Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-22

trouble Is that all the good players are in
one crowd 1t is no trying to browpeat
an old-ttmer. Jollying is the only way, ana
a plan should be found whereby the good
work that is In them could be brought out.
Tommy Tucker is very hard on caps.
When on the coacher's line ne keeps tug
g:ng at his cap brim-his method of sQueez-
Ing for the runner or batter. When Tom
Brown was at the bat for the first time
yesterday. our gingery first baseman. by
actual count. pulled his visor thirty-four
and one-half times. The fractional tug was
shifted to his upper lip before the move
ment was completed. presumably an at
tempt to pull at his missing mustache.
Tuck can no more keep his hand off his cap
brfm than he can stay in the coacher's
box or keep his fog horn still until a rum
ner is on the bases He is a hustler of the
very best kind, just the same His COM
ing and the managers going were two for
tunate events for Washington.
The Senators are making phenomenal
record these days. and those who have
witnessed their snappy ball playing for the
last ten games give them credit for bat
ting and fielding second to no team IL
must be acknowledged, however, that they
get everything that Is due them In the
official scoring. Almost every disinterested
spectator yesterday gave. Setback an error
for the fly knocked by LaJoie In the flrst
inning, which he misjudged and tailed TO
hold: Orth's grounder in the seventh inn
ing was not a base hit. De Montreviiies
throw was very bad. and although Iucker
extended. himself TO MS uthfost ne idhs7u
to hold the ball. If these plays were errors
only seven hits were made on McJames
The Philies are evidently suffering from
the same disorder that afflicted the Sena-
tors ten games ago-extreme lassitude ana
stiffness throughout the whole orgahiza-
ton The trouble may be diagnosed as u
case of malignant managerial lncepacity.
One doesn't have to sit behind the payers
bench to become satisfied that the Phiiles
are not pulling together, ana that there are
IjSpOrd3nt elements at WORK.
The senators made four home runs yes
tertlay, but only one was clean homer'
that of OBrien, or rather would nave oeeh
had there been good fielding. Abbey beau
tiful drive to the right ought to have been
stopped before bounding into the bleacners.
Ceyer did not know where ii was until TOO
late to head it of: He was very SLOW a,so
In getting after McGuire's hit, which also
went into the bleachers. Willie keeiar
would have had no trouble in stopping both
OF them DeMontreville's beautiful ground
er went over the left-feld fence because
Deiehanty tried to trap 1t with his loot,
and it bounded up and over as easily as did
a similar hit early in the season which
climbed a ladder left leaning against the
fierce.
Tucker and Reilly are as good as any in
the business to keep the boys moving. They
are like bulwarks in the two corners of the
iEfield No third baseman surpasses the
former in gathering himself for a throw
after fielding a difficult grounder, and no
first baseman can perform the telescope act
In reaching for badly thrown balls better
than Tucker.
day of any game since he joined the Sena-
tors. 1t is hoped that he has caught up
with the procession, and Is keeping step in
the onward march.