Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-20
STANDING OF TEAMS.
BY n. C. BYRD.

The schedules in the two sections of
the post-season series end today. The
final games take place between Marines
and Emmanuel, Machinists and Rose
dales in section A and General Office
and Keller in section B. The only con-
test of importance is that In which
Marines and Emmanuel are to take
part. this conflict will decide the cham
pionship of section and determine
the team that is to meet Agriculture in
the final series next week for the Dis
trict title.
The Marines lost a splendid oppor-
tunity yesterday to make sure OF the
honors and win without further trou-
BILE, but were defeated by team gen.
orally considered to be weaker. at the
same time that Emmanuel was giving
the Machnists a good trouncing. Had
the Marines beat the Rosedales they
would have had the honors for section
A secure in their keeping, and defeat
today for them would have meant
nothing. AS it is, though. the Marines
must win from Emmanuel in order to
stay in the running for the final honor.
If Emmanuel is the victor 1t will face
Agriculture. The Marines have won
three games and lost one. and I'm
manuel has taken three and dropped
two. A win for the latter this after
noon will give it four victories and
two defeats and the title in section A
by a margin of half a game.
A crowd almost as large as that
which watched the Marines and Machin-
lists play recently is likely to be pres
ent today. There is considerable inter-
est up in the northwest section center
has fought it's way through to make
the final contest in which it figures the
decisive one will be an added incentive
for it's supporters to get out in force.
The Marines have had a big following
since the first of the year. and the peo-
likely to be found wanting at such
critical time.
Emmanuel will have to face Denman,
the Marines crack left-hander. and he
1t is not determined who will be pitch
ed against the Soldiers, though "Shag"
Rawlings who made such a great
showing the other day. seems to be
the likely choice.
At the beginning of the present series
it was predicted in this column that
the Machinists would be lucky to get
through with a victory, because OF
lack of competent pitchers. Such has
men fell down yesterday and were
forced to a severe tnouncing at the
hands of the Emmanuel team for that
very reason. The Emmanuel club hit
the offerings of the Machinists' hurlers
frequently and hard, and there was
hardly any doubt from the start as to
which way the contest would go. The
Churchmen fell on Giovanetti, who is
the regular catcher, but occupied the
box, in the fourth inning. and Hartley.
who relieved him, was unable to stop
the savage batting. 1t was a clean-cut
victory for the Churchmen.
Eddie Thompson pitched good ball for
the Emmanuel team. working In better
form than he had shown previously IN
the series. His pitching was in direct
contrast to the other occasion on which
he faced the Navy Yard players. Incl
dentally. Earl Roger did some nice
work back of the bat for Emmanuel and
hit well. too. Harris fielded a fine
game at short for Machinists. while
Ray Kings play at third for 1nmanuel
was really the feature OF the contest.
Hobby" Derrick broke in as a pitch
er for Agriculture in the game in which
it defeated General Office. Derrick,
considering the poor support he re-
ceived and that he had not been in the
box before in about three months, did
trouble connecting with the deliveries
of the General Office pitchers, getting a
total of eleven hits.
The fielding of the losers was medic
ere, also, ana the contest ltSelI was not
very noteworthy in many particulars.
Johnny Shugrue's batting for Agricul-
ture and McBride's catching for General
Office were very good: Shugrue had a
perfect average. getting three hits out
of as many attempts.
The defeat of the Marines by the
Rosedales was the surprise of the Sc
ries, though when everything Is con-
sidered it might not have been. The
Marines won the other game with that
club by to !. and probably went into
the contest little overconfdent. This.
coupled with the desire of the Rose
dales to break into the won column
it was their first victory in the series
caused the soldiers undoing.
AL O'Neil pitched splendid ball against
the Marines. His work on the slab was
directly responsible for the victory, in
asmuch as he kept the hits scattered
and prevented batting rallies at any
time. The Marines hit O'Neirs deliv-
cry, but were not able to drive his slow
curve ball outside the diamond. Kirk
land played we'll at second for the
RosedaIes handling ten chances. and
Murphy starred in the same position for