Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-15
SENATORS GAINED SEVERAL POINT
The Contest for Ninth Place Grows
in In


The Contest for Ninth Place Grows
In Interest.
Washington pulled up several points on
the Brooklyn contingent yesterday, and
was not content with simply winning the
game. but covered the church goers with a
cloud of snowy whiteness. Not a Brook
Ignite reached home and only four hits
were secured off Mergers delivery The
credit certainly belongs to the young man
with the black hair and the rueful counte-
nance While he gave two bases on balls
they did not count in the result, and his
control and speed were splendid. Three
times did the band of hirelingS from the
church city have two men on bases and
twice with only one man out but Win set
tied down, and the best the visitors had to
offer was weak infied hit or beautifully
placed hy-that is. for the fielders.
Inc game was steady, rather well-play-
ed enc, although the Senators are charged
with four errors. There were no sensa don
al plays. and the home team won out by
good batting. Three of the errors charged
10 the Senators were partly eXcusable, all
being made on hard throws the only one
that savored of yellowness being that of
Setback In allowing a ground ball to go
through him. There was no kick coming
from the rooters however. and everything
was Forgiven on the spot. De Mont's work
ture Of the game. He made three hits and
sacrifice, besides participating in a dou-
BILE play with OBrien and Cartwright. All
of the hits made by the Senators were
sharp. clean cracks that seemed to go
straight for the right open place in the in
field or else drop just safely beyond the
felder's outstretched fingers.
Washington gained the same lead in the
first that they did Saturday-four runs.
But there was no hoodoo this time, and the
game was Won right there. Lush got his
base and De Mont followed with his first
hit. Then Selbach made a single scoring
Lush, and after Farrell had gone out on a
fly Smith made a sacrifice, putting De
Mont on third and Setback on second. Then
OBrIen came up to the bat and noting
the gap between first and second, sent a
scorching line hit straight for 1t that did
not stop until both runners had scored and
Johnny was roosting on second. Brown
made another beautiful double and O Brien
scored.
This closed the run-getting for the in
ming. In the second round Lush made
single. went to second on DeNIont's sac
rifice and came home on Selbach's hit, al
though DAILY tried to catch him at the
plate. Another one was added in the fifth
off DeMont's single AMI Selbach's 'long
hit to Jones, which ought to have been
fielded in quicker. The seventh score was
tailed in the eighth. O'Brien made a sin
gle and Cartwright scored him on a ter
rife hit straight out through the air to the
center field fence. that 2etted the runner
three bases surely. but he tried to stretch
1t into a homer and was put out at the
plate.
In the second inning the visitors had a
man on third and one on second and only
one out, but Mccarthy and Burrell both
went out on infield hits. In the sixth Crit
fin reached second and Daily first with only
one out, but Mercer settled down again
and the hopes of the trolley dodgers were
as naught. In the eighth Griffin started
off with single and Daily flew out to Sell
bach. Then Corcoran stepped up and
swatted the ball straight for Genie De-
Mont. That was the worst thing he could
have done if he really wanted his Team
to score. for Genie scooped it UP, threw
it to O'Brien, who started it on its way
to Cartwright, and the double play was
complete. retiring the side. Attendance,
LOCO. The score: