Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-17
SENATORS HOME AGAIN.
The Washingtons Begin Series To-day
With the Phillies.
Manager O'Rourlke ON the Lookout for Pitch.
ing Taieat-Other Clubs Suffer
with the Nationals

With the Nationals
The National League base bah season 10
about half over. There IL yet time for the
local club 10 win good place 10 the race, but
itcan be done only BY excellent team work and
better pitching than has been exhibited thus
far.
The batting and fielding Of the team have gem
orally been good
The pitching has been erratic.
One good game has been followed by poor
ones.
It 10 gratifying to the local patrons 10 know
that Manager o'Rourks hes not lost his head
and gone on after . lot Of untrisd ''phenoms."
Some Of the other clubs have done It and have
suffered In consequences.
Inc Washingtons have bssn on the lookout
for pitchers the entire season, q vss stated in
.nese columns two months ago on TIE author.
Mike Sullivan and Chsmberlain from Cincin-
nan. Who would have addsd great strength 10
the club, but Cincinnati said NAV"
The poor work Of the pitchers d not such
great disapPointment,f for every one experienced
IN nase DAN matters vas aware Of the weakness
Of the local club In the box at the beginning Of
the season, or at least Was doubtful Of its
strength The pitching talent was universally
UNKNOWN 0QAnuIY.
The men have all pitched sxcelleu tly AZ times.
and Tor that reason the task Of Discrimination has
been made unusually difBcult After Duryea
was released through the unvarranted inter-
ference Of Secretary Wagner he pitched Q fine
game ct Brooklyn, and at once there arose q
since done nothing 10 equal his work at Brook
lyn: Meakin has been laid up with . sprained
back mest Of the past month. Esper and
Maui have been good and bad by turna
The men lest three, possibly four, games by
poor work. The other games were well played
city. That they have won 90 few games no one
regrets more than O'Rourke and the players
With the sincere encouragement Of the local
audiences the club may take fresh heart and 20
IN with renewed dissemination. But with cat
calls and bowls from the bleachers the chances
are that disappointment will become indifer-
ence and the team win drop even lower. At
least. that ID the belief of men who have had ex-
perience In base ball matters
1t 10 interesting and instructive to note that
the clubs leading the league race are clubs In
which there has been little change from last
year. The Phiilies the Bostons. the Pitts
burgs and Cievelands are practically the same
as last year. There has been one in6eld change
In each, but the teams are substantially the
same. In Brooklyn and Cincinnati there have
been few more changes, but they are substan-
italy the same. The changes have been mostly
Now. the clubs in the second divisiou are
almost wholly experimental teams st. Louu.
New York, Chicago. Baltimore, Warrington and
Louisville.
Louisville has been lees changed than the
Others, but has bad swful luck with its pitchers,
-. indeed, al the clubs Of the second division
have had.
Stocksdals, whom Warrington loaned 10
wilkesbarre. has been pitching veil and may be
recalled, but il must be remembered that he
has not been pitching against league teams.
Philadelphia plays today ct Washington, Bos-
ton at New forh. Brooklyn st Baltimore, Pitts
The championship games played Saturday re-
suited - follows: Philsdslphia, 6: Louisville,
! 5. New York, q; Cleveland, s. Boston. Z; Gin
cinnati, 4 ST. Louis, 9; Brooklyn, & Chicago,
Q; Baltimore. 1. Pistsburg, 10; Warrington, o.
| the sale Of the Nashville club to . company Of
business men Of that city who will choose q
manager and finish out the season.
Manager Hanlon Of Baltimore says he will be
satisfied IL the Orioles finish In nth or sixth
place, but he expects 10 make Q better record
with his young men next season
| More fault has been found with McLauQhlin
| than with any other umpire. Baltimore had
him taken away from there once and now Bos-
ton has entered protest against his umpiring
any more Boston games this season. The
players have lost all confidence in him" Presi-
Snyder was kept idle and Mclaughlin used
cannot be understood. Snyder ID one Of the
best umpires seen in this city.
tseens impossible for Baldwin to get out Of
| the losing streak that began with this trip OF
the Giants. Ten straight defeats 10 bis record
couragement from the crowd, and he will
doubtless have new life put In when the bows
get back next week. In fact, that viii probably
do them all good-Nesc York Commercial Adj
rertiser.
Breitenstein appears 10 be gaining In effective
than any other one man to pull st. Louis mn
from eleventh place 10 seventh with q rush
Last week was Q disastrous one for the ORR
oles. They dropped from seventh to tenth
place and lost thirty-uine points in percentage
Hanlon says Of the Baltimores' "trip: "But for
ten games more than We did. OF the whole
team Taylor, Shindle and Mullane are about the
only men who have their eyes open when on
bases"
The washingtons returned from their west
eru trip last year in tenth place. They then
braced up and finished the season lhrst) in
seventh
Pittsburg has secured Colcolough-who pro-
nounces bis name CoAkley-apd Sueden. the
Charleston battery. New York has claimed the
services OF the pitcher, but Pittsburg has been
negotiating with the two men for several
"SoAs- SuSaSu WSA Known ~ An amateur
catcher in Philadelphia and used 10 play with
Mcmahon OF Baltimore when both were town.
lot artists.
There are stu few players left in the South
ern League whose services the New York club
has not accepted
The Orioles lost 16 out Of the u games played
on the trip.
The Philadelphia club made q good record
| since II left home. Is games having been won
out OF IL, while the Boston boys captured II
out Of Is.
Base ball Il the poblsst of outdoor sports-as
long a. the home club wfna-Boston Herald
A month ago single defeat would have sad
dened the hearts Of the cranks, but nov such .
thing as . victory 10 unexpected, and when il
comes It u looked upon ~ . three-cornered
prodigy.-Bahimore Nesrs
In order to get the advantage Of = new ball in
one OF the Cincinnati Washington games Harry
Vaughn threw the old ball over the fence, after
IL bad been returned on . foul ny hit "If I
had seen you throw that ball, Emsiie said 70
him when the Washington players told him OF
II, III would have cost you e2A"
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