The morning times., 1896-04-08
TOO FAST FOR TfD.S MEN
Difference Betwsen::b.g. and lit-
tie Leaguers Evidenced.
DE MONTREVILLEB DOUBLE
Gene Made Great Stop and Throw,
Retiring the side-Abbey Holds
the Batting Record for the Pre-
limlnary ySeason-Mc cJames Had Con-
troll and Pitched Steady Game.
washington, 10; New Haven, 1.

The weather man evidently does not like a
"joliy."
Say nice things about his climate one
day and he returns the compliments by
sending along the phenomena of q snow
storm in APPS and a wind more befitting
December tan a season when all nature
is due TO bud and blossom.
Just what crime the lovers of outdoor
sports have committed is not plain but
certainly they have sinned in some way to
draw down upon themselves such yisitations
of discomfort as has been the almost daily
dose since the inauguration OF the baseball
season locally.
Yesterday was no exception, and not
content with turning Boreas loose, the
weather man uDbottied his next winters
supply OF the e"bcautifuP ana sent It floating
in the air to bite the faces and freeze the
fingers Of people who had q right to expect
better treatment.
STEERS LASSOED AGAIN.
1t may be that the climate managers took
advantage of the presence in the city OF
Ted Sullivan's Texas Steers,'' to even up
a score against the Lone Star State for the
several blizzards sent from the prairie
country last fail and winter. t'g
But the weather clerk should not take
out spite on the Steers, they have
troubles of their own.
Its easy for a good, husky lot OF youngsters
to play the kind OF ball that wins pennants
in minor leagues, but when the same ggre-
CATION gets up against tie real tting,'' il
is quite a different matter.
Ted's Steers experienced no great trouble
in stampeding over the Texas League last
season and winning the championship of
that organization, but contests with q
National League club evidence the remark
oh hot Il,
players.
Such is the conclusion 10 dra " from the
two games played between the Senators
and the Steers. Ted's club, fast as it is
among its own kind was completely out
cIassed and hopelessly distanced by the big
leaguers. -s.--
SENATOR'S PLAYING FAST BALL.
The game yesterday, like several others
that have preceded it, was pla yed in adverse
weather, yet the unfayorable conditions did
not deter the Senators from giving ali ex-
hibition that increased the already pre-.
vailing opinion that they will take a re-
spectacle position In the League race this
season.
Capt. Joyce took a day off and put
Jimmy Rodgers at third base Jimmy played
the position as If he had been raised up in
that immediate vicinity.
Jake Boyd, he OF the crafty south paw,
pitched three innings and had the Steers
guessing the entire time. He was succeeded
in the fourth by Jesse James" who held
the long horns by big rope until the sew
enth, when Scissors Boswell enter the
corral and rounded up the herd
The star play OF the game was made by
Gene De Montrcville. 1t happened in the
last bali OF the seventh inniugi The bases
We're full Of Steers when Keister. the
abbreviated sbortstop, came To bat. He
picked out one Of Bozzy's twisters and sent
1t skinning across the infield.
1t looked like clean hit and three Steers
went scampering toward home plate. But
Genie reached out with his left and stabbed
the bali as II crossed the line, and stepping
on second. he threw To first, effectlng a
lightning double play, which retired the
side