The Washington times., 1931-08-21
PLAYER
To RECEIVE
SERIES TRIP

With The Times Junior Base
ball Leagues schedule nearing its
close work Of selecting the best
ball player will get under way
next week, with indication that
no decision will be made until
after the inter-city series with
Baltimore.
The best ball player, as an
nounced at the beginning of the
season, will go to the first two
games of the World Series as
guest of The Washington Times.
That has been the coveted
goal of every player since the
league began, and the decision
is going to be a hard one for
the judges, who comprise the
umpires, the league director and
the sporting editor of The Times.
$500 Boys Played
More than 1900 boys of Wash.
ington and nearby Virginia and
Maryland have participated in
the games played in the league
and from this large group 1t
is clearly evident that it IS going
to be a difficult matter to Sc
lect just one youth.
The Times League schedule
comes to an end tomorrow, hut
there still remains the Midget
elimination series, the finals in
three classes and the inter-city
series. During that period
some youth may rise to heights
which will bring him head and
shoulders over the other CEN
tenders for the coveted trip.
In the first of the Midget
elimination games, Spengler Post,
representative of Washington in
the Legion championship play.
will tackle the Wonder Bread
nine tomorrow afternoon at /
o'clock on the West Ellipse. At
the same time Burroughs and ST.
Paul will be battling to decide
the winner of the third Midget
division. The winner of the Bur-
roughs-St. Paul game will meet
both the Spenglers and Wonders
and the two teams with the best
records will clash at Griffith
Stadium ON next Thursday in the
first game of the Midget finals.
On Sunday the Clarendon and
PontiacS, winners of their re-
spective divisions of the junior
midget class, will meet in the
first game of the finals of that
section. The game probably will
be played at Clarendon on the
Westinghouse diamond at 3
o'clock. The second game, and
the third, if necessary, will be
played at Griffith Stadium.
Large crowds are expected to
be in attendance at the
Spengler-WOnder Bread, Bur-
rOughs-St. Paul's and CIar-
endOn-POntiacs contests, since
each team has a large follow
ing.
Whlle the league will officially
end tomorrow, the question of the
winner of Class c, Division IL,
Peewees, will not be decided until
Monday, when the Aces and the
Senators meet in the final game.
The Senators defeated the Aces
last Saturday, but a protest of
the Aces manager was sustained,
and the game will be played off. |
The protest board now has I'M
der consideration a protest which
may have a bearing on the win
ner Of the Insect class. Last week
the Lucky Circle team and the
Furniture Company out. |
fit met at Otis Field. The game
was halted temporarily for rain,
and the ThompsonS, leading, 2 to
/, refused to take the field when
the umpire ordered the game re-
The executive committee
ordered the remainder of the
game completed. The remainder
OF the game was played Wednes-
day, the ThompSonS winning, S |
to 2. Manager L. E. McKerly. of
the Luckies. protested yesterday, |
claiming that the Thompsons fin |
iShed the game with six players
who were not under contract,