The morning times., 1895-08-03
1t was first division ball Thursday

It was first division ball Thursday
yesterday il was pennant ball in large caps.
He would have been a bold man who dared
to wager That the Baltimores fresh from
two victories over Boston would be downed
by the meek and lowly Senators, and
lunatic had he prophesied that the score
would be 13 to 4.
Luckily for the Washington team it is
the unexpected that sometimes happens.
This time it was not luck but downright
good playing, wide-awake playing, taking
advantage OF every point, running bases
with pluck and judgment, hitting the ball
right in the sDout when the Orioles made
errors, and, what pleased the crowd more
than anything else, beating the scrappers
at their own game OF working points.
1t was an angry and downcast bus load
OF ball players that Hanlon led out Of the
grounds at the close of the game and there
was not a spark of consolation for them
iu any of the incidents OF theday.
The usual turbulent and yoclterous crowd
of Baltimore fans was ON hand and got in
the regular shout of mice play, old man."
through the first inning, and Salyo Of ap-
plause at its close over the one run pre-
sented to them by Keefe's cross-cyed de-
cisions.
ENDED IN ABUSE.
Then it faded away like SNOWFALL in
Texas, and they contented themselves with
hope, and ended with abuse of the umpircs
and the opinion that it wasn't much Of a
game anyway.
The fact is that the Orioles couldn't play
ball a little bit, except with their mouths.
They could not hit Boyd and their field
ing was patterned on the plumage of their
hi nd pP cha
Funniest of all. the two champion takers,
McGraw and Clark, each fell asleep on
bases and were caught mapping. There was
a big scrap over Clark's mishap, but Nc
Graw's was so clear that nobody kicked,
and probably for the first time in his life
Muggsy walked to the bench without say
ing word.
Boyd was the king pin of the game. Only
in one inning did he lose control of the ball,
and his curves were of the most deceptive
character. Generally when the Baltimores
can't bat they try bunting, and their parti-
sans confidently predicted in the earlier
| stages of the game that there would be
some dumping done very quickly. But
| Boyd's delivery was too high for them and
! only Cne or two weak attempts were
| made.
ESper was an easy mark and grew softer
! as the game aged. After seven runs bad
been rolled up IN the sixth and seventh IN
nings he gave way to Clarkson, who proved
no more fortunate, for q choice combina-
ton OF two bases on balls, two errors, and
two hits, a regular baseball policy row f,
1 led to four more tallies III the eighth, and
when after two Senators were out in the
ninth, McGraw got funny and began to
throw the bail into the bleachers, Keefe
called the game on account of darkness.
TALK WAS CHEAP.
The game bristled with all sorts of
technicalities; Hunt was kept busy run
ming to Keefe to untangle them, and there
was talk enough to arrange Corbett
| smuggling match.
Not half of the baseball lawyers in tn,
crowd are sure yet whether the rulings
were correct It's more than doubtful
whether Hunt knows himself
Probably not within the memory of mai
has one ever before seen game in which II
luck in batting came our way as it Ger
tainly did yesterday.
Generally it's the other fellows who ge
away with the pop hits to short field ant
the little pokes out OF reach of the infield
but this time we were really in it. Tw