Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-19
HIGH SCHOOL TITLE
WON BY TECH NINE
Manual Trainers Go Through
Season Without Defeat.
PfeiI Fans rs.
BY II. c. BYRD.

High school championship honors
so to Tech as result of its victory.
) to .. yesterday in the final game
with Central. The Manual Trainers
finish the schedule with four vic
tories and without a defeat charged
, against them: Western ends the sea
son in second place, with three and
one as its record. and Central is
third with an even break, two and
two.
Central scored l run in each of the
first two innings. and held the 2-to-0
lead until the sixth. when Tech tied
up the count. In the seventh Tech
Cleaned up the trench" by showing
three men across the plate on some
hard clouting. A home run by Pa
Wardwell and a passed ball proved
the undoing of the Blue and White.
Page of Tech got four hits out
of four times at bat Dasher of Gen.
trail made two out of four trips to
the plate. These were the only play
ers to hit for more than one safety.
Grubb played good ball at short for
Tech and Dasher held down the same
job mighty well for Central.
trail for the excellent work he has
done back of the bat after being
taken off second and placed in that
position. Cullen had never been a
catcher and probably never expected
to be. but. to judge by the improve
ment he has shown since taking up
his burden. he stands a fair chance
to make a really competent backstop.
Hutchinson, besides being the best
pitcher in the school series. probably
fields his position better than any
other player. The Tech man did not
'look good" in the first two innings
o AT q l.
able.
Marines beat Quadrangle yesterday
in the Navy Yard League. by 6 to 5.
Hoster and Bells holding the losers
to six hits. The Marines hit the ball
hard, totaling thirteen safeties. Hef-
ferman. who played short, and Tur-
FER. left fielder, led in the batting
with three hits each.
Emil Pfeil created what undoubted lily
is an amateur strikeout record for the
District yesterday, in the Department.
al League, when pitching for War Risk
against Company c. he famed twen-
ty-five men out of the tWenty-seven
put-outs. The one hit made by the
Company c men was due to the fail
ure of Hurd and Degnan to decide,
until it was too late, which ought to
field bunt. With all due credit to
Pfeil. though. it was not so much
wonderful pitching by him which was
responsible for the remarkable strike
outs, but rather the inability of the
Company c players to hit the ball.
BY the way they swung, one would
think it would be useles even for their
mothers to send them out to beat
blankets. War Risk got nineteen
runs and fourteen hits, scoring at
least once in every inning. but the
fifth. Degnan and Watt led in the
batting, each connecting for three
bingles.
Bureau got a fine jolt yesterday in
the Government League, losing to
Printers by l to 0. The Typesetters
got their count in the first inning
and after that neither team could get
man across the plate. Webb pitched
good ball and came through in the
pinches with some real twirling. The
printers victory was all the more
CALLING to the bureau nine because
they got only one hit against seven
for Bureau. McDonough's fine pitch
ing went for nothing, Printers were
unable to connect with his delivery at
any time. Mike Moran and Joe
Giebel were the batting stars, each
making two safeties: one of Joe s
wallops went for three bases. Merkle
fielded we'll at short for the winners