Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-14
|GET AN EVEN BREAK
i'm |NTERC|TY SERIES
Washington Amateur Cham.
Ipions Win, ! to o, From Rich
mond and Lose, 2 to O.
PITCHERS IN FINE DUELS
BY H. C. BYRD.

BY H. C. BYRD.
Amateur champion base ball teams
of Washington and Richmond yester-
day broke even in the first double
header Of the intercity series. Both
games were shut-outs, Washington
! winning the first by 1 to and Rich
mond the second by to o. The con-
tests were brilliantly played and de-
veloped two of the finest pitching
duels seen on a local amateur dia-
| mond in years. War Risk represent
| ed Washington and the Taka-Kola
nine Richmond.
In the opening game Ernie Schafer.
southpaw hurler of the Washington
team. was opposed to Davis 1t was
evident after the first three innings
that few runs were going to be scored,
and. as it turned out the one count
that Washington got in the first
period was sufficient to win. Schafer
and Davis pitched the same kind of
pail. one slip of the latter giving
| Schafer the victory.
i Poh of Richmond opened up the
game with single to center. but was
doubled at second when Bleier got
P1tts hard grounder. tossed to Watt,
and the latter shot the ball to
Howard. Snyder struck out to start
| Washington's half of the inning. All
| Watt got a hit over second. Fraser
| struck out and Bleier singled and
sent Watt to third. Watt scored a
moment later on wild pitch. With
Bieier on third the best Sweeney
| could 90 was a grounder to third on
which he was thrown out at first
Schafer Gets a Double.
| War Risk did not come anywhere
near scoring again until the seventh.
when. with two down. Willie Watt
got on first as a result of a bad
throw by Amos after picking up a
grounder, and was followed by a two
Dagger to right by Schafer Watt got
| no farther than third on the play. and
waited there with Schafer on second
for Snyder to come through with a
blngle to put the game on ice. How.
ever. the best Snyder could do was a
weak grounder to second.
| Poh and Pitt got consecutive singles
with two down in the third, but
Schafer forced Kuyk to ground to
short, Bleier picking up the ball and
throwing Pitt out at second In the
sixth schafer walked the first man to
face him, but got the next three men
| on easy outs making an exception
ally good play himself on one of them
In the seventh Wharton and Leibs
singled with one down. and it seemed
that there was good opportunity for
the thermometers to come through and
tie up the count and possibly win.
However. Leibs was caught off second.
and after a lot of throwing the bali
around to keep Wharton from scoring
was put out. That left only one on
with two down, and Schafer found
little difficulty making Davis fan for
| the third out. Pettway batted for
Carter to lead off the ninth and sim
gled to right. He was caught at Sec
| ond though, when Burnham ground
ed to short. Burnham himself was
out a little later for running out of
base line in going back to first base
after, high fly to left by Amos.
61 Wnh out ended the game.
that Emil Pfeil would show the
Richmonders a thing or two about
pitehing; In short. he was expected to
| heads, but before the game had gone
two innings it was evident that Rich
mond had hurler who could do a
| little standing himself and another
fine pitching duel was in store.
Pfeil Is Batted Hard.
Pfeil was hit harder than the score
| cho D SoAhAlC oACICE dl SHOII CduKnI
no less than six line drives, three of
which were difficult plays and all of
which would have been hits had they
gone a foot farther from the infielder.
In word. Shelton. who was on the
slab for Richmond, outpitched Pfeil
and got a well-earned victory. The
Washington players were not able to
connect with the crossfire delivery of
the Virginian at any time, though it
took two fast double plays to keep
Shelton out of danger spots.
p! Richmond scored its first run In the
| fourth, Kuyk leading of with hit to
| left and Carter sacrificing him to sec
ond. Burnham singled to center and
| Kuyk went to third. Burnham imme-
| diately stole second. With one down
and men on second and third. Pfeil
| was in a hole, which, at the times
! seemed deep enough to cost him the
ball game. And in reality that proved
| to be the case, because the run that
| Kuyk scored on Amos grounder to
| short was sufficient to win even II tho
second run had not been counted in
the eighth. In the eighth Richmond
| line drives by Poh and Pitt were
| caught by Bleier for the first two
! outs, but AL Watt dropped a dinky
! fly that was hit just over the pitchers
head Kuyk hit the fly and. after be-
| ing given a life at first, stole second
and shortly after went home on Car
ters hit. Burnham got another sin
! gle, but Amos ended the inning by
| grounding out, second to first.
| A big crowd watched the two games.
| OF course 1t was a partisan aggrega-
| ton, though Richmond had few
| rooters on hand. However. despite
the desire of the vast majority of the
1900 or 1000 spectators for the WASH
| ingtonians to make a clean sweep OF
| the day, the excellent fielding OF the
Richmond team in the second game
was several times applauded gener-
! ously. The second double-header OF
| the series will be played in Richmond
| next Saturday. Scores: