Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-25

| heIght. and has quick. certain movement in
| his pitching that is very effective. When he
| faces a batsman he sizes him up, from one end
| to the other, and then. with one foot we'll adj
| vanced. straightens out his left arm and sights
over the ball at the plate If there is a man on
| base he watches him out of the corner of his
| eye. occasionally turning quick as a flash, to
| the runners great discontinue. His command
| of the ball is marvellous, and his deliberate,
| careful movements worry the heavy htters
| greatly. SO far this year he has shown that he
can be hit hard without getting ratified, and on
| two or three occasions has developed great
| amount of what is known as head-work AL
though this Is his first year i'll the league, he
has very fair acquaintance already with the
hltters. and. aided by Mack. has succeeded in
fooling the best of them. He frankly attributes
much of his success to Mack's support, who he
says. has every man in the league down fine
He used to be a batter himself. before he en-
tered the league, but he has not yet overcome
his fear of getting hit and has not done much
with the stick far He expects. however
TO improve with the season. Person is a Phila-
delphian. and used to play ball amateur
around the lots in the City of Brothery Love
until some one saw his talent, and in the spring
of 1887 he was signed by the Manchester team
He pitched there that season, and i'll the winter
went to California with the Philadelphia club
In the spring of 'SS he signed with Milwaukee
but he was shortly after released on account of
a lame arm. Then he went to Lynn and made
big record. Manchester bought him when
the season was about half over, and he played
out the year there. continuing his fine work
Sullivan bought him last fall along with Car
ney and Clark, his regular catcher. He was
married to a young lady of Manchester last
year.
He says that he is here to win. to play with
all his heart. and that he likes the city and its
people. Thus far the feeling is reciprocated
His habits good and he plays with a good
nature and vim that is very encouraging to
the other men. He thinks highly of Morrill, as
a captain. and has implicit faith in the wisdom
of his directions. The Philadelphia Press thus
remarks about him: 1T is little early in the
season to predict just how the young pitching
talent will turn out, but there is veteran i'll
the National league who faces a batter with
more confidence than young Person of the
Washingtons, while his delivery is of the easiest
not excepting Keefe of New York" He has
played III five games. winning four of them,
and has been hit for an average of 6 is hits i'll
game. The game he lost was against Clark
son. and the tide of the day was turned by de-
cision of the umpire on hit by Ebright that
was palpably fair. but called foul.
THE MEN AND THEIR WORK.
The home management has released Banning.
This leaves Mack, Clarke. and Ebright for
catchers; O'Day, Healy, Person. keefe, and
HaddOck for pitchers; Morrill,. Myers WISE
and Sweeny for an infield; and Wlmot. Hoy.
ShOch, and Carney in the gardens. The next
man to be released will probably be pitcher
".
That man will probably be either O'Day or
keefe. and it is very likely that by their going
the team will get some one else. There is q re-
ported deal on foot whereby Carroll of Pitts
burg would come here. but it is questionable
whether there Is an opening here for such a
man. We are pretty well off for catching tai
ent. Sweeny is improving all the time and hits
the ball hard and often. He will do on third
at present. Wilmot's return to the field has
greatly strengthened the team his fielding
batting and aSp-ruuDlnO bgiup of q To
encourage the rest of the men to their best eff
forts. He made three hits on Thursday and
did some very pretting sliding on the bases
Shoch is filling Carney's place in right most ac-
ceptably. and his work in the 81 game with
Pittsburg was of the very finest order. Car
neys arm is improving rapidly but it will be
some days before he can play ball. He has
taken of the sling and feels much stronger.
Mack Is doing yeOman service behind the bat,
performing the greater part of the work there
Morrill, hits the ball about once day in such
manner that runs usually result. He is playing
a great first base.
BRIGHT PROSPECTS.
In short. things are blooming with the Sena-
tors, and the prospect is bright for continual
ton of the good success that they have had of
late. The great work of the Cleveland team
has caused an impression here that they will
dust off the sphere with the Senators next
week, but it Is fair to expect that the home
til lctSl Two games out OF the 1Our
They play Tuesday, Wednesday, and twice on
Thursday. the 30th. There are no games
scheduled for league clubs for Monday, but it
is very likely that the Pittsburg team, who
are billed next week in Philadelphia. will re-
main here that day to play off Wednesdays
game. which was postponed on account of wet
grounds. There are no games booked for Fri
day, but as Cleveland has to play in Chicago on
Saturday they will probably be unable to play
here. 1t is possible that Philadelphia may run
Il
postponed at the first of the season. The Sem
atOrs have had to postpone seven games already
and a strong effort will be made to make up
some of these now.
NOTES.
Morrill, has directed the men to sacrifice to
right field when a runner is on a base.
Carney Is growing impatient under the re-
straint of his lame arm, and watches each game
with longing eyes.
Hoy. Shock, Myers. Sweeny, Mack, Morrill,
and Haddock each made two hits yesterday,
and Wise and Nilmot one apiece. Myers,
Mack, and Morrill, each made doubles.
Beckley led in batting, with two doubles and
a single.
Mack made errors, Wise 2, Sweeny 1, and
Morrill, /.
In the sixth Morrill, went to first on balls and
Haddock got there Smiths error. Then
Hoy struck out but Lauer dropped the ball,
Morrill, going to third and Haddock to second.
Dunlap claimed that they could not run on the
i'll TO him. But Morrill, sent for book and
finally. after about ten minutes delay per-
suaded him that Dunlap was wrong.
In the three games this week Hoy made
hits, Nilmot 6, Wise 8. Myers 6, Shoch 3.
Sweeney g. Morrill, 4, Mack B. This is doing
pretty we'll
The position of field captain is very import
ant. and the best officer does not always talk
the loudest or the most. A piece of nice sig
mailing work was noticed on Thursday. Mack
was on third ana runner on first. Dunlap
sgnaed to Carroll 10 catch Mack at third and
his signs were not lost upon everybody in the
crowd. kuehne saw them and Rugged third,
but Mack and his cOacher were both obiivious.
The runner started for second. Carroll made a
felnt to Dunlap and then lined the ball to
kuehne just as Mack took a good lead. He was
easily retired. 1t was pretty piece of work
Tor those who saw il from the start
keeie Is not doing very great wonders in New
| York as vet
The race for the pennant between Philadel-
PIMA and Boston promises to be very interest
| ing.
The Babies are playing one of the strongest
helding games in the league.
| 1t Is believed among certain base ball men
that Morris, the Plttsburg left-hand pitcher.
VIII never be what he has proven to be in the
| past. This belief is based on the fact that his
\ arm Is not, and will probably never again be- in
perfect condition. "-Ptj0. Press
4 The PIttsDurg team ia woafullv ont 80 ,o~x,