Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-29
LEAGUE.
OVER THE FENCE.
Home again!

nOHe again!
The Senators ended their trip badly. They
cross bats with the Phillies today.
New York profted by yesterdays work.
Sam Thompson could own Philadelphia to-
day If he wanted to.
Alas! Poor Cleveland! The tobog is long
and slippery indeed.
Baltimore has about shattered Brooklyn's
hopes for the association pennant.
Wilmot and Wise were at the bat seven times
piece yesterday and each made four hits
Chicago Is looming up in the foreground of
the league just at present, and is now keeping
the Phillies busy holding third place. Arson
is great slayer.
Clarke has hard luck with his hands. This
makes about the third time this season that he
has had them injured
1t is quite probable that some postponed
games will be played of this week here The
Senators have three such with the Phillies on
the home grounds.
popular and all-round playee Ewing received
39l votes. Kelly 1877, Arson 1873, Ward So Glass
cock SO, CAMEL SO, Williamson %, Bufinton H.
A. Irwin 8, Denny 6. Three each say Dunlap
and Fred Carroll. and two choose Fields Foutz
leads the association, having 1888 to Comiskey's
l4.-PhilIdelptid Inquirer.
From the above il would appear that the
popular idea OF popularity is based on foun-
dation OF rough, tricky, questionable ball play
ing. On these grounds there is no doubt an to
is that OF winning ball player the vote is all
right, but if 1t was intended to bring out the
sentiment as to the man who deserved the most
honest praise the balloting is rather queer.
The Senators are now home again after q
long tour. The have visited every othe. league
city and have played twenty-thres games
away from home, being for q greater
part Of the time crippled in pitching
talent That they have succeeded in win
ming seven Of these games is cause for con-
graduation Instead Of going backward in
their percentage on this trip, as is usually the
case when they go abroad, they have just
about held their own, and although there is
still wide gap between them and place the
home patrons should not feel that the club has
lost every chance.
made l2s runs, 212 hits and 105 errors, while
their opponents made 1876 runs, 24S hits and rs
errors. They were outbattcd in every city but
Indianapolis, where they made IS hits to 80,
and IN Boston, where they made SO hits to 81.
They were outfelded in every city, coming
pretty close to their opponents in this respect
In New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland,
/ where the enemy made error less.
Wimot made Is hits and errors; Hoy, %
hits, errors; Wise, q hits, 81 errors; Beecher,
hts errors; Arthur Irwin, 81 hits, IA errors;
John Irwin, 70 hits, II errors; Carney, Is hits,
errors; Mack, 10 hits, 8 errors; DAILY. Is hits,
| errors; Clarke, hits. errors; Person, hits
errors; Haddock, hits, errors.
Beecher was not in games and Carney laid
on from 2. Mack played in IL games and Daily
In IL Wiimot was not in one game. Clarke
played In games Person pitched games,
haddock !, Sullivan and Keefe 4.
mere WIZ be but one game Of ball played To-
day at Capitol park.
:, Jim Davis, the inhelder recently released by
Kansas City, has been signed by the st. Louis
Browns. He will be used as an extra. Sweeney,
leased.