Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-19

Fhflltes Beaten In tho Last Inning.
In Chicago exposition slang yesterdays game
was very "Plaisance." It was bizarre, striking,
exciting. heart-rendinR, but 1t was not good
game Of ball. The pitchers on both sides were
In very bad form and both infelds had An at
ton that Of the visitors came last and enabled
the Senators to draw away at the close and win.
Meakin began steadily enough and with Q
slow and effective ball, but afterward, e. he
warmed up, he added speed and lost in accu-
racy. As soon a. he broke down the whole in
field went to pieces, and the visitors were pre-
sented with six runs and the lead in the fifth
inning on series Of wild and fantastic throws
by Stricken, Farrell, Wise. Msakin and Sullivan.
1t was indeed an awful exhibition. But tho
local mon pulled themselves together and,
oheered on by few Of the faithful, went in
again ana scored four runs. In this they were
aided by two errors Of Thompson on first and
Aliens tumble Of Stricker's grounder. drive
down the foul line by Sullivan in the ninth,
good for two bases, but Welding only one,
owing to his falling, and Meakin's triple to left
were also factors entering into the run getting.
The Phillies are beginning to have bad luck
Mailman has Charley horse, Reilly was injured
during practice and Vickery was knocked out
by pitched ball hitting him over the right
eye. This necessitated playing ShArrott and
weighing in the field and Thompson on first,
Cross at third and Delahanty second. But this
did not perceptibly weaken the visitors.
Charley Snyder umpired, Emslie having been
sent to replace the incompetent Mclaughlin at
Baltimore. Snyder umpired q good game. Civ
Ing Washington shade the worst Of 1t In his
anxiety to be fair to the visitors. His decisions
were accepted without protest and the game
was in marked contrast with some played here.
Manager O'Rourke has decided to have
stopped the disgraceful bowling on the bleach
ers, to which attention was called in these col
umns some time ago. Special officers will bs
stationed at the park to suppress boisteroua
The Senators quickly jumped into the lead
Yesterday. Three were scored In the first on
safe hitting and sacrificing Bases ON balls and
Sullivan's drive down the foul line gave two
more in the third. In the fourth q base on
balls, Wises triple and O'Rourke's single added
two more.
Then Meakin started the bali. He hit Glenn.
ents, Hoy fumbled Sharrott's grounder and
Sharrott scored on . wild pitch. Hamilton
was given his base and scored by Thompson.
Then tho fun began for Harry Wright. weighing
really struck out, but Snyder gave him four
balls. Gross lined beauty to left and Clements
put up high fly for Stricken. Sharrott sent q
difficult grounder back Of second and the Sub
made an awful throw to the stand, letting
weighing home. Allen hit to Wise, who threw
badly to the plate, and Cross scored Farrell
tried to atone by catching Allen at first bu,
Larkin couldn't have got the ball il he had been
fifteen feet tall. Sharrott scored and Aller
reached third. Hamilton and Thompson
reached frst on balls and Wild throws BY
Meakin and Sullivan. Stricken muffsd throw
on which he should have caught Thompson al
second, and Delahanty, tired Of this nonsense
cleared the decks with three-bagger. weyhine
put an end to the circus by striking out
Then, a. already related, ''our boys" went In
and won.