The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-28
7 Fam
UNDERRATED
IN SERIES
Southwest Club Beats Sham
rocks and Goes Ahead in
Fight for Championship.
By r. d. THOMAS.


Dominican Lyceum, valiantly
unfolding the honor of old south
west Washington on the sandlots,
perches on top of the pile in Sec
ton B Of the independent cham
pionship series.
The Shamrocks, struggling along
with the Mohawks to keep the big
title in Southeast, have taken a
dangerous fall. Dominican Ly-
ceum leaped upon the Harps be-
fore a big crowd at Union Park
and doused the Shamrocks rooters
with gloom. The score, 8 to 3,
was decisive.
Dominican Lyceum has been &C
cused of weakness at bat. When the
dope hounds start work on predic-
tons, many overlook Dominican Ly.
ceum in the championship race.
They point to the batting prowess of
the Dominicans' rivals.
Dominican Lyceum may not have
the strongest batting team on the
sandlots. But the Southwest team
has few If any peers in the field.
The DoninicanS it is believed, lead
the town in double plays. Looking
over the number of games won and
lost through errors in the city series
it would appear that Dominican Ly-
ceum's fie1'ing skill more than off
sets any weakness it may have with
the fail.
For the DOminicans have won
four games and lost only one I'm
kTn nj Al
cut off many q run. The DOmini-
cans have excellent pitching, with
Mcconnell as the main dependable.
The team is well managed. 1t has
spirit, and a big backing among
the fans.
Everything considered, Dominican
Lyceum is due more consideration
from the people who believe they will
be beaten out in the Section B race.
The champion Mohawks are now
half game behind the DominitNrs
and the Shamrocks are half game
to the Mohawks' rear. Unless Boil
ing Field cuts loose, 1t appears that
the Section B race will continue tn
be among the Dominicans, Mohawks
and Shamrocks. Brookland and
Park View are we'll behind.
Chalk up another tie for the
Printers. They were even, 3-3,
with the Legion at the end of six
innings. Simons pitched fine ball
for the typos, but Ed Lowry, de-
pendable Ed himself, dropped fly
ball in the first inning and allow
ed the Legionnnaires to score their
three runs.
This makes three tie games for
L. DIT, t., Tk
the second for the Legion. The other
day Petworth held the smuggling ex-
Yanks even.
The Warwick Juniors have
more than earned a blowout"
promised them by parents of the
teams members. The youngsters
parents agreed to set them to
feed if they won five straight
games in the series. The War
Wicks have now won six in
row, the WintOn team being the
last victim, 10 to 2. This puts the
WarWickS in the van in Section A
of the Junior class.
Beware the O'Donnells in Section
c, unlimited class!
After dropping five games, they
have come back and copied two
in row, by decisive scores. The
st. Joseph team. considered a con-
tender for the Section c title. took
severe Wallop from the O'Don-
nell's II to 8.
O'Brien, O'Donnells' pitcher. bat
ted first in the lineup. a strange
place for a moundsman. He did
his share as a sticker, getting hit
and scoring two runs.
The Shamrock juniors declared
with out reservations they would
trim the crack Epiphany team the
next time they met. It was after
the Epiphanys had slammed the
little Harps. True enough, the
juniors came back and
lambasted the enemy, IL to /. Bud
Cline yielded the Epiphany hitters
two bingles in seven frames.
The Warwick Props are improv-
ing. They were beaten % to 6 by
the Tremonts. The average num-
Der of runs scored against the War
wick Props up to yesterdays game
was twenty-five. And they scored
six runs themselves.