Evening star., 1915-06-18
BY n. C. BYRD.

One of the most remarkable happen
ings noted in ball game in years re-
suited in the contest played between
two clubs in the Congress Heights
League yesterday For a pitcher to
strike out twenty men in eight innings
! of play, and yet have his team defeat
ed. seems almost impossible: but that
! is just what happened to Blanton. who
did the hurting for Congress Heights
against the Hamilton A. c.
Such an ending to a contest seems
almost a travesty. yet it. is simply one
of those peculiar situations that often
come about on the diamond. Blanton's
defeat was due simply to poor support
eight errors were charged against his
team in the box scores. and the prob
ability is that more than that were
made. Blanton was not lacking IN
control, but he was the victim of cir
cumstances such as, under the condl-
tions, are seldom seen.
The Hamilton A. c. defeated Congress
Heights by I to 6. winning by virtue
What probably will be the largest
open swimming meet ever held here
will take place tomorrow in front OF
the Washington Canoe Club, under the
auspices of that organization. Practl-
cally every club in Baltimore which
supports aquatics will be represented
and nearly all the local ones Baln-
more Polytechnic Institute. Baltimore
City College, Dreamland Park Club.
Doyle Athletic Club and Maryland
Swimming Club of Baltimore will have
men in competition with the repre-
sentatives of Washington schools and
clubs.
The entry list follows: Marshall,
Doyle Athletic Club; Robert w. Will
son, University OF Pennsylvania: Rus
sell o. kluge. George Washington;
Francis J. Bridget, Western High;
ming Club; Robert Council. L. Won
kreuter and Norman n. stenz' unat-
tached.
Duck, Preston Petre and Baseom kennedy, Doyle
Athletic Club; Baltimore. Nd; &c F. C. .Ia BAN
NJ. Cults. Washington Swimming Club; Joseph
E. Bryan, Dreamlsnd Park Club; ,.,
Polytechnic Institute; Thomas Q. Hills and H:
Q. Thompson. Western High W. L. Gates and
Rose Maryland Swimming Club: Charles Sling
luf, Baltimore City College; L. B. Myers and
One mile-wilbur Brooks Maryland Swimming
Club; Rowland Davis. Doyle Athletic Club; 10
Knight, jr., washington swimming Club. and
Marvin w; Towne. unattached.
Fancy dying contests it, Clarence ThTr%an' r1nr1an
y. Bennett, :. ]. Raiser, R; Q: Eii1son; i: {:
ah Swimming aHu Club, % and sidney T. strubie. unst.
tached.
Doyle Athletic Club: E B. Ansley. Karl knight
and F. c. Bamman. Washington Swimming Club.
l0oyard handicap CLOSED to members Of the
Knight jr.: Karl knight, James Burch, J. NJ.
Cults, Reginald Rutherford. F. v: stover T. 9.
Bamman. Leon Shore, Howard Youngs and
Oficiais who will be in charge Of the meet are
Referee-F. J, grunner. Z; ~ 6.
Clerk of course-D. A. De Lashmutt. Wash
ington Canoe Club.
James Burch and James G. Wheeler. washing.
announcer Reginald Rutherford. Washington
judge B. Finch. Washington Canoe Club:
R. l.. Johnson MARYLAND Swimming Club. and
b. A. Yeager, Y. N. c. A.
The Rotary Club took the measure Of
the Gibraltars in the Rosedale League by
5 to 4. Dore, who did the pitching for
the Rotary Club, held the Gibraltars to
ming. though his support faltered con-
siderably at times Violet had a rather
poor day in the field, but he made up for
it somewhat by getting a two-base hit
and a single out Of four trips to the
plate.
Trinity won from St Martins in the
Holy Name League by to l. The win
ners got four runs before the losers tai
lied their one count. and there was sell
dom a time when the result Of the con-
test appeared to be in doubt. Trinity
outhit and generally outplayed st.
Martins, doing better work with the bat
especially. Jordan. on the mound for the
victors. famed ten men and kept the hits
made by st. Martins well scattered.
The Printers went down to defeat
again in the Departmental circuit, In
terror winning by 6 to 8. The two
clubs went along on even terms until
the fourth and fifth innings, when the
Interior aggregation got four mon
across the plate, two in each. After
that the Printers had little opportunity
Fernstein had the Typesetters about
where he wanted them, as sixteen went
down before him by the strike-out
route and only three times was his de-
livery hit safely. Hager and Fischer
of Interior made three hits each, do
ing the best batting of the day by far.
Interior got a total of thirteen safeties.
Chemistry easily defeated Plant In
dustry in the Interbureau League of
the Department Of Agriculture, the
count being IL to s. Chemistry scored
all its runs in the first three periods
and after that there was little interest
in the contest. Chemistry made four