Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-16
WASHINGTON.
BALTIMORE,
Score by Innings,

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Earned ,runs.,Baltimore. !; Washington.
{. Three-base hit-Wise. Two-base hits
hits-Stricker ca: Radford. Mcclure. Far
rell. Hoy, McGraw. Stolen bases-McGraw.
Kelley Taylor, Reitz. Struck out-By Nc.
McMahon. 3: off Esper, 6; of Brown. 8.
Struck by pitcher-Farrell. Bases on errors
-Baltimore1; Washington. 2. Left on bases
play,-Wise. Stricken and Mcclure. Wild
pitches-McMahon, 2: Esper, q Brown, l..
Passed balls-Robinson. 1; Mcclure. L Time
OF game-2.6. Umpire-Emslie
New Players for the washingtons.
Stephens and Abbey. the new players
signed by the Washington base ball man
agement. arrived last night and will prob
ably take part in today's game. Pitcher
Ely Of the York club and Catcher
Snyder have not been signed by the local
management as has been published On
the other hand, the management Is after
Henry. the third baseman of the York
club. and Bonner, the short stop of the
W like barre club They viii probably be
the club when 1t returns next week. A big
effort is to be made to make a good show
ing against the western clubs.
Base Ball Notes.
Arson had case Of Charley horse yes
terday and laid off.
Cross lost yesterdays game at Philadel-
phia by muffing q fly. which let In two
runs.
Donnelly, Southern League pitcher,
pitched for Chicago yesterday. and did
wilmot made a wonderful catch Of an ap-
parent home run hit yesterday by reaching
over the fence for 1t.
President Hanlon yesterday signed Pitch
er Brown. a local amateur. and wired Ba-
ker, who was with the Orioles In the spring,
to report at at once for for S N v,r
players, Cincinnati q. Cleveland and ST.
Louis q each, Chicago and Baltimore 20
each Louisville a. Pistsburs 20 Rrooklyn
and Boston Is. This makes q total Of 24S
players.
: It is doubtful If Glasscock will be able to
Louisville has signed Pitcher wittrock Of
Memphis.
The California League has disbanded.
a line ball hit over second base by Mcclure
in the second inning. Nearly everybody
thought the hit was safe. but McGraw made
a leap for the ball and succeeded in catch
The players of the Savannah club will
probably be transferred to Reading. Pa.
three innings McMahon pitched yesterday.
and each time he made a single.
II the Baltimores lose today the series
Kelly keeps the New York players in a
constant roar with his witty remarks in
the club house. The king thinks he is a
much abused player He says: How can
a man play good ball II only allowed q
chance once in three weeks"
Johnny Ward never plays ball without
wearing red flannel sleeve that covers
his shoulder and upper arm. He says his
arm is good now and he doesn't care to
take any chances with it. Tim Keefe also
wears q similar sleeve.
The horror with which Mr. Won der
Horst regards the transfer Of Washington
games Is amusing when one remembers that
Baltimore was the club that started the
practice this season by transferring its
Decoration day games.
Interesting Base Ball Statistics.
The National Baseball eague teams stand
as follows in batting: Cleveland 1927, Phila-
deiphia .3l7. Boston and New York 81.
Pittsburg .30S. Chicago .294. Brooklyn and
Washington .2S5. Baltimore .27S. st. Louis
and Cincinnati .274, Louisville .263
The six eastern teams have the following
record: 1897 times at bat. 1888 runs. sos
base hits, batting average .29S The six
western clubs show l6 264 times a hat Ofa