The times., 1898-04-02
BEATEN BY GEORGETOWN
The Lafayette Team Defeated in
a Good Game.
D0WD'S PITCHING A FEATURE
The Enston Boys Made n Stiff Rally
in the Ninth, But Could Not Over
come the Lead Of the LocaIs-sin-
loncy's Clever Catching amti
Throwing Also n Feature.

The Georgetown University baseball
team completed its first trio of victories
yesterday afternoon on Georgetown Field
by defeating the sturdy players from
Lafayette College by the score of II to s.
The visitors came here with splendid
record as hitters, and much was ex-
pected from them in that speciality, but
they failed utterly, except in the second
and ninth innings, to touch Dowd eff
fectvely. On the other hand, the local
collegians had on their batting clothes.
and after the third inning they fathomed
Wizard Nevins's curves and drops and
easily batted out a victory, with twelve
clean hits to their credit and every man
in the nine took the opportunity of fat
tening his batting average.
The weather was almost too cold for
baseball, and cold fingers were in part
the cause of the five errors charged to
Georgetown, and for seven misplays. FUN
bles and muffs for the visitors. The chilly
blasts, too, kept down the attendance.
Georgetown again put up her gingery
game, and easily outplayed the visitors
in every department of the contest. Ma
loney again played star game His
throwing to cut off runners was a decided
feature, and he gave Dowd great support
Inc latter was in excellent form, and but
seven hits We're made off his puzzling
delivery, and three OF these were of the
scratch order He had plenty of speed.
and throughout pitched a mastery game
il he let down at all, il was in the last
inning, when the game was well in hand
| de helded his position in errorless man
ner Moran and Fleming handled every
lhlhg that came their way, and the home
run OF the latter in the fourth inning
| over right field bank was the feature of
| that inning
! Nevins and Captain Wallridge were
| timely with their hits. They were the
only visitors who could do anything
| much with the good things handed over
| the plate by young Dowd. Hubley plav-
ed thlrd IN faultless manner and two
OF his four chances We're difficult Hill
| gave Nevins excellent support while Can
tain Walbridge failed to play his usually
| consistent game, and his two errors were
| disastrous. The team is a good strong
one, but the one il met yesterday is
| stronger
Georgetown went TO bat first. and
scored, while the visitors drew a blank
The locals hits and an error for the
| other side gave the blue and gray two
| in the second, but the score was tied in
| The visitors half of that inning. and
except in the fourth and fifth in which
they scored one each, they blanked un-
I'll the ninth
The third was full of sharp hitting for
Georgetown, and FIVE hits landed three
runs. The game was won in the fourth
time up on Fleming's home run over the
bank, Saffords three-bagger and three
/ singles which. however, only netted three
runs in this instance the hitting was
almost too consecutive.
Each side scored one in the fifth. Nev-
Fe7e- rrH1xT
HIS out from Dowd to Casey and al
most Immediately after scored on a pass
ed ball. kelcher was an easy out and
NaNridge's fly closed the inning and gave
Walsh chance for one of the pref
tiest running catches of the game
Georgetown's 5 run was made after two
were out on Fleming's hit and the horri-
/ bic overthrow of Walbridge on which the
nervy second baseman scored ere it was
retrieved.
Blanks were drawn by both sides in
the sixth and seventh, and Lafayette S
half Of the eighth.
Georgetown scored her last run of the
game in the eighth. Haffords fly was
muffed by Bray and he reached second
but he bit the dust when he tried to steal.
Fleming $ Grounder went through Lauer
he stole and tailed on Moran's two bag
ger. his second clean-cut hit.
with the score IL to against them the
visitors went into their half of the ninth
with determination to catch up if pos
sibie and their strong finish was one of
me Few features of the game Ere they
stopped they had run up their score To
3 WorthingtOn started In with a
srounder, which Casey fumbled and he
was safe, reached second on Nevins' s
screamer past third and scored on HIS
hit, who was safe on the felders choice
wich nailed Nevins at Haford's corner.
& o.
waited and walked. Hill scored on Wall
ridges second hit. Reese was forced out
at home on Bray's scratch in front OF
the plate. The latter beat the ball to
first and on the play Kelcher scored
Lauer ended the suspense BY tanning out