The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-07-25

ICED crowd never congresated than the one around
scanlon's that evening, and when \ was known that
pan, and the expressions OF disgust were universally
expressed. aJliigau, Corcoran, and shaw were the
tween them Twas miserable contest and needs
no rehearslng on Thursday the BOrtons again de-
FSsr sn ws s III ne rss so
hard, total OF nineteen hits being made against
MIN, while oldneld made three errors ont Of eleven
chances offered. VIII the club ever take brace
and bring home a few vlctcres7
Charley snyder, the catcher of the Cincinnati
Club was In the city Oh wednesday last. Snyder is
PLAYING sres, game Q, ea ms ns season MS back
tits SAID that the press Of the South are doctorng
up the scores of their representative clubs In order
that the managers OF the same can sell the players
There Is perhaps grain Of truth In this many OF
the players, old hulks OF the older associations are
playing better ball ION paper than ever before.
:, An interesting game Of base bail was rlayed
Thursday afternoon between the National Tribune
nine and the George y. Lemon nine. the former win
ming by a score Of 1StoI. The playing Of Mcssrs.
hume, and Mcssrs. McEwau, Dubois, and Nolan, OF
the Lemons, carried on the honors for the respec-
tive mines. The paste pots outbattcd the quill
drivers
Tuesday the New FORKS, Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday the Detroits, and on Saturday the Kan
eas Citys.
uld0cd, the new catcher, has shown himself to he
a catcher Of good standing, one that will Improve
he plays longer with the team. lie has, however,
failed so far to make single base hit.
Powell, OF the Baltmores, hasn't played in more
than three championship gaines this season, but oil
the same he Is drawing his salary regularly.
Madgan was plttcd agalus, the Bostons In Friday g
game. and so strongly deceptive were his curves that
the "Bean Eaters" who had pounded Shaw and Full
Ter all over the ned In the two previous games,
could not hit him at all. only three hits being made
during the game But, alas, he was also vefy wild,
and SIX men, equal at times to six hits reached first
base safely and thereby hangs the tale, as the Dos
tons won by score OF too. The Nationals ont
club to win an unearned victory.
The amateur games that are now being played at
| olympic Park, West Washington, are attracting a
good deal Of attention from the lovers Of the game,
| simply because the games are honest competitions
between bona .nfe amateurs.
This has been bad year for umpires, as many OF
| them have been mobbed and iltreated by enraged
y s ne PEI 81 AZ ,ss
him easier than any other pitcher. The Athletics,
OF Philadelphia, now home from DISASTROUS West
The success OF Hcckcr, the great Louisville pitcher,
Is due more to- the fact that he compes the basmcn
a 70 MS dey or be called lie ffS
tons, next to the Nationals do less kicking than any
club In the League Force was telegraphed Tor on
play in Thursdays game. .shaw's rest did not do
much good after all, as the "Bean Eaters" pounded
the Nationals two years s ago. "a member rt Of the
Chicago club. Why didn't Farrell play In the
Boston games1; Hart, the celebrated Southern \,
have now regular quarters for themselves on Staten
Island In which they live like lords GARRISON, OF
the ChlcagM, has improved wonderfully well in his
pitching The old chestnut about players having
| fortunes left them by relatives In the Old World
is again on its tour. The only triple
play OF the season so far was made by
The Bostons against the Nationals. IA small boys
definition Of an umpire: "tIe's the man who does
| all the talking and that the boys call ''rats'..
Smith, the great shortstop OF tho Brookyns left mis-
club IN disgust recently over very trivial affair
| and after short absence returned like pr0dlgal
-. .Yingllng, the Baltimore pitcher, who came here
to be tried but wasn't has gone to one OF the North
western clubs. .Brouthers, OF the Detroi,s struck
out twice recently against the Chicasos with Clark
son In the box. The Clncnnatis have played abou
| n dozen extra inning games, and, strange to say
have lost all but one. President Ballard, Of ths
Eastern League, who resides at Newark, says tina
city could not support League club. ne ought Il
know Finley, the college catcher signed BY th'
Ing great game OF ball. Keep It up, Jim, for 20,
are favorite here. Crane has made many frlend
ny his cute and strong plays Of late. Herman, o
the Jersey Citya, made a hOme-run In three success
sve days recently, nil In championship games, too
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