The Washington herald., 1918-06-18
LACY CLEARSUP
B. B. TROUBLE
President of Circuit Claims
Marines Have No JUS
i, tihable Protest.
The following is self explanatory:

The following Is self explanatory:
Sporting Editor-In an evening
edition a story was printed about
the standing OF the Marine Corps
Team in the Navy Interbureau
League. AS this story is evidently
based on incomplete information.
am asking for a little space to put
the leagues standing in the proper
light.
The first series involved ten games
for each team. Operations won o
and lost l. S. & A. won and lost
.. Marine Corps won and lost 2.
AS Operations had played all of it's
games and had lost but one. and no
other team could show a loss of
less than two games. Operations
was awarded the winning place. To
have done otherwise would have
been an injustice to Operations. In
these ten games, Operations tailed
FL runs. while all other opposing
teams Tailed 81 runs. Operations
defeated Marine Corps in a nine
inning game by the score of % to
4. 1t appeared that the league had
no other choice but to award Op-
erations the winning place.
AS for the schedule. it was not
prepared by any one connected with
Operations. or by any officer of the
league. Z. L. Bennett, who has no
connection with the Operations
team. and who is secretary of the
Clarendon Athletic Association, was
asked. as an impartial party. to pre-
pare a schedule. and l am sure that
he did his best. He is we'll known
in baseball circles. and no one con-
nected with the Marine Corps can,
l believe, question his sincerity or
fairness. The game played between
Operations and Marine Corps was
played on a date set for Marine
Corps and c. & r., and this was
done at the urgent request of the
Marine Corps manager. Mr.. Thomp-
son, who said that c. G r. would
forfeit. and that he wanted a game.
By the consent of all managers
concerned. the league officers ar
ranged voluntary and acceptable
transfer of dates. Marine Corps
lost % to 0.
Later in the series, the Marine
Corps people appealed TO the league
for permission to import from
Quantico for each league game as
many as six of the star players sta
toned there. This was promptly
arranged. and they have since
carried on their list twelve of these
Quantico players. and played them
in league games at will, with the
full consent of the league. Since
doing this. they have won many
games, and their fine work on the
field has been appreciated. For the
Marine Corps team to want to start
the first series over because they
have signed up stronger players
after early losses sounds rather
amusing to those who saw them
roundly trOupced in regular league
games in the beginning OF the
series.
As for meeting Operations, Marine
Corps has never played, and has
never defeated the full Operations
team as at present constituted
Both teams have changed materially
since the % to o houte on May 4.
However, a new schedule is on the
press for the second series. in which
Marine Corps and Operations, and
al OlheI ltdIlS, Will meet tnree
separate times.
Operations will play Marine
Corps an exhibition game on FRI
day. the 21st instant, and will later
play them three league games. If
Marine Corps wins in the second
series they will have a five game
series with Operations to decide the
final championship. They do not
have to worry about games. They
have any number of dates yet ahead
of them in which to play Opera
tions, and if they have the best
team they will undoubtedly win.
And il they do win. no one connect
ed with the league will try to make
them play over again a fairly cap
tured game. The league is proud
to have such a good team on its
schedule, and IL they win, will ac-
cord them the honor just as cheer
fully as they awarded their hard
won laurels to Operations in the
first series.
Respectfully,
LANE LACY,