Evening star., 1898-07-16

Pat Tebeau'S band of Cleveland Spiders
met the Senators on the local grounds yes
terday afternoon for the first time this sea-
son, and thanks to the errors Of the home
team and to Umpire Woods neglect to
properly enforce the rules against inter-
ference. the Washington aggregation lost
heir fifth straight game of the week and
made it six successive defeats on the home
grounds. Until the seventh inning not q
un had been scored by the Cleveland men
and they had made but three hits off Gus
Weyhing up to that point in the game
But, with the score 4 to against them,
the visitors sent five men across the plate
in that inning on four hits and three miser-
able misplays of their opponents.
The Senator'S downfall occurred in this
manner: Mexican sent grounder to
Wrigley who threw wild to Anderson, Nc
Kean reaching second before the ball was
recovered. Tebeau was thrown out at first
by Wagner and McAleer popped up little
fly to Wrigley. With two men out, and
one on second, Wallace shot the ball to left
center. 1t got past Donovan, who was
playing center and rolled to the fence,
Wallace making the circuit of the bases
behind Mexican. Blake then sent pretty
single to center and OConnor followed
with terrific rap right at weighing. The
ball bounded from Gus hand and when he
recovered the sphere he threw wild to first
The ball went into right field and O'Connor
was turning second when Anderson recov-
cred the ball. The throw was a long one,
and as Wagner stepped off the base to get
1t Childs rushed from the coachers box
and blocked him so that he couldn't get
back to third, or even get the ball. In the
general mix-up Wrigley stopped TO argue
with Umpire Wood and O'Connor continued
on home.
Umpire Wood took no notice whatever Of
the interference despite the protests of
Captain Mcclure and his men, and the
band played on. Wilson sending a double
to center and scoring on Burketts single
to. left center.
Wilson pitched for the Spiders, and yhile
he was hit for eleven safeties. one of
which was q homer by Anderson and one
double by Reitz, he was remarkably
steady, giving but one pass. Weyhing
was hardly less steady, giving but two
passes and striking out two men, as did
Wilson. Wrigley, who accepted twelve out
of thirteen chances, Donovan and Weyhing
were the only men on the home team who
failed to get hit off Wilson MCGUIRE
got three and Selbach and Anderson two
each. Burkett was the only man who Sc
cured more than one hit off Weyhing, he put
ting three singles to his credit. Anderson
on first again demonstrated that that po-
sition is not a natural one to him. and
more than ever did 1t seem TO the small
number of spectators present that q good
first baseman is badly needed by the home
Tommy Tucker might again be seen there
The Senators started the game by scor-
ing two runs in the first inning after the
visitors had been retired. Gelbach singled
to center, and after Wagner had gone out
Anderson sent the ball to the fence in left
center for homer In the third inning
the Senators scored another run. Anderson
singled to center, went to second on Nc
Cures out at first, to third on Reitz's out
at the same point and home on Gettman's
single past first Their fourth and last run
was scored by the Senators in the
fifth inning, when Mcclure singled to left
and scored on Reitz's double to right The
Senators led off IN the seventh and ninth
innings with hit, but although they got
men as far as third no runs resulted. The
Spiders scored their last run in the ninth
inning OConnor hit to left for a base
and on Wilson's sacrifice to Wagner he
reached third, when Anderson returned
the Dali wildly. The Cleveland man went
nome on Burketts single to left. Score: