Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-04-29

ssbleachers" There Is no one whose going &c
the plate causes a universal sigh Of resignation
over his being sure out. If moving the
pitcher back i've feet has brought about the
heavy hitter We have seen for the past two days
Shen Washington Is unanimously for the new
rule. But a perusaI Of the scores of other
games shows that heavy and frequent hitting
has not been the rule. 1t must be concluded
that the local team are naturally hard hltters
and do not owe their success to the new rule
When il WAS -, "A how ha-d Mcmahon, the
Baltinores' crack pitcher, was hIt on thursday
the general feeling was that WadswOrth, the
scott OF the Orioles who was put in yester-
day. would suffer still more. and the result
proved the wisdom OF the conjecture. He Was
Hammered so hard that he very willingly gave
way 20 schmidt, another Young twlrler, who
went In I'm the eighth inning, after the game
had been urdpubtedly lost
The fielding of the home team was certainly
not gilt-edged yesterday, but If they keep up
their batting to the same high notch all will be
forgiven Hard hitting makes poor fielding
A. base ball msXIm, and II undoubtedly proved
the case yesterday, for many Of the drives that
were not base hits Yielded bases owing to the
exceeding warmth attending them The heavy
hitting certainly demoraliZed the Baltimore in
field. and II can be depended on 10 use up any
5ufeld So keep up the good work, boys.
In the first Lsrkin's triple scored O'Rourke,
who had reached first base on balls, and Wise,
whose hit had forced RadfOrd at the plate.
Sullivan scored in the second hit. passed
ball. a wild pitch and a balk. In the fourth
Reitz and " Rourke the second and third base
men of the visitors. went to pieces snd three
runs came in Radford had been given his
base ON balls. when Hoy hit . sharp one to
Reiz. who fell all over the ball Then
O'Rourke followed with grounder TO his name
sake on third who also failed to connect. Wise
drove another at RcitZ. who let the ball get
frsf him FL hal ella rcd
three more scores were found on the Washing
fngtOns tally sheet
Hard hitting produced two more in the sixth.
Singles by Hoy and Capt O'Rourke. followed
by Wise's sacrifice and Fsrrells single. did the
business. just to make the thing more bind
ing four more were taken in the lucky seventh
After the bleachers had all stood up and
stretched themselves Sullivan took first on balls.
Esper drove a hot one down past first, but was
forced at second by Rsdford. Hoy took first
On balls. Then came a fu-Illade by o Rourke.
Wise and Larkin. and with q wild pitch four
guns were recorded.
Then the moon came out and looked lovingly
down on ''our boys" and seemed 10 saw Good
enough tor one day" and they stopped run get
ting.
Meanwhile the birdle;s from the monument
city, yclePt the Orioles. were saving wood as
siduously but not keeping stll By any means
All, no; the North river during fog is death
Ike silence compared with the uprOar raised
BY the coache-s from our sister city on the BAY
OF al the diabolical howls that ever came from
the regions of the damned none could have ex-
ceeded in volume those emitted blythe Bslti-
more coachers. But Il didn't rattle our boys a
little bit. The visitors got their runs BY good
hard hitting. w the second hits BY Brown
Reitz and WadswOrth produced two rams. In
the fourth after Reitz had hit safely big Jack
Nilligan afted the ball over into the right
Geld alley and made the circuit amid cheers
He was cheered for old times sake, for Jack
was popular on account Of his strong arm when
he Was here last Year.
By the way. Jack came near being a member
Of the local team this wear. The Wagpers were
after a catcher, and had agreed on terms with
Milhgan, when tie hitter hapJ med to remark
parenthe ucally, that he had signed a contract
with Baltimore, and asked Innocently If that
made any difference President Wagner hardly
knew whether To laugh To be angry over the
two hours wasted
But 10 return TO the game Wadsworth's and
kelly's singles gave another Tun with HOys as
sistanee IN letting the latters hit get away from
him Ia the eighth ailligan again lit safely
and being moved around 10 third on -cl.Inidt's
double scored on Mctiraw's sacrifice. There
endeth the BaltimOre's story.
WA " Mclaughlin, who is said 20 hail
from the west, gave another bizarre exhibition
Of urspiring He Is pretty good on base Cecis-
IONS. bat his eve Is Vet TO be educated On balls
and strikes. However, he tries 20 even Ut and
neither side has much TO complain of. tBolgh of
: course the visitors declared that he was rot
ten. TO empiOy the elegant phraseolOgy OF the
base ball diamond. One thing he is 70 be com
mended for-ho makes the PLAYERS keep their
places and does not allow much talking back
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