The times., 1897-05-04

The Senators took a chance at "Scrappy
Bill and His Band yesterday afternoon,
bat begged up in the effort to make it an
interesting race.
The Senators are not good ducks, nor
good mud horses, and 1t was really anus
ing, had it not been excruciating, to see
them founder around in the mud puddles.
They slipped, slid and sided when the ball
came their way, and could no more hit
Seymour than they could have ensnared "a
will-o'-the- wisp.
The Statesmen lunged at the leather hard
enough, but ''kerbip" il would land in the
mire or otherwise float into the hands of
a waiting in or outfielder. Seymour has
d south side way of worrying people OH
d camp days.
The score was 8 to o, both by Um-
piIe Lynch's decision of forfeiture aud
the runs actually made by the Giants
facetious rooter said that the two
mines should have been added together
and New York credited with a score of
is to O.
The struggle started in slush and was
ended in rain. 1t did not look TO be n
promising day for outdoor sport, but rs
''Uncle Nick has said, you can't al
ways tell and Manager schmelz thought
IL would be worth while to play the
sun as 100 to shot. Gus tip was
bad ''oid Sol was a billion, or some
thing like that, miles away, and in bis
stead, Jupiter Pluvius sprayed the hose
on all budding and blooming nat ture, and
the Washington Baseball Club besides.
And not only did ]. Pluvius wet theearth
and the Senators" thereof, but he beguilcd
The aforesaid Seymour and lot OF gigantic
Hittites into the ranks of his army and fell
upon Schmelzites with dali thud and with
divers and sundry base hits some one, some
two and thTee-bagger, the latter by
the grace of intended jugglery on the part
of De Montreville, the daffodil of the short
garden, who has also been called the
rose of the patch.
These Giants-this potpourri of left
handlers who hail from Harlem and travel
under the espionage of B. Joyce. alias
"Scrappy,'' who has established habits of
worry ying the umpire and teasing the
twiIler and all others in authority, vented
their spleen on the dry weatherites, and
coming within the graces of the mogll,
who is called Lynch, got good and even On
as the willard chariots carted them from
the battle ground. And the Senators had
nit -whichin United States means nil, not or
none
In the wisdom, OF Gustavius he estimated
that the ponderous Giants would not be
sufficiently light of hoof to tread the base
paths and that their corporosIties would
fain OF reaching f. balls and other trouble
some things. That is where Gustavius
erred, nor did he properly esteem The Prov
ess of Seymour or the weakness of Winnie
with a wet ball, the seams and covering
of which bore the damp ofaqua pura.
The Giants were like cats climbing trees,
and had no more trouble in travelling to
the plate than a brown biscuit has in
reaching the proper spot in schoolboy's
bread basket.
Rig Seymour pitched as if he was the
favorite son of rainDaker and only in
his element when the heavens wept. Such
superb control of a soaked bali was scarcely
ever seen on the home grounds.
Mercer, as has been said, could do moth
ing with the slippery horsehide and only
tossed it up to have 1T batted out.
crowd of 600, principally occupants of
the bleachers, gathered to see the contest.
When Umpire Lynch declared the game for
feited to New York many of the spectators
gathered around the box office expecting
to get return checks. The majority were of
the opinion at first that the game had been
declared off on account of the weather, but
when informed that it had been forfeited
by Washington and that New York had won
they left without making further request
for re-entree tickets. There was a num-
Der, however, who strenuously persisted n
being reimbur sed or have rain checks given
them, and they made demonstrations suf-
ficient to cause the police to eject them
from the park. A small size not seemed
imminent for time, but the police finally
got the anarchists" in hand and squelched
the incipient revolution.
Ills only obligatory on partof Mr.. Wagner
to give out checks should the game be closed
by rain during or before the third inning.