The evening times., 1898-05-18
Standing of the Clubs.

The Herald today prints the following
story Of the games at New York yester-
day:
New York's Giants and WashingtOn's
Senators played two games at the Polo
Ground yesterday afternoon, and, happy
to relate, the Giants won them both. thus
capturing the series from the Senators.
Hence Harlem was aglow last evening.
and when the Giants left the grounds.
grips in hand. to take the train for st.
Louis, where they begin their series OF
four games tomorrow there was large
gathering of their admirers at the IL
station to cheer them on their journey
and wish them all sorts of luck.
1t was 1:3O when the first game was
started and at that time there were more
tlsaH 1900 spectators in the big enclosure,
a circumstance that goes to show there
are many people who would miss lunch
con in order to see a game of ball.
The Giants won the first game for two
very good reasons. The Senators couldn't
hit Rusie when hits would have been
seryiceable while the Giants nit Swain
when hits counted.
That's the story in a nutshell.
So the Giants took the first game. and,
after a short rest. went in for the second
one, with Seymour and Grady to do their
battery work while Dineen and Farrell
oficiated in a similar capacity for the
Senators. At the time the spectators had
increased to 5000 in number.
This proved TO be hard game, and the
Giants seemed TO have lost it in the first
inning. Seymour was rather wild and
liberal with bases on balls. Then the
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some loose fielding and the result Of this
combination OF circumstances was five
runs for Washington as staretr.
A similar combination of circumstances
helped the Giants 10 make three runs in
their half of the inning.
Grady who caught for New York, dis
puted some of Umpire Lynch's rulings on
the balls he called on Seymour and the
umpire put him out of the game.
Manager Brown substituted Amole for
Dineen in the second inning and Capt.
Joyce sent Warner in in Grady's place.
In the third inning two more runs fell
Washington's way due largely to Sey
mours pitching. and in the fourth an
other run crossed the plate for them, the
result of couple of hits.
1t was to 3 in Washington's favor
when the Giants went in for their half
of the sixth inning and the 5000 specta-
tors thought they would never save the
game, but they did.
The Giants hit Mr.. Amole quite freely;
Mr.. Amole was liberal with bases on
balls; some fielding errors crept in be-
tween. and New York made three runs.
In the eighth Washington scored one
run and in the ninth another, SO that.
when the Giants went in for their last
inning, they had to make four to tie and
five to win.
They made five. and while they were
making them the six thousand spectators
did nothing but cheer and applaud the
whole time.
1t was all very exhiliarating.
Here's how the five runs were made:
Gettig went TO first on balls. Gleason
sent him to third with a line drive to left
center. Hartman sent them both in with
a liner over second, and then there was
great cheering.
wilmot helped Hartman along with a
fly to short right. and then, after Wrigley
had taken Warmers fly Seymour popped
liner over Wrigley's head, and the
bases were filled.
This SO unnerved Mr.. Amole that he
hit Van Haltren with pitched ball. Van
Haltren went to first and Hartman came
home.
Wilmot was on third base with the ty-
ing run. and Seymour on second with the
winning run.
There was only one out. and Tiernan at
the bat. The right man in the right
place, for he smashed the ball on a line
out to left center. and as Seymour chas-
ed Wilmot around to home base people
cheered the Giants heartily. for they had
won the game with "whirlwind finish"
indeed. The score: