Evening star., 1918-09-23
GAME MAY DECIDE
sFt
winner OF FTH[E
Navy Yard and Operations
Clash at American League
Park This Afternoon.

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scheduled to meet in the game that
may decide the championship Of the
District Base Ball Association series.
If Navy Yard gets the long end Of the
score, it most certainly will win the
title in section B, and nobody doubts
that the victor in section B will have
an excellent chance to cop from the
winner in section 1.
Navy Yard is the only club among
those playing for the District title
that has yet to be defeated. Tom
Crooke's aggregation has won six
games and has not lost to any nine.
Operations also has captured six con-
tests. but also has one defeat charged
against it. If Operations wins it will
take the lead, but not by as big a mar
gin as will be held by the Navy Yard
if it gets the big end of the score.
Tom Crooke has both Frye and
Buscher to send to the mound, the
probability being that he will depend
upon the latter to start the contest,
with Frye held in reserve. Won Her.
bulls or Owens is likely to be the choice
to heave the ball for Operations.
The contest is to take place at
American League Park, and will start
at 5 o'clock.
The game yesterday at American.
League Park between the Navy Yard
and Clarendon teams was a sort Of
runaway affair, the former winning
quite easily by the score of II to /.
The Crooke crew had on their bat
ting clothes and hammered the de-
NJ oH% OF
over the field, Buck Sterzer espe-
cially taking a great liking to the
pitching OF both, as he landed four
hits in safe territory.
Humphries pitched a splendid game
against Clarendon, inasmuch as he
kept the hits from going safe when
men were on the bases, a. true test Of
real pitching. The Clarendon boys
managed to bunch a couple hits off
Humphries in the third round and as
a result tailed their only run.
Navy Yard scored one or more runs
in five of their eight innings, wind
ing up their onslaught in the seventh,
when they pushed five runs over the
rubber.
Out at Union Park the Army Medicos
and the Rex Athletic Club got to-
gether before a nice crowd and the
latter in a delayed finish came out
on top by the score of to 2. For
seven innings the Medicos stuck to
a 2 to 1 lead, but in the eighth Carl
weakened somewhat and with a
punching of hits and a couple mis-
plays the Rex pulled over four runs
This practically clinched the game,
although Rex added another in the
ninth.
Following is a bit Of interesting
comment from the New York Sun
anent the cancellation Of foot ball
dates by Cornell University and the
general foot ball situation in the
colleges:
nounced that, on account Of the exi-
gencies of the military program it
had Cancelled all it's athletic engage
ments, including the foot ball sched-
u]e. Similar word had come from
other institutions and we may expect
line within the next week. However,
that does not mean that the inter-
collegiate foot ball season is going
to be a frost or that college athletic
competition is to be throttled: 1t does
mean that teams as college teams
have gone for the duration of the
war. However. we are going to have
e1evens and other athletic representa-
tions from the Cornell Student Army
Training Corps, from the Princeton
S. A. T. c., the Yale S. A. T. c. and
naval units, and SO on.
Colleges will lend their names to
teams which will not represent them
under the old system. Every student
in the college will be eligible, be he
freshman, senior or special. However,
depend on it that there will be more
intense and more stringent1y enforced
restrictions in SO far as student stand
ing is concerned. The Army and Navy
training requirement of fifty-fouI
hours a week will make a rather full
schedule for the col1egians. and the
Army and Navy officers in charge will
permit no man to compete who is not
right up to snuff in classroom and in
ing corps will initiate an admirable
arrangement all around and go a
great way toward cleaning up divers
abuses which had crept into interco1-
1esiate sport.
'The new system already has been
put in force at Pennsylvania. Last
week the foot ball management can
celed all it's dates for the Pennsylva-
MIA eleven, but reserved them for the
Pennsylvania Student Army Training
Corps. Likewise. we have it that Bot
Folwelrs contract as Pennsylvania
coach was Cancelled, but that he i'm
mediately was engaged to work with
the Student Army Training Corps foot
ball candidates. No doubt these
changes will remove from the univer.
sity athletic mana agements the f1nan.
cia1 burdens which a great many OF
I.them found too heavy to carry last
season. We take it that the coaches
will be named trainers in the training
corps and will be paid by the govern.
ment."