The times., 1897-04-17
TOO FAST FOR RICHMOND
The Senator's Won the Second
Game From the Visitors.
WORDSWORTH WAS WILD
The Contest Was Close Until the
Sixth Inning, When the Big
Leaguers Took the Lead ana
Steadily Increased Their Total.
Pitcher Stultz's Good Form.

Richmond Failed 10 go the ulstanCe, dS
tile horsemen say at Benning, and Were
beaten at National Park yesterday after
noon like a lot of selling pla,ers in a field
OF thoroughbreds.
The minor lesguers ran a very good race
until they reached the stretch, then quit
and allowed the Senators to pass them as
ig they were tied TO a post or anchored to a
milestone.
For the first five innings the visitors
made il a nip and tuck order, but in the
sixth the Statesmen pulled away with
three runs 10 spare, and in the stretch in
creased tile total TO nine, Another run was
added in the eighth, which gave the big
leaguers ten tallies altogether.
Manager Wells shuf1led up his team ana
took q hand in tie game himself Elsie
from Chelsea was sent 10 left field ana
'.ReSldy'' Foster donned the mask and
nit in place Of Schable, who was given d
days rest that he might calm his right arm
Stultz, another member of the F. F. V.
German band, was deployed on the rubber
for the first part, and while he toed the
slab the big leaguers had trouble In llhdlhg
the ball except in the sixth inning, when
they laid ON him for three singles, WHICH,
with a stolen base, hit by pitcher of Cart
wright. and base on balls 10 Norton, net
ted three runs.
Stultz is, without doubt, the best of
Wells repertoire of twirlers, and had Jake
kept him in the game the score might
have remained close. But, then, Jake has
fish to fry in the A tlantic League, anu
perhaps used good judgment IN saving
Stultz's wing for effective percentage
figures later in the season
When StultZ was blanketed and sent To
the stable. Wells trotted out 'Pudge'
Nolesworth, who was a Senator for one
game in 1895, and who aided and abetted
a sky rocket exhibition Of hitting in Phila-
delphia on July 4, of that year
..Pudge," who is second edition of
"Jeems" Calvin, in physical proportion,
could not have split the plate with an
ak, and in the portion of an inning he
operated. he forced in two runs, with
bases on balls, and stung Johnny o'Bren
on the hin with an inshoot, that sent the
clever second baseman hmping to ilrst-
Wordsworth realized that II was not
good day for his south paddle, aud In tie
midst of his tribul6tion, with the hases
full of prancing Senators, he begged Mana
ger Wells to take him out. Jake readily
acquiesced, and "Pudge" walked TO the
bench Chesbro, also a left-hander, took
mis- place. hut the tide was too heavy Tor
him TO stem, and he had to suffer couple
OF hard singles from the bats of Kelly
and Norton.
The game was devoid OF heavy hitting.
The Senators plunked out ten singles while
the Bloc Birds could only make lalf as
many. Mercer pitched five innings and
Norton finished the game. 'oid Reiiahie
Jim Mcclure caught the entire game, which
was his FIRST continuance performance
this year. Nothing strange about that,
however, as il is bis hatdt 10 stand behind
the bat day after day should the eMergen-
cies Of the case require.
The Senators scored in their half of the
first on a base on balls 70 Selbach, his
steal of second, and McGuire's hit TO right
field. They were blanked until the sixth,
when. after De Montreyllle's fly out 10
center. Seibach drove the ball TO left for
a base. Al stole second, and registered
on McGuire's single between short and
third. Jim reached second on o Brien's S
out 20 Wells, unassisted Cartwright WAS
erazed by a pitched ball. and when Foster
let a low drop escape his init, McGuire
came home. Cartwright reached third
ON Fosters mishap, and tailed ON Abbey's
drive to left.
Lush opened the seventh by striking OUT.
By bases oil balls to DeMontreville and Nc
Gufre, O'Brien hit 10y Molesworth, base on
balls to Cartwright and Abbey, with
stolen base by DeMontreville, sandwiched
in. and clean hits by Riley and Norton, i've
runs were scored. The Blue Birds went
up in the air during the inning and flung
the ball about as if it was a lawn tensIs
affair. In the melee Charley Riley was
pabbed at the plate after he had made a
most heroic slide in an effort to score.
The tenth tally was garnered in the
eighth on Selbach's base hit, steal OF
second. and Fosters wild throw.
Richmond scored in the first inning On
Fosters single to left center, his steal OF
second, and Elsey's hit to left In The
seventh Capt Wells drew a base ON balls,
purloined the second sack, and registered
ON Stultz's hit to right center.
MANY fair fans ayailed themselves of the
nriyilece of lady's day, and number OF
the cast of the Nethersole and Texas
Steer" companies were present. The total