Evening star., 1914-07-20
Schedules SO Arranged That
Leading Clubs in Amateur
Leagues Are to Meet.
POST OFFICE MAY WIN
TITLE IN CONTEST TODAY
Important Game Is Booked Between
Mailmen and Interior-Other
Athletic Gossip.
BY n. c. BYRD.

nantS decided in the leagues in which
there are very close races. The schedules
are so arranged that the leading clubs
are to meet at least once, and in some
cases twice. Unless there are some even
breaks, which are not unlikely, next
week will find one team in every league
out in front with a comfortable margin.
Emmanuel. Whitney and Brightwood
are the leading mines in the Northwest
Sunday School League. for instance, and
these are to play in such a manner that
the schedule is almost made up of games
between them. Emmanuel and Whitney
Avenue play today: Whitney and Bright
wood meet Wednesday, and Brightwood
and Emmanuel will be the contending
clubs Friday And this same arrange
ment is in effect in the other circuits in
which the races are very close-Car De-
partment, Marquette. Departmental and
Rosedale.
The championship of the Departmental
League may be decided today. Post
Office and Interior are scheduled to play
what may be the final game. Post Of
fee is In the lead now, and if it wins
there will be no necessity for continuing
the schedule further, as it would be i'm
beat out the Mailmen. They would be
scheduled to play only one more contest.
that with the Commissioners. and
though they were to be defeated the loss
would not cost them their right to the
title
Whether or not Post Office will get
away with the long end of the score in
today's game is questionable. Interior
played a much worse game than usual
last Friday, when Post Office won by
showing today. OF course. the Mailmen
may win by an even larger margin than
they did at that time. but that Is not
looked for. Ryan, who did the pitching
for Post Office last week, will undoubt-
edly go back into the box. If he works
as well as he did in the shut-out he
got, there ought not to be much diff
Guilty in scoring victory for his club,
but it would not take much of a let-up
on his part for Interior to get away
with the victory.
While no official announcement has as
yet been made. it appears that in the
minds of experts there is no question
as to the men who will be chosen to
make up the Davis cup team. Accord
ing to expressed opinions of those who
have watched the try-outs. it seems al
most a certainty that Mclaughlin and
States in the singles. and that Nc
Loughlin and Bundy will be the re-
lance in the doubles. Murray, the
young Californian. who has made such
substitute.
The Camden Athletic Club. semi
professional organization from Camden.
N. J., lost to the Eastern A. c., leader
in the Potomac League, yesterday, by
to 8. The work of the two clubs at
bat was extraordinary, both hitting
the ball hard from start to finish. The
visitors got twelve safeties, while the
locals made eleven. Spalding and Moran
did the best batting for the Washington
nine, while Wiley led the Camden lads.
each of the three men getting three
safe drives.
The Marines of the Treasury League
day. and administered defeat to the
suburban team by II to 1. There was
not much hitting done by either club.
But bases on balls and poor work in
the field allowed scoring almost at will.
The Regent Athletic Club went to Fort
Hunt, Va. yesterday and lost to the
nine representing that post by :; to ..
The Soldiers did better work in the field
and at bat.
Johnson, who played left field for the
Regents. was the only member of the
local nine that could solve the delivery
OF Large. who did the pitching for Fort
Hunt He got three safeties out of four
times at bat. Rohr and Clark led ..le
Soldiers at bat, getting two hits each.
About everything that could be thought
of that would be appropriate for the ath-
letic events to be held "Wednesday at
Marshall Hall upon the occasion of the
excursion of Columbia Commandery, No.
9, Knights Templar. has been listed. The
contests will embody everything from
the sprints to needle-threading and crack
creating. and there will be competitions
for very little boys and girls, for big boys
fnr
for married ladies and single ladies' In
short, everybody will get chance at
something.
The following are the events to be
contested:
Fifty-yard dash for boys under fifteen.
5O-yard dash for girls under fifteen. 10o
yard dash open to all. tots race boys
and girls seven years and under; fat
yards: 5o-yard dash for single ladies.
three-egged race, 100 yards; 5O-yard
dash for married ladies', sack race. so
yards. open to all; shoe race. needle
threading contest. 50-yard dash for
Knights Templar. cracker-eating con-
test and croquet game.
Charles Long. who has the affair in
charge. announces that practically all
his arrangements are completed. He
says the athletic end Of the excursion
should be the best of the kind ever held.
as there are many entries and some good
competition as well as fun should result.
This Office is in receipt of communl-
ca ation from A. T. Seabright. manager of
the Hillbrook nine. stating that he de-
sires to arrange a game with some good
uniformed team for next Sunday. Those
who would like to arrange a contest
with the Hillbrooks will do well to ad-
dress their manager at Hillbrook. call
him over the telephone at Lincoln 4025.
With Tommy Thompson and Dutch
Munich as their battery. the Emeralds
are going to be very hard to beat in this
series in the Central League. The club
is strong enough defensively to give good.
support to these two players and there
appears little doubt that the team will
be great deal more formidable. The
club has lacked an extra pitcher more
than anything else. and as this has been
rernedied there is not much reason to be-
lieve other than it will make strong
fight for the pennant in this series. More
especially is this true when it is con-
sidered that strength has been acquired
for other positions also.
If the EmeraldS were to win the cham
pionship in this part of the schedule. |
they would give the kenilworth nine a
mighty hard battle to finish in front of
il in that final series between the win
ners of the two parts of the schedule. |
The Emeralds would have good pitching. |
a better defense than the average. and
an offense that now is about as strong
as any in the league.