Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-25
navy YARDP[AYS
OPERATIONS TODAY
Teams to Battle for Title in
Section / Of District Base
Ball Series.
BY n. c. BYRD.

Navy Yard and Operations meet to-
day in the game that will decide the
championship in section Of the Dis
trict Base Ball Association series for
the District title. Navy Yard appeared
yesterday in contest which was
won and which placed it on even
terms with Operations. Each club.
has won seven games and lost one.
Today's game will take place at
American League Park at 5:15.
Winner of the Navy Yard-Opera-
lions game will go against War Risk
tomorrow in the first of the hnal
series Of three games to decide the
title. Marines were compelled to for
felt their chance to beat War Risk in
section 1, because their team is quar-
antined indefinitely at Quantico. At
the meeting of the board of governors
last nisAt Sergt. Moore, manager OF
the Marines. rendered his, teams
resignation with a statement to that
effect.
1t would be quite amusing-not to
Tom Crooke. of course-if the War
Risk and Navy Yard mines were to
face in the final series, and War RISK
were to win. War Risks best players
were recruited from the Navy Yard
League after crooke had made his
selections Of the best men to repre-
sent the Navy Yard. If War Risk
were to win, it would be regular
"gloat" situation for some Of its
players.
Navy Yard beat Clarendon yester-
day by S to 4. coming from behind
the short end Of the score and making
three runs in the next to the last in
ming. Joe Gieble's team jumped into
Bryant's delivery in the third inning
and counted three runs. AS a whole
there was very little difference in the
play of the two mines, as they stood
pretty Yearly on an even footing in
batting and fielding.
Braund, third baseman for Navy
Yard, cleaned up three hits out of
three times at bat. He led the players
Of both clubs in batting.
Lemerick did some fine fielding at
shortstop for Clarendon.
Foot ball this fall, and college ath-
letics after it, will not be conducted
as formerly. There seems no doubt
that athletics will be carried on. but
instead of the regular intercollegiate
brand it will be case of teams rep
resenting the college military units
This arrangement will do away with
some bothersome eligibility rules and
give the teams chance to use first
year men. AS a matter Of fact, If
some arrangement had not been ef-
fected whereby f1rst-year men could
be played it would have been impos-
sible to carry on sports, as after the
first two or three months of the col
lege year there would not be any
material on hand for teams. In fact.
the greater part of college students
ho n
Technical High and Business got
out yesterday for their first foot ball
practice. Both institutions had good
squads at work and Business thinks
it will turn out the strongest COM
bination that has represented it in a
long while. It not only had big
squad of men, but 1t had a squad Of
big men. In fact, instead of being
entirely out of the running as many
seemed to think Business was, it bids
fair to be right in the running.
Bosley. Gurevich and Moore, mem
bers Of Techs foot ball team last year.
will have something of start on the
other members Of the squad at Mary
land State when it reports for prac-
tice next Monday. All three young
sters were out with Techs squad yes
terday. working out. Moore was the
biggest man on the field.
Cullen, the youngster who held down
center so capably for Central last
year, is the captain Of the team this
fall. He is the only regular of the
1917 aggregation to report so far for
practice.
Bryan Morse, coach at Western, says
that Wight, captain of his eleven,
will prove one of the two or three
most capable backs in the high school
series this year. Wight is not very
big. but is fast and is a headv nlaver