Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1925, Page 29

SPORTS." THE EVENING STAR. W. SPORTS. " Harris Hands Palm to Pittsburgh Champs : McKechnie Lauds Griffs As Great Foes RAJAH’S FATAL BOBBLING UNFORTUNATE, HE AVERS Bucky De nies Griffmen Were Overconfident of Vic- tory and Says Sting Is Greatly Lost in Defeat By Great Ball Club. BY STANLEY (BUCKY) HARRIS, SUMMARY OF SEVEN WORLD SERIES FRAYS A summary of the seven games of the world series, with the rums, hits, errors and batteries, follows: FIRST GAME. R. H. E. AR .......ccon00o 8 BB Pittsburgh ........... 1.5 0 Batteries—Johnson and Ruel: Mead- ows, Morrison and Smith, Gooch. SECOND GAME. | that the American League is full of very careles, PECK DEFEATS JOHNSON IN GREAT SEA DISASTER BY H. I. PHILLIPS. ORBES NATATORIUM, Pittsburgh, Pa., October 16.—The Pittsburgh F Pirates won the championship of the world yesterday. This includes Venice, the big pool at Coney Island and all wet-wash laundries. They won it by beating Roger Peckinpaugh, 9 to 7 and all the victory proved, besides the fact base ball can be played at night and at sea, is voters. BASE BALL MAY BAR PLAYERS’ ARTICLES PITTSBURGH, October 16.— Base ball players are threatened with a loss of their earnings as player- writers as an aftermath of the world series which ended here vesterday Commissioner Landis is aroused over published articles contalning eriticisms of players against de- cisions by umpires and threatens to | prohibit players from selling their | names for world series articles or base ball storfes of any Kkind in the COURAGE OF PIRATE CLUB IN PINCHES WAS FACTOR Speed and Hitting Overcome Pitching in Series, Buc Pilot Says—Washington Team Has Nothing to Apologize for in Losing. BY WILLIAM B. McKECH! ‘ o L R. H. E. They voted Roger the most valuable player in the league three weeks " Manager and Sccond Baseman, American League Champion Washington |pigtsburgh ................ 3 3 0380, but last night. with the evidence all in, it is clear that they meant | future. = = = ; Manager Pittsburgh Pirates. Club. il Washington ... = :ms (‘! the League of Nations. 1o sloner Landia hau "Munuger Bucky ITTSBURGH. Pa., October 16.—Ladies and gentlemen meet the new ITTSBURGH. October 16.—1t’s all over and the Pirates are base ba RBatteries—Aldridge and Smith; Co- Peckinpaugh, who had already es-|up to the fifth. In the seventh the| Harris, Muddy Ruel and Roger Peck base ball champions of the world. i Dirates e beat I A 1d - veleskie and Ruel. ablished something like a world | Coarse Hairs tied the score when |inpaugh before him regarding critical S 5 pl world, the Pittsburgh Pirates. We bea champions of the wor { series record for errors, came across | Peckinpaugh dropped Moore's high | references in their stories of Tues ashington in the final battle of the greatest serics cver plaved. 1 o THIRD GAME. - And T wa to congratulate McKechnie and his hustling, courageous R R. H. E.|WVith two more errors in _the flnal flvl (h:"t .u‘:xlnuld t;|u\ h})eend ‘]n easy (‘u,\ -| nn\\’a involving 1‘:10 decision of | Before T start raving about the Pirates (that is the way I feel now) bunch of ctes on their splendid victory i es ended | -, T 10" 1| 7lages of the last game, after Wash- |on ‘eckinpaugh claimed he was|Umpire Moriarty on Max Carey at| : iz At . = e i Tunch of athletes on their splendid victory in the world series that ended | wasnington A e O vt | Touiealib ootk a e Eoy: Bocand’ buss In the third inainy of |1 want to say a few werds for Washington. They showed the Pirates a esterday with one of the most spectacular games in the annals of the [Pittsburgh ... 4 > up. and they cost his team the cham- | Then in the elghth Peckinpaugh | the sixth contest. ‘It was a close [ great. game and husting base ball club, and they showed us some stars Ahnend clakic: Batteries—Ferguson, Marberry and | pidcpip " wau responzible for another buckst|play in which Carey was called safe | like Johnson, Judge and Joe Harris, who ‘are mighty hard to beat. [ migh When Washington got that four-run start in the first inning, mainly Ruel} Kremer and Smith Both teams deserved to win vester- 'x"l“m:;fl Ly Ao an sy at second on an attempted force-out. 1go down the ‘whole Washington line-up and say something about every c loste dbtouehun ot 7 B e day’s game. And, on the other hand. | doubleplay, he threw. ov © umpires protested to Commis- | man who, in one form or another, gave 1 c space will through the wildness of Vie Alridge, pitcher, who had been the hero of EOBRIIEG both deserved fo lose. It was an- | base. Harris had hix port and star-| sioner Landis about the manner in | 15" 810 = SRR us ElenbroRteciblcbutinace two wames of the series. there were few who thought the American body's vietory. including the Sea. [board lights showing at the time,|which the published articles treated 25 ; 5 i Leaguers could be overhauled, but those plucky Buccaneers kept right | Washington wanhaka Yacht Club's and the United [ Pt Peck insisted he couldn’t see|the play. and the commissioner sum.| T have been in base ball for 20 years, | the vear. ile just breezed them Trer us and, although we fought desperately, they went on to their 9-to-7 | Fittsburzh i o States Coast Guard's, up to the last | them through the fog and claimed he | moned the players. The sexsion was |but I never suw such a serfes, -»ne‘l}"zg\)g‘\! there and made our tworun ALIC Ualcaationes 2 > & = Batteries—Johnson a: Ru call for help. q AaGiICESIENe S s R attended also by the umpires, Moriar- | cially such a game as that one that | *ad safe. RIS EOLY " 1 ) Morrison, Adams and Gooch. oriasD. . | Kiki Cuyler proved the hero of|ty. Rigler, Owens and McCormick.| o ijeq the ”fi, ‘Dhere was havdly | Good Pitching Overcome. After the ame many fans were ) damaging resulis of his ervor in the | i | Ended at Midnight. this inning when with drowning men | After criticizing the players, Landis |9 2 1 # T ik e ving. “Poor Walter Johnson.” la in-lghth T feel sorry . < He | FIFTH These Pittaburgh “Ct Hairs™ |on each base he wiped his hands on|demanded an apology to the umpires. |# moment that did not see some e menting that the great hurler did | is a great ball player and ft is too rose in their might. They are late|# Supply of bath towels and then| Harrls, Peckinpaugh and Ruel prom: |spectacular exciting stuff flashed by P8 in this series. 1 helieve the not f better in the decisive con-| bad he did not show his real worth |Pittsburgh ......... ¢ | risers, but they stuv up late, and it | knocked a ball into the stands which | ised to apologize in their articles. |ihe men on both sides. In winning, | Washington staff. in some respects, 1es But I contend that Walter | in the serfes. | Washington A Was after 10 pan. 1o 21 intents and | €¥erybody thought was a homer, but It is expected that the player- [\ 9% O T rgetting the gallant | 100ked better than mine. but I fizured pitched well. considering the weather | Denies Any Overconfidence. Batteries—Aldridge and Smitl purposes, when vesterday's contest | Which was called ¢nly good for two | writer problem will be a subject for | We are nut fo e el Lol i Nashington bitchecs would ha prevafling. and 1 do not helieve any | s it | veleskie, Ballou, Zachary, Marberry e bases on account of some code of the | base ball legislation at the December | 5! : 5 5 L 5 5 Dihic iNebar ‘ucull bave | T want to state right now that it | Yeleskle, started and well after midnight, judg- [ U4 e fot the Washington boya. St b through such & game in better form. | NaS hot, overanfloncs, that Joo s " SITH GAVE Y the utmosphere. when ) If was really a marine disaster and | St s ! Work Best Under Strain. | vitchers would have to face ne world ol ship. Although | . P cd. ] bt e | 1 have | B Commiserates Peckinpaugh. [“» got an advantuge early in the’ .| Walter Johnson, standing out there | "7} & B8 “‘;“;"::“d lgBtitoNlbaRyat ' F-" | Even when the odds were heavily | It looked blnd. k for awhile. but 1 8 ‘e series, we realized all the time that|Pittshurgh {in the rain and darkness, made a | against us, 1 never figured the Na. | never lost faith in those hoys. who The Pirates had to use four mounds. | Series i ittsburgh ... | |into the raging storm and behold old SR bellarite: = had fought their way to a pennant men to stop ut Aldridge showed | We were up against a hard-fighting | Washington . iant cool-headed fight, and his de-} g ey Johnson going down by the tiongls hadiainelier eant DI masimoE | s To b oy plainls in the first nning that he|crew and never looked to et any-| Rosearie fremer feat only proved what everybody but | id™ \han Barney " goss dovin be FOR ARMY PDLO'STS ried about the hitting slump that |1 felt we had the better club. I fel % = | thinz we did not earn. It's not so 3 id, Ruel. the Washington management 1t | the head the disaster i ! gripped us for a time, but 1 knew | that speed would help a lot and it ild not come back to the hill with guson, Ballou and Severeid, Ruel. : | r'is a major one. A s ctiue regular | The Nationals have nothing 1o 1 foct after . hard | Pleasant to be beaten, but to he beat right along—namely. that Johnson is | Johnson did what it requived four that if my boys struck their regular Nationals Oty v pdayy o e Mard | en by a club as good as the Pirates | SEVENTH GAME. a man and not a horse. | pitchers to do for the Pirates. Ald FeoE, hitting stride ‘no pitcher could stop |apologize for. They were in the B ve e e Manager | tifkes a good deal of the sting out R. H.E.| Walter might have done better, | Morrison, Kremer and Oldham | Two matches are listed for tomor. | them for any great length ‘of time. | thick of the ght right un 1 1l e gyt e Mg B o) I Pittsburgh ... ) {even against Peckinpaugh. if he all obliged to put to sea for the { row afternoon at Potomac Park in| As I said before in these articles, jlast minute of the createst SRy raied oy fou | Now that the series is over, 1 have | Washington . ....... i in't run out of rawdust. More | Buccaneers and the first two struck [the annual high goal tourney of the |W¥ team always goes best when the | reries in history. When two grear i e R easEae | only one amm in base ball. That is| e | Sawdust was used sund Barney’s | very heavy weather. War Department Polo Association. |situation is the toughest. I have a club ball clubs meet both cannot win o Wivar is to be | to round out a teaw to fight for the| Batteries—Aldridge, Morrison, Kre-| s\ "(un has heen used anvwhere | Last night there was a disposition| ar Whites will encounter the 3d|that goes better when the test is a |Some one must loss. In this case I any Washington pluver i o be | American Lengue pennant next year, | mer, Oldham and Smith, Gooch; dohn- | G T MG X (10l “or sinee [ to eriticize Barney Dreyfuss because | Corps Area four from Ealtimore iu |big one. T helieve you will agree with |we had the good fortune to Le the commiserated. it is Roger Peckin- | 4 ¢ e win the flag again { trust |son and Ruel. | they were told to close. | he violated the rules of the sea In not | & first-round encounter, starting at |Me in this by what the Pirates showed | winner. % Eh . his man. voten whe mMOst|ivwil be the Pirates we il have o — e The series had been left out doors | throwing a rope to Washington in the [ 1:30 o'clock. Two hours later the |in the series. In winning. however. we doff ou plaver to his club in the | i, ke in the 1926 world series. far too long, anyhow, when the tinal | eighth. Barney bases his refusal on /16t6h Field Artillery quartet will face| 1%cing the necessity of winning | caps to a respected and honored Leazue this vear, was the In one of my articles in the series| DE PAQOLO SETS RECORD | wame began. Then 4t game tine it | the ground that all the rope Pitts: | the War Blues in & secondround |three siraight games the Pirates ac.|the Washington Nationals. unfortunate man in the world |y oecasion to mentlon that T dif- | | bagan raining wgain and it was too | burgh has it needs for cigars. :natch complished that. Facing the necessity | (Copyright. 10751 Tn;w: \ILH t*u-y:\ Y«h:v\“‘::,r (\;;\;ll‘:‘} d with Ged \|n|-m\'u[ with re. FOR MILE AND QUARTER !iate to send out for shingles and | .,'!( ‘1‘“1“:‘”: \\’f.m.h'_;.’,]m;su:mm'rl:::; 7 - ABEON Bio the imas Aol rd to a pase decision. want te | | weather strips. inal battle, after ad ¢ R #ot of zames. and aimost every one ate here that 1 had no intention of | 3 taw Br ok, - | behind twice, first Johnson worked | ere that | had no of | SALIAM. New Brunswick, October | Tt will go down on the boks as the © his ereors hag (o do With & Wash- | Giving that the umpire was wreng | g 5 b ss e Srrarl | against us with a four run lead. This ; sy .' 3 wreng | 16 - Peter de broke the world | most weatherbeaten world seriex on ingron defeat in his ruling. and I am satistied T did | 4y1omobile racit a mile | record Live time o plaver slid might have been enough to discourage Peck fe h‘ "wl"» 'm”n hy!:v.\r: him a grave infustice. That would | 4nd o quarter oval track vesterday at{headfirst into the wdust-packed | the average ball club, }-ull U‘;’h} irates | ame. in which his (wo-base’ muff | not be fair to him under the cf £ e Wl e i B 5 S aerfect mistira.of “the| T . are not an average club. They are | of Moore's pop fly at the start of the | danees. : ; Y el e e e ,,';"’,'f‘ Hpiubibinolanshide 56 sael BY CORINNE FRAZIER- made of champions stuff. Even | 1303 F St vently inninz paved the way for the | Umpliés. like players, are endeav- | 1555 cevonds B the third inyine the nela) wan) T _ |after we had tied the score after a | . Virates' tying rally. and his wild | oring to zive their best to the game| " No Paola reached the speed ‘of |so wet that time after time some| ARIE DIDDEN i< the first ployer to reach the fourth round in|gruelling struggle and Peck came up | 914FSt. 1410N.Y. Ave throw after ficlding Carey's groundel il the time. #nd their position is an{ 138210 miles an hour in the quali- | plaver went down for a hot srounder the George Washington University tennis tournament now in (17 the €ighth inning with a home.run | B Tty 3 in the eighth losi 4 chance for a third | unenviable one. 1f any statement T| fvinz tasts for the 250-mile champlon:|and came up with 1 quart of clams. | i he M P. to put us cne run behind again and | out hefore the National Leaguers|made in an article was offensive to| ship race to be run here Saturday. |7 The Nationals were | progress on the Monument Park courts only two mnings to go my bovs kept | Eot their three runa that clinched |any or all * of the series umplires, 1| - — | Miss Didden. tennis manager and one of the seeded favorites. won }-‘"r"'»':":t-' ‘*";1 kl"d"“mflfl They just | o u the zame. \ v ot wa s 5 5 o | refused to be lickes i T e e e it el hatihout ’l‘ 9 4 i jlissinisceniths thuciheskstib herdelcatofRuthiButts 6 1, 6 4 | lue of Speed Sk ! seventh iuning miscue by driving eut | firm men in authority on the plaving NA IONALS WINNING (fo ] [ All seeded players have survived | Blow and Webb dodge ball teams| _ YAlur of § SauN, | @ lhowe yun in the eighth that put | field base ball soon would lose favor 100 ohoning roung i WLee ldaniod i an sisifit encoskee. | Enery wan on my ciob in sewe Washington in front once wmere, but | with the pubi That, 1 trust, will H { which finally ended after five innings Way flashed great stuff. Sometimes lie had no epportunity to offset the | never come. | with a 11-to8 decision for Blow.|cne or two would fall down in a “BIG TRAIN” IS STALLED IN MURK OF PITTSBURGH BY ROBERT T. SMALL. ITTSBURGH, October 16.—After many da came to a dreary, dripping close. the world series oi 1925 But the rain and the murk and the smoke and the fog were made to order for Pittsburgh, and a new set of champions wear the crown of the national game. today It is no disparagmient to the Pittsburgh Pirates to say that Roger Peckinpaugh. voted the most valuable player in the American League, personally conducted the coronation ceremonies. There has been in all base ball no such reversal of form as Peck displayed in this series, when hie broke all recosds by making eight errors, to which it is easy to trace three of the four games lost by Washington. Four runs for Pittsburgh in the final| seemed so slim. John Heydler shook game followed the last two bobbles | his head at times, but never lost by the fast failing shortstop and this | courage. was more than the margin of\'\'u‘:m"]' Worst Sort of Weather. for the champions of the Nationall g 0 e hrongh some League halr | Of the strangest weather which ever Almost the entire eight and a half|beset the Fall classic. It ranged from fnnings of the deviding game of the | he torrid zone to the North Pole. and series wus plaved in a pelting vain, [on the last day no other city but Pitts- the gloom heing so great that most of | burgh or London could have provided the jime the Washington outfielders | the atmosphere which surrounded the | in their wet zrey wniforms could not [combat. A midnight sky pelted a con he seen from the press stand, just be-|tinuous drizzle. Back of the clouds| were banks of smoke. You could cut iind the plate. Tiindthe the murk with a cleaver Big Train Is Stalled. e end of the long campaign found ol Walter Jolmeon. the Big|when he could pitch the fast ball with of hase Lall. stalled stark and |the hop on it day in and day out. But e | Walter is now oid? as base ball players i ave saved |89 He was equal to two great games |in the short series. but the third was in the Pittsb Suppo stiff the oid fellow. but Peck failed him in f 0 '8 CLOre, "Rem, out the, thivd, Sas 1he pinches und Pittsburgh Dats o1 condition would not have been sounded a_dismal but decisive tatoo]pye in the closing game. But he was over the Kansas cyclone’s effort to|Washington's last desperate chance, take his place alongside “Matty” and and for once the Big Train saw the “Babe” Adams and Coveleski as win- stop signals turned dead against him— mers of three straight games in world and he failed. The vets of the Wash- series strife ington team seemed to flounder in the Johnson had little more than a glove | mud. whereas the voungster Pirates ver 1o offer through the long | apbeared sure and fieet of foot. tie stuck manfully to Nats Failed in Pinches. bitter end. Stanley | = s dervick Lim and| The playing field was treacherous did 1ot dak 1o Le relieved of | ¥hen Commissioner Landis ordered the punishment which was inflicted | the same to proceed, and once it was on him to the terrible tune of 15 hits| Under wav the umpires dared not o Totad of ‘55 hases. o other |¥10p 1t even in'the darkness and the e o s Doen anade such 1" Tne’ Washington team, world cham- The Pittsburgh feam spotted the |Pions last vear, did not deserve to Big Tram foor cans in the vers firs | Win the series ‘on their showing in inning of the decisive battle, and if ‘'€ last three games. Even despite = the handicap of Peck's errors, the ernoon. the not Walter Tohnson had any of his old stuff left y Her of i a games could have been won by a few ame Was Sanl organization {that he would have breezed through the iy ety ‘hits. But Washington failed | Plaved practically perfect base ball sack afternoor e Pirate bats |y e pinches us Pittsburgh came|and their shortstop blundered elgi had tasted blood fn their last two |gh ougn! | times and exactly three defeats of the | starts. however, and they would not L . series fell on his shoulders. Puli : e and y ‘v "as | A youthful third baseman. with the . ApugRn SRulL be denied in the ¢ But try asijioiieuque name of ~Pien Travnoy | 99WD the curtain. ou will to figure it otherwise. ‘h-"-!-,\'und Al At e s Look back over it for a moment. In tragic fig Rogzer Peckinpaugh vidual honors of the season. He came the first .game No team was ever so hobs every tuin 1t was heg y U TIEOTR 00 Lhe Bes . et e | helnlexs before u pitcher as was Pitts, who e Pirates eight Nives| (g2 oS oo e uth e, o | burgh before Johnson. In the mecond with which to batle their way 10 iig just ahout the sweetest base oo 11| Bame Peckinpaugh threw victory to the pinnacie of base ball fame player in the game todus. “bias vollthe winds and Aldridge proved his P Pluck Wins, | everywhere in the series, und his side | 0'th #$ @ pitcher. Tn the third 3 5. e ruhene erto L | Ferguson staggered through. He it . aw ash. | Partner. Wright, at shortstop, made | oo1% -slagg ough. He i Siteplack Sundaws ame In Washe| Dooriola Peckilookithie moatiinyatn fa gl A fnston.” when Johnson ‘had romped | e He sos ‘alu-{but he held his own until the time through his second victory of the |able shortfield plaver ever in a world series, which, of course, he was. series and the count stood three to one in favor of the Nationals, no one | T Pirates' ehancon " 11 e for thei HO) | OCHER IS SEEkING HIS OLD JOB ON CUBS Washington had to win but one | CHICAGO, October more game Fittsburgh was confronted with the tnprecedented task of winning three | oy Hollocher. former Chicag Cut o row to keep from base ball} shortstop, now on the retired list, Admiiie But_the youngsters ver-|ihinks he will be able to return to Joumenkinolm: acle und Pittsburgh | (he line-up next year. e oty delivium of Joy. It was) e has written Joe McCarthy, new e ‘”"\:“‘D-:_:‘ ““H“W“n‘)i’;:‘“:‘ fl: | manager of the team. that his health i is ubout regained and that he thinks The gloom and rain of the | ha' can tale on : afterncon and night was enough to | myjes” 'Lr¢ Care of his berth regu- snufl_out any prolonged celebration, | Tt Pittsburgh is happy to the core, | RADIATORS, FENDERS * e N T e S R. & F. WKS. &nd deservedly so. Perhaps the happiest man in base WITTSTA’ F. WK FOOT BALL GAME Yall today is John A. Heyvdler, presi- rient of the National League. This is Princeton and Navy BALTIMORE STADIUM the fiftieth anniversary, the golden fubilec of the parent big league, and | Saturday, October 17 AT 2:30 P. M. Spald- It 1 eminently fitting that the world | Tickets on Sale at A. G. ehampionship should rest upon it. In' 1he duys when the Pirate chances | TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Ceats | | Tn the duys of his prime it would |than that of Washington. and it was | have been ideal for Walter Johnson, | that mistale which i | | | | 16 UP).—Char- | | failed 1o touch second base on a field- FUTILE WITH P BY JOHN B. FOSTER. ITTSBURGH. October 16.— about this oddest of world seri be sung about its thrills, except as joyful today over winning. The question again rises whether the world serics should be treated as something artistic and great in sport, or as a show of the vaudeville | type. Roger Peckinpaugh, named by the | committee of base ball writers as the | most valuable player to his club in the American League of 1925, comes out of the series as grand high master | of the Order of Sublime and Ancient Goats. But for his, and his unrivaled | record of inopportune bobbles, Wash- | ington would have won the series. | Won Second Through Peck. In the second game of the series sut for an excruciating miss by Peckin- paugh of an ordinary grounder ihe Pirates would not have won. He made another in the same inning, but the first was the vital stab. In the game of Octoly 13 Roger er’s choice. That means he lost an op- portunity to make an out which would have kept the Pittshurgh score lower prevented his team from winning. In the final game he made a square muff of a fly batted by Moore in the seventh and not only Moore scored, on what should have been u sure ont, but another player scored after him, and when the inning was over the score was tied. when, as world series go, the best should have been one run less for the Pirates than the Senators. Add 1o all that went before that, in the eighth ne made a bad throw which was directly responsible for another two runs. He gave Pittsburgh | a score of 9 to 7. when the score by perfect playing should have been 7 to a. | Rest Played Perfectly. Never again will Peck be asked to be named the best ball player in any | league or even the best cultivator of early potatoes. His total misplays in this series wus eight, and, aside from | Severeid, who caught a single game, | not another Washington player made | 1 blunder. came to make a substitution, and Sime fo make & rubstitution, and YN—a medium- height PHILTEX. The new fashionable semi-soft, banded col- lar. Wilt, wrinkle and ‘wear proof, 38 cents—3 for $1.00 Phillips-Jones, New York ILTE 5y GREAT (OLLAR Forever and a day the jans wili be talking of a gray atmosphere connected with it, inc Pittsburgh sky. wliich sullenly refused to lighten when the Pirates had won the championship that they coveted so much, that no rhapsody can i strikes. and with his speed diminish- The second round must be com pleted and scores reported to Miss | Didden. at Lincoln 1140, by 7 o'clock | this evening. Any not so reported fwill zo by default. The commitiee has set Monday, '1"'Knl\cr 19, as the “deadline” for third-round matches. . | Second-round decisioris to be reach- | ed today are as follows: V. Ronsaville | vs. B. Keegin, E. Chickering vs. L. | Kleeblatt, B. Zisman vs. Myrtle | | ] o > ~ 11924 champion, has reached the third PELK q I [ A‘ | bracket. deteating %fariog Phelps in ~ 41 “\"1 second encounter. | It has had so much g cven the somber cs ever plaved. ad Pittsburgh was hali sulky d hali isburgli half sulky and hatf) SEobe e mivios 6. DY Wilttase: L. Cate va. V. Strickland, E. Garber V. A. Heyl. Summaries ¥ rst round—M. Phelps defeated Shoemaker by default, A. H iwers defeated M. Paynter by default, D. Baumgarten defeated E. Buell by Washington won by making it. In the | next game Johnson vitched again and | was more powerful than he had been betore. On the following: day Covelo| detault, Strickland defeated K. esiie dubbed completely and the | Crowley. 6-—4. 4—6, 6—4. | Second round Washingtonians got what it . feated M. Phelps, M. might have heen expected naturally Davis defeated : = | L. Sparks by default. A. Ewers de Helped Kremer Win. feated B. Kilbourne, 6—0. 6—3: R. The teams returned to Pittsburgh |Curran defeated P. Long. 6—1. 6—0: defeated E. Gladmon. Didden defeated 1. Shoemaker Kre- | 62, 4 M. and. by and fortunes of war, Peck fozzled | K Washington lost. although mer must be given his share of the Wymore by default, Phoebe Mcore- attacking strength. as Washington head defeated D. Baumgarten. never repeated after the second 1 round—>Marie Didden defeat- inning Jutte, 61 -4 Then came the lisi game of all when the staze was supposed 1o he Pierce and Blow Schools were the set for Walter .Johnson. If truth| victors of the. double-header in the be known. Johnson was all that Wash- | Rusedale division of the elementary ington had left. ile stuck it school basket ball league yesterday through the rain to defeat and swal- | afternoon lowed the dose. however bitter it| Pierce defeated Wheatley. 12 to might have been. tryving valorously o teams were evenly inatched in enough and still within the promise | their defensives. Lut Pierce possessed | of success until the seventh and eighth | # $trong offensive weapon in Dorothy innings, when Peckinpaugh simply | Harding's accurate shooting, which Diotted things out | their opponents could not match. She Johngon had all weather conditions | Scored the majority of goals for her in his favor that uny great pitcher|leam, evading her guards for some could ask for. For two innings he| brilliant shots. Was master of himself in strategy.| Blow School's tossers whitewashed but in nothing else. For seven innings | their rivals from Webb, rolling up a great Dpitcher w sburgh with only ing so well thy ed against | 36-to) score in u game made one- two curve balls | 8ided by the difference in size of the they were called | tWo teams. The Weblb reached in School lassies were out- ing as the wheels of a clock lose their everypositions and wece speed when the spring loses ite|unable to play around their lengthy tension. {and alert opponents. Mildred Hook, Some ask why he was not taken|left forward, starred for Blow. The out. The fact is Washington had no|Stmes were refereed by Daisy Rob- one to take his place, and perhape. | Sion. director of the Rosedale play also, he wished to stay. In any | Eround. . event. he was hit for 15 safe birds.| The opening game of the Plaza divi- Of course, that s part of the luck of | 5ion between Ludlow and Gales-Blake the base ball game, but if it was a | Wa§ postponed because of a wet field. Tt will probably be scheduled as a double-header with the second game. sheer notion of sentiment that permit- | ted this result. then the Washington club is the loser in this world series | on a perverted fdea of sentiment as| ¢ onnosed_to_base ball Rosedale playground was the scene when the Preserves and Prolongs The Life of Any Painted Surface We do not ymerely elaborate on the usual polishing job, but thoroughly clean the surface; then apply a beautiful and lasting polish. Sheridan Garage, Inc. A. A, AL Service Station 2516 Q St. N.W. (Q Street Bridge) ;{five players of almost equal strength, Mary Rauh refereed. Virginia Avenue defeated Plaza on Plaza playground in another dodge bali contest. in which their superior Ity ia indicated by the score of 15 to| 3" The home team were smaller and less experienced. i Alice Elliott, Tessie Berg and Vir- | gima Doyle scored most of the put-| outs for the winning team. The Vir- | ginia Avenue line-up included the | three mentioned above and Nellie El- liott, Helen Axan, Mirlam Hartman, Frances Lewls, Florence Rhodes and | Emiline Astrander, Plaza’s line-up was as follows: Pa tricia Dimon, Ethel Dorman, Frances Gualshor:, Ruth Peterson, Alice Olive, Mary Festuli and Helen Elizabeth Moss was referee The Metropolitan _ Athletic Club basket ball squad will start its con quest to retain the District cham- | plonship crown with the loss of two | stellar players in its back line defense. | “Jack” Martin. who is now coaching the game. and Rozelle Bolton will both be missing from the roll call. | One of the gaps will be adequately filled, however, by the return of Mar garet Kubel. who has been out of the game for the past two vears. Miss Kubel is considered to be one of the | stronzest guards in the District, and | the champions are rejoicing over their £ood fortune in having her with them once more The forwards will Petruchia. | be picked from | Mrs. Camille O'Hara. Pauline Thomas. Adelaide Boyd, Margaret Whaley and | Ann Fennelly advs Mills will re- tain her position at center and Charlotte Hatton at side cente: One or two changes are noted in the 1925 hockey rules recently made pub. lic. The most important is the new rule allowing the defending team when fouled in the cir free hit from any spot in the circle they may choose. This rule obviously works to & much greater advantage | for the defense than the old rule by | which they took the free shot from the spot where the foul was made. 1 During three successive 3 1908, 1907—not & hoine-run was scored in the world series. le to take a | This is the Hehaped Innerform Bright, tight and RIGHT! Bright colors, tight tied by clever girls, and right in style. 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