Evening star., 1916-07-30

Fighting neck and neck from SatuI-
day of last week down to the close of
the present week, Hanover and Cham
bersburg,- leaders in the Blue Ridge
League race. went into today's games a
tie for first place. Hagerstown and
Martinsburg fought it out during the
week for third position. and while
Martinsburg gained upon the Terriers,
the latter closed the week still in
third place, with a narrow margin
over the West Virginians. During the
six days of play from Saturday to
Friday, inclusive. Hanover was able
of the column, the first time in the
past eight weeks that any team has
held the lead for more than three days
at one time. During that period the
leadership has changed thirteen times,
Chambersburg occupying the top rung
seven different times and Hanover six.
The work of the Blue Ridge League
continues to attract attention from
big league ivory -chasers, and not less
beating the sticks in this section dur
ing the past few weeks. Charles
'Heinie" Wagner of the Boston Red
Sox and Charlie kelchner OF the St.
in an appearance, remaining in the
circuit for week. They We're follow
ed by Dubuc. the famous Detroit hesi-
tation pitcher, who was said to have
his eye on one or two of the league
hurlers. Last week Joe Sugden, also
of the Detroit Tigers, travelled with
two of the teams for several days,
donning a uniform and warming up
several pitchers every day. He was
following up the word passed along
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troit scout, was right on the heels of
Sugden, and it. was very evident from
this that the Tiger scouts found some
thing worth while in this circuit. The
last scout reported to be gum -shoeing
through the valley brush is I. j. Irwin
of the New York Giants, who put in
two or three days this week looking
'em over
1t is known that several of the scouts
had in their possession considera BILE
dope on many of the players clipped
from the Baltimore Sun, and displayed
an intimate acquaintance with the bat
ting averages of every promising man
VINO was hitting above his own weight
While the scouts did not use any ad-
vertising space in the circuit newspa
pers, it is known that the following
players were under close observation
by most of them: Pitchers, Goodwin of
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Cleary of Hagerstown, Scherden of
Hanover, Howard of Hagerstown and
Mumford ofyGettysburg, of First Baseman
Blue of Martinsburg- Catcher koehler
of Gettysburg. Third Baseman Bigler
of Gettysburg, Right Fielder Percy of
Martinsburg and Left Fielder rawlings
of MartinSburg.
Percy, who is Baltimore boy, and
Rawlings, who is from Washington, are
best outfelders in the circuit. This
is Percy's first year in professional ball,
but he is playing like veteran. He is
remarkably speedy in going after fly
balls, has a wonderful Whip ana mas
been hitting hard all season
Rawlings also is very fast in the neld
and A good thrower and while he was in
a bad batting slump for several weeks
is now recovering his eye and hlttIng
hard and consistently. Since July l he
has hit for an average of .306. and is
soon expected to again be among the
leaders. Rigler is very speedy but has
been unable to hit well at any stage
this season. Koehler is regarded as IN
a class by himself in this circuit as
catcher and also is fairly good sticker
Rlue is a wonderful fielding first sacker
but. like Bigler. has not developed much
strength with the bat. although there
has been decided Improvement in his
stickWork during the past few weeks.
Goodwin is the property of the Wash
jngton American League club, While King
is tied to the Richmond International
League team. unless he recently obtained
his release. The other men are the prop
ertv of the clubs with which they play.
AS result of the games during the
mast week there has been some shifting
about in the standing of the league
nitchers. The records of all hurlers now
working in the league. including Thurs
DAVIS games, are as follows: