The times., 1897-04-18
LAST OF THE blue BIRDS
The Senator's Take the Closing
Game From Richmond.
'.ZEKE" WAS HOsPITABIE
Pitcher SchInidt Worried the Big
I.eaguez's for Seven Ianinss, But
the Strain Told on Him and Hits
Were EIade at Timely Periods.
selbach's Catch.

After shaking hands with his eXcellency
the President, To-Day the Senators re
turned to National Park and trounoed
Wells travellers for the third consecutive
time
1t Was revoir 10 the yirEsiIrisGsls, and the
locals let them down as easy as possible
not to impair their reputstions rs pen
nant winners in preliminary games.
In spirit of nagnaniInity and in ac-
oorlanre with the rules OF hospitality
obtaining between host and guest, the Sen
afors kindly alloYed THE f f. IS 10 score
q half dozen runs.
This could have been prevented had not
the chivalric Wrgley, from ~~Cid Roanoke"
loosened up and allowed his feuInnr fellow
citizens a chance to make respectable
showing ON the seme card. NZeke" said
1T locked too lad, and when a couple OF
hot ones wtre hit TO hirn he wIiggled
in every direction that they might get
iJF and escape TO the fIsntaer- -leke' Said
after the game that ave VirginiaBs have
kindly feeling for one another, and my
errors were made ON the side OF mercy
Jake stuff1ed Up his deck again and
sent Shalta 10 second base and transferred
Berte to short He put Schmidt IN To
pitch, and played trump in SO doing.
--Smiddy'' could hardly have teen eN-
pected to VIII the game by himself, bif
in going dow-A in defeat be never struek
his colorS, but on the contrary made
bunch of Statesmen strike nothing more
rehoundiag than tire chiilg g9zone- iflHiiddF
has a speedy drop bah that VIII make
many an Atlantic Lacquer bite the dGSt
tias season. Mercer watched his work
and gave il as his opinion that he was
the Gle VereSt twirler that has visited Wash
ing1on this season
-'Ready'' Foster was deplaYed behind the
mask ana wind pad, aRdgreatly impTovedon
his work OF the day previous He also
smashed out a pair OF twO-haSe hits and a
single. In the seventh he was succeeded
hy Schable. who finished the receiving end
OF the bombardment.
Little sawed-orf. hamRered-down Eher-
feIdt, whom Al Maui says is a second ptfi-
ton Of Billy Earle, tte globe irottcr. :
ana now n member Of Tom Lotus Dis
coverers, at Columbus, again led his team
in effective fielding performance. Rich
mond has a gem in the midget, aud viii
hardly be able to hold him from National
League draft should he continue lis phe-
nunlenal work.
Hillary Swain opened up for the Sen
ators, and troubled the travellers Tor
three innings A double and single WIS his
sole punishment while he held the center
OF the diamond German followed the
.-TroEey Pale,' and pitched in premier
form John Kimble ana his sneaNng,
slosy i,sll worried the Blue Birds unit BeTte
foul flied to Cartwright, in I he first half or
the ninth, which closed tbe contest and
allowed the Kbivering spectators TO get
up and oscfHate their all bat frozen hmbs.
Lush regained his batting eve and plunked
the leather for duo of tlIree-baCgerS that
SeIbach annihilateda a seemingly safe three
raniboled in the grass IN deep left field
base hit from Elsey's wagoR-tUngue in the
seventh, which was the feature OF the
game.
Duke Farrell is suffering from erik
in the neck" and Mcclure caught the
full nine innings. The -'old Reliable"
played havoc with three Of "Smiddy's"
fast drops, and actually stole a base in
plain daylight and everybody looking.
The game was something OF a see-Saw
affair mtn the eighth. In their eighth
turn at bat the Senators put an end to all
guess work by scoring three runs on
double by Abbey, singles by Reilly and
Kinble and LuSh's triple to the fence,
which increased their total to o talleS
The raw afternoon kept the attendance
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