The Washington times., 1895-06-04

Fifteen successive defeats had made
very chilly atmosphere about the Louis
vile Colonels, but the torrid weather OF
the last two days weakened the ice suf-
ficiently for McCloskey's Blue Grass lads
to smash big hole and chuck the Wash
ington team in for bath
Truth to say, however, it required the
able bodied assistance OF good part of
the home team to fracture the glacier.
Perhaps the boys have been in last place
SO often themselves that in sheer pity
for the present holders they made up
their minds to give them a brace. What
ever the motive, the action was plain, and
weak batting, wretched fielding and poor
base-running easily produced a victory for
the visitors.
There was great deal ofhowling at Tim
keefe, and His Nibs certainly had very
crGss-eyed focus on the home plate, when
balls were coming over, but all his mistakes
combined could not do SO much damage
as the wiid-eyed throwing and Trilby stops
of Joyce, Boyd and Cartwright.
BASEBALL SyENGALI.
Svengali Cunningham also had thrown
hypnotic mantle over most of the team
and with the exception of Selbach, Abbey,
Mcguire and Crooks they were as men
walking in q dream.
Mcclure and Hassamer alone attempted
any team work. The rest had their eyes
glued to the right corner of the field aud
Collins killed. off six would-be home run
ners who expended their energies in his
direction. Joyce was particularly stuck
on the beacher fence and Collins nailed
him three times and Boyd twice.
No less than seventeen men when out on
high flies, and all but one perished thus
in the last four innings.
Mercer was far less effective than usual
and seemed to be euervated by the heat
He made great Use of his slow ball and
it filled a long-felt want in the Louisville
team. Collins and Welch in particular,
ticking up to it like a sick kitten to a hot
brick
Mercer felt like sick kitten on several
occasiouss but even with all the hard usage
that his delivery received, good fielding
would have pulled him through triumph
antly.
Only one run was earned by the Colonels
and 1t was about horse and horse between
Mercer and the field
The only opening for really fine batting
streak was nipped in the bud by q reckless
piece of base running by Joyce, who at.
tempted to steal home on short pass in
the fourth with no one out and was nailed
to the rubber. Had he held his base Cart
runs sure with no one out and endless pos
sibilities for regular killing match.
1T WAS SUDDEN DEATH.
MCGUIRE played q great game. His
throwing arm was sudden death on two
occasions to the fleet-footed Clarke, who
disputes with Mercer and Tom Brown the
sprinting honors of the league; fooled
Grandpa Brouthers into a trap by fake
throw to second, lost another of the same
sort by Boyd's error, and made lightning
pickup and throw to first off Collins bunt,
besides beating out a bunt himself. 1t was
intended for a sacrifice, but Jim so
paralyzed Shugart by his sprinting that
he couldn't pick up the ball in time
Abbey and Selbach had some difficult
| chances to attend to, and did brilliant and
faultless work.
Joyce did a fine bit of work in the eighth
on a great left-handed stop of Cunning
hams grounder, retiring him at first, and
Crooks handled everything that came his
| way
A great howl was raised against Keefe
when he declared Abbey out for stepping
in the way of Cunningham, who was
running for a foul, but when the same
medicine was administered to Collins for
| a similar obstruction it was another OK
| gored.
Mcclure and Crooks were the only mer