Evening star., 1895-06-06
LATE SPORTING NEWS
NATURE FRIENDLY TO CLEVELAND.
Yesterday's Storm Saved the Spiders
From Defeat.

1e8teru0y'S storm saved the Spiders
From Defeat.
In all human probability the Statesmen
would have spanked the young men who
wear base ball uniforms under the leader
ship of P. Oliver Tebeau, ESQ.,, yesterday
afternoon had not the rain interfered to
blast their hopes and spoil their chances.
With the score standing 4 to in favor of
the local men, the storm came galloping
over from the west and put stop to the
game when two OF the Senators were out
in the fifth inning. Ten more minutes of
the kind of play that marked the first three
innings would have settled tie game in
favor of the home team and Washington
would have moved along to ninth place,
ousting Brooklyn.
But the rain could not wait those ten
minutes, and after two locals had deliber
ately thrown themselves away by refusing
to try to bat effectively, Umpire Long
called time. When the rain had ceased
he took a walk over the thoroughly soak
ed field in company with the two captains
and very sensbly decided to call the game
on account of wet grounds.
Some folks thought he might have been
more lenient, but he was clearly right, as
a. ball game on that field would have been
no less than farce.
When the game stopped Washington had
made eight hits and no errors and Cleve-
land no hits and one error. Until the
fourth inning not one of the visitors reach
ed first so perfect was Stockdale's deliv-
cry and the support behind him.
In the fourth he weakened and became
badly ratified, giving three bases on balls,
broken only by Childs going out on a fly
to Abbey. The coaching was very noisy,
and Umpire Long seemed to have become
ratified, too. for he called balls that really
should have been strikes. Blake put up
a fly with the bases filed that should have
fallen safe in left field, but Seibach made
a splendid effort and caught it in the short
field. Burkett made a dash for home and,
the throw being little wild, he crossed
the rubber, but the sphere was immediate
1y returned to Joyce and Burkett was
declared out for having left the base too
soon.
Washington got men on bases in every
inning but the foolish fifth. With one
out Joyce was given four bad balls in the
first and Hassamer cracked out a fine sin
gle to right. A double play en- AIcGuire's
infeld hit, however, retired the side. With
Cartwright out in the second. Boyd,
Crooks, Abbey and Stocksdale hit safely,
the last named batter beating out q bunt,
and one run scored. TheI!, after sselbach
had fouled out, Joyce laced out a single
to center, and two more runs came in.
Poor base running on an attempt to make
a double steal gave the Spiders a chance
to put an end to Pitcher Young's agony.
The same kind of poor work retired the
side in the third. When two were out
Cartwright and Boyd walked to first on
balls and Boyd was thrown cut after Cart
wright had reached third on a steal and
Zimmer's bad throw, in trying to give the
big captain a chance to run hcme. In
the fourth, with two out, Stocksdale lined
out the ball past McGarr for two bases
and scored on Selbach's single to center.
There were about $500 people present,
and the management made just that many
friends by giving out rain cheeks although
the custom has not been to do this after
three innings have been played.