which league leaders took part, and the
teams in first place won twice and lost
once Ninth and Eastern in the East
Washington Sunday School and Potomac
circuits were victors over the contenders
when they defeated Fairlawn and Keller,
willie the Trujans dropped out of the top
berth in the Rosedale organization. as n
result of their defeat by Holy Name.
Ninth did not have the least trouble
in winning from Keller. and it played in
something like its old-time form i'll so
doing The score was IL to /, which is
about the kind of record Ninth usually
made against the other clubs in that
circuit in 1915. The victory places Ninth
in a position where hardly anybody will
question its superiority, and few will
doubt its ability 10 finish the season
on top.
Ninth hit the ball hard while. on the
contrary, CLANCY, who worked on the
mound held the Keller aggregation to
one lone binsle. Two of Ninths play
ers, Steele and Giovannetti. got three
hits each. while four of the others made
two apiece. The Christians secured
total of sixteen safeties, though, strange
To say. only one was for an extra base.
Benner, who held down the job in center
field for Keller. was the only member OF
that nine to hit safely. Harris led IN
the field for Ninth. accepting i've chances
without slip. The work of Rohrman
at third for Keller was exceptional, to
say the least. lie had twelve oppor-
tunities to make piays-a remarkable
number for a third baseman-and he
made good on eleven of them, which is
q splendid percentage.
Fairlawn, in second place in the Po-
tomac League, took the lead on the
,sr,sr br1e
unable to hold it. Fairlawn scored twice
in the first period, but Eastern evened
up matters in the second. and then got
two more in the sixth. That was all the
scoring done Eastern winning by TO =
Eastern got one more hit than did Fair
lawn, but the latter did the better field
ing Not an error was registered against
the losing club, while Eastern made Two
misplays-
Evans played splendid game at short
for Fairlawn. He had eight chances
and made them all good. He accepted
five assists and had three put-outs. Har-
vey. in right field for the losers. led both
clubs in hitting, having three safeties to
his credit out of four times up. The
work of Becker on the mound for Eastern
was the main factor in its victory He
kept the hits of the Fairlawn agsrega-
ton well scattered and caused fourteen
of them to go out by way of strikes.
The victory of the Holy Name nine
over the Trojans caused the latter to
drop back in tie for second place with
Holy Name and sent the Highlanders
on top. Before the Highlanders de-
feated the Iroquois Monday Holy Name
was in third place with nine games won
and six lost. Highlanders were second
with nine won and five lost. while the
Trojans were first with ten victories and
five defeats The Highlanders victory
Monday put them on an even footing with
the Trojans and the defeat OF the latter
team yesterday throws the former into
first place.
Nops, playing shortstop for Holy
Name. was the big factor in his team 5
victory He made three hits out of
three times up and had splendid day
in the field. His work. from an all
round standpoint was about as good as
any that has been shown in the Rose
dale League this year. Gerard a seq
oud for the Trojans also did some bril-
liant playing. lie made three singles
out of five attempts. and accepted six
assists without anything that looked
like an error.
Holy Name made every one Of its
runs in the first inning. Holy Name
was out-hit by to I. while it also
Trojans. The breaks in that first period.
though, gave il the long end of the
score
place of the Catholics in the Brookland
Church League. took a Clrubbing yester-
day at the hands of the Baptists. The
Wesley aggregation was considerably
out-hit. and played q miserable game
in the field. Ten errors were charged
against the newcomers.
Beller, Dutton and Louthan of the
Baptists led in stolen bases. getting
three each The aforementioned got
more hits than any other member of
his team, too.
The Waverly Club went down 10 de-
ciSiye defeat on its first arr,e1r4r,ca in