The times., 1899-05-03
VIRGINIA BEATEN AGAIN.
Georgetown's Claim to the Cham
pfonshfp Made Perfect

1eOrgefown's Claim to the Cham
pionshfp Made Perfect.
Georgetown made perfect her claim to
the championship Of. the South by defeat
ing the University of Virginia at baseball
yesterday afternoon, on Georgetown Field,
by the close score of 6 to 8. 1t was the
second victory for the blue and gray and,
needless to say, the boys celebrated it in
proper manner.
Harry White, Georgetown's young
pitcher. was the idol of the rooters yester-
day. The strong orange and blue batters.
who have sent SO many fine pitchers to the
bench this season were unable to solve the
youngster for more than six hits. He had
one wild pitch, struck out seven men, and
gave three bases on balls. Pinkerton was
used by Virginia instead OF Somersgill, and
did only as well as the old Brown pitcher.
Fleming carried off the fielding honors
for Georgetown with three clever assists.
Haitord redeemed his poor work of the
past few games by going after some hard
ones in clever style. His error was ex-
cusable. Captain Mccarthy did some clever
work on the first bag, and young Cranston
went away into the ropes for a hard foul.
After catching il he fell over the low
ropes, but held on to the ball. In batting
Hafford was able to do up single, two
base hit, and home run. White, Downs,
and Mccarthy also batted effectively.
Curley was in the swim from start to
finish. His five assists were of the most
difficult order. He gave one of the pret-
tiest exhibitions of fielding ever seen at a
Georgetown game. Martins error was a
bad throw, but he played a wonderful game
otherwise. He scored three of Virginia's 8
runs by remarkably clever base-running
Wills again proved himself to be won
derful man on the initial bag. Collier, who
struck out three times in the last game,
proved to be the only man who could touch
White. He has been practicing off Lefty"
Wills and quit the game with a batting
average of 100 per cent. He made a bad
error on McCarthy's hit in the fifth.
Georgetown scored in the fourth, after
having three men on bases in both the
first and second innings. Hafford made a
pretty double and White singled, scoring
him. In the fifth Mccarthy singled to
Collier, who fumbled, letting the captain
go to second. Walsh then sent him to
third with pretty single and stole second.
After o'Hara went out on pop fly, Flem-
ing lined one out to Browney and Nc
Carthy scored on the throw-in. Hafford
then brought Walsh home with home run
to the building. In the sixth. Downs
singled, went to third ON a wild pitch, and
| scored on a passed ball. After Walsh and
0'Hara flew out in the seventh, Fleming
| singled and scored on errors by Martin and
Wills.
Virginia scored in the first inning by
Martins pretty home run drive. 1t was
stopped by boy in right field, but Hurst
| allowed it as home run. In the fourth
Martin drew base on balls stole second
and scored on a wild pitch. White hit
Curley and he scored in the sixth after
Martin had struck out and Collier had
drawn a ticket to first. Both were brought
In by Rea's three-b -bagger. In the eighth
Martin reached first on Bach's error, and
| scored on Golfers and Somersgills sin
giles. The score: