Evening star., 1897-04-02
PLAYED WITHOUT ERROR.
The Local Team Did Not Do Much
Hitting. but FieIded Well.

The unexpected did not happen at Ma
tonal Park yesterday afternoon. 1t had
been predicted for the past three or four
days that the Norfolk team would make the
senatorial players extend themselves to win,
and, unlike ''old probabilities, the forecast
came true. 1t was a case of class proving
itself in the end. Being unable to hit the
Norfolk pitchers 1t narrowed down to a
case Of holding the opposition safe through
playing an errorless game, and this
done to the queens taste. Had the opposi-
ton done as well the game would have
proved the easiest kind of victory for the
Virginia lads
Pitcher Mercer persisted in trying out his
slow ball. but young players have not be
come welded to speedy ones yet, and as a
result they plunked the pitchers pet bobby
while that same ball has proved 4 terror
to the best batsmen in the big league.
Whenever Mercer fell back on his speedy
ones 1t was all over but cashing the tickets
Hillary Swain relieved Mercer in the
sixth, ard his endeavors were exactly on
the line mapped out by mis- predecessor
Whenever Swain let up on his speedy ones
ana sent a SLOW curve over The plate II was
| lit on to like a hungry hawk after a. chick
! en- The good fielding back of the tall
| pitcher saved many hit.
Jack Gilroy. a former Senator. was in the
| box for the Norfoiks for the first three in
nings and demonstrated the fact TIA. he
| has improved considerably over his %
form, Mcclure, who showed out AN old-tme
| three-base hit, and Lush being the only
Senator that could do anything with his
| puZZing curves.
Newton, a young left-handed pitcher re-
lieved Gilroy in the fourth inning, and al
though wild at the start, proved more of
puzzle than the Washington boy, Johnny
O'Brien being the only Senator to secure a
hit.
In the seventh inning Sechrist came on
the good work by allowing but one hit,
that of Charley Farrells, in the last three
innings. If Manager Smiths other pitchers
can do as well today 1t can be said that his
pitching corps is strictly hrst-class. OF
course these pitchers would be killed by
any Of the league clubs later in the season.
but in the league to which Norfolk belongs
| their work should be of the best.
Back of the pitchers every Senator played
silt-edged ball. Reilly might have got the
| two balls sent to him with a little luck,
but bad bounds threw the speedy liners
| just out OF his reach as he stopped to
gather them in. De Montraville. OBrien
and Cartwright worked together like clock
work. and the work of the outfield es-
pecfally Tom Brown, was good to look at.
McGuire and Farrell. of course. did their
| work in the same old correct manner.
For the Norfolks, Shaffer. their first
baseman. did great execution with the bat
getting three bits right off the reel Oil his
| nrst three turns at the bat. but in playing
his position his work showed off to poor
advantage when compared with the clever
work of Cartwright. Shaffer is a new man
! In the base ball ranks and has all the ear
marks Of a coming player. WentZ on Sec
ond is an old-timer and handled himself
well, as did Leahy at short. The outfield
| is strong one. and behind the bat the
catchers are clever. especially in throw
| ing to second. little Hayden mailing the
speedy Lush at third and second in two
endeavors to pilfer those bases.
washington scored in the first. sixth
and seventh innings, one run each. and the
| Norfolks secured their first tally in the
| third. and their other run in the fifth, the
! final score being to 2 Johnny Heydler
| umpired a hard game well although the
| visitors evidently believed they were get
| ting the worst of it, but they got all that
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