Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-08
BY II. C. BYRD.

The decisive game for the champion
ship of the first half of the schedule in
the Home Club League is to be played
today. In the play-off of a tie which
existed at the end of the first series
Land has won one game and Patent
one, and the third is to take place this
afternoon.
Patent was a victor in the contest
TUESDAY by such a decisive margin
that it was thought by many it would
take the second game also, but such
did not prove to he the case. The Land
nine came right back and captured the
long end of the count yesterday by
to 3. both teams putting up one of
the best games Of the year The con-
t";t started az if Pat Mt would register
inothe" win, = tn club got two men
eros ne late in the FIST period, but
Lam eve e. UP things in he FOURTH
and got the sninl runs in the fifth
ami seventh. Pa Il made it's ether
score !. the seve n, to,
Stt 'nour pit"h'u "adi : for Land
I'D deserves IT, -,rea test amount
II c. dit for sory. He cid .he
Patr,t b ter uo'... SO that they were
-'eV=" &c o u'.ch their hits eff
&c vel enf played poor fielding
game aehi:ii ferguson, making six
e-rors, while AZ Iand play.rs gave
Rittenour spie did support.
BY ~i!sains from Trinity in the Hol;.
Name League the St. I,ominics nine
no ca INTO hrst niac" The g.-me was
apt. I'd by a co-e uf I 20 g, mainly
pS Peso of superior batting = the
Dart Of h" winners Brand pitche ~
3p'e'ifid bal for the wi'lr.ers and held
I'll: aNy Trinity batters well
\ protss. has been mad. b., Mana ger
ri mi. Il
on Il g ground that the contest vas for
feited b. the umpire az re ain Pc
riod.
Charles PUNK tt broke into the line
up of the st. Teresa team again in the
'Htonac League anG helped himself 10
.wo drives Gov. two Lases each in thr e
trips to tn plate. st. Teresa took tie
contest from the Government Hospita !
by i TO scoring consistently all
through the eight periods. st. Teresa
ccsiderably outhit the hospital players,
making fourteen safeties against eight
Evans and Soper felded well for ST.
Teresa and Riston did the oest all
round work for Government hospital.
Lefty" Downey yesterday worked ID
game on the mounh for Bureau against
Library in Government. League which
showed him to be NEARLY. If not quite.
as effective as when ne WIS doing such
season. Downey let the Library nine
down without a hit and struck out
eleven men. Downey has not been able
to pitch much this season. because
of a bad arm, but ii appears to have
recovered sufficiently to allow him to
hurl consistently and we'll Library
scored one run, which was due to mis-
play. Besides doing effective box work
Downey led both clubs in hitting, get
ting three safetes out of as many at
tempts.
Metz and KEYS pitched creditable ball
for the Oxon Hill and Congress Heights
nires in the Congress Heights League,
the former winning his game by to
D. The play OF the two clubs was bet
ter than usual, though some of the runs
We're due solely to misplays on the
part of the men back of the hurlers.
Burgess. who held down center field
for the losers, led in batting. having
four hits to his credit. Rowe, at short
stop, and Rusk, at third base, did some
splendid work in the field for Oxon
Hill, the former accepting nine chances
and the latter eight.
Station took the measure of Car De-
partmeTft in the Terminal Railroad Y.
NJ. c. A. organization without much
trouble. winning by 10 to- Thornett
work at short was the feature of the
contest. his batting and fielding being
of the sort which would do credit to
PLAYER in a much faster league. In
four trips to the plate Thornett made
and three put-outs. Naples pitched
and three put-o outs. Naples pitches
good ball for Station, while White
really deserved IA better fate than he
received while on the mound for Car
Department.
The Marines of the Government
League appear unable to play con-
sistent ball out of town. They went
to Philadelphia some time ago. and
were defeated decisively, and yester-