The Washington times., 1894-08-09
The Championship Record.
SENATOR'S TRIUMPHANT.
They Batted Meekin and German Out of
the Box.


the Box.
First came Meekin; then followed German;
the third was Westervelt. and the New Yorks
even trotted Rusie out in the last inning to
bat in place of Westervelt. All this aggrega-
tion could not defeat the Washingtons yester-
day afternoon, and the victory of the Senators
was a glorious triumph. F. Ward was back
on second and Radford was in right field.
Sullivan was in the points for the home team.
He had excellent control of the ball, sending
only two men TO bases on balls and striking
one out.
joyce covered great deal of ground. and
he invaded the territory of Shiebeck several
times. Once he made mess of 1t by drop
ping Rusie's fly. The thousand spectators
roundly hooted him, and they were justified,
as he deliberately robbed the clever shortstop
out of a put-out. Shiebeck, too. got tangled
up on two occasions, but the balls were hard
TO handle. Abbey's playing was n great
feature. He fashioned his fielding after
Burke's work the day before. J.Ward showed
how easily man can fail to get grounders,
while Fuller put up one of his old-time games.
Two successive bases on balls to +. Ward
and joyce and Abbeys single scored one run
in the first. Meekin sent Cartwright to first
on balls in the second. and on Radford's sim
gle TO right field the big first baseman went
to third, Radford going down on the throw
to third and after Shiebeck and Sullivan
went out they scored on +. Wards single.
German was put in TO pitch in the fifth, and
he was measured in quick order. Two bases
on balls, singles by Radford, Sullivan, and
Abbey. double by Seibach, and a triple by
Joyce resulted in six runs. That settled the
eN-star pitcher. and be retired in favor of
Westervelt. The latter gave Abbey his base
on balls. Selbach and Cartwright singled,
and Radford was hit by the pitcher. Two
runs Were scored during this time.
T. Ward went TO first on balls, to second on
4 passed ball, and stole third. coming home
on Joyce's double to left field. After that
they failed TO score although they had three
men on bases in the eighth.
The visitors started in the first inning
scoring two runs on Burke's single. Joyce's
error, a put out and Van Haltrens two
bagger. In the third Van Haltren's single,
his steal of second while Mcclure rolled the
ball to Sullivan. the latter letting it get away
from him. and Wilson's single scored one run.
Stafford opened the sixth with triple
Ward followed with q safe hit, and after SHE
beck fumbed Van Haltren's grounder Muir
ply made a single and three runs were scored.
Davis base on balls. Shiebeck's error. put
out and Van Haltren's double netted two
runs in the seventh.
In the eighth singles by Wilson, Fuller.
Burke. and Stafford, and Joyce's error put
two more runs to the credit of the visitors.
In the ninth Sebach retired Van Haltren and
Murphy. Wilson got TO first on balls and
then big Amos Rusie was sent 20 bat in place
of Westervelt. He sent high fly 10 the in
field. joyce went over to Shiebeck's territory
and yelled. I've got it, He muffed it and
a howl went up. Fuller then sent one out TO
Abbey and the game was over. The score: