Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-21

Yesterdays game at National Park with the
Red Legs from Cincinnati was worth going
miles to see. True Cincinnati won by to 2,
but ii was full Of remarkable plays. Rhines
was extremely generous in giving bases on balls
and had the local men played the game" thew
might have Won Instead OF sacrificing mon
srouud to the plate in obedience TO orders they
tried to hit the bal out OF the lot. An Radford
and Dowd were the only ones who could gauge
Rhines at ali these ambitious efforts resulted in
fly to the outfeld easy hit to the
infeld Dowd and Duffee were especially
to blame in this sort o. thing. Manager
Irwin cannot be held responsible for defeat
II his men do not obey orders. When every
run scored counts as much as it did yesterday
the game should be played safe and sure"
Irwin knows that and every player on the
Washington nine should know IL. Being out
batted and outfelded is something club can
not help occasionally, but there il no excuse for
a club throwing away chances by refusing to
sacrifice when sacrificing should be done. A
little sharp discipline is evidently necessary.
Mr.. Irwin should show that he is manager and
not any howIing occupant Of the quarter
stretch whose sole cry Is Hitter out!'
Beyond this fault no criticism can be made of
yesterdays work Of the local team. They TOOK
chances in running bases that afterward proved
to have been unwise. but that Ii liable TO hap
pen any time. 1t was merely overzealousness-
not a bad fault. Both pitchers were in hole
several times, and vet extricated themselves
with credit At many time hit would have
the game for either side, but the hit
couldn't be made until Curt WEIGH. who had
distinguished himself in the field by taking in
some apparently impossible catches. ended the
agony by u single to left center in the eleventh
inning, and won the game for the visitors.
Umpire Mitchell ofhciated again and showed
a eommendable degree Of frmness, finally or
dering Comiskey from the game for making q
most silly exhibition of himself. No player has
such a privilege, and the sooner President
Young's issutsuants instruct the players to that
effect the more satisfied the patrons of the game
will be. Keep it up, Mr.. Mitchell; President
Young ia with YOU.
Bug Holiday should have been sent to the
bench for his rowdy manner of disputing the
umpire's decision on his out at first Holiday
was right in sa!fng that he should have been
declared safe, but he knows very well that an
umpire cannot reverse a base decision on the
testimony of PLAYER and that player the one
directly interested. Then what was the sense
Of his kicking? He should have been fined
heavily and then set on the bench hard enough
to make his teeth rattle. There seuseless ques-
tionings of decisions on points OF Judgment
mot on interpretations of rules) do more to
hurt base ball attendance than everything else,
and Mr.. Young is to be commended for trying
to stop them
SOME PERTINENT FIGURES.
Our new players do not seem to be in a hurry
to join the Senatorial ranks, which strengthens
the popular opposition to their coming here.
Here are u few figures which may be studied
with interest by the management: