Evening star., 1896-06-23
Rumors of a Big Deal Between
Philadelphia and New York.
OTHER SPORTING NEWS
Record of the Clubs.

TOdny's Schedule.
Washington at New York.
Baltimore at Philadelphia.
Brooklyn at Boston.
Pittsburg at Cleveland
ST. Louis at Louisville.
Cincinnati at Chicago.
For the first time in many, many years,
longer than the memory of the oldest of
the local rooters. the Washington league
team has visited Boston and has departed
with two victories out of three games.
And it was Joyce who was to blame; Joyce.
the man with the blue-tippel bat and the
eagle eye; the man who has pushed the
Senator's with almost no new material up
from tenth to fifth place IN the league
race. For Joyce had his eye on the fences
yesterday in Boston. and with two mighty
swats of his stick he caused the scoring
of three senatorial runs and gave Pitcher
Sullivan such fright that thereafter the
Washington captain was given free trans
portation
Mercer felt before the game that he could
redeem himself for the drubbing of Satur-
day, when he was ill and should not have
tried to pitch. So Joyce. who has great
confidence in Mercer's judgment. allowed
the brunette to go into the box, and it Is
not too much to say that he paralyzed the
Beaneaters. True. they were able to pro-
long the agony for eleven innings, but it
was accidental that an extra inning was
necessary, for the first run scored was due
to an error. and the other two were caused
by lucky drive over the fence by Tuck
er, with two out and a man on firs., in the
eighth. MERGERS great head work came in
when men occupied bases. Again and
again the day seemed lost Bostonians
were on bases and heavy hitters were at
the rubber. Mercer then put Il few kinks
into his curve, cast the X-rays on the bats
mems brains. and 10! they perished.
Tom Brown started the game by receiv-
ing a present. his patience being well re-
warded. Joyce found good one and lost
it over the famous left-fieid fence. Two
runs for a starter! Abbey followed this up
by dropping out a single. but he couli not
score. The Senators showed how well they
enjoyed Sullivan's delivery in the second
by getting two more hits. but their makers
cavorting for joy. Mcclure and Crooks
were the guilty ones, but they redeemed
themselves in that great eleventh inning,
when Joyce showed Boston what he knows
about team work.
Boston broke the Ice in the third, when
De Montreville fumbled Longs grounder.
ard scored on a hit. a force-out and a
sacrifice. This placed the Goldfish men too
near for comfort, SO in the fifth Joyce
picked out another nice one that Sullivan
sent up the alley and pushed it over the
right field fence. Any old fence was good
enough for Scrappy. Nor was Tommy
Tucker at all particular about his fences
Like the boy in the Mother Goose rhyme
he put in his thumb. and pulled out a
plum and said What a big boy am T.
For just before Tommy made connections
with the sphere in the eighth Bannon had
hit for a base and Tailed with the captain
That tied the score and the extra innings
were necessary, for In the ninth Sullivan
retired the Statesmen on three pitched
balls. In the tenth. with Joyce out. Abbey
hit to right for two bases, and moved up
bag on Selbach's sacrifice. being left there
when Cartwright failed by nose to beat
ont a dinkey little hit to Sullivan.
Mercer gave the waiting fans in WASH
ihgton case of heart failure in the last
half OF the tenth by giving Duffy a base,
ana then making mess in throwing Col
HIS sacrifice. thus putting men on first and
second and none out. 1t looked like all day
with the Senators, but the pride of ladies'