Evening star., 1915-06-05

The Drillery won, to 2. Its vic
tory was due to one big inning, in
which it chased four runs across the
plate. Nernsteiu, who pitched for the
Government Hospital. was not far be-
hind Hassenstab in effectiveness, he
famed eight and was hit safely only
five times.
The Traffic team scored seventeen
runs against Mail Room in the South
ern Railway League in six innings 1t
tailed at least once in each period,
and in the second and fifth got FIVE
each. Traffic got a total of sixteen
safe hits and had clean fielding rec
ord. while the Mall Room drove the
ball into safe territory only nine times
and made six errors
Interior had very little trouble win
ming from the Treas sury team in the
Departmental League, taking the long
end of 7-to-1 score. Interior count
ed three times in the second inning,
which would have proved sufficient for
it to win had it not gotten another
man across.
Bell. who played second base for
Treasury, led the players of both clubs
in batting. He connected for three
safeties out of four attempts. Both
three errors being registered in the
entire contest.
Whitney Avenue outhit and out
fielded the Brightwood team in the
Northwest Sunday School League and
won rather easily by. a score Of Z to 2.
The Brightwood nine failed to meas
ure up to the standard in the field.
making a total of eight errors. This
in itself would almost have been
enough to defeat it, but Whitney also
had the margin in the batting. Whit
Y1VSl a
charged against 1t in the field.
Herr, who caught for Brightwood,
was the best hitter of the day. He
got three safe drives and was at bat
four times Chism of the Whitney
Avenue team was the other star of
to fan the air in their attempts TO
land on the ball.
Light hitting marked the contest be-
tween Engineers and Quartermaster
Generals Office in the 1nterurban
Engineers lost by score of 2 to Z.
misplays and wildness on the part OF
their pitcher being responsible In the
main for the defeat. Panzer. pitch
ing for the winning club. allowed only
two hits and famed ten men. oLeary
did almost as well as Panzer, except
that he did not have as good control
O'Leary gave the winners two more
hits than his team got, but he struck
out four more men than his op-
ponent.
The game in the Holy Name Leagu
was brilliantly played and was fea-
tured by the splendid work of Nolan on
the mound for the winners. Hurllns
for St Aloysius against St Martin 3;
Nolan held the latter to hve hits anu
struck out seventeen men. There have
been few games this season in which
that many players have gone down pc
FORE a pitcher on strikes and IL IL
doubtful IL there wilf>be many moTe.
NcIarney also did great Work Tor 81.
Martins. as Aloysius coulo connec. WIN n
his delivery for no more than two
"a afeties and ten of its players struck
nothing but the air in their endeaVors
to hit the ball. This contest furnished
about the best pitchers battle OF the
year. Aloysius was the victor by to o.
Esnecially effective was Nolan when
men were on the bases, as st. Martins
had ten stranded on the bags
Heard. who caught for Aloystus. had
twenty put-outs, which probably Is
record mum ber.
defeating Library in the Government
League by Z to 3. Commerce scored five
runs in the first three innings. before
Library had gotten q man across, and
after that had rather easy sailing.
O'Brien for Library furnished the fea-
ture for his club by striking out eleven
of the Commerce batters- Lynch did
the best work for Commerce, playing
brilliant game at second. He had
eleven chances and accepted ten Be
sides his fine fielding, Lynch connected
for two safe wallops.
Nutwell pitched the Columbias to VIC
tory over the Gibraltars in the Rose
dale organization. He was efectIve
during the entire contest. and won ms
four safeties and famed ten. The Gil
braltars held the lead until the eighth
inning, when the Columbias got seven
men across the plate on succession
of errors. hits and bases on balls.
While Fifth scored eight runs in the
East Washington Sunday School
League yesterday, the Reformation
team got just twice as many. Both
clubs hit the bail hard. Reformation
Fifth getting sixteen. Fifth got a good
lead by tallying four times right at
the start of the contest, but 1t failed
to prevent Reformation from getting
men across the pan almost as 1t
pleased. There was only one inning in
which Reformation failed to get at
least one count.
There has hardly been a contest in
the league th1S year in which harder |
hitting has been done Cake right |
field. and Berhle, third base, for Refor- |
led in the walloping, with four
hits apiece out of six times each at |
bat. Taylor. Daughton and P. Elicit |
of Fifth connected with the ball safe
ly three times each
Pension Office defeated the Bureau
of Mines in the Home Club organiza-
tion by 10 to 6. Bureau of Mines
looked like winner for a while, as
the four runs 1t got in the second in
ming were good until the last two, in
which Pension Office registered eight.
The annual game between the Busi-i
ness High Alumni and the resulari
high school team resulted in a tie,
score. Several former players on the
teams that have represented the Ste
nographers were on the Alumni nine
and they gave the present aggregationI
a mighty hard fight. Gessford did the
for the Alumni, and BlundonI
was on the mound for the school
Both boys performed very creditably.
The official scorers of the amateur
base ball leagues are requested to'