The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-02
SEk THIRD
STRAIGHT
TITLE
Display Generous Spirit BY
Paying for Trip Of In
eligible Terminate
By R. D. THOMAS.

washington champion Union
Printers are in Chicago today
ready to defend the typos inter-
national baseball title and with
them is an ineligible player.
Sounds like the windup for q
nasty knock, but it is not.
Quite the contrary, in truth, for
II Is through the splendid sports
( Inanship characteristic Of the
Printers that the ineligible per-
former, Pitcher Lefty Pound, is
along.
The young southpaw Ii the only
member Of the team who is not g.
printer, which accounts for his in
eligibility in the Chicago tourna.
ment, in which thirteen cities Of
the United States and Canada will
compete.
But in league and independent
games here, Pounds status has
been right and so has his work. He
has done one mans full share in
making the Union Printers record
Of twetny.seven games won and
three lost.
So when Manager Henry Webb,
may his fame Increase, and Com
missioner Edgar r. Brown, same,
rot together on the list Of players
Chicago bound, they included
Lefty Pound, even though the
rules would not permit Of his ex.
penses being paid by the Typo.
graphical Unions athletic assO-
citation. His expenses viii be
$96.8l,l figured closely.
Sheckels have come few at a
time and infreQuently to the
Printers this season for games
played on Washington sandlots, but
comparatively speaking they struck
e wealthy in two out-of-town games.
They collected guarantees from the
Dreadnoughts at Alexandria and
the White Sox at Fredericksburg,
Va, both of which teams they lost
to, incidentally.
And these simoleons, taken Vir-
tually from the ballplayers' pockets,
for they would have gone toward
the joy fund of the players at
Chicago, viii pay for Lefty's trip,
Just one more example Of the
spirit that has made the typos
club one OF the most admired on
Washington sandlots.
The Washington team Is trying
for its third consecutive triumph
IN the international tournament.
In which are playing teams rep
fesenting the Union Printers 0f
Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati. CIeve.
land, Detroit, Indianapolis, New
York, Philadelphia, st. Louis, st.
Paul, Washington, Hamilton, and
Toronto. the last two Canadian
cities.
Should Washington win this wear
and next. 1t would gain permanent
Possession Of the Garry Hermann
trophy, one Of the largest base.
ball trophies IN competition.
Three straight championships
would lit the prize. In the event
no team achieves this record, the
trophy win remain in competition
twelve years and will go to the club
winning the greatest number OF
tournaments. Play for the first
Garry Hermann silverwate ended
In 1922, the Washington Printers
getting one leg en- It.
Reports from Chicago say the
Windy City printers and others
interested In sports have prepared
TO put over the annual event with
q crash. IL has grown steadily
until today IL Is perhaps the most /
pretentiOus event Of its kind
held yearly.
The program calls for a varied
and lengthy program Of entertain.
ment. Webb will lead his gang
home next Sunday. i
It has been most successful
season so far Tor the washington
Printers. They won the Depart.
mental League pennant without
meeting a defANt and caused the
league to break up long before the
schedule was completed. They are
conceded generally to be the most
likely winners Of the Potomac
League flag.
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