Evening star., 1926-09-20

WIN III as many starts III the series.
Auths, title holders in section c, 2
McCarty and Phipps, hurting for
knicks. held their opponents to seven
hits. while harrington performed in
good style on the mound for the losers,
but received unsteady support. Three
runs in the second insured victory
for the Georgetown lads.
Garnering a triple, double and
single in four tries, Buck" Jenkins
was the big gun in the Knicks' often
sive. while Bill .Werber got a pair
of singles. SOS" Collier and Naples
for the Saints each got a couple one
basers.
Scintillating work of Ortell and
Micro. rival shortstops, were defen-
sive features. Each got eight assists
and a putout, and handled many diff
ticult chances.
Gutenberg for Rialtos and Taylor
for Auths furnished one of the best
mound duels this season in local
sandot ranks, the big RialtO finger
yielding but four bingles. two of them
scratches, and the dimnutive Auth
moundsman giving up but six.
For five innings neither scored. The
victors counted their first tally in the
sixth and their final in the eighth.
The game produced not a single extra
base hit
Gilt-edge fielding exhibitions were
flashed 6y b%th mines.
With JACK MattingIy crashing a
triple AID a pair of singles in four
trips to the plate and Charles help
ing himself to trio of one-base
knock3 in four efforts, Shamrock
pastiriers made free, especially in the
early going, with the slants of Ray
Catlin, star hurler of the strong
EastpOrt, Md, team, and the Wash
ingtOnianS repelled an invasion by
the Marylanders, to 2, yesterday, at
American League Park. 1t was the
deciding game of a three-contest
series.
Lefty" kuhnert, Harps' sterling
moundsman, held the visitors to nine
hits and excepting for the ninth when
they counted their two runs, blanked
them.
A smart exhibition afield was flashed
by Shamrocks, featured by four
double-killings and spectacular play
by Haas. first sacker who tore in to
snag fuckers attempted sacrifice and
double Churchill off first on a quick
throw to Moran.
Although he was last in the batting
order, Churchill, Eastport rightflelder,
collected a trio of singles in four ap.
pearances at the tee.
Cabin John base ballers divided a
double-header yesterday with Wash
ington mines on the Marylanders' field,
falling before National Circles, 6 to 8,
| in the opener, but triumphing over
Red Sox in the final, 5 to 8. r. Waple.
| for National Circles, held Cabin John
to six hits. Haig Of the winners got
three hits in four attempts.
Cage for Cabin John and Wheeler
for Red SoX both gave strong mound
exhibitions in the nightcap, the former
holding his opponents scoreless until
| the ninth, when they showed across
their three runs.
Dixie hospitality means nothing to
Alexandria Dreadnaughts, as they
| handed Chevy Chase diamond athletes
of Washington, their guests yester-
day, an 11-to-1 pasting. The visitors
were able to get but three hits off
Laycock, whose mates combed Chevy
Chase hillmen for 10. Long got a
homer for Dreadnaughts. Tribby got
| two of Chevy Chase's hits, one a
double.
In a keen struggle Knights of the
ku kluX Klan yesterday overcame
| the Junior Order of United American
Mechanics nine of Ballston at Airing.
ton Horse Show grounds.
Shriver, pitching for SOutherns yes
terday, limited Kroydon batsmen to
four hits as his team easily won a
9-to-1 f1ve-inning game. F. Tonker,
Southern center fielder, smacked three
two -baggers in as many times at bat.
! Peerless ball tOSsers took Robins
into camp in a junior engagement
Yesterday, 5 to 2. The victors hoped
to the van in the fifth inning, when
! they scored three runs to take the
| lead and were never headed. Both NJ.
! Knorr for Robins and A. Geiger for
Peerless Juniors pitched cleverly.