National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-23
A DOZEN VICTORIES.
The National Nine Add Another to
Their Score.
Second Defeat OF the Aibanys-A Game Full
of Errors for Both Clubs-six Thousand
Spectators on tho Ground-The Wis.,
itors Make Five Runs In ono
Inning-Fuii Particulars
OF tho Game, SC.


Nine to Seven.
The National Club has strung their victories
up to an even dozen. adding the last ycster
day, when they for the second time con.
quored tho Albanys. 1t was expected that
the beautiful exhibition by both teams at their
first meeting would draw q crowd when they
should come together again, but nobody an
ticipatod that such an immense gathering of
spectators would assemble yesterday afternoon
to witness the contest. Not only did the seat
ing capacity of the grounds prove inadequate
to supply the demands, but the grounds In
every respect were found too small TO accommo-
date the public. Long before play was called
the seats were ali occupied and the space with
out tho precincts allotted for the players
was filled. A solid mass of people
were packed in close ranks out to the
white lines and extending to the carriages on
the east aud west sides of tho field. But the
public continued to arrive, and then they en-
croached upon the centre.feld. The stream of
carriages came through the south gate almost
without interruption for an hour, and were
placed in a row along three sides of the
grounds. Finding that the throng was going
to be so immense and likely to interfere with
tho fielding an agreement was entered into
between the captains of the respective mines
that not more than two bases should be given
to hit which went beyond the out-iielders.
| This was done to avoid the trouble that might
arise by the ball getting among the spectators
| and carriages. When the gamo was about to
commence 1t is safe to say there were fully
six thousand per- ons present to witness it.
| pretty sight ii made The players In their
uniforms upon the green sward were encircled
by q multitude of faces. The grand stand was
a picture In itself More than two-thirds of it
was occupied by ladies' elegantly attired, full
Inf mil Nd nd in,n al Ia
the bcstowal of applause.
Mr.. Terence Connolly again umpired the
game, but was particularly unfortunate in
some of his decisions. So many of them were
so palpably erroneous that it is difficult to de-
termine whether to attribute the fact to igno-
rance or desire to be partial. Both sides
complained, and there is no doubt but they
| had iustifable cause for so doing
In the early part Of the game he decided
| Thomas of tho Albauys out on tho second base
under rather doubtful circumstances The
runner had battcd ball to Mcclellan, who
made poor throw to Meyerlc, the ball going
| into the crowd back of the base. Meycrle OBJ
tanned it and folded IL to Booth in time to
catch Thomas at the second, the umpire de-
clarng him out. The Albanys insisted tn at
under the rules the ball having been touched
by outsiders, il must first return to the hands
of the pitcher before the base-runner could DO
put out with it. Tho umpire remaining stead
llSU 10 his decision, Unc VlSlCOr5 ucClareu LnuJ
they would play the remainder of the game
under protest. Then cnsued repeated errors
of judgment by the umpire GA both sides,
thus keeping the tempers of the players fer.
mented, and doubtless many of the errors made
can be attributed to this cause. For one thing
the Nationals can rejoice. They did not select
him, the Albanys having brought the gentle
man with them and If they go away and tell
the stale, stereotyped story that the umpire
, was against them the public elsewhere will soon
penetrate the umpire dodge used by the visit
ing clubs to account for their defeat. The Al
bany club was beat yesterday with the umpire
thrown in, and many people here are inclined
to tho belief that If one to act in the capacity
of referee had been selected from the District
the visitors might have Jared better. They
certainly could not have Jared worse.
The fielding of the Nationals up to the fifth
inning was excellent but here four costly err
rors, aided by three basc-hits, let in five runs
whcro mono were earned. Up to this period
most of the miserable playing had been done
by the Albanys, but from that time out, with
the exception of two innings on the part of the
home club it was nothing but repetition Of
errors, and only the heavy hitting of the Ma
tionals in the eighth aud ninth innings saved
them from defeat.
Holly was the favored man in the Out-ficld
for the Nationals and Thomas for the Albanys
Lynch and Trott again did yeoman service,
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pitching, with the exception of the short-stop,
} for whom it seemed to be an "off day" Yet
they all have such attacks, and Mac is for
tunate to have his come and gone.
At the bat very effective work was done, every
man obtaining at least one base.hit, Critchley
not seeming to bother them much. On the
part of the Albanys the fielding was exceed
ingly bad Mt times, and far below what they
are able to do in the way of good ball-play
The catcher was especially unfortunate, his
errors, most of them, being very expensive. In
batting they exhibited very little improve
ment over the previous game, aud it looks very
much as If this was the weak spot Of the nine
In two days playing of twenty-one innings
they batted Lynch for only seventeen bases
while tho Nationals hit Crtchley for twenty
nine, The difference in strength in this re
spect at once becomes apparent
Considerable enthusiasm was manifested by
the crowd when the Nationals drew up alonl
: side of their opponents in the eighth inning
and the cheers and shouts rang out loud anC
long when they, in the ninth inning, for tn,
second time resumed the lead. Appended /:
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