Evening star., 1915-05-22
THREE SHUT-0UTS
AMONG AMATEURS
RosedaIes, General Office and
St. Teresa Mines Are Not
Scored Against.
G. u. MEETS THE NAVY
IN TWO SPORTS TODAY
Base Ball Team and Track Squad to
Be in Action Against
the Sailors.
BY H. C. BYRD.

Three shut-out games were played
yesterday in the amateur leagues In
the Terminal Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. cir
| cult the General Office team blanked
the Auditors by 2 to o. in the Potoma
organization the st. Teresa nine won
| a'4-to-0 victory over Fairlawn, and III
the Rosedale the Rosedales defeeted
the Columbias by E to 0.
Forest Thompson was on the mound
for the General Office He allowed the
Auditors only two hits, and struck
out eleven. Nolan, who officiated or
the slab for the Auditors, pitched Just
about as good ball as did Thomson
the contest being a real pitchers bat
tie Nolan allowed four safeties and
famed sixteen.
Colley hurled for St Teresa and he
did his work in great shape Colley'
teamsates got a run in the first in
ming, and it was very seldom that he
was even in danger of being scored
against. Only six hits were made off
Colley. and fourteen of the batters that
faced him failed to connect with the
ball at all.
Offutt, on the mound for the Rose
dales, was too good for the Columbia S
to hit effectively. and he also was
credited with a game in which no runs
were scored against his team. Only
three times We're players of the Colum-
bia team able to connect with his de-
| livery for safeties.
The Navy team won from Library in
the Government League by to 6. The
winners hit the ball harder than the
losing players, which accounts mostly
for the superiority shown in the score.
IL, ,10x. tod fat. fu-e .lyr.
bingles. while the men on the other
nine got only six. Ordinarily that diff
ference in the batting is sufficient to
decide a game in itself.
Schmidt pitched well for Navy and
O'Brien did some good work for the
losers. Schmidt struck out fourteen
men, while O'Brien famed twelve.
Schmidt, besides pitching very effec-
lively, made three hits himself. New
man, who caught for the Library, led
that club at bat with two binsles.
Emmanuel had an easy time winning
League, defeating Whitney Avenue by
IA to 2. Thompson, for Emmanuel.
struck out eight men and allowed
four hits. Such effective pitching,
coupled with some hard hitting, is like
ly to win most any ball game. and yes
terday proved no exception. -Four play
ers in the lineup of Emmanuel got two
hits each, Bauer, Doleman, Rawlings
and thompson connecting Ior tnat
many. Rawlings and Gessford Of I'm
manuel led in the matter of stolen
bases, each having three to his credit.
The Commiss oners were soundly
trounced by the Agriculture team in the
League being defeated by
13 to 3. Eckendorf of the losing nine
provided the feature of his teams play
by getting three hits out of four at
tempts. Eckendorf led the players of
p1, 10 fvIrn 1,uty Il
two singles.
Owens, who pitched for Agriculture,
allowed the Commissioners a fair share
of hits, but he caused eleven of them to
fan in their attempts to connect with
the ball. Owens was a little wild.
though, which was the only thing THAI
marred his good work; he walked two
men and let two others get to first by
hitting them with pitched balls.
Bookkeepers in the Southern Railway
League, the count being to .. Barrett.
for the winners, pitched very effective
ly, allowing four hits and tanning nine.
his delivery consistently at any period
during the contest Both teams played
creditable games in the field, only four
men reaching first base as a result of
errors
Washington Sunday School circuit It
defeated st. Agnes by to l in pitch
ers' battle between Rasmussen of the
losers and Laverine for the winning
club. The Keller mound artist let the
st. Agnes men down with one safety,
which was gotten by Rasmussen. Both
teams gave their pitchers good sup
port, the game being one Of the clean
est exhibitions in fielding of the season.
Patent Office came near having it's
clear record in the Home Club League
spoiled in its game yesterday. The
Patent nine is leading the organization.
without defeat charged against 1t.
yet Pension. which is last, without a
victory, came within an ace of win
ming the contest. The final count was
II to IL. Both teams got the same
number of hits and the general play
of each was of about the same stand
ard.
Raymond of Pension and Beaulac and
Fisher of Patent did the best batting.
Beaulac being up five times, Fisher
three and Raymond four Two OF
Beaulac's safeties went for extra bases,
one being a two-bagger and another
a three-base wallop.
The Quartermaster's Department was
a victor over the Adjutant's Office in
the War Department Interbureau
League by II to 10. There was very
clubs. Each got the same number of
hits. while the winning nine hardly
fielded ~ well as the one that lost.
The Georgetown tennis team lost to
the University OF Michigan squad yes