The Washington times., 1894-04-14
CHRISTIAN LADS TOO EASY
Local Leaguers Had Soft Snap with
the Y. N. c. A. Team.
ESPER PUZZLED THE AMATEURS
First of Two Games with the Crack District
Nine Resulted Very Much in Favor of the
Professionals -ColliAower Failed to Pitch
Up to His Previous Record.

For the first time in several days the pro-
fessionals were enabled to get some outdoor
| practice yesterday, the local Young Mems
! Christian Association team being the victims.
| Owing to the general desire on the part of the
| patrons to see the Regulars stack up against
| an outside club Manager Schmez arranged two
games with the Christians, the first OF which
was played yesterday, and resulted 80 to in
| favor of Washington. Judging from the poor
work of the amateurs it would be far better If
| Mr.. Schmelz would cancel to-days game with
| the Christians and allow the Regulars and Re-
serves have another battle. as such an ar
| rangement would give the men much better
| practice.
While the Y. NJ. C. A. put up a very ragged
| game. they can do much better, us was shown
| in their previous games with Yale and other
strong teams. They went into yesterdays
contest with the knowledge of being out
classed, and were correspondingly disheart-
| ened and nervous. Collifower pitched miser-
| ably. and seemed to have neither speed nor
| skill. His weakness affected the others. and
errors We're numerous on the part OF the
Christian lads Eddie johnson was the only
of the honors for his side. Ernie Hodge did
well behind the bat considering the erratic
pitching of Colliiower.
Esper was in the points for five innings,
and he never appeared to better advantage.
He struck out six men, gave one base on balls,
and but four hits and no runs were made of
his delivery. He was relieved by Mercer, who
was very'wild, striking three men and giving
a base on balls, while four hits were punched
off him, the Christians earning three of their
four runs. All the errors made by the pro-
fessonals came in a lump in the sixth inning,
and were on wild throws. Dugdale relieved
Mcclure in the fifth inning while Hassamaer
took Wards place at second at the same time.
As far Us the playing was concerned Joyce
carried oil the laurels, as he made several
brilliant stops at third. His error was due TO
a failure TO stop Il throw in from the outlield.
Cartwright put up pretty game at first, and
besides led the team in hitting. making
three singles and home run. Abbey was
also very handy with the stick making three
singles and a double Lucky Paul RaGiord
reached the home plate six times, although he
made but one hit in the game. Sullivan
played fast ball at short-fleld, his throwing to
first being fine.
When the professionals started Off in the
opening inning with four runs Secretary PuGh
swallowed his chewing gum and had not a
word to say to his pets for the balance of the
game. Ii had been the dream OF Brother
PuGh TO have the Y NJ c. A. defeat the Wash
ingtons. but he will have to wait while
before his hopes are realized.
Not content with four runs in the first, the
Leaguers piled up five in the second. then
spat on their hands and turned out nine in
the third. The effort to do this was some
what exhausting, and they were content TO
rest easy in the fourth, but four more were
garnered in the fifth, three in the sixth. and
the boys ran their total up to thirty by scoring
five in the seventh.
While all this was going on the Y. NJ. C. A.
went out in short order up to the sixth inning.
when Mercer proved an easy mark for the
Christians. A base on balls to L. Hodge
singles by Collihower, Fuller, and Bolway,
and a triple By C. Hodge yielded four runs
and awakened Brother Pugh from his trance.
This was the extent of their scoring. how
ever as Mercer was more effective in the fol-
lowing innings. The score: