Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-27
|NTERC|N GAMES
BEGIN TOMORROW
Richmond Champions Come
Here to Meet TitIe-Winners
of Washington.
PORTNERs AND FARMERS
WILL BE OPPOSING MINES
Both Clubs Appear to Be Capable of
Playing Good Ball-Local
Printers Win.
BY n. C. BYRD.


tomorrow at American League Park.
The opening contest of the double
/ header will start at o'clock and the
other is to be played Immediately upon
| the conclusion of the first. Billy Belts
/ is selected as the Washington man to
handle the Indicator Agriculture, by
reason of It's victory over the Machtn-
! lists In the final game of the local sea-
son yesterday. will represent Washing
! ton, while the Portners, which won the
| decisive contest in the Richmond post
season series last Saturday. is to be the
visiting club.
Competent critics say Richmond is
represented by about the strongest club
il has ever had. Whether this is true
is Il question which will not be an
severed until after ii has been seen in
action. but there seems no doubt about
it's ability to play good ball Also it
seems that it is strong in the way oil
pitching. story from Richmond is
authority for the statement that there
are several 800 hitters on the club.
which would Indicate exceptional Of
fepsive strength if the players have
been compelled to face good pitching.
There has been more interest in anna
teur ball this year than in long while,
the seasons in most OF tne Ieas
have been very successful, and the
most season series has enjoyed pros
! perity such as has not been the luck OF
any in recent years. These things pelng
true and well realized, the followers OF
amateur ball are pulling hard Tor the
local representatives to win from Rich
mond and bring back to washington
the honors lost in the series or 1919: IL
is likely that a large crowd Will De
present tomorrow to lend support TO
the cause.
Agriculture won the championship OF
the District by taking the maj contest
from the Machinists yesterday by 20
4. The post-season scheouie Shuep 49, 49,
that game, but the series Will go down
in the history of amateur ball as one
of the hardest fought in recent years
Especially was this true OF the cohtests
played in section A, ana some uespel-
ate struggles preceded those in the va
rious leagues. The Aggies are cham
MONS because they undoubtedly nave
demonstrated their superiority IN CREAM
cut manner, which admits OF no ciiti-
cism, and can command only the hlgh-
est resnect and admiration. The Farm
ers have the best team III the Dlstficl,
and no one will choose to argue me
point The Machinists proved tneh-
selves the next best comblnatloh, pu!
weak pitching staff and the inablllty
IN use their best catcher IN important
games cost them dear and proved
disadvantage too difhcult TO overcome
Nobody will envy Agriculture Its cnam-
nj nm >,
going to feel that the Machinists nave
been given more praise than is que
them for their magnificent hsht.
1rst as has been the case often in
previous contests, the ASgies were
compelled to come from behind anu
overcome lead made by the oppos-
ing team The Machinists scored one
run each in the first, second ana thira
innings, but the Farmers proved equal
TO the occasion and in the third perloo
got three men across the plate. ne
Aegies went a run to the good IN the
first half of the eighth and Machinlsts
evened I'D the score in their part Oh
that neriod. In the ninth, though, the
Farmers counted again and IN the CLOS
ing half of that session the navy yard
men were unable to reach the piate-
The Agriculture team was given
great ovation by ITS supporters a -. =
the third out had been MADE IN the
final half of the last inning.
The work of Lefty" Kuhnert sur
prised even the supporters of the Ma
chinists. Kuhnert has started two
Games recently and has been removed
from both under fire. but he went
through the contest of yesterday In a
very creditable manner. Until the
eighth inning he went along just as
we'll as did Owens of Agriculture, an :
if anything the pitching honors favored
him until that time.
Lemeric, at shortstop, and Cusack, at
third base. played some splendio par
for Agriculture. The former fielded
one of the most brilliant contests In
which he has ever taken part, ana
Cusack also comes in for praise TOT
making one very difficult stop ana
throw to first and for doing all-round
good work. Lemeric helped in double
plav at one time that was perhaps his
best bit of work. A ball was hit TO
Johnny Shugrue, who stopped II ciose
in front of and a little to the left OF
second base He fumbled, however, and
then pjcked up the ball and made
back hand toss to Lemeric, who was
covering. Lemeric took the pan IN
dificult position, vet without straight
enins made perfect throw 10 hrs'
and got the batter by half step.
There were four double plays made,
two of them going to the credit OIL
each club. The most difficult, though,
was that mentioned in the foregoing
paragraph.
Manager Lee Clair of the Machinists
extends his congratulations 10 the AZ
riculture team, and says he Will De on
hand tomorrow and root for 1t to win
the intercity games hard as II ms
! own club was on the field. LIE Cla1r
made a great fight for the title under
I Instantaneous circumstances, but,
! now that he has lost, is with the CIT!
representatives to the limit.
The result of the two games PLAYED
by Washingtons representatives IN the
ba Sc hall tournament for the chamnlH n
shin of the international Typographical
| Union seems to indicate that 1t mas a
chance to win high honors. The local
nine has taken its game with Philadel-
phia and New York. and now mas Two
clubs standing in its way. washington
won from New York yesterday and plays
| Indianapolis today.
The victory over New York was just
as decisive as that over Philadelphia
! the other day The score was TO :,
I and the Washingtonians proved them
| selves superior in nearly every depart
nent They hit the ball hard the pitch
I ing was good, and the team as whole
gave evidence of strength really, unex-
Z pected Bennett held the Gotham.tes to
seven hits, and his work on the mound
/ was good all the way through. TIE OF
I fensive support given him could hardly
/ have been better, and, incidentally. he
| led his team at bat with three safe
/ days game with a three-bagger with
! three on, again got two hits yesterday.
! The Railroad Y NJ. c. A. nine yester-
! day showed a clean pair of heels to the
! representatives of the New York Rail-
road "Y" The score was ! = to o. WASH
/ Sgton began scoring in the third inning
and kept it up during the entire contest.
1t got eight runs in the seventh and
eighth innings alone. The New Workers
were able to make only three hits off the
offerings of Laverine and Naples. The
visitors were generally much weaker
! than the local team in very near every