Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-23
National League.
YEsrERpAY's GAME.

You have doubtless seen a big maltese cat
playing with a mouse. II will let the little
creature shrink away a short distance, but Just
al !. thinks il is getting away the feline merry
maker will stretch out q paw and gather in the
little victim. Then it will again relax its vigil
lance aud the prisoner tries again TO escape.
only again to be pulled back. Oh, it's great
fun for the cat. Well it was that way with
Yesterdays bali game. 1t IL not necessary to
say which role in the comedy was taken by the
home nine. They had performed the same
part on Tuesday and were well up in their
lines. The Bostors didn't go in and win the
game in one inning. No. they gave IL show
and sprinkled the run getting through five
innings They had lots of fun with us yester-
day. But even the mouse that is trod upon
| will turn in time. Perhaps the mOuses turn
comes today.
1t was a regular Fourth Of July crowd that
went out to see the Omaha contingent make
| Its debut yesterday. This time ii was pretty
| certain that the stars would appear and ali the
first nighters' were on hand. They went out
determined to have lots of fun with Duffy
| when his nine, one by one, would come to bat.
beat the air frantically and retire discounted
before his jags," as cherEiteijorg had been
disrespectfully dubbed. 1t was crowd bub-
bling over with spirits anG Willingness to cheer
the local team to triumph. There wasn't,
to be sure, the enthusiasm over the appearance
of the new men that might have been expected
under fhe circumstances. Mondays disap-
pointment had made the occupants of the
sweaters tribe suspicious. Still the
''rooters were all ready to root their
hardest if given only half chance. very
pleasant feature Of the performance was the
presentation to Catcher Mcclure of hand
some diamond pin by Capt. Prince the veteran
scorer, on behalf Of many admirers of the
catcher's earnest work for Washington. Every
one let out an extra link or two Of enthusiasm
then and it was as good as winning game.
He Is hard worker-always willing-and
everybody has a good word to say for him. 1t
was very wise thing, giving to Mcclure on q
day when he wasn't playing. With the i'm
memorial luck or such occasions he would have
famed the air every time he went 10 bat after
inst. ana goodness knows we wanted hits too
badly to run any risks like that. We had
fancied that Haddock the pitcher we
couldn't hit. but after seven innings of coquet-
ting with the ball We concluded that it was
Bufhnton.
HOW THE GAME WENT.
Boston started in like man running hundred
yards. Neither our valiant pitchers name nor
his curves had any terror for Tom Brown. who
landed the ball safely in center field. Eite,jorg
had heard Of Duffy and gave him his base Nc
Geachy couldn't get the ball by Eiteljorg and
he retired. Eiteljorg didn't like big Dan
Brouthers confident smile and he let him have
his base. Things were getting exciting now
and the next ball that came mp Sutclife failed
tnsfof and 1t bounded way back to the stand
pa bsfere 10 was returned to the plate Brown
and BnRf had scored. This considerably
| ratified Eiteljorg, and to even up his end a
trite he gave Murphy and Richardson bases.
| With the bases full big Butfinton came to the
bat, determined to have some of that -four
| BALI business himself, but the willy pitcher was
ready for him and gave him one of those slow
Omaha twisters that Buff innocently thought
| was good for q drei-socker. Deluded youth: it
was a little fly and settled in the hands OF his
| jsgs." who tossed ii to AIvord and thus caught
big Brouthers. who had ventured toward home
under the impression that Buff had made the
triple he had planned Only two runs. Well.
| that's good 1t looked at one time as though a
thousand was about the number that would be
| scored.
1t didn't take our men long to transac, their
business about the home plate. They couldn't
have scorneG 1t more il it had been a hunk of
the tin variety Of Anne rican manufacture and
they were Anglo-maniac importers. For nine
innings they ,pranced and cavorted about that
bit Of hard rubber and only four safe hits re-
| suited. Slattery, Griffin, Sutcliffe and Eitei-
jorg were the fortunate ones The Omaha
contingent were evidently in it when it came
&c batting Brown made hit in the second,
but was left on first. Eiteljorg gave only one
man has base in the third and Sutcliffe had
only one passed ball. This, with two singles
and a sacrifice, scored McGeachy.
TON BROWNS WORK.
What Tom Brown has against our new pitcher
e"niio' mere oe saiu, out IL is iaHentaDle IacI
| that when he came to the bat in the fourth he
landed ON the ball nightly and took secordte-
fore il was tielded in Duffvs sacrifice mt hin,
/ on third and sutclilfe's passed bail scored him
! N was the trst Inning reneated WcGaacb
! took fret on Alyord's wide throw N f,rst and
| stoIe second. Fiteliorp tboupbt tbat ON. hasa
was better than three and sent Brouthers 10
| frst. To be impartial he lid .be same Win
Nurnbyr Then tIariie R;cbarasou 60 u go
| Of hi. Wild western Detroit OLD timers md Al
/ Geacby and Brouthers scored before ,bs baII
| could be returned from the rigLt gordor
| where Richardson had carefullv nlsnteS -
| ,xn,x,
| TIL. v;s;,or, Ion, ~, ,ho;r ~ Al,
r,,h s;na,a. hy MS No. ~ wv
,bars ,nmbls Of Dnav,s HI, ~. &c.
o,bar nas.ea hall INV sntc,;,ra .n, a-;sna
resulted in three more tallies.
| R,dford opened the seventh in n mos.or,v
manner by sending the bali where mo- ,;eide,
awaited and Brown hit safely and took second
on Grifin's letting il get away from him ,y,sr ha
had once corraled IT, Radford .cared az 10
| Brown came in ON a sacrifice- Thi. sndaa .na
| rnn getting '.'
The Bostons had made II hits md nm o-
| and the Nationals hits and & srror. -'' e'ioi'