The Washington times., 1931-05-26
ESLEAGUE
KEEPS OLD
FLASH


Six more games swelled the
weekend total contests of the
Washington Times Junior Baseball
League to SO, despite the cold
weather, wet grounds and a few
other things which made even
baseball less attractive since
Friday.
OF course, for one thing, the
boys all over the Washington ter
ritory (and a lot of men who
haven't been boys for many years.
are keeping tab on what the big
leagues are doing, and no matter
how cold the day, the boys think
baseball even if they have to post
pone a few games.
Football seems to have dis
placed baseball almost entirely at
the prep schools and colleges.
Just why, youngsters who alb
sorbed baseball lore with their
first bottled milk, can't figure
out. But, anyhow. in and around
Washington, sandlot baseball by
boys teams-from which the big
leagues will get new material
later-never has lost out and
never will. The Times Junior
Baseball League proves that.
In addition to the box scores
published yesterday in The
Times, there are several more
interesting box scores to take
= note Of.
The Kennedy nine, for instance,
ran up a 13-to-0 score against the
Iowa boys that was far from an
"unlucky" 13. Bunch, the Ken
nedy twirler, struck out six bat
ters, and that helped. Eddie Wills
was umpire. and he didn't need
to toss a coin to pick the winning
team. When the Iowa lads get
their second wind, they're going
after a big win of their own, they
say.
COlOnials Score, Too
The Colonials romped away
with nearly as big a score, when
they left the Hawks in the lurch
by the tune of 90. The Hawks
somehow couldn't get their wings
limbered up to fly very high, and
the Colonial gentlemen just got
started to win and couldn't stop
Battista, on the mound for the
Colonials, famed seven of the
enemy, but then Boteler, of the
Hawks, struck out four Colonials
SO that wasn't as one-sided as
the score.
Battista and Sheehan of the
COlOnialS and Sayer of the
Hawks whaled the old apple
for twO-base hits, helping things
along considerably. 1t was a
good game.
The Crandall Aces had enough
UP their sleeves to win over the
Maryland sluggers by S-5. This
game was tight enough to be in
teresting, all right. Simpson, of
the Crandalls, and Norm, of the
Marylands, shook a mean ash and
leveled the pill out for tWo-base
journeys, and this nine-inning
battle made something to write
= home about.
Anyhow, the Crandalls had to
use two pitchers, Pistoles and
Simpson, to win, and PiStoles
Shoots mean ball himself.
TwO-BaSe Hit
When the Shells and the Vik-
ings got to locking horns, they
also made things hum. Strip
ling, backstop for the Shells,
strung out two-baser that made
them sit up to take notice, and
before the afternoons smoke had
all cleared away, the Shells had
won by 7-5.
w ashingt ton, tough-armed
twirler for the Shells, made seven
of the foes fan air and nothing
else, while Boggs, on the slab for
the Vikings, also famed a man.
This was only a five-round fight,
but it was fast enough while it
lasted. The Vikings got a run
in the first frame and in the Sec
ond they got wild and annexed
four just to show what they could
do, then took a rest.
When the COIumbians and
the Park Lane gladiatOrs got
together, the COIumbianS rang
the bell seven times against
four times for Park Lane in
the seven-inning fray, with Sui
Ivan, of the Columbian left
garden, tapping the hOrSehide
out for three-sack excursion.
That was a wallop The Park
Lane boys had the Columbians
worried, however, in the fourth
frame, when four Park Laners
crossed home plate in short
order That was their only chance
to score, however, and the Co
lumbians kept their 5-4 lead to
the seventh when they clinched
their win with two more.
Feeling Their Rice
The Sam Rice boys we're feel.
ing their oats-or rice-or some
thing, when they pulled the tail
of the Wolverines, 12-3, in six
innings. The Wolverines barked
once in the first and twice in
the fourth inning, but otherwise
they just grunted for blanks.