The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-07-11
Four Days Are Left
To Strengthen Clubs
Rosters of Amateur Teams
for Post-season Series to
Be Completed Friday.
OTHER AMATEUR GOSSIP
nS JOHN T.. McCABE.

The sandlot managers will have to get
busy and strengthen their teams before
Friday, July u. This is the last day that
the managers under rule II of the play
ers. agreement are able TO add new ma
terial for the post-season series. Last
year there was a big kick about the
members of the Kenilworth, Waver!y and
Eastern clubs
Rule l. Of the players agreement is as
follows: No names shall be added to the
list of eligible players on any team under
this association by transfer or otherwise
after July Is.
All of the pilots of the teams that have
q chance to get into the post-season Sc
ries will endeavor to strengthen their
teams by getting the best of talent avail
able
Two pitchers jumped into the limelicht
with record games to their credit on Fri
day Beall. of the Crescent club, and
Mike Cantwell. of the st. Teresa nine
Beall did not start pitching until the
second inning and his opponents had a
C-run lead Beall famed y out of "A bat
tiers and threw two more out at hrst
tssc. In the nintf inning, with three
runs nec;ed t" win and two men on the
bases. ne won his own came with a home
run drive to deep left field
Mike CantwClrs feat was important
as that of Beall's. He neld the Machin-
list nine hitless and famed seventeen bat
tiers in nine innings of play. There was
only one ncar-hit. a short fly behind the
infield that Evans made a one-hand catch
of. Mike was a trifle wild. passing six
of the Machinist batters. but had perfect
control when danger threatened.
War Department Interbureau League
closed its second season during the past
week, being the first of the District anna
teur organizations to complete play for
the year. Staff. the 1914 winner. repeated
this year and sarnered the pennant in a
signal manner. taking every one of its
eleven games. Quartermas ters. Ordnance.
Engineers. and Adiutant Generals fin
ished after Staff in the order named.
The successful contender easily out
classed the other members of the circuit.
both in quality and consistency of play.
Its closest and only real competitor.
Quartermasters. won nine. out of four
teen starts. while the remaining three
teams trailed throughout the schedule.
Another circuit closing during the past
week was the Homo Club League of the
Interior Departn,or Patent won the
honors in this. the organizations initial
season. The flag winners. however. did
not cop without a hard struggle, as Land
pressed them to the final out
Both Land and Patent went through
their schedules. each winning ten and
losing two contests, and a three-same
series was PLAYED at the end of the resu-
lar season to decide champion. Patent
swamped Land in the first of the extras.
q to ). but the runner-up braced. taking
the second game. to ,. only TO lose the
decisive battle. to I. in the last inning.
Yellow Myers. the LAFAYETTE College
star. has signed up with Tom Leonard's
ST. Teresa team. Manager Leonard is to
play him at first base and in the out
field.
Lefty" Downey. who serves them for
Treasury, held the Library nine hit
less and sent eleven back to the bench
by strikeoatS. Library scored one tally
errors. But three Library men
reached first, all of them on errors
slim" Franklin and Niger Harris
hooked Up in fourtcen-inninG game.
Franklin outpitched Harris. bit the
strong defensive work of Wrcnn, the
sterling shortstop OF the Ginos. kept the
score down. The final score was to g.
helping the St. Dominic nine to win ball
games with their heavy hitting.
Dominic's Club. has gathered together a