Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-22
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chances, did not have an error and got
one hit out of three attempts. Weber
led IN the hitting, getting three safeties,
one OF which was homo run. McDon-
the winners, the Iroquois. The Iroquois
only made eight hits against twelve for
the losers.
fielding and harder hitting giving it a
victory over ST. Paul. The latter did not
do nearly as good work as the former
in either respect. Brightwood got eleven
gregation. while only two errors were
registered against it, six being charged
to st. Paul.
The game started as though Brightwood
was going to meet defeat, as st. Paul
got three runs in the opening inning.
Briehtwood came right back in the first
though. with one tally, and in the next
period sent three more runs across the
plate. Herr, at second for Brightwood
and Schultz. in centerfield for ST Paul.
did the best work.
Bryant, pitching for Sherwood, let Ken
ilworth down with only one hit. Bryant s
work was among the best seen In the
Central League this year. He held his
game well in hand all the way. and was
never in danger of losing. Brady also
did some very creditabie hurting for the
losers, allowing only six hits and strlk-
ing out seven. Five errors placed him
at decided disadvantage.
pitchers there was little opportunity for
much fine play in the field, practically
all the chances that were offered being
easy. The opportunities for making
plays that were missed should have been
accepted without much trouble
Phipps. who pitched and caught at diff
ferent times for Steel Plant against Fair
lawn. did some very good work. He had
five chances in the field. accepting all,
apd got two hits out of as many at
tempts. One of his hits was a two
Dagger.
Errors figured largely in the scoring
of many of the runs. Steel Plant had six
miscues charged against it, while Fair
lawn players failed on five chances
Harder hitting was the factor which
gave St Martins it's to 6 victory over
the Emera!ds Five errors gave the
Emeralds a chance to be in the running
enough tallies to overcome the runs pro-
duced by the smuggling of the winners.
Him. had a remarkable number of as
sists to his credit. The Emeralds' hurl-
twelve put-outs. He had only one
error charged against him, which is an
exceptional fielding record for anybody
in one ball game. HIM also got two
MUS out OF three attempts. fcheft,
Huntemann and Albaugh led the win
ners at bat. the first two getting two
hits each and the last three
Interstate in the Treasury League and
won his game handily. He featured the
contest by striking out twelve men and
allowing only five safeties to be register
ed against his delivery Mortimer of
Interstate did the best work in the field.
Downey is undoubtedly one Of the best
hurlers in the amateur circuits. His
work in every game in which he has
taken part has been exceptional. and he
has proved capable in every respect 1t
is said that he has had professional ex-
psr1ence. but as an outfelder. 1t has
been reported that he was a member of
the Brooklyn National League club for
awhile.
In a certain amateur league game the
other day the following incident took
place: 1t was the last part of the con-
test and 1t was necessary for the team
IN the held to play a close infield in
order to try to cut off u run at the
plate. The umpire, observing the short
said
Say, YOU there. get back and play
your position
I've got a right to pIay anywhere I
want replied the shortstop
The umpire then called time and here
is what he said:
Say. if you don't listen to what I
say and get back there and play your
regular position. ] am going to forfeit
this game.
Catholic University got in some real
hitting Yesterday. enough to overcome
the four-run lead secured by Fordfam
in the first inning. The Brooklanders
won by II to 4. Fordham started as
though it were going to get another
victory, it having won the game here
about month ago, but the Washington
team took the contest easily after it
once got started.