Evening star., 1916-08-10
MUCH INTEREST MAY DEVELOP
IN SERIES FOR DISTRICT TITLE
Close Competition Expected Should Hold
Attention of Followers of Amateur Base
Ball-First Game Saturday Evening.

League, have had Hurd and Frazier,
both good men. Treasury. in the Gov
ernment League. has Strait. receiver for
last years championship club. Joe
Giebel is largely responsible for the
success of Holy Name. and year ago
he was rated one of the best catchers in
the American Association. Marines.
Keller. Clarendon, Mohawks. W.. b. &
ington that has had success out of the
ordinary owes much of what It has ac-
complished to the men who have been
doing the catching. Let one of the
teams in the post-sea son series lose its
regular backstop and with that player
probably will go its chances for the
championship.
Blick Roundtree and Tommy Harris
have been playing together around
four years ago they started at sec
ond and short. respectively, for the
Ninth Street Christian Church team.
and have been together ever since.
They held down the positions in the
intercity series in 1914. Last year
they signed up with Machinists and
are still with that team. Harris had
his best season when Ninth won the
city championship, but Roundtree is
playing as well as at ANY previous
much more capable fellow, too. than
he is usually given credit for. and
that simply because there is absolutely
nothing ostentatious about his work
He Is in the game all the time,
hustling and delivering.
While it has been said many times
this season that there was little inter
est in amateur ball. it Is very nkely
that a different story will be heard be-
fore the post-season series Is far under
way. The leagues have been playing
out their schedules very quietly. but
the heat OF competition between the
championship clubs will bring great
many people to the games. Last year
rather small crowds were present at
the regular league contests. but the
post season series was undoubtedly the
most Interesting lot of games played on
local amateur diamonds in years. The
same conditions exist now. lot OF
teams being evenly matched. and this
season is almost sure to be a repetition
of year ago.
In a game which was well fought up
to the sixth inning, when in its half
of the session Treasury scored six runs
and practically put the contest on Ice.
the money-counters won the decisive
game from Agriculture. 10 to g. yester-
day afternoon and with it the cham
pionship of the Government League.
Three pitchers were used by the los
ing team in the hope of stopping the
Treasury swaters. but attempts to stop
Baseman Bell of Treasury gathered in
a pair of doubles, a triple and single
in four times at bat and scored three
runs.
Lefty" Downey, who started the
game for Treasury, was yanked in the
sixth frame when the Aggies touched
him up for a number of bingles and
Croson finished the game. setting the
Aggies down without another run.
When Fitzgerald dropped the ball
while attempting to tag out Giovannetti
who had made a dash for the plate in
the seventh inning of the Bureau-Ma-
chinists game yesterday afternoon, the
latter team knotted the count at three
tallies apiece and then the game was
called with the score a tie, in the first
contest of the series for the Potomac
League championship.
Machinists broke into the lead with
two runs in the first inning and Walker
walloped homer for Bureau in the
fourth.