Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
DIAMOND AND GRID
VIE AT ALEXANDRIA
Five Base Ball and Two Foot
Ball Games on Card
Tomorrow.
LExANDRIA. Va, September a.


~ Base ball and the gridiron
II sport will struggle hand in hand
for the favor of Northern Vir-
ginia fandom tomorrow afternoon with
five diamond contests and two foot ball
battles scheduled to be enacted before
sport followers of Alexandria and the
nearby vicinity.
A number of independent foot ball
combinations of this area not listed for
actual competition are to be called out.
for practice sessions tomorrow raorht5E
in preparation for the opening gates
of their schedules within the ensuing
two weeks.
CT. MARY'S CELTICS and the North
- ern Red Birds of Washington will
furnish the high spot of the days pro-
gram when they clash in Baggett's Park
here at 3 o'clock in their second Dis
trict independent championship series
meeting.
The Northerns, leaders in the titular
race, can clinch the pennant by winning
tomorrow, while the Celtics may dead
lock the race and necessitate a third
game to settle the controversy over the
championship by capturing tomorrow's
battle.
The Red Birds will face the most ef-
fective pitcher they have been called
upon to duel this year in their former
teammate, Lefty McIntire, who has been
hurting in sensational fashion since
Joining the Green and Gold two months
ago. He previously had shut out the
Celtics. to 0, for the Northerns in the
first series tilt.
A LPHA DELTA OMEGA FRATER-
n NIFTY GRIDMEN will entertain the
Fort Myer Post Team tomorrow after
noon at 2:30 o'clock on Eppa Hunton
Field in one of the two foot ball con-
tests listed to open the Independent
gridiron season in this sector.
The fraternity eleven, a 150-pound
combination composed almost entirely
of former Alexandria High School
players, will present a crack backfield In
"Shorty" Scrivener. quarterback Elicit
Cabell and Rector Green, halfbacks, and
Russell Sutton, fullback.
THE Del Ray Red Birds also will
i make their foot ball debut tomorrow.
clashing with the Government Printing
Office Federals of Washington. at
O'Clock on Edward Duncan Field in a
contest that rivals the Alpha Delta
Omega-Fort Myer battle in attractive
ness.
The second game Of the series being
staged by the Columbia Engine Cons
pany, amateur unlimited base ball
kI.sr off IINITN n
Spring A. c.. contenders for the crown,
will be waged on Richard Hayden Field
at 3 O'Clock. Columbia tossers won the
first decision.
A twin bill is listed for followers of
the Bauserman Motor Co. nine OF
Arlington, which will engage the Vir-
ginia Ouicksteps in both ends OF the
double header scheduled for o'clock
on Arlington Field.
The games are to be played as bene-
1T for Calvin Hull, a member of the
team for the past four seasons, and the
proceeds will he turned over to the
Farmer Hull will pitch the first
game.
Bobbie Dove will go to the firing line
for the Virginia White Sox nine to-
morrow when that club closes its sea-
son in contest with the Saks Clothiers
of washington at pm. on the Baileys
Cross Roads diamond.
ST. Mary's Celtics foot ball per-
formers will go through another workout
tomorrow morning at 1890 o'clock in
Baggetts Park with Head Coach "Ruhe"
Hayman and his assistants. Dick Allen
and Bud Budnick, in charge.
MO. 5 ENGINE COMPANY. which
IN has signed Harlow. Foltz, Langley,
Fields, w. II. Struder, Proctor,
Merriman. Cfupper, Perry, Harrison, V.
ID. Edwards. Aylor, Brill, Potter. Har-
rington and Baber for its l50-pound
eleven, will drill tomorrow at 1890
o'clock on Hayden Field.
Manager Cleveland Shaw. whose tele-
phone is Alexandria Bill, is searching
for an opening game for october 5.
Three Virginia A. C. combination
midgetS and juniors-will
workout on Shipyard Field tomorrow
at 1890 o'clock. The Iro-
ouois A. G. will drill at 10 am. on Hay
don Field also.
Wilbur Wright, Hyattsville youth who
starred for the ST. Mary's Celtics in
basket ball last Winter. is lost to the
Saints" He has enrolled at the Uni
versity of Maryland and will strive for
place on the foot ball and basket ball
teams.
The ewly-organized Alcova Motor
Co. team, of which Charley Deuterman
is manager, will practice tomorrow
at 10 O'Clock on Arlington
Field Chewing, McAtee, Tudor Schef-
fle. Jefferies Floyd. Goldhlatt. Pounds.
Henson, Rudd, Floyd. Jennings and
Pierre are asked to report.