The morning times., 1896-06-04

This is1how the Senators tied the sctre:
With two out in the ninth, two runners
on bases and two balls and two strikes on
joyce, lie hit the ball to the fence Tor I Wo
bases and scored two runs.
To get a way from the technique CT the
game for moment it can be SAID thattEe
past furnishes no parallel TO the contest
fought ont On the DIAMOND atNauonal Park
yesterday afternoon.
Il was Il ban game per Sc. From parti-
Clple to period IL was an ideal exhibition of
the national pastime. Every point OF he
favorite game wasIllutrateu TO the audience;
nothing was lacking.
There were hits and errors; base run
ming and sensational fielding; and there
was enough suap and scrap in the eleven
innings to complete dozen ordinary CON
tests. The umpire was cussedand discussed,
and, all III all, II was one OF those affairs
90, Ine green sward that has mounted base
ball upon the highest pedestal of sports
and has given the game norivalin the hearts
OF the American people.
Folks suffering from heart trouble or
any ailment liable to shuttle them off sud
denly under excitement had no business a {
National Park yesterday afternoon. They
would have stood i better chance in st.
Louis cyclone.
1T WAS EXCITING.
Brave hearted, seasoned fauS suffered
under the strain, ana il is said that Col Balm
and Capt Mike SCaulon sweat bucketfuls
ninss. 1t was indeed time to try or fry
mems souls.
1hat tIeIe wasn't number of hurry-up
calls for st. ElZabeth'S alter Joyce made.
hlS wO-bagger IN the ninth was due entirely
TO the cool breeze that fortunately was
blowing across the park. Tie 3,273 fans
present were subjects for trip 10 the
AuaccstIa retreat about that tune, but
the wind got the better of them, and cooled
tude set in.
IL was d case of squeeze without getting
juice up TO the fateful ninth. Then the
lemon gave up. Inning after inning the
Senator's would get to first, scurry to
second. and even work around to third
Then would come the dull, sea-siCkenng
thud. 1t was thus for eight innings
- wa@ 'ise TantaiuS in the lake OF hot
water with cooling draughts placed to his
thirsty and parched lips only to be with
drawn by the hidden hand.
THAT LITTLE HIT.
That little hit, that looked for error never
came. aud the agony of a sbut-out for the
first time this season had begun to enter
the souls OF the rCoters like spikes of
rusted iron.
But as in Mondays game, the good
fateS, or perhaps Jack Crooks horseshoe,
had Il better fate in store for the ha rd-
toiling Joyce ard his faithful band. They
were not To he goose eGged, whitewaShed,
or Chicagoed.
They We're to give the Spiders a fast
run for the money and finish neck and neck
in race where whip and steel were not
spared.
Primarily it was pitchers battle. though
other elements entered into the long CON
test. The central figures the storm
centerss. were Young and Mercer. a
critical examination of the score which
follows, shows which of the two got the
better of the aggravated argument.
The home people had the opportunity
yesterday of gaining an insight into the
ways by which Washington's premier
pitcher has been able to wrest victory
from his opponents so often this season
No attempt is made here to pale Youne's
great work by comparing il with Mercer's.
better twirler never spit on a ball than
Honest Cy,' hut the truth of the story
comnelS a line to be drawn in favor of his
youthful adversary. as the cold figures
of the tally sheet bear witness.
1t was Sahara to the Senators until
the ninth and two-thirds of that inniug
shed no rainbow Of promise.
Rogers let off with single but DeMontre-
Vile and Mercer were easily entrapped
in the Spiders web. Tom Brown. by a
great burst of speed, beat out tap that
Tebeau played marbles with and two
men were on bases when "Scrappy'' came
to bat.
1t was do or die with the Senators can