Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-08

The Senators, headed by Willie Dineen,
pulled themselves together yesterday at
National Park and surprised their handful
of well-wishers by easily defeating the
hard-hitting Philadelphia team by the
score Of to 1. The Quaker lads enjoy the
reputation of being the hardest hitting ag-
gregation In the league but the superb
work Of Dineen made them look like a
gang from a class B league. two safe hits
being placed to their credit, only one being
a clean bingle. Extraordinary command Of
the ball was Dineen's long suit yesterday.
but two free passes to first being the only
slip up charged against him. With the
great command was excellent speed and
tantalzing benders, and the Philies were
at sea from the first to the last inning,
suggers like Delehanty and Chiles being
unable to place the ball in anything like
safe territory, the latter striking out twice.
There was nothing in the fielding or in the
way of luck to enhance Dineen's work,
Mercer and Freeman having errors on
easy plays, while Umpire Hunts work was
of the kind to discourage the stoutest
hearts. The Phillies simply couldn't hit
Dineen, and this took all the life out of
their work.
Pitted against Dineen was AL. Orth, a
young man who has performed remarkably
we'll for the Quakers of late, but yester-
day he was due for trouncinS, and he
got it good and hard sixteen hits for a
total of nineteen bases being the record OIL
the senatorial batters the day, Willie
Dineen having four to his credit, while
Freeman had triple and two singles.
Dick Padden's injured hand kept him out
of the game, and Stafford went to second
and Barry to Short and although Kit
fridge is hardly able to do himself justice
the little fellow was behind the bat and
coached Big Bill to perfection.
CriticiSing an umpire has become an old
story and rather wearisome, but President
Young would be favoring the Washington
patrons by keeping Hunt away from this
city. He may be able to do good work in
other cities, but at National Park there
Is a prejudice against him and all his good
work is nulltied. Yesterday he had several
opportunities for good work in close deci-
sions, but in each case he took an irrl-
tating course and brought down condemna-
ton from the onlookers. In the second in
ming Shortstop Cross clever1y trapped a
fly ball and threw Mccain out at third,
Hunt deciding the ball had been caught on
the fly. This cost the Senators run. In
the third he called Thomas out at first and
then reversed his decision. This "renig-
ging'' on Hunts part sent McGann up in
the air. and when he came down he dis
covered that a fine of $40 had been plaS-
tered on him, and also that he was through
playing for the day. An umpire who re-
verses decisions has no business acting as
the road Hunt has been unusually severe
on the Senators, always favoring the home
club, but Just as soon as he strikes Ma
tional Park he reverses the order of things
and hands out the best of everything to the
visiting club. The indications are that Mr..
Hunt will soon bid adieu to professional
umpiring
Neither side scored run until the sixth
inning, when the Phillies marked up the
first tally, the result of MERGERS high throw
to first of Orths grounder. the latter COM
ing home on Cross single into right, which
Freeman allowed to go between his legs.
In the seventh the Senators went the Wis
itors one better by registering two runs.
long line hit into right center sent him over
the plate. Dineen hunted safely and Kit
went to third. Slagle then drove slash
ing grounder at Lauder that broke through
his hands, and the little catcher scored. In
the eighth, the third tally went up for the
Senators. a result of Freeman's triple
and Stafford's timely single. In the ninth
two more runs were scored, rounding out
the total of five. With two out. Roach
singled to left and took second on Free
mans single in the same direction. STAFF
ford then hit slow bounder toward Cross,
who threw wild to first, and Roach and
Freeman crossed the plate
The Phillies failed to make it interesting
in the last innings. although there was no
rejoicing until the last man was out, as the
local crowd know too well the propensity
of the Quakers to win out at any time.