Evening star., 1896-07-02

er Tenney, who played right field in place
or Jimmy Bannon, the latter replacing Har-
r1ngton at third. was close in the wake Ct
St1vetts with three singles ard base on
balls Although King was pounded for
eleven singles, he kept them apart, except
IN the third and fourth innings, when, al
though Eoston worked in six hits, but a
single tally was the. fruit thereof. Wash
ington, too. could bunch it's drives in but
two innings. but one of the punches was
o1 sumc1ent proportions to net six runs and
remove all doubt as to the result Of the
game.
For six innings the contest gave promise
OF being contest in the true sense of the
word. Boston in the first made things a
little lively. After Hamilton had flied out to
CrookS Tenney bunted and beat the ball
TO first. Bannon waited for balls, but the
next batter, Long, hit a hard one to De
Montreville Gene made an exceptionally
dlfi1cult stop, touched second base and
threw to first, retiring the side The visit
ors' half of the third was of a nature that
tends to promote nervous prostration. AZ
ter Lowe ha ! been thrown out by De Mon
treville, Sttvetts, Hamilton and Tenney
successively hit the ball for a single each.
filling the bases. Bannon advanced to the
plate, and the situation was indeed alarm
Ing. Jimmy hit to De Montreville, who like
q flash threw to Crooks and the latter to
Cartwright, SO that in the twinkling of an
eye crawl had been made out of very
deep base ball hole. And the crowd yelled
on.
Boston broke the ice In the fourth with
three hits and De Montreville's error. Two
more were added in the fifth on two bases
on balls. steal and a hit, and that was
all for Boston,
In the fifth Washington awakened, Nc
Guire burting safely. Crooks hit, which
proved to be single, in the neighborhood
of third, but in attempting to catch the
runner Bannon threw far out of fuckers
reach, and when the ball was found Nc
Guire had scored and Crooks was recover
ing his lost breath on third De Montre-
vile propelled one that was of entirely too
torrid Lature for Long to handle, and
Crooks crossed the rubber.
The most enthusiastic period of the
sNme, however, YVES the seventh inning,
wien the local players had chance at Mr..
SuNetts Mcclure hit to right and Crooks
did likewise, Mcclure going to third and
Greeks taking second on the throw in.
The bases were filed when De Montreville
had waited for balls. King next bunted
toward third. Mr.. Stivetts picked up the
ball and obligingly duplicated, though with
added emphasis, the throw Of Bannon's,
and the men on bases trotted home, King
taking second. Brown flied to left. but
Lowe dropped an easy chance from
Joyce's bat. and two more runs were add
ed. Selbach stole second and scored when
Lush hit safely to right. The next two
batters were easy outs.
In the ninth Washington increased the
and Joyce and a single by LUSH
Washington had q good chance to score
in the fourth, after Selbach had led off
with three-bagger, but it availed moth
Ing. Joyce reached home from third In
the ninth on short passed ball. the act
Bergen. who. by the way, did good work
behind the bat and threw well to bases.
The first Beaneater was retired on a great
catch by Lush after a run to the foul line.