Evening star., 1918-07-16
CLOFFEP NINE TOPS
navy YARD LEAGUE
BY Defeating Torpedo Outfit
: 2to I Tom Crooke's Nine
: Again Heads Circuit.
By a. o. BYRD.

Yesterday Tom Crooke's cloffep nine
won from the Torpedo outfit by . to I
and again went to the front Of the
other clubs IN the Navy Yard League.
The two teams were tied for first
place prior to the contest. and Clof-
fep6 victory gives them Just ono full
game tho margin on their rivals. Not
much more than half q game has sep
arated the two teams since the early
part Of the season. Tho score was
to 1.
Busoher, on tho mound for Cloffeps,
was In good form and his opponents
connected with his offerings only
three times. Bryant Of the losing nine
also pitched good ball. Bryant all
lowed just twice the number Of hits
that Buscher did. but famed more
than twice as many also. Thirteen Of
the Cloffep players -bit the dust"
through their inability to lay their
bats against Bryant's twisters. Either
the ball was shot across the plate too
fast for them to get their bats around
or 1t was bent far enough that they
could not see 1t.
Cloffeps got both their runs in the
fourth inning. A hit by Mcbride. a
base on balls and singles by Hornyak
and Smith produced the two ta1ltes.
The losers scored their only count in
the last period, Sterzer's hit and mis-
plays by Rooney and Crooka allowing
the run to cross. Mcbride played a
fine fielding game at second for the
Cloffeps.
Gun Division plays Ordnance today
In the Navy Yard League.
-Finney" Kelley of Operations and
Mike Cantwell of the Marines en-
ragged in a pitching duel in the game
in the Navy Interbureau League yes
terday. with the latter coming out on
the better end of the score. The "sea
soldiers won by a score Of to 1,
better base running and moro timely
hitting counting the difference in the
results attained by the two clubs.
Marines scored in the first. fifth and
only count in the sixth. GLADDEN. and
Miller of Marines and Matthews of
the Operations were the only players
of the two clubs to connect for more
than one hit, each of the three get
ting a brace of bingles. However.
enabled the Marines to turn the trick.
He set Operations down with Just
four hits and famed ten men.
Ouo Oh S6dIIuS"S hlCS IN IQ0 Opefa.
tions-Marines game went for three
bases.
Country" Morris, former Martins
burg player and Maryland State
star, is not hitting anything like he
started. Morris for years has had
the reputation>Nof being one of the
best batsmen turned out on the local
lots. but he has not yet got his eye
on the ball for Operations.
Rooney. Catholic University's star
infielder. playing with the Cloffep
nine. had Just one chance in the game
with Torpedos yesterday and made an
error on that-something decidedly
Yesterday Camp Meigs evened up
with the Army Medical School for the
6-to-0 defeat it suffered at the hands
OF the Meds some time ago by whip
ping them: to 4. A fusillade of hits
the victory. total Of seventeen being
registered by them in their onslaught
against the offerings of Finegan. one
of Georgetown's pitchers. Murray
who held down left field for the Meigs
nine. led with four b.ng1es. and ScNu-
macher and Lucie got three each.
Howard played mighty good ball for
the Medics. his work at shortstop be,
Ing one of the features Of the con-
test.
Sunday the Brentwood Athletic Club
went to Fort Washington for a base
ball game and got the better of the
Artillery crowd by 4 to 8. Lyons,
who held down third sack for Brent
wood. got four hits out of as many
trips to the plate.
Agriculture cleaned up Supply and
Accounts by IL to in the Depart
mental League yesterday. The Aggies
got good lead early In the contest
and had little trouble maintaining It.