Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-08

among the players and rams, ana ne VIII
| leave accompanied by many good wishes.
He will doubtless get back into his last
years form while with the Rcchesters
and again astonish the minor .eaguers
| with his sensational playing.
Base Ball Notes.
Ladies' day
Pittsburg again today.
TanIlehiI is quite a player.
Again Hillary BIT the dust. Hard luck
Everybody played the best he could
Nothing more is asked.
| 1t locked as If Gettman misjudged Tan
| nehills homer.
Don't hammer a player for errors; re-
! member his good plays.
One game in two years is WaShington's
record against Tannehill.
Donovan is still the speedy boy of old
when on the bases.
Mcclure has witnessed the debut and
exit of several managers since he Joined the
Senator's
Manager Watkins discipline is telling on
| the Pittsburs club. There is no COMPARE
son between this years team and the one
that represented the smoky city last sea-
| son.
If the Senators play as well for the next
three games as they did yesterday three
victories will come their way. Tannehills
pitching and hitting turned the trick yes
| terday.
Setback will head off the batting list
lie Is a better waiter than Gett-
| man, as he has had the experience and
besides, Sci. knows the twirers better Had
this arrangement been made yesterday one
| or two additional runs would have come
our way.
| Tannehills first hit to Doyle looked like
safe one, but Lynch called it foul. AS
the boys say, fanny proved it by soaking
the next ball in the bleachers for home
run. 1t was a beautiful drive
Manager Doyle was in the game with
both feet yesterday, although he failed to
| do anything with his bat. His playing at
| first was superb, and the way he dove for
| nrst on his first hit caught the spectators
! In royal style. Sleepy playing has been
banished from National Park for the re-
| mainder of the season.
Wrigiey made a couple of sensational
stops and throws yesterday The one he
captured over second and the one he grab
bed after Wagner had partially knocked it
down were sparklers.
Manager Watkins kept the Pirates from
kicking on decisions, cautioning them fire.
| quently, but he yelled with the bunch when
Lynch declared TannehilIs drive a foul.
The smiles came back when fanny re-
| sponGed with a homer
| The Pittsburgs were lucky in pulling off
that interference play of Wrigley's between
first and second. Zeke bumped OBrfen
away from the drive and Connolly refused
to declare the runner out. but Lynch came
! to the rescue. The crowd set off yell of
dlsapproval, but when Doyle agreed to the
decision after parley with the umpire
everybody settled back satisfied
Morgan Murphy was on the gate yeste,-
day for Pittsburg and is the picture of
health. He will probably be in the game
| today, receiveing the in and out shoots of
Hastings 1t is doubtful if Morgan will
ever get with another team as fast as the
cid Boston Association club, every man in
that aggregation being a star
After pitching that remarkable game last
Saturday for the Baltimores AL Maui
walked to the bench and is reported to
nave said L guess that will hold me for
The clubs that will finish one-two in the
championship race crossed bats in Boston
yestel day. The Beaneaters and Bucks
1eos are playing the steadiest ball in .the
league today.
There is something formidable about Big
Amy when he walks up to the bat He
mas very little to say to anybody. A pleas
and he carries all the specificati of a
good-natured. honest fellow But how ne
can hit, and hit in any direction! One time
us Is INTO left. then into right, and another
into center. Tom Brown says he is one of
for. " piAS
l.. "A Tampa special says: "a person well
klcwn IN many cities in the United States
is raw recruit. He has just arrived with
the 9TH Cavalry. He is Charlie Bastian.
me oia-tlme second haseman Of the Phil
ssstpn Sna team: He says he would rather
The Cleveland base bali club has obtaine.,
Inc tease OF seven acres of land at Euclid
Beach Park. on the shore of the lake
aDout Two miles east of the city limits for
sunday base ball. The grand stand viii
scat 2ooOo people and the park is reached
by steamboat and electric cars The firsE
sunday same win be played on the 18th.
ElDerheld might well learn now that
Philadelphia ball cranks will not stand for
MS minor league methods. What we want
Is ball players. not toughs. He was clear
~ wrong in trying to throw Harley in the
nrst inning yesterday, and even IL the lat
ter had not reached the plate in safety the
chances are that Erns!ie, who saw the
trick, would have permitted him to score
Ot course, Harley was in the wrong when
ne ran into Eberfield in the third but then
ne was only getting square. Some of these
days young Mr.. Eberfield will go high in
the air, and when he comes down he Will
be In condition for the hospital-Philadel-
phfa Inquirer.
Cleveland and Cincinnati players watch
the score board from one end of the game
to the other, examining each others work
Tor the day. Two rival towns, each well
placed at the quarter in the running for
the pennant, is the cause of 1t. The Reds
have such a lead that they are not worry
ing. but ara saving their surplus strength
for the home series. 1t is the wonder of
the yeac that Tebeau's nine Is playing the
call 1t does. with so little encoura cement
at home. in the way Of crowd.
Clark Griffith has been on needles ard
pins" of expectancy for the past ten days
He doubtless made bold front and as
sumed to not care whether Umpire Tom
Lynch took him before the board of dis
cipline or not. just the same. Griffith didn't
want tc go. He has too much Intelligence
and Is too much OF gentleman not to feel
keeniy the disgrace Of being the fSst man