Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-24


JOINS STICK WORK DID 1.-THE CHAMPION
SHIP REcoRD-xorEs ABOUT CLUBS AND
PLAYERS.
The Senators fell heirs to a streak Of luck in
Boston yesterday and, although they were con-
siderably outbatted and the fielding was even,
they managed to squeeze out q victory by the
score Of to by tallying twice in the tenth to
Boston's once. The game they played was a
plucky one and rather surprised the 1900 PEG
pie present, who were confident Of y victory
for the Hub until the sixth inning, when the
Statesmen made six runs and pushed ahead
one point The batteries that started gwere
Keefe and Mack and Daley and CAMEL, but
Keefe retired after he had given q half a
dozen bases on balls in three innings and
Person took his place. This saved the day,
for Ferson held the ball in excellent control
and kept the hits Of the Beaneaters well scat
tered.
AFATAL INNING.
In the sixth inning Mack opened with single
and Person and DAILY (the latter playing first
base) made safe infield hits. Then three bases
on balls helped things along little and three
runs were scored on John Twins beautiful two
Dagger. There were no more runs made until
the ninth, when Boston scored one and tied the
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Then in the tenth Cancel hit for. base went
to second on Daley's sacrifice and scored on
Kelly's hit for two bases into right field. This
gave the Hubbites lead, and they might have
won. but Arthur Twins men were in for
blood, and in their half they began again
and scored twice. Person and Hoy
waited to be sent to the base OIL balls and Wise
hit safely, filling the bases. No one was out
and the Statesmen felt pretty good when Will
mot went to the bat, while the spirits Of the
crowd fell proportionately. One run to tie
and two to win. Walter made it two by bang
ing the ball against the right-feld fence, Hoy
and Person scoring the winning runs Wise
reaching third and Wilmot second on the hit
No one was out and there is no telling how
many more scores might have been made, but
INDIVIDUAL PLAYING.
Washington made 8 hits and 1 error, and
Boston IS hits and l error. Wise reappeared
on second and accepted Of 4 chances, his err
zor being the only one for the team. Arthur
assists. Days work on first was perfect, and
Mack caught without a flaw. Wilmot led the
batting with single and a two Dagger, John
Irwin made double. and Wise, Hoy, Mack,
DAILY and Person each hit safely. For Boston
CAMEL led with a home run and a single, Kelly
son each single and two-Dase hit, and
Brouthers and Richardson two singles apiece.
OTHER GAMES.
The Hoosiers took game from Cleveland,
to 6. Both teams scored IN the ninth. Rusie
and Sommers and Gruber, Snyder and thinner
were the batteries. indianapolis made 10 hits
and errors, and Cleveland 10 hits and errors
New York and Philadelphia each took one of
the two games played. The Giants won the
first to g. WEIGH and Ewing and Gleason and
Clements were the batteries. The game was
mi win sxr 4,
OF runs in the ninth. New York made IL hits
and errors, and Philadelphia hits and
errors.
The Phillies were the people in the second
contest, IL to 2. Crane and Brown and Buffin-
ton and Clements were in the points Phila-
delphia made 10 hits and 2 errors and New York
hits and error.
Chicago squeezed away from Pittsburg and
won by the score Of 2 to l. thereby breaking
the winning streak of the Burgers. The bat
teries were Hutchinson and Farrell and Staley
and Fields. Chicago make hits and errors
and Pittsburg hits and errors.
ASSOCIATION GAMES.
At Cincinnati-Brooklyn, 10; Cincinnati, 4.
At Kansas City-Kansas City, z; Athletics, 6.
LHE RACE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP
The two big leaders of the league crept Just
triae closer to each other yesterday and made
the race still more exciting. The success of
Philadelphia in one of the games aided them
greatly. end they will probably make another
great effort to get one of the two games that
are to be played to-day. Chicago has passed
Cleveland again and is not far from the
Phillies. Pittsburg has been checked in its
wild upward career, while the Senators and the
Hoosiers are jogging along at their usual gait
just about holding their own. The Statesmen
crippled as they are in the box. have done re-
markably well this. trip, winning six out of
eighteen games played away from home. The
records are as follows: