The Washington herald., 1915-05-23
One Big Inning Enough
For MidShipn1en's Nine
BY JOHN E. McCABE,

Another amateur league gets unde
way tomorrow when the Holy Nam,
League starts its schedule at the ole
Marquette League grounds at Thirty
fifth street and Wisconsin avenue. Tn,
strong Trinity and st. Stephen nine
cross bats in the opening encounter ant
good game is expected.
This league is a closed league being onl,
open to members in good standing Of
the Holy Name Society. A player has
to belong to the Holy Name Society o.
his respective parish to be eligible to pla.
on club in the circuit. This is the first
time that such a league has been triec
and it is hoped that it will prove a sue.
cess. From all reports the league will
get off to a grand start tomorrow as
rooters from both Holy Name, Trinity
and st. Stephens will be on hand tc
root for their respective teams.
The Amateur Commission has no,
shown as much activity this year as in
former years. But two meetings have
been held.
This season there are but seven leagues
out of twelve under the commission
whereas last year there were nine out
Of ten.
This season there are four closed
leagues. namely. War. Inrerbureau, Home
Club. Southern Railway. and the newly
organized Holy Name League. There is
but one open league not under the COM
mission. this being the Congress Heights
circuit.
The Pension and Patent mines of the
Home Club League were tied at the end
of eight innings on Friday. and the game
was called because of darkness. Each
team made eleven runs and twelve hits.
Laverine pitching for Keller. held the
fast-goinC st. Agnes nine to one hit.
Rasmussen, the opposing twirler. being
the only one to connect safely.
Pallas the first-string twirler OF the
Ouarterma ster nine. added another game
to his string of victories when he out
pitched Perry and Gist. Errors account
ed for most of the A. G. o. scores.
Both St. Teresa and Fairlawn made six
hits Friday but Colley kept his scattered
and st. Teresa was returned winner.
The St Dominic nine has added an
other victory to its long list when it de-
feated the Ascension nine easily Friday.
Marsden was the fielding star while f.
WEIGH held the Ascension nine to one run
and made two hits.
Howard. playing first for St Teresa.
had an unusual record on Friday. when
he had but two put-outs and one assist.
Eckendorf. playing center field for the
Commissioner nine. made three out of
four in the game against Agriculture.
which was won easily by the Aggies.
The Emmanuel nine easily defeated the
II III ain in uh hraN vi tod
game making fourteen runs to its oppo>
nents' two.
In the games Friday there were but
three teams with errorless columns.
They were Aggies. General Office, and
he Emmanuel teams.
Pension and Commissioners made
the highest number of errors. each
team being credited with seven.
Curtin. of the Quartermaster nine.
had the highest individual record with
four errors. not having ny more
chances.
Bureau were the biggest sluEGers.
getting thirteen hits. while Emmanuel
scored the most runs. sending fourteen
runners over the plate.
St. Agnes made only one hit. while
The Auditor nine was a close second
with two hits.
Saturdays game between Transpor-
tation and Law resulted in victory
'or the former team. by a score of IL
% .. Barrett pitched good game for
an& while hit hard at
lines. managed to tighten up with men
IN bases.
Harper and Early did much to pre-
,ent Law from anneNing several more
'uns, the latters catch of "Curley"