The times., 1897-04-30

out what appeared - he three-bagger
but Tom flew over the f.srowed scd. and
gathered il In like red-ripe cherry
Such fielding was disbeauenng, and ii
wasnot strange that the Eeaneaters chantei
the refrain OF What's the Use Brown S
record In center was the unusual one Of
seven putouts.
Selhach also acted as a brake on Bost on +
ambition He played just right for Duffy
in the seventh, and safely entombed a
vicious drive that made the fans gruan
rs ii cracked from the ash
Mercer and DeMontreyille made the per-
feet percentage of 600 at lat, and each
of them purloined three bases. Their hits
we're rot of the screaming kind, but were
those d,mpy, tantalizing taps that make
monkeys OF the infieiders and drive them
TO drink or other means of desperation. De-
Mentfeville rracticed bunting for an hour
before the cail OF play, and the value of the
Lesson was apparent in the game Mer-
GERS running ability materially assistedhim
III reaching the first corner safely the
quartet or times he faced Colleaian Lewis
Young Lewis, whois a baseball graduate
from Williams College, pitched good
game, and with better support would have
made ii an exceedingly tough proposition
for the Statesmen. The error Column of
Boston tells the story of the defeat. ia
place OF Talking Tommy Tucker, the
great favorite OF all first thasenen who visit
Washington, was seen Brown University
Tenny or course the Boston folks know
their business, but W here Tenny outclasses
Tucker in any feature or department of
the game is Eot plain to the critical OBJ
server. But Tenny is new to the job, and
later may demonstrate the wisdom of the
change There is certainly room for great
inprovenentin n his work If his play yester-
day was a faiI sample.
Another stranger introduced was Sta.h
He's all right The newcomer covered tie
difficult sun right field without baubls,
and two OF his three catches were exceed
ingly difficult. He pushed out three
bagger and single, and gave every evil
dence of being ball player. As a whole,
Boston is strengthened, and when once
limbered up will cut a wide swath in the
League list. Their adversely, like that
OF the Senators. is coming in chunks, but
when they regain their feet, watch out
for them
The game was delayed in starting by
thought that Local Substitute Heydler
would have To handle the Indicator or that
two PLAYERS would have TO be assigned
to the duty, but at the eleventh hour, CT
whatever il was, the sawed-off umpire
emerged from under the stand and set the
ball rolling Tim was unavoidably de-
tained in Baltimore.
Mercer escaped his customary bad first
inning, and with the splendid support
accorded him, coupled with his own hit
ting and running aud the old-gold errors
OF tile visitors, he held the game well in
hand from the commencement.
The Senators won in the second inning.
O'f3rien smashed the bail to Long, who
threw wild TO Tenny, and Johnny roasted
on second by reason of the faux pax. Cart
right, in attempting TO hunt, foul flied
to first. Brown drew a base on balls.
Collins iuggled Reiily's tap and the bases
were filled Mercer laced the ball across
first and 0'BrieB tailed Abbey gave
Long a chance and Mercer was forced
at second TO Lowe, but Brown scored.
Reilly reaching third. Abbey stole sec
ond, and then DeMontreville lit cleanly
to right, sending Reilly and Abbey home.
Gene made a theft of the keystone sack,
but was left on Selbach's out from Collins
to Tenny.
From the second 10 the ninth the Wash
ingtons drew blanks. In their last time at
bat, Reilly opened up by striking out.
Mercer made his fourth hit OF the game,
stole second and third and tailed when
Bobby Lowe made n disastrous tumble Of
Abbey's weakling across the second base
path. Abbey travelled to second on TENNIS
error, but was caught from Lewis to Col
lns, in attempting to go down to third
1t was a close decision, but Hurst was
right. Abbey, in fact, had no warrant to
try to steal, DeMentreville came up and
made his fifth hit, Immediately stole
second. but was 1eft on the bag when Sci
bach flew out to Stahl.
The Bostons tailed their initial run in
the third OH Hamilton s two-hagger to right
field. Tenny's out from o'Brien to Cart
wright and Longs Fly to Brown. In the
fourth Stahl hit for three bases and
registered on loves single to left.
In the fifth, Tenny made a hit. but was
forced at second on Longs push to Reilly.
who threw TO O'Bnen. Long stole secand
and by desperate running and n slide
across the plate gathered the third and
last run for his side. Long fell on his
''solar plexus'' side when he crashed over
the rubber. and almost tainted from the
pain resulting.
The visitors looked oIninous in the last
half Of the ninth, when. with two out, they
got runners on first and second, but Duffy
could do no better than offer Reilly an easy
chance, and Hamilton was forced at third
nassisted, retiring the side. Tie score:
Washington: ABB R. H. POAE f.
Abbey. r. f.... / o o O O
DeMontrevilie, SIS. .. o 3 3 1
Selbach, l. f...... 8 @ o o o
Farrell, c. ....... O O q