Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-14

TONS DrDN'T-oTHER GAMES YESTERDAY
Capitol park was one mass of insanity yester-
day afternoon when the last man was put out
IN the last inning and the fact became history
that the Statesmen had won a game from the
Hoosiers by the score of Is to II, game full
| of the most intense interest from start to fin
ish, replete with hard hitting, scientific field
| ing, good luck and bad luck, and substantial
| kicking throughout. When the 1000 people
present saw Dy the score cards that Healy and
Mack were pitted against Whitney and Daily,
they made up their minds that a pitchers
battle for red, red blood was to
ensue, but nothing of the kind occurred
Instead, it was one Of the most complete sue
cesses as smuggling match ever seen in Wash
| lngton both teams being about equal in this
| respect The Statesmen won the game because
| they helded better than their opponents, who
went to pieces badly at the most critical mo-
ments. particularly IN the ninth inning. when
| everybody thought that the game was lost
| The rattles caught the Hoosiers and four of
| them made bad errors, three of them within
| the space of i've seconds. Then the mass of
| humanity on the bleachers and in the stand
was temporarily affected with a mild case of
softening Of the brain.
THE GAME.
| Both pitchers were hit hard, Washington
making Is hits with total of % bases, and
Indianapolis II hits and q bases, and both
pitchers hit hard, Healy making two singles
| and home run and Whitney two singles and
| triple. They did the best batting, but the
| other members of their respective teams were
| not far behind them. Paul Hines PLAYED first
base. and played it well, until the fatal ninth
| affected him. along with two or three Others
and he lost his head Glasscock was at short
f, as usual, with several tricks, in which no one
but HIM INDUCES. Sweeny put up a very
! acceptable game at third, making a couple of
neat assists and put out. But Sam Wise
played the great game of the day. He had
lots 10 do, and he did it in such manner that
very few people left the grounds without an
idea that Washington has a great shortstop
tie had thirteen chances. of which he accepted
! eleven. Some of his stops were marvels, es-
peclally in the first inning, when the three men
leading drove the ball at him in three different
kinds of vicious swiftness, each of which he
took neatly and easily and threw to Morrill,
with an air that bespoke an appetite for
Just that kind of food He made two errors
range by Healy, and another bad throw of a
nasty bounder.
HOW THE SCORES WERE MADE.
The visitors scored three runs in the second
on hits by Denny and Daily, Sullivan's base on
balls. McGeachy's sacrifice and Hoy's muff of
Whitneys long. difficult fly. But in the third
the Senators took lead that was overcome
but once. and that for few minutes only.
They made four runs, Mack and Healy hit for
singles. and Hoy sacrificed. Shoch clinched
his popularity by making two Dagger to the
region of the fence. Then Sullivan muffed
Carney fly, and both scored on Myers single
couple of HOOsier hits in this inning availed
nothing, for Healy struck two men out The
Statesmen kept right on scoring, two in the
fourth and three in the fifth their batting fit
ting III nicely with occasional errors by the
IIdianlans. But the latter took big Jump in
the sixth. and scored five times ON singles by
McGeachy, Seery and Hines. a double by Sui
hvan and a triple by Whitney. This onslaught
of hitting rather unnerved the crowd, and the
excitement was very intense. The lucky
seventh was played, and the score
still stood nine to eight the Senators but a
peg ahead. Carney dislOcated his shoulder in
sliding to first on a hit in the eighth, and
EbrIght was substituted. The home team
could not score. The HOLSTERS made squirt
in their half and pulled ahead one run by max
ing two. This rather dlsheartened the specta-
tors. many of whom left in despair The thing
was done by means of Whtney's single, a
passed BALLOT which Mack had five YESTERDAY
singles by Hines and GlasscOck and Sam
Wise's bad throw to Morrill, of Denny's
grounder. Two were out. two were in and two
Ebright.
AN EXCITING SCENE.
Those who left missed an exciting scene.
who muffed Wise went to first on balls, and
then the Hoosiers broke up into small bits and
were dropped into the soup. With Myers on
second and Wise on first Morrill, bounded hot
one to Glasscock, who juggleG it a second or
two before he tried to get Wise out at second
lie was too late, and Bassett threw very badly
to Hines to get Morrill,. Hines ambled to the
pickets and threw wildly at home plate the
ball going nearly to the little stand in the east
during the melee every man came home.
Sx~E..R a aa1
Healy nailed the victory by long hit over the
left field fence. Hoy hit safely, but Shoch
fled to Seery. The visitors made a gallant
effort 10 reach the Senators in their half but
failed. Daily only scoring on his hit, Nc
Geachy sacrifice. and Da5sett's single. Bas-
sett was forced out by Whitney, and Seery fell
victim to Wise and Morrill,.
VICTORY AT HOME
The Senators had won their first victory of
1889 on the home grounds in a game that
proved that they were batters, did not show
any evidences of the truth of the charges about
their bad habits, and gave promise of better
things to come. They played with vim that
was striking, and there seemed to be good feel
ing all around. Morrill, the only man who
did not hit safely of all the eighteen but his
CHEEKY voice was heard at critical moments and
seemed TO nerve his men TO their best efforts
Umpire Barnum was somewhat efratic, both in
calling balls and in his base decisions but he
talking too much, asking whether pitched balls
were not strikes and various other acts He
seemed TO lump them all at once and quietly
told Whitney toward the latter part of the game
that his last remark would cost him green
back. James has not got over the habit of
throwing his cap on the ground in fit of tenn
per when a decision displeases him. The
HOOsier uniforms are more like circus toggery
than the garb of baseball players They are
dark blue and bright yellow, and not nearly as
pretty or as neat as the modest gray and blue
OF the Senators.
OTHER GAMES YESTERDAY.
The greatest surprise Of the day was Cleye-
lands defeat of New York. 8 to I. The result
was accomplished by slightly harder hitting,
the fielding of both sides being poor. Bakelv
and snyder and Hatfield and Ewing were the
batteries. The alleged infants made hits
Z errors.
The prettiest game of the day. barring that
here. of course. was in Philadelphia, where
Chicago succumbed to the Phillies. 4 to g. after
eleven innings of play. The Ansonians scored
3 IN the first. their opponents in the fourth.
and then there were ciphers until the eleventh.
when the home team made a run. The batter
| les were Dwyer and Farrell and Buffinton and
Clements. Chicago made hits and errors
and Philadelphia IL hits and errors.
Boston defeated Pittsburg. to s. The Bean
eaters made hits and errors and the Smok-
| les hits and errors. Clarkson and Bennett
and Staley and Miller were the batteries
| At Louisville-Louisville,2 2; Athletic. /. At
Kansas City-Kansas City, 9; Columbus, 7.
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