Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-19

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| not been coming true of late.
Richardson deserves credit for the way
| In which he held down second base in the
game between the G. P. o. and the A. and
| or thirteen chances and accepted them all
with but one error, and his work was
clean cut and pretty.
| Havens is a hard-working catcher. and
| does the best he possibly can to get his
men in winning shape. The way in which
| his boys showed up against the warriors
proved to be somewhat of surprise 20
the latter team.
| Belts, Sneeden and O'Neill make a trio
| of umpires that is hard to beat. and spec
| tators at these games are not annoyed by
| the everlasting wrangling and kicking that
| Is INDUCED in in some contests.
The District building boys have strength
ened their team, 1t Is said. by the addition
of some new material -Four new men
have been added to the personnel OF the
| team, and it is expected that they Will
play winning ball in the coming series.
The w. L. /. boys are enthusiastic over
their manager. Mr.. House. They declare
| that they would rather win a game Tor
| his satisfaction than they would for their
own. He treats them like lords, and the
W. L. I. Corps backs him up nobly in the
work.
The Bureau lads drove out in a bus the
other day to National Park, and Oh their
| way home narrowly escaped being run
into by a cable car. The boys were feel
ing so good over their victory that they
did not see II.
The Bureau seems to have forsaken its
old love, Orspada, and are pitching Ber-
nard right along. Perhaps they are saving
the tricky Jack for the second series. -.
AS soon as Harris settles down he Will
play a good shortstop for the District Com
missioners. He has. played good ball Tor
the Maryland Agricultural this season. ana
has already proven himself to be very
handy with the stick.
Contrary to expectations. Sweitzer lasted
for more than four or five innings the
other day. and now holds the strike-out
record with Joe Bernard-thirteen men.
Barrows is making some great catches at
second base. During practice at the park
the other day he pulled down several that
looked like line hits for two or three
bases.
Each of the teams has five games to play
in the second series, and there are ABOUT
six clubs which have secret hopes OF com.
ing out with a clean record at the end OF
the season.
II the Light Infantry wins this series. it
will be a great game between it and !he
Bureau for the championship. and If the
Commissioners win it the fur will ny when
they play the Bureau.
"Nympo' Jones' spiked leg is getting
along very nicely. and it is not thought
that It will cause him any Inconvenience in
the next game which the District Commits
sioners play.
The w. l.. /. does not need any new play
ers on its team. All they need is to play
their men regularly in the same position.
with plenty OF practice, and the result will
show it to be a better plan than trying ex-
periments.
Pop Kellar is beginning to bet on the
number of home runs he will make in
game.
If some of the other players had worked
as hard Thornburg in the game which
the P. o. D. played with the Bureau the
result might have been little changed
He might not have known just what to do
| but he tried to be in the game ut all times.
Buchanan is sharp little fielder. but he
does not know how to catch the ball ex-
actly right. DOC" could give him a few
lessons that would be to his advantage
The line bali that Mills caught off Nc
Cauley's bat~in yesterdays game was one
of the hottest balls that has been Knocked
to a pitcher in any game this year al Ma
tional Park. There was not a second be-
tween the time it hit Macs bat and Mills
hands.
Flaherty is playing good left field for
the Bureaus He seems to be under the ball
every time 1t IS put into his territory.
Madigan hurt his thumb in door and
was unable to play in yesterdays game.
He will be all right for Saturdays game
with the w. L. l.
The same old reason is given for the de-
feat of the Treasury team-the lack of out
| feeders. AS soon as the ball was knocked
out of the diamond the Bureau lads could
walk around the bases with safety.
Barrows was unable to play yesterday,
| and it is thought that if he had been in his
| position the case of rattles which started
occurred.
A terrible thing for the champions to be
held down for six innings by of the
| tailead clubs. They can blame Mills for it,
however.
One of the best catches of the season was
that made by Schaffer in right field yester-
day. He was obliged to keep running near
ly all the way to second base in order to re-
gain his balance after catching the ball.
Although Umpire Sueeden was little Off
| in his balls and strikes yesterday, and ia
vored the Bureau trifie on them, yet his
decisions on the bases We're all eminently
fair and right. Those who could see from
an elevated position decided with him on
nearly every occasion.
Kellar either does something wonderful or
ridiculous in game His catch in yester-
days game was a magnificent one. but the
chances were ten to one on the ball IL it
had been knocked straight into mis- hands.
Beach should be called down for his at
temptS at questionable ball playing. When
Farrall was running home yesterday in the
seventh inning he was caught between the
bases. The ball was thrown to Beach and
when he saw that he could not get it he
threw Farrall on the ground in order to
keep him from making home and scoring
a much needed run.
When Thompson went to the bat the first
time yesterday it looked as if he might be
some pumpkin, from the way in which he
coolly waited for four bad ones from Joe
Bernard. Subsequent events, however,
proved the fallacy of this supposition.
JOHiIie ffeyuler Is now playing MS
customary position. John never was in
tended to play an infeld position, and he
| felt out of place there. He will look after
center garden, however, as well as the best
of them.
There is rule about no one but the play
ers and the officials of the league being al
| lowed on the grounds or on the players
| benches. 1t should be enforced.
One Of the Bureau "rooters'' made an ex-
| cellent remark yesterday when he said he
| thought the umpire must be in the grand
stand. There is a little too much coaching
and managing being done from this van
| tage place to suit those who go to see the
game for the sake of seeing good sport.
Some of the teams are not provided with
| extra good coaching material. The District
Commissioners probably lead in this branch
of the art with "Nympo' Jones and Tub
| by Dickinson to lead off in the work, al
| though Bolway and some of the Bureau
| boys make a very good showing on the side
| lines.
If all the games of the second series are
| like that which was played at National
| Park yesterday the management will have
| no trouble in filling up the empty seats.
| The game yesterday surpassed some league
| exhibitions in fast playing and fine catches
| The three double plays will show the field
| ing part of it, while the heavy hitting OF
| the Bureau lads in the seventh and eighth
innings earned them what they received in
the matter of runs.