The morning times., 1896-04-19
Games Toda Y.
Louisville at Cincinnati.
Chicago at st. Louis.

Napoleon lost Waterloo because Of tarli
ness OF Marshal Grouchy: Capt. Joyce's
Senate lost to New York. not because
Of slow play but by reason of combine :
ton of luck, 10 which the Giants had ~.
only key.
Yet Napoleon was great after the Bel
gian battle and disaster-greater, prob
ably, III defeat at Waterloo than in The
flush ot success at AusierltZ and Lodi.
Napoleon had nothing 10 DO with the
tan game 'stcrday afternoon. He Is
quietly sleeping III his White nausoieum on
the bahks of the Seine and he is only
iugged into this screed to evidence that
man, an army ana ball club Can
take a Dcking ana yet get honorable men
tiop
NobOly censures the Senators for the
loss OF yesterdays game. RATHER the
expression OF the aItenuants Of The game
was ''good boys; played up hill ana lost
by scratch
Luck is u great factor in ban gam
The most trlThng misplay or a fOrtunat"
nit decides pcnnants and Temple cups
The IHispHy may be unavoidable or the
hit punt 10y a batter who WAS never
known to meet the bali in all emergency
The New lorks placed yesterdays game
TO their credit, not by excellence or pld =
or superiority, but because good luc k
rested around them and would not desert
their presence, despite the persistent eff
Tort ana conjuring OF the Senators.
NEW YORK DID NOT EXPECT 10 WIN.
The Giants did not expect TO win. They
had no heart at the commencement and
went at their task in the most perrunctory
manner. They considered that they hal
a day 10 fill in and "A beating to take.
Such Il surprise as yesterday afforded
explains Tie popularity OF the accepted
faYOrIte national past:lne. IL is the un
certainty, the unexpected, the total demo
lition OF calculation on results that ma es
baseball Il magnet TO attract attention ana
Interes' VINO thought III 1884 that Balti-
more's Ianigans would win the pennant.
VINO OF the 2,GO0 fans at National Par K
yesterday tnCIgnt that the Giants would
pull out on a contest that they had con
irssedly lost when Manager Irwin took
Meekin from the box aud substituted Van
Haitrcn merely for the purpose OF giving tag
spectators an exhibition Ill return for their
admission II ouey?
The change from basi 70 worse, as a com
parison OF Meekiu ana Van Haltren rs
pitchers. would be ordinarily consider ei,
proved Il sesame 10 success Tor the visitors
aud the! won on the same line that
rainbow chaser fiHds bags or gold at the
point where the seven colors kiss the
earth.
The erstwle Formidable Jouett Meekin
was not pu ia the box by Manager irwin y.
Capt Gleason, Or w4IoeGer manages the
New YorkS in the hope of winning the
game-lt was n case Of dernier resort.
200" is no longer prize beauty as =
slab artist: he is Swallowed by the former
lOwly Dad Clarke and is not ment Ioned n
the same sentence with Au.os Rus!e except
in Odious comparison.
When Mr.. Wagner sold Meckin ana Far
rell to New YORK for 81 500 lie cfrccte'!
he best green goods sale that bad been
closed since Slick Snyder pulled Col; Good
things remaining leg for 10000 piunkers
on a gold brick trade.
Tue best Duke Farrell can do now
as catcher is to tell the young New
York hackstops how f s he -dn ga It when NH his
was time wien the Wagners Were crit
cised for disposing or the pair OF prize
heautes. but IT Is very hard matter
these days To get one OF the former kiCher>
to acknowledge that he had a hammer in
the knocking.
SENATORS WERE OUTLUCKED.
The Senators had the luck In the first
game, Won the second by superior play
and lost yesterday because fortune was
with the visitors.
Had Meekn remained in the box an
other inning he Senators would have won.
Rad Gilroy been substituted for Malarkcy
an inning earlier il might have been dir
fcrent or had Cart wright made a hit
or worked base on balls in the ninth
the result would have been in Wastiington's
favor.
No blame at all that such was not the
case. Capt. Joyce and his men did their
hest against New York's luck. But fortune
as usual. held cards and spades, the aces
and all the face cards, and no one can
win against such high running hands.
the third inning. Meekin could do no better
than lob them over the second, and on the
Senators taking their turn at bat in TIE
third he was withdra wn and Van Haltren
substituted.
A further change was made in this inning
by Manager Irwin, Capt Gleason or whl--
ever manages the New Yorks. The veteran
Pfeffcr, amidst hearty applause, trotted 20
second, Gleason going TO left field, ami
Stafford vencering to center
lteseems like writing about the almost
forgotten past to detail Van Haltrens work
in the box yesterday. Van was pitcher
with cap. decade ago. AnSun
brought him East us a phenom twirler many
years before Chicago area med of a Worlds
Fair or thought OF exciting New York's
envy rs to the matter OF popula tion
Like many other pitching phenoms. Van
was soon exploded by the big leaguers but
he was OF the right material for an ont
fielder and on vacating the slab he found
steady enga cement on the baseball frontier
He is one OF the best outfielders in the
profession and is player who is fit to
did not expect to pitch the Giants into a
victory yeStcria y-but lie did
He went in to make a bluff-simply that
and nothing more The game at that time
was considered lost by New York and the
attempt was TO make the best showing
possible.
But Van had not entirely separated him.
self from the cunning OF his marvellous
days as pitcher on the California coast
where Pop Anson discovered him. and to
the surprise of himself, the New Yorks, tie
Senators and everybody else he won the
game.
THREE HOMERS WERESCORED.
Three home runs are recorded in the score
Capt. Gleason made the initial on the first
crack out of the box. Joyce til ought it very
pert in Kid to take such liberties with
youngster Malarky and got revenge by
driving one of Jouetts best efforts into the
right field bleachers for four bags.
;rI
Rogers in tile ninth. The Senators were
three runs shy to tie and four to win
when Jimmy faced Van. Mcclure was on
first and Jimmy let Mac walk home ahead
of him when he swatted the ball to deep
center for the whole business. Jimmy was
on the bench tanning himself when Stafford
threw in.
The first dirty bah OF the season a
National Park was attempted by H. Davis
in the seventh inning. Rogers hit to center
and on running down TO second Davis mad.
an attempt to hold him at first But Rogers
is no pigmy if be is not a Giant and be
AZ friv 1,