Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-06-06
ST. JOHNS VICTORIOUS.
Washington College Treated TO =
Surprise-An Exciting Game.


Washington College Treated TO a
surprise-An Exciting Game.
Flushed with their recent victories over
the Pastimes and the Centreville clubs,
the Washington College base ball team
came TO Annapolis Saturday To wipe up
the ground with st. Johns team. They
didn't for a moment imagine that IL
would be possible for St. Johns to do
anything with them. and in consequence
brought along fifty students and thirty
five young ladies TO witness the drubbing
that they so confidently expected TO ad-
minister They had it all reduced TO
logical conclusion; last year they beat
ST Johns % TO z. and as they haye a
better team this year than they had last
il was evident that this year they would
beat them about 80 TO 0. Only one thing
was overlooked in their calculation, and
that was that they forgot to consider
that st. Johns team might have improv-
ed also since last season; that was the
flaw i'm the argument and that was the
explanation of the result of the game
The Chestertown party came over in
tug and sloop. arriving about O'Clock.
Until the game began they occupied
themselves in distributing papers calcu-
lated TO spread dismay among the st.
devoted TO their recent games, and an
illustration of a PLAYER being carried off
the field by enthusiastic students was in
dicative of the skill and pIowess of their
phenomenal pitcher, Burris. At about
$50 the game was called with the visit
ors at the bat The Washington College
PLAYERS had an idea that they were going
To knock the cover off the ball and the
delusion was shared by the whole party;
in consequence when they were retired
without shadow of run, they appear
ed just tritie surprised. Then they
took their positions in the field and the
mighty BUrris stepped in the pitchers
box, while the fellows from across the
bay appeared supremacy confident of
the result. Just before the game
Washington College player announced
| to u st. Johns man that their fielders in
tended to lie down in their places while
Burris struck 'em out" The plan was
varied slightly, and it was soon found
advisable TO lie down only when they
were at the bat. Evidently MIR Burris
| didn't strike his gait In the first inning,
he not only failed to strike anyone out
| but ST. Johns even scored run. In the
second inning they added two more and
| i'm the third inning the renowned Mr..
| Burris metshis Waterloo. st Johns lin
| ed the ball out in every direction. and
| the visitors were kept busily occupied in
chasing leather. Singles were combined
with errors with most excellent results,
and as finisher Proctor put one over
the fence for three bases. Such an au-
dacious, unhead of assault on Burris'
| fine assortment of shoots and drops COM
pletely demoralized his men, and when
st. Johns was retired the score was TO
2,-W ashington College boys having the
| .. After that inning Mr.. Burris pulled
| himself together, and during the remain
/ der of the game was quite effective. The
visitors tried hard to overcome the lead
/ but il was a hopeless task. AT the end
/ of the sixth inning the score was to 2
and the Washington College supporters
| were once again confident OF victory
| But they were blanked in the eighth and
| st. Johns added one more to their score
making it 10 to z AS the visitors came
| in for their last inning they were greeted
with the cries Remember the Pastimes"
and similar expressions intended to en-
courage them on to victory. History for
once failed to repeat ITSELF the much de-
sired rally didn't come The first man
struck out, the next one popped up fly
which was Immediately tenderly taken
in care. Still the excitement was intense,
the third man steppedto the bat deter
mined to do or die. He knocked agroun
der to Iglehart was thrown out at first
and the game was over. st. Johns
had won by score of 10 TO z.
PandemOnium reigned supreme The
| St. Johns boys were fairly wild with
| ioy. and the Washington College stu
dents were corresponding depressed.
Hats and canes were thrown in the air
with reckless disregard of consequences,
nlyers were carried off the field and the
| St, Johns fellows made the air ring
| with a succession of yells and cheers
The visitors were completely discounted
over the unexpected result. They had
| been out-batten. out -felded, out-played
| In cvery respect, and didn't even have
the umpire TO fall back upon as an ex-
cuse. The score should have been at
| least 10 to z, and the Washington Col
| lege men got several of their runs after
| the side should have been retired. They
made hits and IA errors to st. Johns 3
hits and errors. Burris only struck
5 men, while of their men famed the
air For St Johns. Chew made beau
tiful stop and Jones splendid running
catch, Proctor batted hard, lglehart
| fielded well and Pettibone caught an ex
cellent game. The umpiring was unus
ually good and neither side raised any
serious objection TO any decision. The
visitors left for Chestertown shortly at
| ter six O'Clock, the sickest, sorest. most
disappointed crowd that ever steamed out
of the Annapolis harbor.