Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-04
often during game, and his services on the
team are consequently of great value.
NOTES OF THE DIAMOND.

NOTES OF THE DIAMOND.
Hoy caught four difficult flies yesterday.
Wilmots arm is still very painful. beins
! sweiled badly and bruised in a serious manner
He was struck just above the wrist and car
barely turn his hand He hopes to play soon
however.
Boston is weak at short. and feels the loss o.
Wise and Morrill, in more ways than one.
Sam Wise, though a left-hand hitter. tried
batting right handed yesterday, but without
| much luck
That score Of 16 to seems to be the base
ball hoOdOo of 49, 1t hits both high ana low
First the Statesmen fell twice under its ban
and now the leaders of the association are af
fected.
The squirt the home team made yesterday
was alone worth the price of admission. 1t i:
refreshing to see the team struggle almost
against hope towards the end of the game
rather than giving up in despair.
The reporters are thinking seriously of play.
ing the Senators. Judging from the error
columns 1t might be an amusing contest
In the four games with New York Washing.
ton made 10 runs. % hits, and % errors, to AZ
runs, 46 hits. and Is errors by their opponents
The batting this year is far very heavy. II
remains to be seen whether this is a permanent
change or will be different when the pitchers
get more accustomed to the new rules.
The league clubs are all pre- ty we'll punched
together, except the Senators, about whom the
only bunch apparent is q cluster of exceedingly
large ciphers in the column of games won.
Its all well enough to wait a few days for a
good start, but games lost have a surprisingly
inconvenient habit of handicapping a team in
the middle of the season when every spot
counts high.
The Philadelphia papers are devoting a good
deal OF pictorial enterprise this year in depict
ing the national game. especially the Press,
which scatters some very amusing cuts along
IN Its accounts of the play.
Arson says that he would never think of Of
= for ri
who exercised SO little head-work during a
series of games His work here was surely that
OF tirst-class catcher. and in fact the Washing
ton public rather obtained the idea that he was
ball player. But that may have been the re-
suit of the short-sightedness that some folks
attribute to the baseball public of this CITY.
Mack and Clark both have pretty bad hands
the result of Staten Island games. Banning
thank fortune. Is in good shape. Wilmot's arm
Is not yet quite well and Sam Wise was pretty
roughly handled in New York, having been hit
several times.
1t is likely that O'Brien will remain at first.
for a few days, at least. Louisville it is SAID.
intends to make an effort to secure his SER
vices. which would help the Coonels greatly
1t Is not SO certain, however. that Washington
services
Wise is not fully coming up to the expecta-
tons of the people here. either in his batting
or his general playing. In fact the whole team
Is out OF sorts, and evidently needs some de-
cent weather to bring them out
Director Rock saw couple of the New York
games and says that the Senators Jared vii
lainously at the hands of the umpire. To this he
credits good deal of the blame for the four
defeats. the men. he says. being disheartened
at their manifestly unfair treatment 1t is to
be hoped that Mr.. McQuade will not continue
this sort of thing here.
Shoch Is improving his opportunity while he
Is playing WilmOts position by making a bat
ting record of which any Senator should be
proud. He hits safely every game New York
thinks a great deal of Shoch and Hoy. and
would buy either of them in minute.