Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-19

Baltimore. and the jump from Boston to
Washington was too great. 1t was not un.
til 1888 that the two big cities were admit
ted. In the meantime the American Asso-
citation, with 25-cent ball and Sunday games,
was formed, and In 1883 began making
overtures to Washington. Two mines were
formed in 1854. Mr.. Lloyd Monkeys team
was admitted to the American Association,
and the club of which Mr.. H. b. Bennett
vas president went into the new Union
Association. The other cities represented
were ST. Louis, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Cincinnati. Altoona, Boston and Chicago.
Only five clubs finished the season, the Ma,
tionals ending in fifth place They had
much better fortune than the association
club. who disbanded In August, owing to
insufficient support. The local Union Asso-
citation club generously played game for
tFeir benefit. The American Association
club was tail ender of twelve clubs, win
ring twelve and losing fifty-one games The
Union Association club did much better,
winning forty-seven and losing sixty-siX.
The American Association games were
played ut Athletic Park, 9th and S streets;
the union games at the old Capitol Park
crossing street north from the Capitol
grounds. Mr.. H. B. Bennett was president
of the Nationals in 1884. C. Z. White. secre-
Il ry and treasurer; NJ. B. Scanlon, man
ager. The players were w. f. Wise Phil
Baker Thos. Evers, Alex. Voss, NJ H.
Lockwood Mark Creegan. Fred. c. Tenney,
N. McCarl Ed. McKenna.
The Eastern League.
Washington had another champion team
In the following year-1SS5. The Nationals
wanted to keep up the Union Association.
but St Louis declined, and the local team
vent into the Eastern League, where they
were easily first. The other clubs were
from Jersey City, Lancaster. Wilmington.
Newark, Norfolk. Trenton and Richmond.
Mr.. r. c. Hewitt was president of the
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White. treasurer: w. H Hewitt. secretary.
and Mr.. NJ. B. Scanlon was manager. The
players were Phil. Baker r. NJ. Barr. c.
Fl. Gagus, F. Suck, James Knowles, F.
Morrisy, w. d. White w. F. Hoover. Alb
rer Powell, Chris Fulmer. T. Evers. Hank
O'Day. The clubs career was a success
SION of victories.
In the League.
The National League now began to cast
eyes of desire on Washington, and at the
meeting of March 3. 1886, Washington
was admitted. Providence dropped out and
the bulk of the Team came here. Joe
Start, Paul Hines Dupee Shaw and Bar
ney Gilligan and Cliff Carroll But there
was too much weakness in the team. and
it finished last, winning twenty-eight
games and losing n;nety-two. In 1887 In
dianapolis was admitted and Washington
pushed the Holsters into last place. but
next year Indianapolis. with mighty
effort, left the rear and forced the Sena-
the last week by three games. The WASH
ngtons were tailenders again in 1889 IN
dianapolis again escaping that place by
only few games.
The Players League revolt of 1880 left
Washington without a club. most Of the
players going to Buffalo to form the Play
ers' League of that city. Circumstances
forced the league to drop washington,
which went into the Atlantic League in
1880. Other clubs in the league were Bal
timore, Wilmington Newark, Jersey CITY,
Hartford, New Haven and Providence.
Atlantic League.
The circuit was similar to the old Eastern
League, and Ted Sullivan's local team
speedily showed itself superior to all others,
Baltimore alone being a worthy rival The
club now played at Atlantic Park. 18th and
streets, instead of North Capitol and G.
where games had been played since 1886.
Facilities for reaching the ground were
poor and patronage fell OFF The other clubs
were poorly supported, too, and one tfter
another dropped out. The Washingtons
tried Sunday games at the driving park at
ST. Asaph'S junction, near Alexandra, but
they could not keep the club going. and it in
time dropped out of the race. and Mr.. Hew-
lit, its hacker, gave up the fight The Amer
lean Association had induced Baltimore 70
join and sought Washington. but it was lie
c:ded to wait until 1891. The next season
the Washngtons returned to the American
Association, after an absence OF seven yeafs.
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efforts We're made to strengthen it, but the
club finished last. The players were SUIT
cl:ffe. Burns. Donovan. Mcclure, McCauley,
S!attery, Griffin. Hines, Dowd, Hatfield Nc
Query. Murphy, Curtis. Moore, Beecher,
Visner, Foreman, Darty, Lehman, Bakely.
Pop Smith. Carsey and Dan shannon.
The WaShii.gtons won Al and lost W, with a
percentage of 32S. The other clubs in the
assoc!a ton were Boston, st. Louis, Balti-
mere. Athletic, Milwaukee, Columbus and
Louisville, and they finished in that order.
In the Big League.
In the winter the league and association
were combined. and Washington was given
a place in the new organization. fine lot
of players was assigned to this city. Lar
kin, Dowd and Eardie Richardson covered
the bases Dan Richardson at short, and
Radford. Donovan. Duffee and Hoy in the
field, Mcclure and Milligan went behind the
bat and GastrighL, klilen. knell, kilroy,
Foreman and Dolan were the pitching tai
ent Hardie Richardson who had covered
third acceptabiy for the champion Boston
team, displaced and all sorts OF ex-
periments were tried there during the sea-
son. Nevertheless, the club finished the
first season in seventh place. Constant
changes produced much Generalization
that the club dropped to twelfth place for
the second half; yet the clubs standing for
the whole season was tenth. with per-
centage of .3S5. The team was by all odds
the strongest Washington had had in years.
1t was broken up lue lOiiohiuS scdi anu
finished last the double season having been
given up A strong infusion Of young blood
was tried in 1894, and last place was left
behind, yet the work done was not equal
to that of 1892, the percentage being only
al The season of 1885 saw the local team
little changed from that of the year pre-
vious 1t went up round on the league
ladder. but its percentage was lower than
that of last year. Few changes are indi-
Gated in the team for next season.