The Washington critic., 1889-05-15
THE SPORTING WORLD.

should spoil H. The baseball pOel Is
abroad now aud he expresses himself in
the following lines
Washington has ball club,
For winning us not great,
But II gives them pain
To see II rain
Alasl It's the ruling of Fate.
They are patient ball club
They never lose their grit.
They 20 to the plate,
But strike too late,
And back on the bench they sit.
Sometimes they have a batting streak,
And knock the ball all round,
But thoir opponents Will coop
Them mp In the soup
And the ball numerically pound.
They expect TO show in future
That they can play good ball.
They will gain in the race,
Get up In fourth place
This is The CRITICS call.
Cleveland is hilarious over the re-
peatcd defeats of the Black Crooks by
lis League team Its baseball editor
drops into verse about the 0 to 8 game
as follows:
BE-NIGN WAY or LOoRGNG At 1T.
Nine little Infants played game of ball,
Nine big Giants thought to make 'em fall;
Nine little Infants ne'er let their courage
droop,
Nine big Giants tumbled in the soup.
Nine big Giants will squelch 'em sure,
they say.
| Nine little Infants keep a sawin' wood.
Nine big Giants only wish they could
The games played yesterday resulted
as follaws: Chicago Z, Philadelphia ;;
Cleveland 3, New York o. Boston 13,
Pittsburg o; Louisville Athletic. rain;
Brooklyn 4, Cincinnati o; st. Louis Z,
Baltimore % Kansas City II, Columbus
10 Worcester 4, Newark /; Wilkes
barre 4. New Haven .; Hartford .,
Easton /; Lowell-Jelsey City, ran
Cuban Giants 3. Philadelphia Giants o.
John Coleman is practicing pitching
every day, and those who have seen
him at work say he has great speed and
excellent command of the ball.
The Postal Telegraph Company now
has the right TO every ball ground in
the country, except the Louisville and
Athletic grounds, and it will have the
latter by June l.--CatChcr Decker of
the Philadclphias is laid up with n
spraincd back What do you think
of the Babies, New York, anyhow -
The Clcvelands are showing surpris
ing strength, and promise TO have con
siderable to say as 10 who shall win the
pennant = Boston Herald. Bakely
is the king of wet ball pitchers. -
This, indeed, is humiliating--Pittsburg
down TO sixth place and that Cleveland
baby one notch above us and leading
the League in point of games won
| Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. -
Shoch is batting hard for Washington.
He made his first error In eleven games
on Saturday. Person has thus far
done decidedly the best work in the box
for the Washingtons Wheelock will
come very near to leading the Interna
tional Association in fielding. g.-Grant
Briggs has made hit as catcher in
Syracuse. The first eight games in
Cleveland attracted 1900 people -
Morrill, has got nine bases ON balls in
twelve games. Brouthers has reached
his base on balls twice in thirteen
games The relative position and per-
| centage of the Washington men thus far
are: No. 20, Shoch, .341 No. 81 Hoy,
800; No. 43. Myers, .279; No SO, Carney,
.220; No. 13, Wise. Ia; No. H.,
Sweeny, 1853; No. 7s, Morrill,, 154; No
SO, Mack, .147.
Spokane again defeated Proctor
Knott yesterday and Kentucky is salts
fled that the former is the better 1t
was in the Clark stakes at Louisville.
While the field was limited IL was full
of quality, including the Futurity win
I 40, t.,K a,,l Ia.
querer, Spokane. Come to Taw was
coupled with his stable companion,
Proctor Knott, and they backed at odds
of 9 to on them coupled. Spokane was
second favorite at 3 to |, while Once
Again was rated at to /. The last
named was the first TO come on the
track, followed by Spokane, while
neither of Bryants went by the stand,
they going straight from the field,
where they were saddled to the post.
Richie was on Proctor Knott, Finnigan
on Come to Taw, Murphy on Once
Again, Kiley on Spokane. After one
OF two breakaways they were dis
patched, with Come to Taw in front,
and the others very closely punched,
Once Again being last AT the stand
the latter had his head in front, the
others being necks apart. In going
around the turn Proctor Knott went to
the front and Mt the quarter was one
length ahead of Spokane, the Others
head and head length further back.
Along the back stretch the former
drew away, but it was only fol
moment. Spokane closing onct
more to within length and a-half ol
linn at the half mile The other two
here commenced TO labor and it wa,
readily discernible that they were .ou
Of it. Round the bend for the three
quarters and into the homestretch Knott
led by a length. Once in the stretch
however, Spokane quickly closed or
Bryant's great colt and soon having hin
in difficulties, came away rs he pleased
in the last eighth and showing hi
Derby victory was no flukc by winning
in decidedly clever style by three
lengths Proctor Knott finished foul
lengths in front of Once Again, while
a like distance away came Come to Taw
The time, 2. .12l, was exceedingly goot
for the track. The fractional times oI
the race were; First quarter, 26a; half
5B!; three-quarters, l,l04; first mile
l.46. The value of the stakes to til,
winner was $3.50.
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