Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
|NDEPENDENTSG|VE
[ GAME A BIG BOOST
Basketers and Gridmen Also
Experience Successful
Campaigns.
FEATURING the District indie
~ pendent athletic season now
i drawing to close was the
rAt,rn of base ball to it's

- pendent aCnIeLlC SedSoH IloW
" drawing to close was the
: return of base ball to its
former high pinnacle of popu-
iarity. Basket ball and foot ball
Z. campaigns also were highly sue
cessful.
Not since the days of the independent
series when the Knickerbocker, Dominl-
#, can Lyceum, Shamrock and Mohawk
teams furnished the fireworks on the
diamond has sandlot base ball SO
thrived. Interest in both organized ana
independent ball was high.
One of the most successful sandlot
= mines was the Pullman A. c., city series
and Terminal League champion. Pull
man for the second consecutive year
breezed through weekday league cham
pions without defeat. Pullman's out
standing player was Fee Colliere, stocky
catcher.
Naval Hospital won the Government
League title, Calvary brakes were SUI
preme in the Georgetown Church
League, D. c. Repair Shop triumphed
In the Departmental League, Tile Set
tiers we're victorious in the Industrial
League, and Capital Traction took the
pennant in the Morning Terminal
League.
Takoma Tigers, after bitter struggle,
won the Metropolitan area Capital City
MONTGOMERY County champions, emerged
uEadefeated in the play-off series, which
included Dixie Pigs, Bauserman Motor
Co. and Anacostia Eagles.
C. A. O'Briens Win Title.
C. A. O'Briens climaxed a thrilling
play-off series to win the Capital City
League senior title from the Olmsted
Grill nine. Acme Printers were victo-
.rious in the Junior section. Sam Vests
won the midget title. Spengler Post
swept to victory in the American Legion
series but was defeated in the flrstg anne
Of the regional play-oh at Hagerstown.
Northern Red Birds were outstanding
In District independent ranks. Going
through the season unbeaten by Dis
. trict foe, the Northerns numbered
among their victims such teams as the
French A. c., Washington Red Sox and
Silver Spring Giants.
Wonder Boys captured the pennant
In the French Insect League, while
|, Kings Palace won the championship OF
the Sport Mart Midget League.
Washington's champion Union Print
ers relinQuished their title at the Inter-
national Printers Tournament, losing
two games, one to Chicago and the
other to Cincinnati. 1t was their sec
ond defeat in eight years In the tourney.
,. In the indoor base ball leagues, con-
Quoted by the Boys Club, the Optimist
mines were champions In both the junior
and senior loops.
Calvin Hull held the police to three
hits as the hremen triumphed In the
annual police -firemen game by 10 to 2.
= Washington Railway & Electric Co. de-
feated Capital Traction in their annual
game, 9 to 3.
Fine Year for Basketers.
with several leagues furnishing fine
championship fights and q host Of
CUNTS Of worth playing outside Of loops,
basket ball had bang-up season.
District teams again participated in
n tournament at the end Of the cam
paign for A. A. U. honors. 1t was the
frst time that the District A. A. U. AS
ISOLATION conducted tournament. Pre-
viously the Washington competition had
been . part Of the South Atlantic divi-
sion.
winners in the tournament were:
Unlimited class, Montrose A. C.; las.
pound, Pratt Whirlwinds; l30-pound,
st. Johns Victors; 115-pound, Area
dams; 1O0-pound, Boys Club Opt
unists.
Woman victors were Chevy Chase in
the junior class and Eagles in the un-
limited group.
Because of the lateness Of the sea-
son Washington and Baltimore man
winners were unable to play a city
series.
skinker Eagles. who as the Anacos-
tia Eagles, have been supreme among
nuints for several seasons in this area,
were again Just about the class OF the
field. They won the Independent
League title and pointed the way to
many strong outfits.
Mt. Vernon M T., for the second
straight season, won the Sunday School
League nag. defeating Calvary Meth
odists In play-of.
Wolff Photographers were victors in
che Community Center League.
Champions in the various groups OF
The Boys Club League were: Unlimited,
walter Whirlwinds; 145-pound, Jewish
Community Center; l3o-pound, Wolf
Arcadians; 115-pound, Wolf Arcadians:
= 1oo-pound, Boys Club Optimists, and
e5-pound, Good Shepherd.
Headlining the independent track &C.
: kivities here was the annual national
A. A. U. 15-mile run held in Potomac
Park 1t was won by Bill Agee, Emory
wood A. c., Baltimore, who was the
= defending champion in the record
time Of one hour. % minutes and one
NTH Of q second Agee added to his
laurels here when he won the Takoma
Park Seven-mile run held July LOT
the second straight year, thereby
gaining a second leg on The Star cup.
!. Apaches Keep Grid Title.
Apaches retained their unlimited
class District sandlot foot ball title
defeating the Mohawks in the annual
classic, IL to g. Until last Sunday
Apaches had suffered only one defeat
that administered by the Irvingtons OF
Baltimore by 3 to o. St. Mary's Celtics
of Alexandria, however, defeated the
Little Indians last Sunday with line
up dotted with Marine stars, Is to O.
The Celtics previously had been
: beaten by the Apaches, 6 to 0.
Championship laurels In the Capital
. City League went to Mercurys in the
unlimited class and Centennials in
the 150-pound section.
In the Sport Mart League, Brook
land Boys Club tr:umphed in the
- 13S-pound section and Noel House In
. the 125-pound class.
= outside Of the teams mentioned
other sandlot foot ball elevens OF note
were Seaman Gunners and Northerns
All-Marines defeated the Coas'
Guard eleven in the annual President''
Cup game at Grifith Stadium before
President Hoover and other notables.