Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-09
A Fine Rally i'm the Ninth.


The finishes made by the local team In
the past two days remind one of the days
when the Washingtonians were dubbed the
foxy Senators" by June Rankin OF the
New York Herald. The Senators were
playing IN the metropolis and the Giants
had apparently the game easily in hand
The fans" Of Gotham had already cut
another notch in their sticks to denote
another victory. The Washingtons went
last to bat. There was nothing about their
appearance to create alarm. They looked
just about as sleepy as usual. Tim Keefe
began tossing in the balls in the same
mechanical way he had been, but suddenly
the men from Washington fell upon the
ball. smote 1t hard and before the dust had
cleared away had scored enough runs to
respected the Senators, and June Rankin
won the everlasting gratitude of the Wash
ington fans by tieing the epithet foxy"
TO the Senators. 1t made them look as II
they could If they only would.
Wen the games of the last two days re-
mind one of those days It's true that the
the game out, but then they tried hard.
Stricken led the way in both cases with a
double te right center The sawed-or
second basenan had been sacrificing with
two out right along and no one suspected
that he had a pair up his sleeve. But when
the ninth inning opened he started the
bah rolling and had men with bigger
batting record been able to follow the good
example set the game would have been
IL a
Henry Gastright. Washington's pitcher of
last year. pitched for the visitors and Far
rell was the only one who managed to get
on intimate terms with his delivery
Charley made two triples and three singles
hit every time he went to bat. His hits
drove in three runs.
1t is considered advisable when a team
cannot hit a pitcher safely to try buSting
but with the exception Of Farrell no one
tried it. Sacrifice hitting seems to have
FarreIis wonderful eSi hitting Of late seems
to have inspired all with the ambition to
make triples and doubles.
Mr. Gaffney umpired again. and allowed
rather more back talk from the visitors
than the autocrat of the diamond should
He was somewhat Off in his decisions, CIV
ing Duffy out at first i'm the second on a
double play and calling Sullivans hit past
Nash in the eighth foul when It was fair by
over a foot Each decision cost run SO
end
The visitors won the game in the sixth
after two were out and no one had scored.
Long was on first and Cancel on third
The former started for second and the ball
was thrown down. Cancel led off and
Long was run back and forth. Finally
CANCEL made a dash for home. O'Rourke
instead of throwing to the plate. threw to
Stricken who slammed the ball hastily
home. The throw was wide and CANCEL
scored instead Of being put out. Lowe
cleared the bases with home run. The
fault was not all Strickers. ORourke
erred in Judgment in throwing to Stricken.
1t left SO little time that the latter had to
throw too hurriedly.
The runs were scored as follows:
For Washington-Hoy forced out Esper
at second and scored on Farrelrs triple in
the third
Farrell singled, was advanced by a base
on balls and scored on O'Rourke's single
in the eighth.
Stricken hit for two bags, Hoy took first
on balls and both were scored by Farrelrs
triple. who scored on ORourkes single In
the ninth.
For Boston-A base on balls and Far
rells high throw, followed by McCarthy's
double, gave two in the first.
A base on balls. followed by two singles,
gave another in the third.
O'Rourke's mum Of Cancels scratch hit
force out. Stricker's wide throw to the
plate and a home run. gave three in the
sixth.
A single and a double Melted one in the
seventh. Score: