The Washington times., 1894-04-26
The Championship Record
JOHNNY WARD SMILED.
New York Broke the Spell By Winning
from Washington.


from Washington.
For four innings yesterday it appeared as il
the Washingtons would bag the second game
of the series from New York, but mighty
change came about in the fifth when the Wis
itors punched three hits. which, with base
ON balls, yielded four runs and gave lead
which could not be overcome by the home
team. After this unfortunate state Of affairs
Manager Schmelz, in the hope of saving the
game, replaced Mercer with Maui, but the all
star combination had n good lead and kept
pegging away until sufficient runs had been
made to win two games.
number of reasons were responsible for
the defeat of the locals. First of all, they
could not hit enough to keep themselves
warm, and in the entire nine innings but four
safe hits were made Off German. Then the
errors of Joyce and Ward happened at most
critical stages and aided the visitors ma
terially in run getting. Umpire Lynch was
called upon to decide quite a number of close
plays. and in no case did he give one in favor
of the local team. Again the New Yorks had
the knack of getting in their safe cracks in
bunch and the sum OF the whole business it
was not Washingtons day to win and the tale
is told.
Many of the critics blamed Manager
Schmelz for taking out Mercer but even if he
had remained in the result would not have
been changed. as Johnny Wards boys were
out for the game and had begun to find Mer-
GERS curves If Maui had held the visitors
down Manager Schemlz would have been
praised for the change instead of being
blamed.
The credit of the victory lays between Ger
man S fine twirling and the good stick work
of Murphy. Burke, and Doyle. Midget Muir
ply again showed himself to be fast player
as he drove in four runs and scored three
more himself His error was made in con-
junction with Ward, Tebeau's grounder get
ting away from the little fellow and Ward Sc
cured the ball but threw wildly to first. Both
Wards were of in their fielding, while Captain
joyce missed both his chances.
The local layers were lamentably weak at
the bat, Joyce and Setback being the only
men to drive the ball out of the reach OF the
flelders. Their hits, however, counted and
brought in all the runs made. German did
not strike out man, but he gave his flelders
a chance, and, although his support was
ragged at times, he did not weaken in the
least.
All through the game Captain Joyce kicked
on Germans alleged illegal delivery in NOV
ing his right foot, but Lynch couldn't see it,
and German had occasion to continue his
deadly work on the same lines. The $500
spectators did not fail to show their disappro-
baton Of Lynch's failure to give Washington
any the better of it, but the veteran umpire
paid no attention to the clamor. On one oc-
cason Setback made beautiful throw to the
plat in an effort to catch the fleet-footed Van
Haltren, but Lynch decided that Mcclure
had not touched the runner, although nearly
everyone else thought he did. number of
other close decisions were made. all in favor
of New York, much to the disgust of the
crowd.
When Johnny Ward fumbled the grounder
sent to him by his namesake at the opening
of the game and joyce followed with home
run drive over the inside right field fence the
bleacherites settled back in their seats salts
fled Washington had an easy thing. 1t GER
tainly looked that way and continued so for
four innings. The locals We're content with
two in the first and then banked their rivals
Both sides drew blanks in the second. but in
the latter half of the third New York managed
TO get in one.
This was brought about through base on
balls TO Doyle. the atters steal of second and
a rank error by Joyce on Germans grounder.
Washington braced up in the fourth and
added two when McGuire's long fly was
muffed by Van Haltren, Tebeaus grounder
got away from Murphy and Ward threw
wildly to first, Selbach following with clean
single This made the crowd feel good and
Van Haltren's run in New Yorks half was not
minded to any extent.
After Washington had been retired in the
fifth the visitors were heard from. Il lrke
and Doyle hit safely, German drew base on
balls. and Murphy came to the rescue with u
neat single. Ward hit TO second. but F.
Ward threw to first. allowing German to
score, and Murphy tailed on Tiernan's out to
Tebeau. Maui started in well in the sixth by
easily retiring the first two strikers, but
Burke and Doyle singled. the former scoring
The Senators had shot their bolt and were
easily retired without scoring until the last
inning, when Cartwright made the circuit on
a base on balls and Selbach's triple over
Tiernans head. In the meanwhile New York
tailed one in the seventh on an error by
Joyce. a sacrifice a steal and Ternan's hit
In the eighth six more came in on hits by
Doyle, Murphy. and Ward, base on balls to
Burke and errors by F. Ward and Maui. The
score: