The Washington times., 1920-08-22
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Pick of 900 Players Striving
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This Week.
BY BRYAN MORSE.


series in history will be in full swing
this week, An independent schedule
with eighteen teams playing is in
> progress. Another series of games
with four league teams is battling at
/, the Union Station. Still another
. series with three teams of league
players gets action in mid-week.
Tomorrow the juniors open. their
down and out" games on the Monu-
ment lot. In point of numbers all rec
lords have been broken. 1t is. esti-
lmated that more than nine hundred
players are being drawn upon for
the series. In no other year in sand
lot baseball in the District has the
post season series been such an ex-
tensive affair.
1t required but a word of en-
couragement from The Washingt ton
Times two weeks ago to get the
teams going. Eighteen Independent
teams met, agreed upon a playing
neld, selected umpires and arranged
q schedule, The games were started
last Monday and have been unusually
attractive,
The league interests drawn from
the Government. Departmental, War
Interbureau. and Terminal Railroad Y.
NJ. c. A. also arranged their series.
REPRESENTATIVES from the Knights of
Columbus. Navy Yard and Potomac
League. whose schedules would not
allow them to compete with the four
others, arranged a three-cornered Sc
ries which starts Thursday.
In addition to all of these teams
the juniors, twelve in number, met,
arranged for umpires, a playing field
on the Monument lot, and schedule
and will start tomorrow.
In all there are representatives. of
seven leagues, eighteen senior and
twelve junior teams, thirty seven
teams in all, with about 900 players.
Here are the games for the week
in the independent series, with umpirs
assignments: August 23-R. p. An
drews Co. VS.. Brookland A. c., Hughes.
August 24-Corinthian A. c. VS.. Sham
rock A. c., Jaesche. August %
Rapid A. G. VS.. Linworth A. G.,
Hughes. August 26-Gibraltar A. c.
VS.. Congressional A. c., Woodward.
August 27-G. p. o. VS.. winner of
nes-Metropolitan A. c. game,
Woodward. August 2S-Peerless A.
c. VS.. winner of Gibraltar A. Coon
gressional A. c. game, Cro9ke.
Here are the games for the week.
with umpire assignments. in the
Union Station league series: August
23-Terminal VS.. Departmental, Doyle
and Woodward. August 24-Govern-
ment VS.. War Department, Hughes
and Woodward. August 25-War De-
partment vs. Departmental Wood
ward and Doyle. August 2G-Govern-
ment VS. Terminal, Crooke .and Nau.
rf m a
ment. Doyle and Nau. August 2S-
Departmental VS.. Terminal, Jaesche
and Doyle.
The second league series starts
August 26 II the three teams are
ready by that time. Navy Yard,
knights of Columbus and Potomac
league pennant winners are to be
hooked up in a series. The last named
team is the home team and the games
will be played on the home teams
grounds.
The schedule. with umpires and
grounds for same, is as follows:
August 26-Navy Yard VS. Potomac,
at Congress Heights, Long and
Jaesche. August 27--K. of C. VS.. Navy
Yard. at Navy Yard, Crooke and
Jaesche. August 2SEPotomac vs.. X.
of c., at. Catholic University, Wood
ward and Nau.
The junior section. opens up on the
Monument Lot tomorrow.
The following is the schedule for
the first weeks play in the series:
August %. Cavaliers VS.. Renrocs;
August "a. Hillstops VS.. New Havens;
August 25, Petworth VS.. Auditors;
August 26. Arrows VS.. Parks; August
27, Rolands VS.. Yankees; August %,
Maryland Juniors VS.. Eastern.
The home team is named first. If
p game cannot be played on account
of wet grounds, the two teams sched-
uled will play the day following. the
schedule being set forward in each
instance. Any team scheduled to play
and not having a team on the field
thirty minutes after BIS will forfeit
Walter Beall, late OF Norfolk.
..pitching for the Metropolitan A. c.
team, won a 2 to 1 game from the Ma
rines yesterday at Union Park in the
independent series. The Nets had 1T
.in for the Marines, and encountering
Singleton, staged the best battle of
their career. ..v.. ...
BealI, for the Nets, allowed two
hits, famed ten, and hit two batters.
He was we'll supported. Singleton al
lowed the Nets seven hits and famed
twelve, but could not win out.
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In the league. series at Union sta
tion the Shops nine found the War
1nterbureau representatives a tough
proposition after the first inning.
Neidfelt of the A. G. o. Main Build
ing team, was wobbly in the opener,
and the shops men piled up six runs.
with Roche pitching for the War men
II was different matter, and Shops
players were lucG to get one run
later on. shops won by to 0, chiefly
because Sam Brown. the slim left
handler, allowed four hits, two very
scratchy, famed thirteen, and walked
none, although he hit two batters.
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