Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-28
How the Clubs stand,
Entitled to sympathy.

New York Correspondence Of Sporting Life.
We had. two rippihgs red-hot games with
the Washingtons. and Gus Schmeiz was
playing in the hardest kind of luck to fall
down in them. The. bewhiskered manager
is due for a lot of sympathy. Right, here ia
New York he has left four ba lis this season
which should have been taken away, If
Dame Fortune had dealt the cards impair
TALLY. He lost an eleven-inning game in
Brooklyn through an Upper Sandusky de-
ciSiOn of Hurst in the ninth inning, Nc
CURE being called out at the plate after he
had scored the winning run II ism often
Tim errs. but it was palpable injustice on
this occasion. want to go on record right
her az saying that 1t is meat and drink TO
me to have the New Yorks win, whether il
is by luck. superior playing any way the
winning runs may come in. No diScourteSy.
SOre-headedness or picayunish action on the
part OF the management can cause change
in this feeling. But | am not so blinded BY
craftsmanship that l cannot see the two sides
of a base ball game at any stage. and visit
ing teams will always get their dues.
So / do not think il any way disloyal to
syrdpathiZe with Gus Schmelz. precisely as
/ do with Billy Barnie when he gets the
worst of it, You know it comes so easy for
umpire to give d tail-ender the dinky-
dink on close plays. One game more or
less, what difference can il make to a tall
ender? is perfectly natural, albeit, uncOn-
scious. sentiment of the umpire. | had quite
is just bit discouraged. Badly handicap
ped at the start, things have been going I'M
fortunately. He has Kept tally of the
games which he declares he has been rob
bed of. and they number just fifteen. He
used the term robbed" advise1ly He says
that when Nick Young appoints new man
he naturally wants to see him work, and
brings him down to Washington. There the
beginner, be he amateur. freak or horse
thief, is anxious to impress the old man
with the fact that home umpring is not his
weakness. Hence, down goes McClOSkey, or
rather SchmelZ. Gus also charges Lynch,
Emslie and McQuaid with highway robbery
Hurst and Gaffney are the only uEpires
who seem TO think that the Washingtons
have any business on earth.
Another thing that ScEmelZ has to con-
tend with at home is the marble heart"
Washington is a cosmopolitan city in every
acceptance of the term. The crowds have
not that feeling toward the Senators which
is the component part of the rabid rooter
and this is great drawback to a team
especially when II is loser. Then the
Illness of Mcmahon and Stockdale the
Gripping of Petty. the Uncertain work of
Joyce and other players relied upon has
been a distressing factor. All other man
ayers want to take. back seat when it
comes down to genuine hard-luck obstacles.
But Schmelz speaks hopefully of next
season. He has been doing a good deal OF
pruning and grating, and thinks that he
will have a firSt-class aggregation in 20.
Mercer, Cartwright, Abbey and Setback are
to secure others good. Schmelz says
that the Wagners are willing to spend
money to Secule a winning team for Wash
ington. which is news. indeed. Let us hope
that it is true, for Gus is too good man
to be saddled with a tail-end team.