Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-11
Record of the Clubs.

The Senators did themselves proud yes
terday at National Park by winding up the
present series with the Baltimores with a
clean-cut and highly satisfactory victory
| the score being to / in their favor when
the last Oriole had been retired. A crowd
of unusual proportions, as Monday is gem
orally a poor day for base ball, was on
hand to cheer on the local players, and a
| couple hundred Baltimoreans drifted into
the park. but found little to reward them
for the trip from Oysterville.
The game being played by the Senators
at the present time will defeat almost any
| club in the league three times out of four.
and yesterdays exhibition was more bril-
| liant than usual, Win Mercer was on the
rubber for the Washington boys, and once
| more the East Liverpool lad proved his
| sterling worth. "Merce' had retired his
| slow ball in twirling until recently, when
he discovered that it is very effective
| against young players The old Baltimore
gang used to bunt these slow balls so sue
cessfully that it almost sent Winnie to the
stable. but there are few players of the
ability of Jennings, Doyle, Kelly Keller
and McGraw. for which Mercer is probably
thankful. Yesterday even McGraw was be-
fuddled by MERGERS twirling. and the re-
mainder of the Orioles of course had to fol-
| low the lead of their clever captain, Ma
COON, Holmes. Keister and Kitson almost
| driving their arms out of their sockets
making terrific lunges at the tantalizing
| slow drop.
Jerry Nops started the game as Mercer
opponent on the rubber, but after pulling
through the first inning unscathed was
driven to the bench by fusillade of safe
hits that was not only remarkable, but
highly enjoyable to the two thousand spec
| tators. The straw that broke Nops back
was the hitting for triples of Mercer and
4 ma Iii inc hit NIT n
on bases Kitson then went to the rubber
and, although his work was an improve
| ment on Nops he, too, might have gone
to the bench but for several exhibitions of
stupid base running.
Coming down to cases." as the much
quoted Dad Clarke would say, weak base
running is about the only part of the game
in which the Senators are apparently weak
| 1t may. be bad coaching slowness of foot or
stupidity, but at any rate 1t has been losing
the Senators runs in every game recently
played at National Park
outside of MERGERS twirling the fielding
support of the local players was the SEN
satlon of the day. Little Jimmy Slagle, in
center held, gave exhibition that was
not only sensational, but phenomenal. On
three different occasions Jimmy captured
| ny balls that would have been good for
| triples or home runs, and his work doubt
| less acted as a bracer for Mercer Every
| one OF the three balls hit We're in the di-
| rection of safe territory, but Slagle must
! have started by instinct with the crack of
| the bat and made the catches clean and
| sure There was nothing of the chance
| plays about the catches, but wholly in
| stinctiye, and the national game is all the
| richer in the advent of another star in the
person of Jimmy Slagle. The spectators
| that witnessed Slagle's work yesterday can
| De congratulated, as the opportunity of
seeing three such catches in one game will
| hardly be afforded again in life time
| The fielding of the remaining Senator'S
| was somewhat dimmed by the work of
1 a~r n
| accuracy and speed playing important
| parts bonner, at second, captured hard
| drives with enjoyable frequency but made
| funny play when he lost short line fly
| III the sun. This is the first time Old Sol
| has got his eye on Frank, and the latter
| Will do well to be on his guard hereafter
| as this time of the year the sum- during
| an hour of playing time is just tipping the
| second basemans position. Padden,
| o Brien, Barry and kittridge also made
| sensational plays.
| From batting standpoint the game was
| a hummer for the Senator'S not a player
| put what secured one more safe drives
| Mercer was the leader with two singles
| and triple: O'Brien. second, with three
| singles, and then came Sagle, with two
| triples.
| Inc Baltimore boys played good ball
| their weakness with the stick being their
| handicap, but one error, a wild throw by
| McGraw, marring their work in the field
| several times they drove the ball 10 the
| outheld on apparent safe journeys but as
| before remarked, Slagle coppered them all
| and nipped prospective rallies in the bud
| Swartwood and Hunt did the umDirinc
| yesterday and did very WELL both pitchers
| suffering slightly on balls and strikes. Fol-
/ lowing is the score: