The Washington times., 1894-04-15
PLENTY OF LEG PRACTICE
Washington Had Another Picnic De-
feating the Y. N. c. A.
SULLIVAN HAD AN OFF DAY
schmelx's shortstop Failed to Show Up in
His Usual Brilliant Style, Missing All His
Chances but One-eartwright Carried Off
the Batting and Fielding Honors.

Some more exercise in batting and base
running was afforded the Washington
players yesterday afternoon, when they for
the second time defeated Y. NJ. G. A. in a one
sided game. The Christians presented Colli-
flower again as pitcher and the Leaguers
failed to land on his curves to the same ex-
tent as on the previous day. One OF the
causes for this failure was due to Colliflower's 8
cunning in persistently keeping the ball
away from the plate. So successful in this
respect was he that ten men were sent to first
on balls, while on several occasions the pro-
fessionals would make savage lunges mt wild
balls only to knock up high flies, which the
Christians would religiously abstain from
catching. 1t was almost as good as base
hit every time the ball was knocked high in
the air.
There was but little chance for the specta-
tors to form much of an opinion OF the ABILITY
of the professionals as flrst-class players ow-
ing to the weakness of the amateurs. About
the only features in the work of the Washing
tons were the frst-base play OF Cartwright,
which was excellent, and the failure of Sulli-
van to accept any one of his three chances TO
stop ground ball His feet we're continually
would have had picnic if they had only sent
more daisy cutters into Sullivan's territory.
His weakness in fielding evidently affected his
batting eye, as he couldn't drive the ball safe.
Both his runs were due to bases on balls.
Ward again retired from the game before
its completion, giving way to Hassamaer.
The latter has become a great favorite with
the bleachers, and his appearance was received
with applause. Roaring Bill'' started oil
well, but he got tangled up on Grounder,
which resulted in his making bad error.
Stephens and Mcclure formed the battery for
the first five innings, and then Black and
Dugdale relieved them. Both pitchers were
about equally effective. Stephens curves be-
ing batted safely twice. while Black was
touched up for four singles. Stephens gave
two bases on balls, which equalized matters.
Cartwright both batted and tielded WELL
making two pretty stops at first base, while
he is credited with two doubles and a triple.
Joyce and Tebeau also had good eyes for
picking out Colliflower's curves. and each
made three hits. Both McCreary and Fuller
failed to look after the work in their fields,
and their poor playing greatly aided the pro-
fessionals in run getting. Green was also
of in his covering of first base, while Bolway
made three errors out of six chances offered.
Ernie Hodge did eXcellently behind the bat.
and his catching was the redeeming feature
of the Y. NJ. G. A. play. c. Hodge also did
Wti th1A AotOhSuASA uAo mum
Of an easy fly ball.
When the Washingtons were retired for one
run in the opening inning and the Y. NJ. c.
A. gathered together couple an interesting
contest was looked for. In the second the
leaguers made another, and the score re-
mained tied until the fourth, when the pro-
fessionals commenced loosening up their bat
ting arms, while at the same time the Chris
tians began making errors. and the result was
six more runs for Schmelz' boys. Another in
the fifth, two in the sixth. followed by nine
in the seventh and one III the eighth made u
total of q. The amateurs worried along
with but two until the seventh, when an error
by Sullivan gave them their third and last run.