Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-04-19
THE OPENING GAMES.
The Championship Ball Season Begins
Today.

Inc championship Sail season Begins
Today.
The ball game yesterday did not amount to
much. 1t was simply a repetition of the enor-
nous victories that have gone before. the
score being &c to 2. the Gorhams being the vic
tins again. They put up a new battery in tho
hope that they might thereby stand show in
the result, but this was a vanity. On the other
hand Manager Sullivan imported man from
Baltimore to do the pitching for the home
team IN order to save his own men for the OPEN
ing today. His name is LISTEN, and he is an anna
teur, who is employed IN the Baltimore city
post Office. He did very well indeed his
delivery being quite swift and certain. Mich
olas held him well. He is one of the men on
whom Mr.. sullivan has his eye, and it is not
improbable that he may be called upon to do
some regular work in the senatorial box before
the season Is over, if there is an emergency.
There were about three hundred people at the
game. The home team made % hits and
errors, and the visitors hits and 10 errors.
THE CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON
opens today, the Hartford team being the
opponents. There will probably DO rge
crowd at the new grounds as number of in
vitatiOns have been issued by Mr. Hewett for
the game among some of the prominent bust
ness men of the city.
OF the visitors but little is known here; in
fact very little is known OF the relative
strength of any of the mines that compose the
Atlantic Association and hence all guesses
TO the outcome of the race are mere throws i'll
the wind. A correspondent of The STAR.
writing from Hartford, says: The Hartford
team enters the race badly handicapped. having
been unable to put their complete team in the
field, owing to the illness of couple of the
men. The team as originally signed consisted
of Murray and Moore, catchers; Winkleman.
OConnell and Pagan, pitchers; Sullivan. first
base; Matthias, second base Forster, short
stop; Say. third base; Annis left field; Henry,
center field, and Lynch. right field. But
neither Matthias nor Say have been able to
play with the nine this spring on account of
sickness and the team has been changed in
consequence. Murray and Moore, the catch
ers, are both good men and fine general play
ers. Wlnkleman. who was our star pitcher
last year, has done very little work in the box
this season, as his services were needed III the
outfeld Both he and Pagan are left handed
At present the club is weak, but when the men
get IN shape to play their strongest game they
will give all of their opponents good fight"
From all that can be gathered it seems that
the Hartfords are not strong at the bat. 1t is
this point that Is going to win many a game
for the Senators, for at least thirds of them
are far above the average with the stick.
Bader, Jordan, Gleason, Whistler, HILL Bird
OBrien all are almost sure hitters while Nc
Coy and Phillips have shown that they can hit
the ball as hard as any of them at times. 1t is
this that wins games, errors to the contrary
Notwithstanding. Every spectator likes to see
hard hitting, and man will be excused for a
muff in a minute if he will only make a hit
when it is needed.
YESTERDAYS GAMEs.
In Baltimore yesterday the Philadelphia
team trounced the Orioles by the score of to
f. TO the great satisfaction of the local patrons
who immediately compared this game with
that of Thursday here. Baltimore made hits
and errors and Philadelphia hits and
errors. Sam Thompson made a home run, a
three-base hit and single. Baker and Town
send and Vickery and Decker were the bat
teries.
Other exhibition games resulted as follows:
At New Iork-New York o.. 3; Newark 9;
ten innings. At NATURALIZATION 6: Hart
ford. 3. AT New Haven-Boston, Z; New Haven
3. At Observation-Disclosures 3; Lancaster, g.
The second day of the American Association
championship race resulted thus: At Philadel-
phla-Athletics. -; Rochester, O. At Column
bus-Columbus, a; Toledo, 3. At Brooklyn
Brooklyn. %; Syracuse, 81 At Louisyilie-St.
Louis, IL; Louisville. 8.
NOTES
The voice of the gong makes itself heard to-
day.
Hartford ought to drop two out Of the three
games played here.
Washingtons new players promise great
tHlHSS anu Will De rivals OF baltlm Ore.-Bdul-
more Sun. The awakening process has begun.
The Athletics doing better now that the
games count. This rule, however, does not
always hold good.
Captain Gleason says that he has not an ache
or pam IN his arm, which bothered him SO
much last year. But he has evidently not quite
recovered his old throwing ability.
Yesterday the home team played their second
errorless game OF the year and won their tenth
consecutive victory. No defeats have as vet
marred the record
Every time man goes to bat for Washington
Ted Sullivan. who sits on the PLAYERS bench,
remarks: Hit it on the nose, old mani Drive
it out.'
Today the teams will be Mccoy and Riddle
and Phillips and Nicholas for Washington, and
Wlnkleman and Murray for Hartford.
Manager Selee of the Boston team thinks
that Washington. Baltimore and Newark are
about evenly matched, with New Haven and
Worcester close behind them. He dubs the
Wilmington and Jersey City clubs the weakest
in the lot
Harry Wright has his eye on Parson Hill, the
clever third baseman of the home club He
does not like the way Mayer has covered Null
veys territory at third, it is said, and he thinks
that Hill Is about the right size for him. Mr.
Hewett would make himself very unpopular if
he should sell Hill, as he has become favorite
Iodays championship games will be as fol-
lows:
Atlantic Association-Hartfo at Washing
ton; Worcester at Wilmington: New Haven at
Baltimore; Newark at Jersey City.
National League-Brooklyn at Boston: Phil