Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-25

Two crippled base ball teams pounded eacl
other in Philadelphia yesterday. They had JUS
come ont of the west and were very severei,
disfgured. Today the NationaIs-one OF the
traEs-arc more than ever. while the Ath
lct!cs--the other-are soothed in their woe 10y
the balm Of Il victory. Washington lost the
game. ITO =. through the poor pitching of Fore
man, the man who was once thought to be the
only real pitcher on the team.
The hitting on both sides was hard and fro
quent, bat the Athletics found the ball more
often, and they were presented with a good
iIany bases through poor deliveries. Foreman
SuTe three bases on balls and hit tive men be-
sues. M:lligan twice.
MeGUire. who caught Forenaus delivery,
hit the ball savagely, making two two-baggcrs
and 4 single. and McCauioy found It Tor three
singles. Carsey, who played i'll right field,
Taadc Il throc-bIgger. aud so did Foreman, YET
two oI the Athletics made home runs.
The victOrs scored seven runs before WASH
inSton opened up ON the tally board. Three
were made in the first inning on Foreman $
wlldness. Cross hit the ball safely i'll the sec
ond and scored ON sacrifice and another hit
by Wood. Larkiu's homer III the third made
the score to 0, and another single and another
home run put two more to the credit Of the
Pbiladelphians III the fourth.
Sanders was pitching tine ball in tho meantime,
and the Statesmen were hitting to the iniieiG.
but In tie fourth a Change came. and MctiuIre
led of with Il smashing double to the left FENCE,
scoring when MeCauley hit safely. After Car
sey had gone down OH balls each runner was sent
along by Dowd's sacrifice, and then tailed when
Hatfield hit for base.
This put the score to 8, but the Athletics in
the fifth tailed another FOR good measure.
Cross being hit and scoring on u double by
Sanders. in the latter half The Nationals scored
four runs and came within one of a tie. Muir
ply went along on balls, and after reaching Sec
ond on DonOyans sacrifice crossed the rabber
on single by McGuire, who was put on second
by passed ball. McCauley then placed Sill
gle and Mcclure tailed. The big first base
man was enabled 10 score when Carsey damned
u three-bagger into the field. and then scam
pered home Oh Dowd's hy sacrifice to Wood III
left.
his was as near TO victory as Washington
came. The Athletics, finding the company of
the Statesmen too close for comfort. pulled
away one peg in the sixth on single by Nc
Tamany. double by Larkin and an error by
Hatfield. who muffed the ball that Murphy
threw in from the two-base hit Thus the
score stood until the end OF the ;inth inning,
when Washington made burst that promised
a victory for a few minutes. Had McCsuley
repeated his former trick of hitting hard
enough to score Mcclure the game might have
been won. As II was only one run was scored.
and that brought the team up within one of a
tie. Foreman started the thing going with
three-base hit to left and scored when Murphy
went out on fy- After Donovan had flied
ouI 10 cehter Mctulre again planted a ball
against the left fence for two bases, but Nc
Cauiey. in trying to duplicate the hit, struck
out.
Washington made twelve hits and one error
and Philadelphia fourteen hits and one error.
OTHER GAMES.
Boston punched some hard hits in the ninth
inning with Baltimore and by scoring three runs
then defeated the Orioles, to g. Buffinton,
O'Brien and Murphy and Mcmahon and Robin
son were In the points baltimore made six
teen hits and two errors and Boston thirteen
hits and one error.
Milwaukee won a wranging game from
Columbus. to 4, by more punched batting
Crooks, who became obstreperous during a dis
cussion over one Of McLaughlin's decisions,
was ordered from the game. Eight innings
were played. The batteries were Knell and
Donohue and Dwyer and Vaughn. Milwaukee
made eight hits and one error and Columbus
eleven hits and three errors.