Evening star., 1915-06-26
BY II. C. BYRD.

Some exceptionally consistent bat
ting was done yesterday in the anna
teur leagues In several of the games
both the teams landed on the bail much
harder than usual, while III others one
of the clubs did practically all the hit
ting. There was hardly a contest
! though. in which the work of one OF
the mines. at bat Gid not feature.
The Commissioners, in the Depart :
mental circuit, got eleven saf.eties of
Hudson, who did the pitching for war
Blair. VINO played his first game fo1
the Commissioners. led i'll the on
slaught, with four drives Into safe ter
ritory, for a perfect average. Sutton
on first base for the same club. got
! three out of four attempts. Comrlis-
sioners won by a score of u to >.
Emmanuel had on its batting clothes
again in the Northwest Sunday Schooi
circuit. hitting the deliveries OF Flood
mound for Iirightwood, tor sixteen
safeties. Bauer. Doleman. Rawlings
and Roger each hit safely three times.
Emmanuel also won one-sided game
the score being Is to ..
In the Home Club League. Land Office
and Survey each connected ror eleven
safe drives. Several of the Wallops
went tor extra bases. With the eNcep-
ton of Bischoff. VINO held down tnlrd
base for the Survey, every member OF
both clubs made at least one hit. while
manf got two or three. The score was
almost the same as the hitting, Land
Office winning by l: to II.
Hoffman led the Crescents in their
game against the Gibraltars, in the
Rosedale organization his batting fea-
turing a one-sided contest Coupled
with the errors made by the Gibral-
tarS, Crescent got enough hits to en-
able it to win by II to o..
Holy Name and st. Dominic's We're
the contending clubs i'll the Catholic
Church circuit and they both vent
after the offerings of opposing pitca-
ers with II vengeance. The Holy Name
team had to its credit, after the last
inning. fifteen bingieS, while the rec
ords showed that St Dominic had
connected for twelve. Piunkett and
Wright of st. Dominic's and Marx and
Burke of Holy Name We're the star
clou1ers Holy Name won the game
by L.: to p
Ten hits were credited to Faith and
ten to Reformation in the game in the
East Washington sunday school cir
cult. The latter was the winner by l.
to 10. Fifth did its batting early IN
the game and held the lead until the
seventh and eighth innings. in which
Reformation scored three and four
runs. respectively. oMara of Rcfor-
nation and White of Firth featured
with three safe clouts apiece
The Machinists had littlc trouble taxi
ing another contest i'll the Iotomac
circuit, winning nainlE by reason OF
ability to hit at the right TIME On ten
sixteen runs We're driven across the
plate Raba, who played center feid
for the Machinists. did some remark
able batting, landing on the sphere ior
1.-TWO two-base hits and thfee-nase
drive out of five times. The Govern
ment Hospital obtained only four runs,
though Speith's batting for that club
was very good
The Marines and Bureau went after
each other hammer and tonsS in the
Government League and finished on
even terms as far as batting honocs
We're concerned tiioush the MARINES MN'i
nv , TO . The Marines and Bureau got
twenty-tW safcties, eleven for oacn-
This defeat evens up the games in th!s s
series between Bureau and Marines, a:'
Bureau won the other contest iii which
the two clubs figured.
st. Stephens made ten hits in its
came with Trinity. but was uns bic to
tcst Trinity won by reason of two
,,In. scored III its half of the ninth
inning.
Station took the measure of Car De-
,artment in the Railroad Y. NJ G. A.
/ Ia,euc bv score of 4 to L. The win
ncr counted all its runs before the los
ing nine got a man across the plate.
,Vortbeu v ho did the pitching for ST.
tiou. scored two of his teams runs.
,Thoruett and Miller got the other two.
Wartheu pitched we'll enough to hold
car DeuartmeEt to four hits but he
was extremely wild. giving ten bases
on balls. White, who occupied the slab
for the Car Men, also was effective dur
ing the greater part .of The game lie
fieided his position splendidly, handling
six chances without IA slip.
Car Department, which has been GO
ing at Il great gait in the Morning
League uf the Railroad Y M e.
.eacue was beaten yesterday by Shoes
IA thar easily. Shops took the long er,
of 1he score because of the Suneriortty
of its general play.
Seitzey played a remarkable game at
short for the Shops team. He accepted
nine chances. sAven assists. and two
nut-ouls Besides his splendid teld;p.
Neitzey obtained two hits and stole
two bases
Gannt went from certrrteld tn pitch
the ninth inning OF the game which