Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-07
ROSEDALES CONTINUE MARCH
TOWARD THEIR LEAGUE TITLE
With Fiinney Kelly on the Mound They
Blank Phi Mu Sigma Nine in Rosedale
Oreanization-New Players In Club.

safeties The only man on the losing
club to make more than one hit was Pot
ter. who held down the place in left field.
Mansuy. who pitched for Reclamation.
| ton. eight assists and two put-outs. Col
Vile fielded a nice game at short for the
winners and Clarksons work at second
was not far from being a feature.
Keller trounced Reformation in the
East Washington Sunday School cir
cult by to s. Practically all the runs
were scored in the last few innings.
neither club being able to do much
with the delivery of the opposing
pitcher during the early periods. Dodge.
playing second base for the winners.
was the star Dodge's fielding and hit
ting were extraordinary. A two-bagger
and three singles in five times at the
plate was Dodge's contribution to his
teams work on the offensive, and any
way one looks at it. his days work was
quite creditable. Besides hitting like
that, Dodge handled six plays in the
field. Benner. at second for the same
team, hit and flelded well. Howard and
Malone led in the batting for Reforma-
ton and Collins and Sherman were the
best felders, the last mentioned doing
particularly good work
The Agriculture team did not have
muCn trouble getting away WITH the
long end of the score in the govern
ment League game, defeating Navy by
10 to 4. The contest was loosely play
ed. both sides making several errors.
Many chances were handled, though,
the Navy taking care of sixteen and
the Agriculture Of thirteen. Agricul-
ture hit little better than the losers.
Carroll of Agriculture made three hits
out of four attempts and each of the
dr}vns nroyed eood fOr two ha aea
Kelly and Frazier form a battery for
the Rosedale club which will be hard
to beat The former has pitched about
tours for three or four seasons. and his
work this year seems to be very nearly
as good as 1t ever was. That he VIII
win lot of games for Rosedale and
questionable, provided. of course. that
Rosedale wins the championship of
that league. which seems to be fairly
certain: Frazier is young fellow
with lot Of natural ability There are
several things he can learn about the
backstop's position, but IL he failed to
develop into a splendid performer I'M
der competent coaching 1t would be de-
cidedly unusual Frazier has fine
throwing arm.
There is a great deal Of discussion
going the rounds In amateur ranks as
to the relative capabilities OF Mike
Moran and Mortimer. generally recog-
nized as the two best shortstops in
the city Moran Is playing with teams
In the Rosedale and Potomac leagues.
and Mortimer in the Potomac and East
Washington Sunday School Both field
their positions with extra ordinary pre-
cision. throw accurately and hit fourth
on the teams with which they play.
The adherents of the teams are stead
fast in their belief that their star is
the most capable, and offer a lot of
arguments to substantiate the claims.
AS a matter of fact, though. there is
very little difference in the two, and
the margin either may have on the
other in the long run is hardly appre-
ciable.