The times., 1899-06-21

St Louis. June 20-Powell pitched a
sery poor game against the Senators to-
day, and this, coupled with weird work
on the bases and at the bat by the Te-
beauties. made victory easy for the
Senators. 1t was the third game of the
present series between the two clubs and
as the locals had walked off with the
first two with little or no effort, the fans
expected that Powell would surely win
his game. The big pitcher twirled two
sensational games with Louisville last
week, banking the Colonels in both.
POWELL generally gets touched up in lively
fashion, but the Senators took unlimited
liberties with his slants, securing sixteen
safe hits. including thirteen singles. a
double, triple, and home run.
In only one inning did Powell get rid
of the opposing batsmen without hit, and
then his record was besmirched by free
pass TO first. Had the big right handler
been opposed by one OF the first division
teams instead of such weaklings as the
minor leaguers," he would have been
yanked of the rubber before the contest
was two innings old. AS it was. he gem
orally managed TO retire the visitors in
each inning before many runs were scored
of the bingles they accumulated. Though
Powell pitched very poor game, luck
was with him, and had his men batted at
all opportunely, or used anything like
decent judgment when on the bases, he
would have got away with his game.
Mercer pitched for Washington, and nine
singles we're made OF his delivery. Bar
ring MeKean's great drive to centre in
the opening inning. which brought in two
runs. none of the hits was of the timely
kind. Several times a safe drive or even
q sacrifice would have resulted in runs
being. scored. The real yellow playing
came in the ninth. Washington had been
leading, to 3, but o'BTien's hard liner
took q bad bound. getting away from
Burkett and allowing a home run, thus
increasing the visitors total to five.
When the Tebeauites took their final
inning they needed two runs 10 tie. Crig-
er, who was first up. drew a free passage
TO first: O'Connor was sent TO bat for
Powell. He missed the first ball and
Emslie called strike two" on a very
wide ball. few moments later 0Con-
nor was called out on a strike, he allow
ing a beauty to get away from him.
Burket hit slowly to Bonner, who allowed
the ball TO go through his legs CrigeT
had plenty of time to reach third, but just
logged IT to second. Freeman's speedy
return keeping him there.
Then Childs slammed the ball to Bon
ner. Burkett being forced at second, CrigeI
making third. Il was then up TO Heidrick
He hit to Padden, Childs beating the
Senator's captain in a race for second
Criger sprinting for the plate. HeidricB
had plenty of time TO gain first in safety
but took his time to the base, the result
being that Padden, after missing Childs
threw TO Cassidy in time TO head off Held
rick, bringing the game to a close.
Outside Of pretty running catch of Z
foul fly by Mexican and a couple of rat
Ting stops by Cross there was not a fea-
ture TO the home teams playing. On tht
other hand the Senators lelded sharply
Mercer In particular cutting off severa
well intended safe drives The star of tbs
day, though, was O'Brien. He had five
cracks at Powell's curves. securing three
singles, triple. and a home run. 1t was
the best exhibition of stick work seen a
League Park this season. The Elks wer,
there in goodly numbers and coupled witt
several hundred OF the faithful ran the at.
tendance UP to 1000 The score: