The Washington herald., 1922-07-23

HERzOG TO BRING ARMY Stars
HERE TO PLAY NATIONALS.
DUCK HERzoG. former Giant,
- Cincinnati and Braves third
sacker. who is now guiding the
baseball destinies of the Third
Corps Army Area, plans to bring
his diamond selections to washing
ton along about the latter part Of
September or the first week in Oc-
tober for series Of games with the
Nationals.
Herzog will take Is men, the pick
Of the Southern and Northern Dr.
visions of the Area. Including six
men from the Fort Monroe nine,
winners of the Southern section
championship. and the rest OF the
contingent which will be picked
from the Maryland Army league
teams. Of which Camp Holabird and
Camp Meade are deadlocked for
first place. to Fsrt Howard.
Once established at Fort How
ard. these players will undergo a
months intensive training under
the personal supervision Of Herzog.
preliminary to playing a series OF
September and October games with
rather formidable opponents, tenta-
tive arrangements have already been
made for games with the Nationals.
Orioles. Philadelphia Nationals and
Yankees, In addition to the final
contest of the year with the Guam
tico Marines.
ANOTHER BARRAGE ON
ID. c. NET SITUATION.
July 81. 1892.
Keen Gauger:
In this mornings Herald, L. i. d
takes exception to some OF the
statements made in my letter Of the
18th instant.
1t was Keen Gauger's" state
ment. made in an earlier issue, TO
the effect that the matches in the
recent tournament were pink teas"
compared with some of the old
time matches in which Connie Doyle
played. that provoked my letter.
My own opinion coincided fully with
that expressed by Keen Gauger.-
However. / did not intend to re-
fleet on the general developmert
of the game in the District of Co
lumbia. ! agree with L. !. D. that
there are many more boys and
young men playing the game in
Washington today than ever before
and that there are a correspondence
ly larger number of good players.
Ny point was. that we have NJ
outstanding player at this time:
none who could hope to advance be-
yond the second round of a national
championship tournament. except as
the result Of an accident. Il may
be true that this condition is an
advantage and conductive to I
greater development of the game
The writer is not prepared 10 argue
the point.
insist. however. that the con-
dition exists. and that most of the
final matches of the District Of Co.
lumbia championship tournaments
in recent years have been lacking in
interest to the spectator because OF
this condition. ] am writing from
the standpoint OF the ordinary spec
tator rather than that of a con-
noisseur.
Take the doubles situation,
for instance. where IL there
. team In these parts that mp
proaches Connie Doyle and U.
r. Doyle, runners up To Little
and Touch rd for the National
Doubles Championship of Is1If
L. !. d. asks what players of the
old NJ Street Bachelor Club could
have stood up under the service and
drives of any of a number Of the
young players Of the present day?
Probably only a few. but In my
opinion. the top-notchers of that
day would have held their own WITH
the boys named. These boys are,
however. a promising lot of young
players and who knows but what
there is among them a future
champion.