Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-30
A DEFEAT AND A VICTORY.
How the Washingtons Evened Up
Things.

Things.
| THE TROUBLE WITH THE HOME TEAM-ITs
PITCHERS NOT Up TO THE sTASDARD-YEsTER-
DAYS FARCE-aAMEs IN OTHER CITIES
Saturdays game of ball at Capitol Park,
though defeat for the home team, was quite
| interesting and close enough to be exciting.
The score was to /, New Haven winning by
virtue of superior pitching, On the day
| before. The batteries we're Daniels and
Riddle and Horner and Hofford. O'Brien
played at short and Wentz at second, both
doing well enough, the former making the
| only error between them Horner was almost
as effective as his colleague Doran. while. at
| the same time, Daniels seemed to have better
luck with the Yankee sluggers than did Phil
lips on Friday. His work in tine box was very
creditable indeed, but the other man had the
most effective curves, and that was the reason
| why the visitors won the game.
| New Haven took slight lead in the first in
| ming. which was not tied until the fourth. One
run was made by Mckee. who went to first on
1 balls, to second on sacrifice by Cahill and to
| the plate on a safe drive to right by Lynch,
! which Bird did not handle clearly enough
| The score remained one to nothing until the
| fourth, when Bader's fly dropped by
| Mckee. The nimble fellow then stole second
| and third and came to the rubber on Whistler's
| hard single. The tie kept up until the
seventh, when New Haven scored two runs and
| won the game. Cahill was given his base on
balls and when he tried to steal second the play
| there was so close that the audience Thought
| that the runner was out and raised a great
| commohon when Umpire Kelly called him safe.
| Lynch hit for n base and Cahill went to third
| both men scoring on Lally's clean single.
Washington made four hits and five errors
| and New Haven eight hits and three errors.
| OTHER GAMES
Wilmington won again from Jersey City, 3 to
0. Wilmington made hits and errors and
Jersey City hits and errors.
Baltimore also shut Worcester out, to 0.
Tho Orioles made hits and errors and the
| ex-champions hits and 3 errors.
| Newark had picnic in the second inning,
| making seven runs. and a result won handily
| from Hartford by the score of IL to 9. New
ark made hits and errors AND Hartford II
| hits and errors. The trouble with Hartford
was that Doyle gave twelve men bases on balls
| in the first two innings
Other games Saturday resulted as follows:
National League-At Cincinnati-New York,
8; Cincinnati, IL. At Pittsburg-Boston, 9;
PIttsburg, l. At Cleveland-P Philadelphia. 6;
Cleveland. 5. At Chicago-Brooklyn, 8; Chi
cago, 4.
Players League-At Philadelphia
9; Buffalo. 4. At Pittsburg York. 4; Pitts
burg. 2. At Cleveland-Brooklyn, 10; Cleve-
land, /. At Chicago-Boston, 4; Chicago. 5
(ten innings).
American Association-At Louisville-Brook.
Ign, 5; Louisville. 6. At Toledo-AthIetic, /;
Toledo, 8. At st. Louis-Rochester, 5; st.
Louis, 10. At Columbus-Syracuse s; Column
bus, Z.
THE NATTER WITH THE HOME TEAM.
1t is rapidly becoming evident that the Wash
ingto Club will never be higher in the race in
the Atlantic Association, IT, indeed, it holds its
t1n1a lr,, a. -
IN the pitching department The game of
Thursday with Jersey City. that of Friday with
New Haven, aud the one again on Saturday
with the same team, clearly show that tho op-
posing teams won because they we're possessed
of stronger pitching talent, and this will be the
excuse for the club AS long the present con-
diton Of things exist. Some folks lay the blame
upon the weak batting of the Senators, but this
Is not an absolute truth. for their batting has
been weak only In comparison with that of their
opponents which has been heavy because the
pitchers whom they faced were weak That is
to say, the chances are that the htters of the
Washington team are just strong and re-
liable as those of the teams they have met eX-
cept that they have not had the same oppor-
tunity to display their powers. One should
look to the cause and not the effect in such
case, for the effect is only too palpable
Mr.. Sullivan showed good Judgment as a
manager when he procured the services of
Underwood and Daniels. but their perform
ances nave shOWn lney are not equal to
the occasion OF pulling the team on. of the rut
into which it has fallen. They are good
pitchers, IT may be, but not quite good enough
for the present emergency. As for Phillips there
is no doubt that he lis the best pitcher on
| the team. but that does not make him the euual
| of such men as German of Baltimore or Doran
| of New Haven. and while there are such rivals
| to him in the field the team cannot hope to
| pass those clubs IN the race. The logic of the
| case is very evident. We should get at least
itaha To tbaa 0f 81
| a pitcher upon whom the club can rely in a
| close call, and to whom the public will look for
\ a victory whenever ii knows that he is to pitch
| That is the feeling that not only wins games
but which brings people to see them, and it is
| all that will save the home team from continued
defeat
| These facts are incontrovertible; we cannot
be sure of victories at all nowadays unless our
opponents happen to be lower down in the race
| than We are. and even then things are not dead
sure. OF course no one wants that the game
should become a matter of absolute certainty,
for that would take from its most charming
feature that glorious uncertainty" which has
become the prime element of the sport. But
spectator does not, at the same time, want to
feel reasonably sure every time that he goes to
the game that unless the other side stands
lower down than the home team the latter is to
be defeated. Especially is this disheartening
now. when the list OF those under us is so small
There is no fault to be found with the team
in its individual work although perhaps folks
would like to see Bird hit the ball little oftener
and Gleason played every day and Jordan stop
making 50 many errors. That is about the sum
| total of the reasonable complaints that are
heard. although OF course there are many
| more that utterly unreasonable. 1t is too
soon yet to judge of the abilities and worth Of
the new man, Wentz, who has not done any
thing remarkable as vet. He seems to be spry.
| but triie awkward in getting at a ball; but he
hits hard and when he does hit il usually goes
down on the gound instead of up in the air.
That is a great point in his favor.
| SUNDAY GAMES.
| Sunday base ball around Washington received
very black eye yesterday at the game played
between the Senators and the Worcester Club
at the Driving Park. near Alexandria The
| Senators won the game, to Z. but the pres
ence on the grounds of the sheriff of Alexan-
! dria county and a number of deputies was the
means Of giving great deal OF unexpected fun
! to the spectators and just much unantici-
| pated annoyance TO the officials of the club
i Secretary Burkett took the club down under
| his charge but he came back to the city at a
J break-neek pace before the game was over
\ with the sheriff OF the county chasing at his
| heels. Today Mr.. Burkett is fugitive from
! justice. having escaped from the clutches Of
| giving an exhibition without license.
| The sheriff first act was to arrest rudy Mr.
| Dunn, the ticket seller. and to close the gates