Evening star., 1915-05-20
BY n. @, BYRD.

another game In the scholastic base
| ball series tomorrow. The Red and
White meets Eastern. which nine It
| should not have a great deal of trouble
defeating. Western still is in the run
ming for the title, and II It defeats
Eastern the followers Of scholastic
| base ball will be treated to the un-
| usual situation of four teams being
tied for the lead. with two victories
and one defeat as the record Of each.
Western is not out OF the running for
the championship by any means. The
Red and White nine is strong Of
fensively, and when It gets fair pitch
ing is not likely to be scored on fire.
quently. Western has some very ca
pable ball players. Maxam and Peyton
in the outf1eld are fast. and can hit
better than the average, while the in
field is not much inferior to the best
the scholastic teams in this section
can boast.
The Maryland Aggies played fve in
nings Of about as eccentric base ball
yesterday against Rock Hill as could
be imagined. In the first three periods
they got two men on the bases without
anybody being put out, and in the fourth
and fifth they had the sacks loaded
with UODOQy uOWH, ana yet only one
run was scored. Then in the sixth
they filled the bases again. but that
time the grand upset came, as hit after
hit drove nine men across the plate.
Rock Hill did all it's scoring in the
| second inning. when Derrick practi-
| cally made it a gift of four runs. The
first man up singled between second
and first, then Derrick struck out two
men, after which he walked three sue
cessively, forcing one run across: a
uyi nit rh hA-
run, and then a two-base wallop to
right field cleared the bases. Derrick
then proceeded to strike out the last
batter.
Catholic University lost it's second
game of the season to the Naval Acad-
emy yesterday at Annapolis, being
beaten by to 4. The Brooklanders
played good ball against Midshipmen.
but were slow on bases, to which their
defeat in the main is attributed
The contest was more or less of a
pitching duel between Fahey of Cath
olic University and Blodgett of the
Navy. The former allowed the same
number of hits as his opponent, but
did not strike out as many. Blodgett
famed nine of the Brooklanders. There
was considerable dispute over the
scoring of the winning run. it being
the ball was knocked out of First Base
man Killian's hand after he had the
runner out.
;, There is youngster pitching for the
University of Michigan who is touted
as something of wonder Not only
is he said to be a star hurler in the
making, but he is reported to have the
capabilities of a great all-round player.
He is Sisler Sisler is as capable in
the outfield as in the box and can bat
much better than the average college
player, according to well defined opin-
ions. Sisler yesterday defeated Cor
nell, blanking the Ithacans and allow
ing them but one hit; he struck out
eleven men.
Loomis, on the slab for the Advent
team. in the East Washington Sunday
school League, yesterday met defeat
for the first time this season. The
former Maryland Aggie hurler struck
out ten men at that. Keller was the
team which scored the victory. win
ming by to 5. Bitenbender was op-
posed to Loomis on the slab, and
worked well. tanning ten. Grissom of
Advent led both teams at bat, connect
ing for three safeties in four attempts.
The contest in the Congress Heights
League resulted in a victory for Steel
Plant over the Hamilton Athletic Club. |
The score was to 3. The Hamiltons |
outhlt their opponents, getting eight
safe drives against five but they were ,
not able to make them count as ef-
fectively in the scoring of runs. Tom
Crooke, former professional player. |
was on first base for Steel Plant, and
got two hits, one of which was a drive |
for home run
Land was a winner in the Home |
Club League. taking the measure of
the Reclamation team by 10 to 5. The |
feature of the battle was the batting |
of Connover, who played center field
and shortstop for the winners. Con- |
mover got a two-base hit and three |
singles out Of four times at bat He
also had six put-outs to his credit. |
Peifer held Reclamation to five hits.
Law scored nine times in the first
inning of its game with the Book
keepers in the Southern Railway |
League and won rather easily That |
was much too big handicap for the |
losers to overcome, though they made |
a splendid effort. Lansdale. in right |
ming club each got three safeties. |
Lansdale was up that number of |
times. having perfect percentage for |
the day.
The Quartermaster Generals De-
partment won from Ordnance in the In
terbureau League of the War Depart |
lead in the fifth inning by one run, but |
the winners scored Ave times In that |
period. Panzer did good work at third |
FOR the winners, while First Baseman
Young of the losers featured for his
team.
The Commissioners dropped a game
Interior team by a close score. Inte-
rfOr scored two runS in the first n Il