The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
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Pop Kremb, chief of the Liberty
Club, parades q smile because his
youngsters are playing fine ball.
But under Pops vest there is an
ache that tempers the smile with
a touch of insincerity, for some
of the youngsters who make up
his star team may not be with
him throughout the campaign.
Several of Liberty's players are
over the junior age limit, which
disqualifies the team as whole
for the junior class of the in
dependent championship series.
hberty's logical place in the
series is the junior class, so Pop
must give up several of his
strongest players or enter the
senior division. In the older class
his boys would have little show
for a title.
To keep the team out of the
big series would diSappOint most
of it's players. To drop those who
are ineligible would be like stick
ing a knife into Pops gizzard
for every one dropped.
Pop Kremb might solve the prob.
lem by organizing another team
built around his senior-aged players
and try for championships in both
the junior and senior classes. Holy
Name did it in 1922 and scored a
doubleheader title victory.
Moreover, the players who made
up the champion Holy Name teams
are primed to duplicate the 1892
stunt, competing this time as the
Waverly Club.
Over in southeast Washington
those fans not pulling for the
champion MOhawks believe the
ShamrOcks have the winner of
the coming title series, in the ull-
limited class.
In the southwest section, Mercury
has won a host of fans in short
time. Mercury's neighbor, Domini-
can Lyceum, refuses to relinquish
one iota of it's claim to supremacy
on the south side of the avenue,
and is piling up string of victories.
AS it did in football, where Mer-
curry reigns as king, the Winged
Foot has done much already to de-
velop interest in the fight for un-
limited class honors.
Mercury trimmed the crack
Union Printers recently. In 1922
Mercury was soft for the typos.
With Emil Pfeil, its pitcher and
field manager showing lots of
class on the mound, Mercury held
the Silver Spring semi-prOs to a
2-2 tie Sunday. That was a
.I,sI
sandlOt team.
Previously the Shamrocks had
given Silver Spring a stiff battle
and lost by the skinny margin of
s to 5. Which indicates that Mer-
curry and the ShamroCks should be
anything but easy pickings for each
other.
Along came the new American
Legion team, about which much
may be heard this summer, and
knocked off Mercury. Then the
Shamrocks rose up and crowned the
American Legion.
A quick look over the field re-
veaIs the champion. MOhaWl<s,
American Legion, Dominican
Lyceum, Union Printers, Sham
rocks and Mercury as formidable
foes for any club with champion
ship aspirations. Several others
are showing promise. The Hilltop
looks good, for one, the GarfieldS
for another.
Next Sunday will come perhans
the first momentous clash OF tho
season. Shamrock will meet
Mercury. The battle-ground Is at
Seventeenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast. where the
Shamrocks hold forth.
Wee Willie Glascoe. business
manager of the Big Green, groans
when he thinks of having to play
the game on an open field. In "a
closed park 1t would make the en-
penses of both teams for q whole
season.