The evening times., 1896-06-27
BASEBALL NOTES.

The grand stand WIS an animated flower
garden.
The rain was kind enough TO cease about
the time the Senators ciDched the game.
scrappy Bill was given salvos of ap-
plause Oh coming to bat in the first in
ming.
Secretary Vonderhorst Of the Baltimore
Club t, Ok snap shots Of the game from .he
press box.
selhach saved run in the fourth by
making hard running catch OF Robin
sons drive To left.
The Orioles have the same mascot as
last season, a bright-faced youpgster OF
about ten summers.
Reitz was the first man to walk TO first
on SILVER" but the present was della We.
until the eighth inning.
There was quite contingent of Bal:i-
more rooters III tie grand stand. ana they
were not at all modest with their noise.
selbach hit the hat and tie sign in left
field with his hcme run drive IN the ninth.
and will be the first play this season to
get the prizes offered.
Hurst wore an immaculate three Sheet
and a high collar TO match. Tim knew it
was ladies' day and sent the customary
funnel shirt to the laundry.
Keeler made a pretty catch Of Lush's
long hit TO the right field fence in the
fifth. He grabbed the ball against the
barb wire and shut off IL home run.
When the Orioles think the game is gainst
them they, quit trying to play ba! and go
to wrangliDg. Such Conduct is not be-
coming ID the champions of the Lea que.
The newspaper correspondents accom-
paEylDg the hltiinores are IL. L. Good
man, The AmericaD;' H. F. Patterson,
The Sum j. T: Murphy. The Herald
Jack Carter. The News
The star catch Of the game was made by
Mcclure IN the sixth, when he pulled down
a high foul from Reitz's bat. Jim Just did
get his fingers on the ball after hard
run, but he squeezed II all the same.
Inevery score book for sale on the grounds
is "a coupon offering a box OF MCGUIRE
cigars to the one guessing the nearest to
the standing of the leading player in the
bicycle voting contest at The end OF each
mCnth.
ord. 1t Will be remembered that Scrappy
stood second in the League in home runs
last season. Bobby Lowe and the short
left field Boston fence beating him out
for iirst place by nose.
In the wrangling brought on by the
champions in the first inning Catcher Clark
put in his eyer-ready mouth and took coca
sion to sass Hurst. He went too far with
his bad English, and Tim said: THAT will
cost you SEQ; and it goes, too; do you
hear?"
The Senators made their first two runs
Off Of the first three balls pitched by Nc
Mahon. Tom Brown let the first one go by
and hit the second to right for base. Joyce
then came up and drove the ii!Nt ball de-
livcred to him over into the bleachers for
home run.
1--WE been hearing bout these Senators, "
said Jolly Jack Carter of the Baltimore
News, but seeing is believing. No club
i'll the League has license 10 give them
cards and spades" Then Joyce hit The
ball over the fence the second time and
Jack threw up both hands.
Hereafter ladies and gentlemen riding
bicycles To the park will lind ample storage
space free II charge, Mr.. Wagner havit->
arranged for the care OF the wheels during
games. 1t is suggested that every rider
bring chain and lCck. and thus make doubly
sure Of the safety of their machines.
Mercer, whom the Boston's knocked CT.
OF the box Saturday, has remarkable
record OF victories this year; Including
year and won II of them. Red Ehret has
also good record in games won, but ehas
not pitched nearly so Omany as the Washing.
ton crack.-Boston Journal.
The vote for the most popular player. to
whom line bicycle will lie given at the
close of the season. stands: Joyce, .479;
Mercer, / i IS; Mcclure, Oil; Selbach, 500:
Abbey; 7os; caTsIwyright, $50: Maui, 5ss
432; McCauley, -356; Rogers, 326; Lush,
| 2s9: Boyd. 273; King, Ell; McJames, 246;
! German, 2O3.
| DeMontreville, the Senator's new short
stop, is a good one. There is no mistake
| about this. He has style and a perfect
knowledge OF how to handle grounders
This is the one place where Washington
| has strengthened and helped the team
wonderfully. The all-round work of the
"Joycites" was up to anything seen here
| this year.-Tim Murnane in Boston Globe
MCGUIRE of the Washingtons can have
| a job as umpire when he wants to quit play.
| ing ball. lie officiated Saturday with
| Sullivan as alternate, as Emslie was unable
| to be present. His work was absolutely
! without flaw. His decisions We're quickly
and correctly given, his Judgment on balls
and strikes being particularly good.-Bos
| ton Globe.
| Siivcr-hared MurDane, the crackerjacE
Eastern baseball authority and essayist on
| the national game, printed the followin:
| potpourri in his paper, the Post, while tht
| Senators were in Boston: Capt Joyce o
| the Washington Club is not what is gen
| orally termed n modest man when baseball
| is the theme. Last Saturday evening Capt
| Joyce, Tom BROW and Barney Lennon wer,
the center of group at n famous sport
| ing hotel, and baseball was the subject
what will we do with Boston Monday!
| Why, beat them, to certainty. It's pipe
| we beat them in the series. Why. cam
| figure any way Boston can beat us out
| Capt Joyce is ready to give all comers
| good argument to show that his hustlinl