Evening star., 1930-06-28

- job outside of the umpire'S and
the managers, is that of the
sandlot catcher.
The tickle fans will laud a pitcher
when he is going good and vice versa
when batters begin finding his slants.
They will cheer the fielders when a
good pickup or catch is made and
ieer when he does otherwise, but un-
less a catcher does something far out
of the ordinary he is usually taken
for granted. But let him allow a pitch
to go by and runner, score or even
advance a base-then down comes the
abuse.
catcher takes plenty of punishment,
but there is probably no player who
plays more important part in teams
success.
Take, for instance. washington Termi-
nails bang-up catcher, Charlie Dof-
flemer. While pitchers and f1elders have
been receiving the plaudits of the
Park, Doff1emer, unheeded has been
playing brand of ball that is par
excellence.
Terminal may or may not win the
Second-half pennant of the "Y" League,
but it won't be Dofflemer's fault if the
End-pointers don't come through. In
ming after inning. game after game
Charlie is in there holding down the
pitchers, keeping the team on its toes,
and banging out base hits on an aver
age of slightly more than one every
other time he bats.
II there was most valuable player"
award III the Terminal "Y" League, you
can bet that the name of Doff1emer
would be quickly mentioned by the
committee. The batting averages for
the first half of the league show that
Dottiemer is leading the parade with an
average of .5l9. And there are few
more skill or hold the base runners
closer to the sacks that Charlie
Dofflemer has played quite bit of
base ball in his days and, like. Tots
Long, veteran Northern A. c.. third
baseman, he has played in the Inter-
national League, being former mem
ber of the Montreal club. In 1923 he
played a leading role in the success of
the Shenandoah Shop team, which won
the Shenandoah Valley League pennant
that season.
CPEAKING of catchers, there is a
~ crop now playing on the sandlotS
that is undoubtedly as good as
ever performed hereabout. There is Fee
Colliere, Hanson Fitzgerald, Dykes
DeSper, Russell Kidwell and Bill Jen-
kinS among host of other topnotchers.
NHEN Grace Episcopal nosed out
w Vermont Avenue Christian yester-
day, to 6, matters in the George
town Church League became only more
complicated, for this victory put Grace
in a tie with West Washington Baptist
for the first-half honors.
This tie means nothing less than a
play-of series, with the team winning
two out of three games being the cham
pion. The Sunday School League, which
is already more than week behind
the other weekday loops, will be still
farther behind next week, for the
championship series is scheduled to be-
gin Monday.
TWO choice bits of sandlot base ball
l. are offered sandlot fans tomorrow
in the form of brace of Independent
League double bills. The local attrac-
tion will be at Silver Spring when
Brooke Grubb's Silver Spring Giants
face the Union Printers.
Alexandria fandom is expected to
turn out in full force to watch the St.
Mary's Celtics and the French A. c. do
battle.
Johnny GOETZ, whom old time sand
] lot fans may remember as one of
the fastest players ever to perform
in the District came in from the out