The Washington times., 1916-07-31

Inc Amateur Baseball ASSOCIATION OF Z,
the District will meet at Spalding's store
on Friday night at q o'clock. according
to a notice sent out by President Robert
II. Young today.
Several important matters will come
UP for consideration at the meeting FIN
day. among which Ia the protested game
in the Potomac League between steel
Plant and bureau In which Umpire
" oodward declared a forfeit to Bureau.
The post season sectional and inter-
sectional series II also due Tor consider
alton. Tho Railroad I. M. Z. A.. fo-
tomac League. Catholic Church League.
and Government League Will probably
nominate their winners which Will take
part In the post season series.
Holy Name, winner of the FIRST series
In the Catholic Church League. will
play BIT. Margaret's today at Fifth and
Florida avenue for the title OF winner OF
the second half Of the series. A win
Tor the Holy Name team will gain the
league leadership and the right to enter
| the post season series for the District
amateur championship.
Today's game IL much sought after by
the st. Margaret's team as 1t will mean
that Holy Name will have to play of a
series for the title. Yesterdays game
In the circuit was won by Holy Name
over st. Peters by a 2-to-1 score. The
Mccarthy. Crooks, and Behrie. play
ing for Holy Name. contributed largely
| to the success OF the team by timely
clouting. Greer's batting for the losers
was the feature. r. Salb. of Holy Name.
had bit the better OF Greer.
BY virtue Of wins In Alexandria in the
northern Virginia amateur championship
series the Cardinals. Clarendon. and
Eagles are tied for the leadership Of the
ho
Eagles a 4-to-1 defeat yesterday. al
though Lefty White allowed the Car
dinals but three hits.
:, Clarendon took the White sox into
sons hitting, with that of Ray King.
was the sensation Of the battle.
Hyattsyille defeated the National
Capital Pres yesterday afternoon on
the formers diamond by a 7-to-4 score.
Piozet. the Hyattsville hurier. pitched
good ball. striking out fourteen and al
lowing but six hits. Hawkshaw. the
Win ,ne set. stsh ssehhs d two SS q qay
Thomas. the losers first-sacker. had
a, very good day afeld. accepting twelve
chances without miscue.
ming proved enough for Marines to win
8 to g. Bases on balls caused Grant, the
Marines pitcher to give In to Brewer IN
the seventh. Grant issued five free
camp in the seventh. as the ciubmen
scored four runs by staging q game
| rally.
The fast travelling Berwyn nine put
Of the Royal A. c.. OF this city. The
score was s to 8. Both pitchers were
batted hard. but Berwyn seemed to bat
Schultz when they most needed runs.
tics but only succeeded once. that being
In the third frame. when they scored
| all of their runs.
President J. w. Marbury, Of the Po-
large crowd for today's Steel Plant.
Bureau battle. The game will decide
the winner Of the second series. Steel
Plant Is expected to produce the goods.
A final series will be arranged at the
conclusion Of the second series.
Today's games in amateur circles are
as follows:
Potomac Leasue-steel Plant VS..
Bureau.
Catholic Church Leasue-Holy Name
Rosedale League-Printers vs.. Rose
dale.
f.. w. 8. 8. League-Keller VS.. Fifth.
Government Leagues. w. N. VS..
Treasury.
Washington Amateur Leagues. s. c.
c. VS.. Cherrydale Juniors; Manhattans
VS.. Royals Regents VS.. Trojans; Trux-
ton VS.. Fraternity.
Capital City League-Dixie A. C. VS..
Shamrocks.
Dries, twirling for Hillbrooks, yester-
day allowed the Capital Refining Com
pany but one hit and struck out nine
| teen. The score was 8 to 0 In Hill
brooks favor. Dries performance yes
terday establishes a record for strike
outs In amateur baseball for this season.
The game went for the nine full frames,
and only twenty-seven batters faced
Dries.
Roberts. of the winning team, was
the star clouter Of the pastime. getting
TWO safe bingles. one a double, the
other q single. In two trips to the