Evening star., 1916-05-12
BY n. C. BYRD.

Several pitchers did some splendid
work on the mound yesterday for their
teams in the games in the amateur
leagues. A lot of runs Were scored in
some of the contests by one of the
teams, but there were fewer comba is
than usual in which both clubs got men
across the plate almost at will.
Over in the Potomac League the
Highlanders We're beaten by Mitchell
Of Machnists in a 3-to-1 contest, in
which Mitchells work on the mound
was one of the features. Only three
times were opposing players able to get
their bat solidly enough against the
ball to drive it into safe territory. and
eight of them went down on strikes
before Mtchells elusive shoots. Mitch
ell was not wild, either. only two
bases on balls being given by him.
Maxwell of the General Office team in
the Railroad Y. VI. {. A. League let
down the Union Station nine with
three hits. There was never a period
when the losing nine could find Max
| wells offerings consistently Palias
pitched well enough for the Quarter
masters Department to win his con-
test easily from the Ordnance team in
the war ]nterDurtSu League. fOur
hits were the total of the combined eff
forts of the losing players at the plate.
Coe and Eidsness took turns on the
mound for the Secretary team in the
Agricultural Interbureau League, de.
feating Market easily. Kelner and
Nelson were the only Market players
to hit safely the former making two
and the latter one.
Winter and Litkus of the st. Marga-
ret's team took turns on the mound
, lt11E q 70
good enough to return their team
with an easily won victory. Mulroe.
shortstop of the Aloysius club. and
Callahan. who PLACED in the outtield.
got hits but none Of the others was
able 20 connect
Beard, Harris and Rountrce. the
former Ninth Street Christian Church
the Machinists in the Potomac League
for the last year or so. were the best
hitters of that club yesterday in its
game with the Highlanders Each man
connected safely twice. Incidentally
each played fine game in the field
Harris work at short being particular
ly good.
Holbruner of the General Office team
rot three hits out of four trips to the
plate One of the wallops was for two
bases.
The Hlltops and Columbias played u
lie game. to 4. in the RosedaIe or
sanization. The Hilltops scored in the
fourth, sixth. seventh and ninth; the
Columbias made three of their counts
IN the fifth and the other in the ninth.
Several Of the players in this game
ielded their positions in great form.
fcGarry, who played second for the
Hilltops, handled seven chances, five
assists and two putouts; Long. who
held down shortstop for the same club
handled three assists and as many put
outs. Bonbrest, second baseman for Co
lumbia. and Reagon. who did the pitch
ing. handled pretty well everything
that came their way.
Mayhew and Gallagher of st. Mar
garet's nine played kind of ball that
would have done credit to anybody
The former drove out three hits in five
attempts and took care of three put
outs and two assists; the latter got two
safeties out Of three attempts and han
died two putouts and four assists
Gayer felded well at second for Alloy
siuS.
Despite the fact that it hit very little
the Station team scored fifteen runs
against five for General Office. A con-
sistent run of errors in almost every
inning was mainly responsible for the
majority of the runs scored.
Two players had perfect batting
averages in the game between ord
nance ana SludrteTfldSteTs burgess Oh
the former and Panzer of the latter
were the players who SO distinguished
themselves, each being up twice and
getting that many hits McCammon
| caught fine game for the Quarter
masters.
One of the best games played yester-
day took place in the Home Club
League, Patent Office defeating the
Bureau of Mines by 6 to 5. Both teams
hit the ball hard. the winners getting
twelve hits and the losers ten, but bet
ter fielding than usual and tight pitch
ing in the pinches kept down the score.
Neville Of Mines led both teams in