The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-11

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baseball discussion, and has served
to keep alive and intensity the
rivalry between the Roamer and
Waverly players, though numerous
new faces have appeared in their
lneups.
All through the winter when base
ball interest was at low ebb, the
Roamer and Waverly players ar
gued that home plate decision and
the Roamers looked forward to the
day when Waverly again would be
encountered in the championship
series. Waverly awaited it.
The day is here.
Two more sl1iIIful young teams
never played bali on WashingtOn's
sandlOts than the Holy Name and
ROamer teams of last year. Well
coached, balanced, hard-hitting and
/. fleet of foot were the players OF
both and they ran off fielding
plays with the ease and grace of
veteran diamond stars.
Though Waverly and Roar1er
have lost some of the youths who
formed their crack teams in 1922,
they are the same Waverly and
Roamer teams of old in spirit. To-
days game is one of the most in
teresting to be played in the sand
lot series; one of the most talked
about; a game looked forward to
for nearly year.
And perhaps not the least in
teresting feature of the Union Park
attraction will be The Washington
Times and The Washington Herald
newsboy band, composed of shavers
about large enough for the midget
class of ball series.
Little boys with big horns, some
of them, but their music has won
hearty praise wherever they have
appeared and the young musicians
are crowded with engagements.
When Arthur A. Gerish, in
charge of the band. announced
the Waverly ROamer booking,
every lad in the band. it seemed,
put more ambition in his prac.
tiee. Eyes frightened. The kids
are sandlOt bugs and the Waverly-
ROamer game sounded like rare
treat.
The game at Union Park is
pretty much a northeast event, the
rivals holding forth in the same
territory. There will be a flood
OF fans to Lawrence Phillips new
park. but not every fan in town
IL bent upon seeing this contest.
There is another, to take place att
Washington Barracks. that appeals
to many and especially those par
ticularly interested in the struggle
for the unlimited class champion
ship. The Garfields and Union
Printers will clash at the barracks.
The Garfields have won two
games in the series and the Printers
have played one tie. The GarfieIds
have made the best showing of the
unlimited class teams and should
they stop the crack Printers team
will become the outstanding fav-
orites to win honors in Section A.
where are the Printers. American
Legion, w. f. Roberts, Mercury.
Petworth and Junior Order.
Mercury and Junior Order fell
before the Garfield attack by de-
cisive scores. Junior Order pre-
viously had held the Printers to
1-to-1 tie.
SandlOt fans regard the Gar.
fields and Printers as two of the
strongest. Notwithstanding base
ball machines i'm the series. The
friction that lessons the effective.
ness Of many ball teams is miss
ing In Garfield and Printer COM
Dinatlons. They play heady.
clean baseball.
Pete Haley, of the Garfields, and
Heinie Webb of the Printers, direct
tnelr teams with a knowledge born
and both are thoroughly resnected
on the sandIots as stratepists
They will enter the game AT full