The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-26

The Nationals lost yesterdays game through
the bad mufT of Davis in the ninth inning,
and the objectionable and churlish base-run-
ming of Beecher and Hatfield in the fifth and
sixth innings. 1t was another presentation to
the visiting club of victory, the fourth one
the Nationals have generously, out of the
goodness of their hearts, given away this
season. There was the same lack Of team
work, and the coaching of men on the bases
was execrable and merited the disgust of
nearly three thousand spectators, who twice
saw the game apparently won. and then as
many times thrown away. The story of the
miserable work Of the team, of its
want of concert, is best shown
in the table below, where it is seen the
home team earned five of their runs to one for
the Athletics, outbatted them in every respect,
yet threw the game away. The team is good
one with one or two exceptions. They are bat
ters OF the star order, yet in critical moments
they lose their heads and commit some of the
Tankest errors ever seen on village green,
while their team work wouldn't half compare
with them OF course, there are exceptions
there, as Dowd, the newcomer, who has more
ginger in his little toe than the rest combined.
He plays ball as it should be played. Hines,
too, excepting ground hits, is showing his
these out the rest are playing stupid ball. We
ought TO except Carsey also, as that little
player can always be depended on
to play good game. Let us there
fore fore drop a.. veil over a,. the troupe
something better The game yesterday is
briefly told. In the first inning Hallman went
to base on balls Larkin, Wood, and Mulvey
made hits, on which two runs were scored. In
the fiftha base on balls, hits by Corkhill and
two more, and in the eighth one more was
added by Corcoran's hit, two errors, and sac
rifice. In the mean time the Nationals had Sc
cured one run in the second on hits by Dowd,
McGuire, and Blakely, two in the sixth on
base on balls Davs's hit, and errors of Corco-
ran, and one more in the seventh on clean hits
by Beecher, Visner, and Hines. When the
ninth inning opened the score was 5 to in
favor of the Athletics and the spectators
thought the game was lost, as Hatfield, the
Beecher set the bleachers cheering by
making clean hit, and then visner kept
deep centre for three ''f bases. sal' Hines inee
followed with good single, and then Dowd,
by mighty effort. sent the ball sailing over
Woods head in the left, and so fast did he
spin around the bases that he nearly overlook
Hines, Davis's out and McQuery's force
allowed Dowd to score, and then McGuire's
hit brought in McQuery. This was great
rally, and the spirits of the bleachers were
away up, as victory was certain. But base
ball is uncertain, as the Athletics proceeded
to demonstrate for with two bases on balls,
sacrifice by Corkhill, hit by Larkin, and
another by Milligan, the cunning visitors
were allowed to score four runs before going
out, thereby tieing the score and making
tenth inning necessary. Again we chronicle
the fact how uncertain is base ball, for in their
half of the ninth Hatfield reached first on an
error of Corcoran, and home on a long drive
of Beecher's, which nearly rolled into the for
est, and on which he made the circuit of the
bases. The excitement was intense, spectators
threw their hats, canes, umbrellas, etc., in
the air, and the patients of Freedman's took
another lease on life over the glad tidings.
But all this was short-lived, as Callihan
reached first on balls, and then Hallman
raped out three-bagger, and made home on
Corkhills sacrifice; Larkin also hit for three
bases, and scored the winning run on wild
pitch of Bakeley 1t was tough game to
lose, and the big crowd surged out through
the gates in anything else but pleased frame
of mind. Attendance, 1858. Umpire Jones
gave the best exhibition of umpiring seen here
for some time The score In full: