The Washington times., 1894-05-05
The champiouship Record.
POOR PITCHING THE CAUSE.
Boston Won the Odd Game Because Of
Heavy Stick Work.


Boston Won the Odd Game Because Of
Heavy Stick Work.
Bad pitching q couple Of errors, and some
heavy hitting by Boston turned what had looked
like a victory for the Senators into q bad defeat
The visitors took three innings to become &C
quainted with Pettys curves. and in the fourth
they sized him up for four solid hits, and In the
sixth they got in several more. In the latter
inning Selbach made a costly tumble and fol-
lowed it up with horrible throw to first, all Of
which helped the Bostons to score and had a cor
responding depressing effect upon the local
men. The attendance was less than 1900, and
many Of the spectators left before the game was
over because Of the long lead taken by the Bos-
tons
1t was decidedly disappointing to the crowd to
witness such a fall down ON the part of the home
team after their promising beginning. For five
innings Washington held the lead. and seemed
almost certain of victory, but Just when the out
look was so bright those pesty Beaneaters COM
menced putting their bats against Petty shoots,
and Selbach got mixed up at the same time, and
before the bran-dnew colored mascot for the
home club had time to hide behind the wood
pile the visitors were in front From then on 1t
was only question of how much they would
win by, and they made it all they could.
Manager Schmelz substituted pitcher Stephens
proved all out of shape, as the Boston's didn't
do n thing but bang the ball ali over the field,
and those who didn't bat safely were either hit
or given bases on balls Nine Of the biggest kind
of talles were the product on Stephens, and
he was permitted 10 drop outwhile Mercer came
in in the eighth and successfully stemmed the
tide. Ii appeared to many rather poor. tudg-
ment TO take out Petty after the visitors had
gotten in front it being urged II the change
should have been made at all the fourth inning
was the proper time
Staley was in the points for Boston and he
pitched a strong game, but six hits being made
of his delivery, four Of these being divided up
between Hassamaer and Tebeau. Despite the
weak hitting of the locals they would have had
but little trouble in winning II their pitching
department had been up to the mark. Outside
of wild throws by Long and Merritt the Bostons
played a great fielding game, Nash and Long
excelling The former robbed Radford and Nc
CURE of base hits by his strong work Tucker
and Long had on their batting clothes, the
former twice clearing the bases when they were
flled.
The home team went first TO bat and scored
two unearned runs on a wild throw by Long: a
base on balls to Joyce, Abbey's sacrifice and Nc
Cures single TO right. Another was made in
the third on bases on balls TO Joyce and Abbey,
a stolen base and a wild throw by Merritt The
fourth run came in the fourth inning on Sell
bachs triple and Cartwrights out to left. Boston
scored for the first time in the fourth, when Long
doubled and Duffy, Nash and Tucker singled.
two men crossing the plate.
In the latter half Of the sixth the visitors se-
cured four more and took the lead Long opened
with single, but Duny nied TO LETT St1vetts
sent daisy cutter to Selbach. who fumbled long
enough to let Long reach second In SAT ETY. and
then fired the ball over Cartwrights hea d. This
play was the turning point in the game, as
Nash was purposely given FIRST on balls and
Tucker followed with q safe smash to right,
while Merritt's single enabled Tucker TO score
the fourth run of the inning.
Stephens came into the game in the seventh
and went out of IL at the end of the same inning
He gave Lowe a base on balls, Long hit safely,
Cartwright dropped Stephens assist on Duffy s
bunt and Stivetts was given first on balls forcing
in run Nash singled, Tucker doubled, Ban
non was hit and Merritt singled Staley and
Lowe were retired on infield grounders, but
Long drove the ball TO far left for a homer, nine
runs being made in all
Washington could do nothing with Staley after
the fourth until the ninth, when Hassamaer
made the circuit on his single and Tebeaus
triple over Duffy's head. The score: