Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-26
Record of the Clubs.
How they stoo

A little episode that occurred in the
eighth inning of yesterdays game with
Cincinnati. in which Umpire Lynch, De-
Mont and Brown played important roles,
demonstrated the fallabilty of the specta-
tors at ball game and made host of
friends for the little Frenchman Vaughn
had singled to right and Ehret the next
be tier ND, knocked a grounder to DeMoEt
The little second baseman made an almost
convincing pass at Vaughn as he went by,
ana then threw to first, catching the bat
ter. The spectators Immediately applauded
what they thought was double play, and
when Lynch called Vaughn safe a great
yell of disapproval went up Captain
Brown. OF course. made a kick, and to COLI
vince him and the spectators that he was
rlght Lynch turned to DeMont and asked
him If he had touched the r,In.,er Che
little fellow manfully acknowledged that
he had not. Captain Brown apologized. and
the spectators acknowledged their error
by giving DeMont round of cheers Tom
Lynch is one of the squarest men that ever
handled an indicator, and he showed his
good Judgment in appealing to another
square boy. The incident wildly illus
trates the folly of the onlookers trying 10
De Judges OF the play, especially with a
man like Lynch acting as arbitrator The
lesson was good one and should be taken
10 heart by the spectators at ball games
The game itself was close enough to he
interesting throughout Neither side scored
a run until the fifth inning when the Sem
ators bagged their first two. Reilly singled
to left and continued on to third on Wrig-
ley's sacrifice, the hit and run game com
ing into play, and then came home as
Beckley made wild throw to third. trv-
ing to stop the runner. McJames then hit
to center. TO the establishment of Ehret
and the spectators, Selbach's grounder sent
MIN to second and VIM e.,
brought him home
in the seventh the Senators corralled
their other pair of runs, the last of the
game. McJames hit to McPhee and should
have been out, but Beckley covered the
base so slow that the Doctor arrived at
the initial bag ahead of the ball Selbaeh
then came forward with his terrific drive
against the left field fence and chased the
Doctor over the home plate
Nihe goose eggs went up for the Cincin-
hats' hot runner getting as far as third
base during the game, while the home
team MADE two punches of two rms
Jimmy McJames was on the rubber for
the Senators, and he was like the nice little
girl-yeIy. very good. Try as they would
the EWlns1tes could not solve the puzzIing
delivery OF the doctor. Ewing had been
tipped Off about the poor fielding of Nc
James, and his orders were at the start
OF TO bunt. But Jimmy was a fielder YES
Ierday as wei as pitcher. and after he
had nipped two nice bunts the visitors
tock the other tack and tried to bat the
ball out of the reach of the feIders But
their efforts proved fruitless, and after the
last man had been retired in the ninth in
ming it was found that the Red Legs hal
registered but three safe hits record to
be proud of from a McJames point of view
What the visitors think of their ability 20
bat is another question.
Red Ehret did the twirling for the
Cincinnatis, and being a right handler was
hit almost at will. Setback in particular
finding him an easy proposition. Ehret
tried all his skill with drops curves and
inshoots. but when McJames made two hits
off of him it nearly broke his heart as
Jimmy does not pose as a batter Setback
made three hits, one of them being a
homer. the ball biting the left field
fence on a fly and caromng off behind the
score boards. The hit was one of the
longest, If not the longest made inside the
grounds. as AL was crossing the plate when
Eddie Burke ran from behind the score
board and started to throw home but STOP
ped when he saw where the runner was
In the field the little German also did him.
self proud, taking a fly off of Tommy Cor
coran's bat that was ticketed all over for
a nome run had II got away from him.
Manager Wagner decided yesterday to
recall Charley Reilly's release as that pop
ular player has about rounded into condi-
ton, his broken finger being almost we'll
and he was found on the third corner
when the game began. When Reilly came
to the bat the first time he was given a
hearty greeting by the spectators and re-
sponded with nice single to left field
ReillyS release was about the only one of
the four recently issued that caused any
unfavorable comment by the real friends
of the club he had been playing good
consistent ball up until the Baltimore series
when the tactics of that club proved too
much for Charley and he went into the
air. Yesterday Reilly took care of every
thing that came his way and demonstrated