Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-10
.ecord of-the Clubs.
How they stood September is. lsae

The third game of the series at National
Park yesterday between the Cleveland and
Washington clubs was siuggishly played
affair. but as the home club won by 9 TO
the local fans are more than satisfied.
The visitors went into the field with dis
arr anged team. on account Of Childs and
O'Connor being injured, and played
throughout the contest as If defeat was
sure to come: their way, no matter how
we'll they played. Young at first and Nc
Allister in right. proved poor substitutes,
what they didn't do being far more disas-
treus than what they''tried to do Then
Tebeau is not a second baseman of the first
class, and balls that got by him would
have been gobbled quite easily by the reg
ular man. Both Sides played rocky ball
in the field, but kept The interest in the
game going through hard hitting and good
base running. AL Setback was the bright
particular star of yesterdays game, as he
lated and fieided like the Selbach of cid.
and SKINNED around the bases as only he.
can when pleased with himself
Mercer was assigned to the rubber for
the, Senators, and had another hard day
of it,,abis favorite slow ball being freely
hit, causing him to change his delivery and
depend on speedy straight ones and slow
out curves. For the first two innings it
call to the bench, but his head work came
into play thereafter. and but seven hits
We're registered off his delivery for the re-
mainder of the game.
Powell did the twrling for the Spiders.
and although not hitsaS hard as Mercer
the bingles came in bunch at times, nota-
bly, the fourth, whenthre triples and two
singles We're torn off by the opposing bat
ss1 ths in fsss
ellis work. ~
of it also, as several of his decisions did
aulged in. But grsdasSs i 10 reiase me Ih
arbitrator had the Spectators with him.
and both teams were Kissed when the
Kicking was continued too long,
The ClevefanGs 1stdfte3 tile fipst inning
as II they We're going to make up for lost
time. Wallace soaked one into center field
for three bases and McKean's single
with single sends ne tn , fo1loS ss
mered se sae s ss fhss yi ea
Linn two bases. The Senators got two of
these runs back, and the spectators felt
better. sslbasA started The fun; with
then hit a long, fly into CENTER, and; as Pick
ering caught the ball Setback dashed for
third and made it. Seeing Brown a good
way from first, Wallace cut loose for first
TO nan the Senators captain, but the ball
went wide and both runners scored
Nothing dalinted, the Clevelands came
back again into the fight with a. rush.
tally1ng two runs after two hands were
out. Young singled to left center and wal
lace got a free pass to first. McKean's
single drove Young over the plate, and
Wallace followed him on Pickering's sin
gle to the infield In the third the Sena-
tors came again with a rush. Brown hit
to Wallace, and on Young's error was safe
at first. De Mont then tore Off three
Dagger and Brown came home, and a mo-
ment later De Mont scored on McGuire's
double. -,
Again in the fourth the Spiders failed to
tally, but the Senators chased four runs
across the plate Gettman Leahy and Sell
bach made triples in rapid succession, scor-
ing the Two first named. the latter coming
home on Browns single. De Mont singled
and Brown landed on third. a pretty piece
Of base running, coming home with the
fourth run as Young was putting out Nc
CURE at first
The Spiders then went into run-makins
scoring tally in each Of the next three
innings. In the fifth thinner hit single
through short, went to third on McAllis-
ter's lucky two-bagger and scored on
Young's single over third, In the sixth
Mexican hit to deep right field for triple
and scored on Zimmer's single to left. The
Senators got one run back in this inning
on Selbach's triple to- right, and crossed
the plate on De Mont's out at first In the
seventh Young hit long fly to Brown,
which the latter dropped, going to second
on the error and home on Burketts single.
Neither side scored in the eighth inning
and the game was called on account of
darkness. leaving the score 9 to in faver
of the Senator's and making their sixth
consecutive victory, and the eleventh out
of the last twelve games