Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-24
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ANOTHER VICTORY.

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1 New York. SO ~ $40 Cincinnati. SO 6l $50
! ANOTHER VICTORY.
The Statesmen. unieeling and heartless in
their desire to improve their average, did not
hesitate to take the third straight game from
the down-siiding Orioles on Saturday. The
score was to .. Sutcliffe and Mcclure did
some consecutive batting in the eleventh in
, ming and scored one earned run be-
tween them. and that sufficed 20 win the game.
! This victory in turn enabled the long wavering
Washingtons TO 60 up the ladder one round
| and to displace the Louisvlles. inasmuch IA
| that club did not play on Saturday.
| The batteries for the game were Eiteljorg
| and Mcclure and Mcmahon and Robinson.
7 Eiteljorg gave Il good MANY bases on balls.
seven in number but he WAS steadily effective.
! and the other side couid not bat him at Oppor-
! tune moments. The Orioles played the better
! game in the field. making oue-third many
| errors, but their hits were less freq Ion. and
! timely.
GREAT BALL PLAYING.
Dowd played the greatest game Of the day.
He scooped IN everything that went his way,
| Grounders H. balls. thrown balls, and his an
| tics were sufficiently vigorous to shut OF two
| or three runs that the Orioles seemed bent on
/ making. Sutcliffe led in the batting will a
single and double and Hatfield and Alvord
I each made two singles.
No one scored for woinninys. thorgh tie BAL
/ timore men had several chances to scc-r. In the
third Washington took the lead BIZ making two
runs. Hatfield went down on balls and Alvord
: found the sphere for a single. Eiteljorg sacri-
! feed and sent each man ahead one base. Muir
| ply hunted successfully and Hatfield scored.
i while Aivord crossed the rubber when bowd
sent "a slow grounder to OConnell, the new
baltimore shortstOp, who could do no more
| than throw to first.
/ sEE-sAwNG.
After that it was n case Of see-sawing. as the
! teams went out in turn without scoring. In
the eighth. however. Baltimore broke the ice by
| tallying one run WEIGH went to first on balls to
second on a sacrifice by Van Haltren. to third on
a steal and home on Il sacrifice by y Council.
/ The score was tied in the ninth by Johnson.
/ who went to first on called balls and stole sec
ond. tallying when Robinson hit past Dowd for
/ a base.
| The run thus made postponed things for a
lew minutes. but 1t was useless prolOngatiCn
of the agony. for in the eleventh. with one man
/ out. Suteliffe sent hot one humming down
| into center so far that he easily reached second
/ ON II. Mcclure was the next man at the bat.
| and Inc justified his reputation by placing a
| SKINNER past the shortStop that proved safe
enough to let SHtcliffe go around to third and
[ thcucc over the plate.
Washington made nine hits and three errors
and baltimore Ave Lifts and one error.
OTHER GAMES.
Columbus won from st. Louis 5 to 8, on a
bunch OF hits in the eighth inning. aided by
some poor pitching. knell and Donohue and
Eettser. Stivetts and Darling were the batteries.
ST. Loais made FIVE hits and five errors and
Columbus five hits and two errors.
Boston secured a good lead early in the game
and the Athletics had hard row to hoe to
close the gap. They did not succeed and the
victory went TO Boston by the score of s to 5.
| Sullivan and Ailligan and Bnfhnton and Kelly
were in the points. Boston made nine hits and
1 two errors and the Athletics tive hits and four
| errors
| There was but one game played in the as.
| ISOLATION yesterday and that was lost by St.
| LOuis to Columbus. to 6. Comiskey thought
! he had the game well in hand when he was
astonished in the seventh inning by the four
runs that the Buckeyes rolled up on him. This
/ ned the score and the OhiOans tailed another
/ in the eighth and won. The batteries we're Nc
Gill and Darling and Gastright and Donohae.
| Columbus made nine hits and light errors and
/ ST. Louis seven hits and five errors.
| NOTES.
In Baltimore today.
Make it four straight. boys.
| At home with st. Louis tomorrow
| Ned Crane will pitch for Cincinnati league
! Barnie may relinquish his claim on Ely for
| Dowd.
/ Duke may pitch today against Baltimore, Nc
Cure catching.
! The margin between seventh and eighth places
! Is very small.
! All eyes are now conferred on Washington.
not a. a team, but as place for the peace con-
| ference.
/ Dowd accented all Of his eleven chances Sat-
urday. He has awakened TO the fact that he
must hustle TO keep up with the procession.
The league will be represented by Hart
| Brush and Byrne. and the association by Phelps,
Kramer and Won der Abe
Columbus has released Dennely recently
| signed, when the Omaha men came east and has
| signed u Rourke. late OF Duluth.
Poor old Eadbourne, He has been released
! by the Cincinnati league aggregation as a back
number.
Tim Keese rubbed i, into the Giants on Sat
/ urday. defeating them for the PhiliIes by his
d-time curves and speed.
shannon has re joined the team which came
| TO this city Saturday night after the game, and
| returned to Baltimore this morning
| The game .ouorrow between the Statesmen
and the Browns will open the last long series
I on the home grounds. There will be twelve
/ games played. all with western teams, and then
| the club will go away for as many games in the
i west and six more in the east, making eighteen
/ games away from home Just at the close of the
| season. This IS pretty hard on tue Senators as
they need every game just now to help them in
/ the race.
| The games here with the westerners will oe-
/ cur as follows: ST. Louis. August % &c. %
| Cincinnati, August %. %. 81: Louisville Sen
ten,ber /. ., 3: Columbus, September 5. Z. :.
/ There are to be two games on The 9TH OF S.p-
| TENDER, will bs noticed. this being set down
on the calendars Labor day" 1t might be
! a plum anywhere else. but it is to be feared
| that it will not be much OF q date here A
morning game IN Washington on anything bu.
a holiday that releases the departments will be
| n future. As there are several open dates
around that time il might he a profits BILE
! scheme to get the morning game Tor September
/ 3 put Of until the afternoon Of the Sth
! One OF the prettiest games Of the season was
played at the Y. NJ. C. A. grounds Saturday
/ the I'D instant. between the Arcades and PEN
I sion Agency team, which resulted i'll victory
/ for the former by the score of to 2. The
/ brilliant fielding OF Sictors loudly ap-
| plauded by the Numerous spectators present
! The battery work Of Wilson and Lewis Of the
Arcades entirely satisfactory, but two hits
being made of WILSON.
| 1t Is expected that Bowman, the crack pitcher
of the Cape May Club, will sign with the Ath-
Y letics.
There is dissatisfaction In the ranks Of the
/ New York Giauts Roger Connor and Glass
cock are both clamoring FOR their release 1t
! is said that WEIGH, Gore and CLARKE arc also
dissatisfied. Ewings management il said to be
the cause of the trouble.
Too Maay PeaclssA
! An Esston, Nd, dispatch says the peach
! business was q failure last wear because there