Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-06
ALMOST A VICTORY.
Why the Washingtons Did Not Capture a
Game Yesterday.


Game Yesterday.
The defeat of the Senators by the Giants yes
terday by the score of to was principally to
an inability on the part of the former to hit the
ball safely when men were on bases often
enough. and again to a case of rattles that
seized the home battery in the third inning.
The Washingtons were all mixed up in their
positions, Shoch playing at short in place of
Wise, who hurt a finger badly in practice, Mack
occupying right field, while Person and Clark
were i'll the points. Against them were pitted
WEIGH and Murphy. tisquestionable whether
the playing of CLARK behind Person was wise or
not, for both are youngsters in the league,
without any knowledge at all of the New York
ers peculiarlties. 1t is not far from
a certainty that had Mack been behind the bat
from the start at least one, If not two, of the
runs made in the second and third innings
would not have been made. As il was Person
was nervous and unsteady, and in the third
pitched two wild balls that enabled runs to
tally. The second of these reopened Clark =
sore hand and he had to retire from the game
while Mack came up to the plate and Ebright
filled right-feld. Then Person steadied down
and there was no more wildness, while he kept
the visitors hits, some Of them long. hard ones,
pretty well scattered. The field work was al
most perfect, the Senators doing a little the
better. Some of the catches by both left
helders were excellent. and Murphy earned a
generous round of applause by his magn!f cent
catch oil Persons foul fly in the seventh.
THE GAME.
The visitors scored in the second on hit BY
Conner, a steal, Clark's bad throw to second,
and Richardson's neatly placed single. Again
in the third they got two men around the
diamond. Murphy made hit and went to
second and third on wild pitch. WEIGH
reached first on balls, and Gore drove one to
Sweeny that was neatly handled, and proved
Murphy's fate between third and home WEIGH
reached third and Gore second on the play
and then another wild pitch sent the former
in. Tiernan sacrificed to Wilmot and Gore
scored. The Statesmen started to catch their
opponents in the fourth, and should have
made more than the one run that
Resulted from Wiimot's single and steal.
passed bail. Hoy's base on balls Mack's neat
sacrifice to first. and Myers base on balls. But
one was all they could get. and there was a man
LETT on third and one on second. The visitors
would have scored at least a couple i'll the lat
ter half of the fourth but for poor base run
ming. Common was hit and stole second nicely
but he let his large frame trundle too far over
the bag and was easily touched out. Richard
son then made a rattling two-bagger TO the
center fence. and came to grief when the bail
handled beautifully by Hoy and Shoch. en-
eountered his person at third in Sweeny's
clutches.
Sharp fielding by New York alone prevented
the home team from scoring in the sixth. Both
Hoy and Mack hit safely and then MYERS drove
one at Hatfield III a spitcful manner The
blond. however. took it CALMLY and managed 20
touch Hoy he ran. Morrill, then smashed
another at the whIte-heaGed young man on
third and he was again equal to the emergency
and assisted in good double play at second
and first. retiring the side.
The visitors had scored their last run in the
fifth on MuTphy's three bcCger and Morrill's
excusable tumble OF Cores singing grounder
and were barely shut off from a run in the
sixth. With Ward out Conner hit for three
bases and Richardson pumped one right at
Person The young man from Manchester
Eripped it and tossed it over to Sweeny putting
on; the astOnished Roger. who made no effort
To get back. but dove tor his glove. Richard
sons error. ShOch's hit. and Ebright's sacri-
flee enabled the Senators to I'LL second and
third with but one ont Person went out on a
foul to Murphy. and Wiimot lined out one that
would have gone to the right fence had it not
net Connor's hands on its path. 1t was great
luck Tor Roger.
GOOD RALLY.
The home team made a neat rally in the
eighth. but they spelled it with too small an
r." and fell one short OF tieing Hoy sent
pretty twO-bagger skimming along the right
line and he scored when Gore dropped Mack 3
fly. Alyers' sacrifice sent Mack to third and
NOrriiIs wei-timed hit sent Mack home
sweeny. who saved the game on Tuesday with
a home run at just such a juncture, was not up
70 tie notch yesterday, and he struck out.
Morrill, tried to steal with poor success. Moth
ing more done by either side except hit
by O'ROurke that availed nothing. Washing
ton made hits and 2 errors, and New York 8
hits and errors.
NOTES OF THE GAME.
Person showed great head in the eighth
when. with a man on second and two out, Roger
Common, who had been hitting hard, came to
the bat. Roger wanted another hit but Person
w1nked to Mack and tossed four bad ones off to
the lett of the plate, and the big man went to
first on balls. Richardson then proved the
wisdom of the move by flying out to Ebright
Umpire Curry received terrible slap in the
cheek from hot foul from Hoys bat in the
fourth. he let the pain go on for about half
an hour and then had to give up. After long
consultation between Morrill, and Richardson
II was decided to take two players as umpires,
and Sam Wise and George were chosen. The
former Offciated at the plate for Washington
and on the bases for New York. This arrange
ment proved very satisfactory and the game
was finished without a kick.
OTHER GAMES.
Philadelphia scored in the eleventh, and
thus won from Boston, to 4. The bat
teries were Madden. Camel and Kelly, and
Casey and Clements. Boston made l3 hits and
errors. and Philadelphia hits and error.
Cleveland won two games from Chicago The
first was by the score of to t. Bakely and
Snyder, and Dwyer and Darling being the bat
terles. The Ancients made hits and l error
and the Infants 10 hits and 8 errors The score
OF the second game was to 5. Cleveland max
ing 10 hits and 5 errors, and Chicago IL hits
and errors.
At Baltimore-Baltimore, IL; Cincinnati. 10.
AT Brooklyn-Brooklyn 4; Kansas City, q At
Philadelp hia-Athletics, IL; Louisville 10. Al
Columbus-St. Louis, 4; Columbus, 3.
To-DAys GAMES.
The team plays to-day in Philadelphia, meet.
ing the Ponies after the lattcr's disastrous trip
To Boston The Senators will have hard pull
10 get game in their present condition. es-
pecially as the Philies will undoubtedly make
strong efforts to retrieve Themselves
New York plays in Boston. Pittsburg at Cleye.
land, and Indianapolis at Chicago
Washington folks will not su fer from a lack
Of base bail while the Senators are in Phila-
delphia- On Saturday occurs the second game
OF the series between the Reporters and the
Policemen for the benefit of the police relief
fund The formers team will be selected FROM
the following: Williams, Simms DOYLE Har-
ries, McSween, Kaufman, JONES' Larner
Lyon and Dryer. President Young, of the
National league, will don a mask and officiate
al the services as umpire, and arrangements
are IN progress to keep the immense crowd oil
people from pressing into the diamond anC
dlscOncertIng him.
A well-contested game Of base ball was