Evening star., 1896-08-15

Farrell made a wonderful stop Of "Defs'
terrific grounder in the eighth.
Duke" Farrell had an off day. It was
only lenient scoring that kept his errors
down to four.
O'Brien kicked. and Conahan turned his
back on him and walked away. A good ex-
ample for other umpires.
Lajoie's three-bagger was a clean drive
over Browns head Abbey. however. mis-
judged his double badly. 1t was hard-hit
ball, anyway.
Another triumph for up-to-date base ball
The first inning promised a slugging
match on both sides.
The Phillies have surprised their best
friends this week.
Browns injured leg troubled him, and
Abbey replaced him.
Farrell had thirteen chances at third
base He only missed five.
Three straights from Washington, and
two of them shut-outs. Well!
Conahan has a good voice for an umpire.
His decisions were all right, too.
1t has been good while since the Phil
lies won three straight from any club.
Gumbert was in fine form after the Sec
ond inning, and Washington got but one
hit
Lush is batting as did some of the Phil
lies players of the same name, until re-
Gently.
Farrell had four bad misplays, but his
stop Of Ders hit somewhat counterbalanced
them.
All Uut OAc VI Tie men advanced Dy sac
rffice hits scored. He was retired at the
plate.
BY all ethics of the profession Tuesdays
game belonged to Washington. but yester-
day there were no "ifs''
At least six runs were due tc Farrelrs
fine work. Mcclure and McCauley each
threw in one to help along.
Then Selbach, the Apollo. and Mcclure,
age. smote the ball numerically and safe
Farrell, at third, was enough to tear
down the best work that any pitcher ever
did. The batters seemed to take delight in
hammer1ng the ball in his direction, and
thirteen chances were given him, on four
of which he slipped up. and to him we owe
many Of our runs.
His Dukelets made two wild throws and
fumbled grounder. His failure to handle
grounders was so evident that the locals
gave him lots to do. One Of his stops and a
catch OF foul fly close to the bleachers,
though. deserve credit. The Duke means
well, but his avoirdupois is in the road
The Phillies gave good exhibition Of up
to-date scientific ball playing, every man
doing his share and doing It we'll Espe-
caally was this noticeable In the batting
and base running. Four sacrifice hits show
how we'll they attempted to help along by
this method, and every run that could pos
sfbly have been made was scored. It Is
such ball playing as this that attracts the
people and what they pay to see.
The career Of German in the box was
short lived He lasted just two innings.
Then young "Corny" Flynn was brought
in, with McCauley to catch him. Cornelius
for possibly that is the way the elder
F1ynns decided to distinguish him from the
rest of the Flynn family-at a distance is a
coy and tempting looking youth. He, too,
fell a victim to the Rogerttes. "Corny''
still had on 4 New York uniform, and look
ed like ruby in a setting Of sapphires.
When he read the Inquirer yesterday he
took It and showed 1t to the maid de cham
bre upon his floor at the hotel. Kind and
pretty miss" said 'Corny." kindly un-
bosom thyself of a pair Of scissors" "Cor-
ny got the scissors cut on the words
New York. from the breast Of his shirt
and shipped them to Freedman. Both Ger