Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-06
ST. PETERS AND HOLY NAME
MEET SUNDAY IN BIG GAME
Plav Second Contest of Series In Catholic
Church League to Break Tie for First
Half of the Schedule.
BY n, C.. BYRD.

The second game of the series in the
Catholic Church League to play off the
tie between ST. Peters and Holy Name
will take place Sunday morning at
1920 o'clock The contest is to be
played at the league grounds, 9Th
street and Florida avenue northeast.
Two umpires have been obtained, Jack
Carr and Bill Handiboe. in order that
there may be as little question in re-
gard to decisions as possible.
Both teams are strengthened consid-
erabIy, some of the best players in
the city appearing in their line ups.
Tom Crooke. Kid Roche. Greer. Dono-
hoe. Strunk and others will be on the
field. There is great rivalry between
the two clubs.
A meeting of the managers Of the
league was held recently and the fol-
lowing schedule mapped out for the
remainder of the year:
July Holy Name VS.. St. Margaret's.
S-Open.
Open.
10-St. Peters VS.. st. Dominic's.
list. Margarets VS.. Holy Name.
12-St. Aloysius VS.. Holy Name.
13-St. Peters VS.. St. Margaret's.
l4-Holy Name vs. St. Dominic's.
15-Open.
16-Open
17-St. Aloysius VS.. st. Marga-
rets.
lS-Holy Name VS.. St. Peters.
19-Open.
20-St Dominics vs. ST. Mar
The game this afternoon will be
played between Holy Name and St.
Margaret's.
The Columbias took the measure of
the Hilltops yesterday in the Rosedale
League, winning by 7 to S. The Column
bias had one big inning, scoring Ave
runs in the fifth. There was not a
great deal of difference in the play
of the two clubs, their hitting and
fielding being of about the same char
acter.
Redden, who did the catching for the
Hilltops, led in batting, making a two
Dagger, a triple and single out flour
attempts. Turner of the Hilltops. and
Mayhem and Montague of the Column
bias each connected for three safeties.
The work of the two shortstops was
playing fine ball. Balsinger did the
pitching for the defeated team and
Naples was on the slab for the vic
tors.
Treasury lost its game in the Gov
eminent League yesterday by a mar
gin of one run, the count being to 8.
commissioners were on the long
end of the score The Commits
sioners got lead of six runs
in the first inning. and that proved
more than the losers could well make
up, especially after the District boys
had counted two more runs in the
fourth. Treasury made game effort
toward the end Of the contest, scoring
five runs in the last two periods, but
could not quite develop strength
enough to give it the victory.
Straits playing for Treasury was ex-
ceptional Not only did he do remark
able work back of the bat. but made
two hits. The play of Rhinehart and
Rooney. at second and short. was the
feature of the Commissioners. These
two men handled eleven chances. Gro
son. after taking Nops' place in the
first inning on the slab with nobody
out. allowed only two hits and struck
out twelve. Had he started the game,
the Treasury team probably would
have won with the greatest ease.
Steel Plant clouted the ball hard in
the game in the Potomac League and
had no trouble winning from the High
lands. The score was to 0. Kelly,
Howard and Crooke'did the most of the