Evening star., 1918-08-12
PAYS GOOD TRIBUTE.
TOFRANK SHERMAN
Bowling and Billiard News
Speaks in Fine Terms Of
Former World Champion.
By n. G. BYRD.

Tho Billiard and Bowling News.
paper published in the interests of
bowling and billiards. in its August
issue pays quite little tribute 10
Frank Sherman. local pocket BIZ
Hard player, who died recently. The
story in the paper mentioned begins
with The billiard world lost great
friend and player recently In the
death of Frank Sherman" and then
proceeds to give a brief history OIL
his ACCOMPLISHMENTS. Here is the
story:
Tho. billiard world lost a great
friend and player recently In the
death Of, Frank Sherman, formef
world champion pocket billiardist. at
Washington. d. C. His death foi-
lowed az period of, illness ana was
entirely unexpected by MS many
friends who mourn his loss.
sherman, first came into prom
inenceas. a pocket billiardist in 1901.
'whenshe@wen a tournament announced
as q world championship tournanene
in Boston. He. had a string or SIX ssAs
victories and no losses. aetsatin g
De Orc. sstaffss Epy; sSy.,r, % IN %ff,s.bel'
Won a world champ i6nsh ip toun tss.
ment in Chicago. with as5sco rd cn
six wins and one defeat. otner. eH
trants in this tournament WeIa Ses w.
ton. Do Orc, Hueston. PehetieL; Stiiei, ~
Lean and Fey. In. the h1srn hLsr Snerman<
was defeated by De Orc 800 tp 5eI at
Pbiladelphia, May is, 10 and 70. laos.
"In late years Sherman did not psi :,
ticinate In many matchesx put VI
voted his time to the mahassE,ss1 sas = ~ = =
aiwsys conducted i'm such manner
as to make it credit to thes cspitali
city"
One OF the longest amateur base Dali.
games ever played In WashingtonL
tha 1onrest in the memory of the
writer-yesterday resulted in, VIC.
torv for Camp Meigs over CLARENDON
by3 to 2. Camp Meigs counted Two
runs in the fourth inning and IN the
seventh Clarendon tied up the count
After that. IT WAS not until the seve
enteenth that either nine was aofe 10
get a man to the plate. In that period
Haskell connected Tor triple. when
was followed by a single by Golding'
who did the pitching for Camp Meigs.
Goldine went the whole distance
for Meies and Won Herbulis did the
same for Clarendon. Both men were
in fine form. Goiding allowed two
more hits than Won Herbulis. put oai-
anced that by striking out more men.
II was one of the most remarkapie
ineton sandrot diamond in the history
OF the sport .F'<
At a meeting of the officials OF the
Navy Yard League yesterday the
schedule was closed and the pennant
cd (IOnenS.
Games were listed to be played all
this week. but the Cloffeps were two
and a half games in the lead ana II
was mathematically Impossible Tor
any other club to catch them. TWO
silver loving cups for @ the ,,srca Snamp,eh antile
Arms. go to Tom Crooke's aggregation
of ball tossers-
Yesterday the. e7th Engineers took
a game from the, .Quartermaster's
Engineers are spxious to arrange
contests with other ppst teams in ana
around Washington
Rex Athletic Club won two more
games yesterday. taking one from the
soldiers stationed at the Bliss Elec-
trical School and the other from the
Camp Humphreys nine. Bliss waS De
feated by to / and Camp Hum
DnreyS Dyl ~ TO L. bfo~u 6S SAAes
pitching for tho winning club, proved
too strong for opposing. batterai the
former letting the Bliss bunch down
with three hits and the latter hold
ing Camp Humphreys to four. Brown
struck out thirteen men. Canray and
steele led the victors in hitting the
ball, the former getting three pits
in the first game and sone In, the seq
ond, and the latter making three In
the second. - =
Many shipyards and steel plants
throughout the country are planning
for foot ball games this fall. They
expect to stage a regular schedule.
much the Same es they have been
doing this summer in base ball
a.. :-..-A- - =
Attempts to get hold Of some of
the faculty authorities Of George
town University to determine the au-
thenticity of the report from Bos-
ton that Charley Cox had announced
there would .:be no foot, .-ball at
Georretown this fail have failed.
However, John o,Reiliy., physleal d.
rector, was reached. and CReilly
stated that he knew nothing OF any
move to call or foot ball at the HILL
top. .I think that II the report were
true" said O'Reil1y, II would have
been notified about 1t.
Al Orth in 'eY'' Service.
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