Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-18
THEY PUNCHED THEIR HITS.

pares with the Washington pair in this re-
spect.
THEY PUNCHED THEIR HITS.
Mercer Weakened in the Ninth and
Cleveland Won.
The rotund Mr.. Charles Petty, now en-
gagged to do the twirling for the Cleveland
nine. was down on the bills to make his
erstwhile ball-tossing associates of the To-
cal team bite the dust yesterday and he
was eager for an opportunity to demon
strate to Manager Schmelz what an excel
lent pitcher he is. and how great a mis-
take the Washington management made
when II released him to the Cleveland club
In fact. the ex-senator was so anxious to
go In against his former associates that he
asked for a chance on Thursday, but just
before the game opened he was called away
on important legal business. Yesterday
however, he himself fell down before the
home team instead of gloating over a long
ed-for success and his effort to make the
locals succCmb to his delusve curves re-
suited in a miserable failure. To be sure
he was not hit especially hard, and the
sting of his personal defeat was somewhat
mitlgated by the victory of his club, but
mis- expectation and eagerness to Guido him
self resulted in extreme nervousness which
culmlna-el in bad case of rattles 50 that
when Clevelands chances locked specially
black in the seventh inning he gave up the
fight and retired to the bench
The home club had the same team in
the field as on the preceding day, except
that Mercer occupied the box; Ward and
Joyce being still unable to play. Dugdale
covered the territory around third bag
with Radford at second and Roaring Bill
In right field Dugdale had no fielding
chances hIIt al nj
and was three times sent to first on balls
He also made clean single. Radford &C
cepteI all his chances In good style, and he
also knocked out a single. He was unfor-
tunate. however, in hitting into the air at
every other turn at the bat. But the field
ing of the Senators was poor, such reliable
players as MCGUIRE and Cartwright max
ing errors at critical times, while Scheibeck
let ball through him that made the
bleachers groan. The Clevelands knocked
out home run. three 'hree-baggers, two
doubles and seven singles, and If they had
nelded equally as well should have won the
game without any trouble. As 1t was they
allowed four Washington men to reach
hrst on errors. and sent seven to first on
balls. which heavily handicapped them and
acted as an offset to their hard hitting
The game opened with the Senators at
the bat. and they went out in one, two,
three order. Not so with the Spiders. Bur-
kett, the first batsman. led off with sin
gle, stole second and, after Blake had
struck out, came across the rubber just
ahead OF Mexican, who knocked out a
home run. Washington tied the score in
the third. Cartwright walked to first and
ran around to third on Radford's single
The ball was thrown to third to catch him.
but failed to reach the base in time and
meanwhile Radford was running for sec
ond On the attempt to catch Radford
Cartwright foolishly started for home and
was run down between the bases. Paul
however, reached third during the melee
homo m
was hit by Petty and Dugdale was given
first, filling the bases. Great expectations
came to naught when Hasamaear struck
out but Mercer scored on George Tebeau's
rumble or Abbeys hot one down the right
foul line.
Cleveland forged ahead the next inning,
McGarr knocking out q rafting three bag
ger and scoring on McGuire's muT of
plate. The sixth inning also yielded them
two additional runs on Patsy Tebeaus
three-base hit, Schiebeck's glaring error
and two singles. The lucky" seventh saw
Washington bat out six runs and gain q
lead of three. Mercer reached first when
Petty sat down in attempting to get his
short hit just in front of the plate. Schei-
beck was second time hit and Dugdale
him to first having had four bad
ones called on him. Here 1t was that Mr.
Pettys nerve failed him. With the crowd
1eerfhg him and Joyce on the coach lines
twitting him; with no one out and three
men OH cases ana nafu-nlttfng HaSamaear
at the bat, he felt the fate of the game
trembling In the balance. Shifting his DO
sition in the pitchers box he threw two
balls in Hasamaear's direction, both of
which went wide of the plate; then ne
walked over TO Capt. Tebeau and, after a
BRIEF conversation, chaSrinCd and disap-
pointed, took seat on the bench. Cuppy
succeeded him in the box, but Petty could
hardly have done worse, for Roaring Bill"
sent two men across the plate by his SPLEEN
did hit for two bases. Abbey followed and
made short infleld hit, on which Dugdale
attempted to reach home, but was easily
thrown out at the plate. Mcclure singled
Setback was presented with his first and ali
came home on Cartwrights double and
MERGERS single. Radford knocked a high
fly to McAleer and Scheibeck popped up
one which Mexican looked after. This end
ed the run getting for Washington
Cleveland crawled up close In their half
of the seventh and in the ninth succeeded
in winning out the game. Blake was sent
to first by Mercer. but was forced out at
second. Mexican reached first safely and
tied the score when he crossed the rubbst
on Pat Tebeau's three-bagger which bound
ed over Abbey's head. The Spiders cap
tain brought home the winning run and
ended the game when McGarr knocked a
safe one over shOrtStop.
Mr.. Hurst's umpiring was the subject of
much criticism, and especially from the
visitors were there many and vigorous
protest against his decisions. His work
was perfectly fair and he was applauded
more than once when he ordered the quar-
relsome and boisterous westcrners to the
bench. The score follows:
WASHINGTON. CLEVELAND
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