The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-04-30
GEORGETOWN BEATS
TIE IERRAPIN- EATERS
The Marylanders Give the Big
Indians a Scare.
An Exciting Game With a Score
of 10 to IA.
The Victors Won Through the In
huence and Enthusiasm of
the Girl Fans.

Georgetown was given q teTTiDie SCARE
yesterday, when the boys of the Maryland
University played them to the score of
10 to ii on Georgetown Field. George
town won, but oh, what lesson was
learned! Overconfidence does not become
the greatest baseball team that is. 1t is
safe to say that the blue and gray will
never swagger again, but will always play
the game for keeps. The contest was a
hairraiser of the first order. Eddie Bach,
the invincible, was batted out of the box
in the fifth inning. and then stepped in
and saved the game from right field with
a home run, single, and a wonderful one
handed catch. The score stood Is to IA,
and Alexander was at the bat in the ninth,
with two men out. He already had home
run to his credit. True to his record, he
hammered the ball high in right field.
Bach ran over the running track and
reached away cut over the bank, pulling
the bail down with his left hand. He
was carried off the field by the Georgetown
men.
Each team batted hard, and deserves
credit for its stick work, but nothing else
than condemnation for its fielding. Half
ford and Cranston played like schoolboys
The sandy young catcher went to pieces
and steadied down only when White came
in the box. Kenna at first replaced Bach,
and it was at once evident that he was
too speedy for the badly ratified Cranston,
SO Captain Mccarthy displayed fine judg-
ment by taking him out and putting in
his old pitcher, White.
Even though Georgetown played such
miserable ball. one cannot help admiring
the logged determination and grit she dis
played when the score stood TO 1 against
her. In the sixth inning the rooters
started, ably backed by the girls from the
convent. The fair young rooters helped
Georgetown to win an almost impossible
victory. They cheered and sang themselves
blue in the face.
Besides Bach the boys who did best for
Georgetown were, in fielding, Fleming, Nc
Carthy, Moran, and Downs. Old Cap
Mccarthy picked up no less than five short
bounds. Moran and Fleming did some ex-
cellent base running, and Downs, Bach,
Mccarthy, and Walsh were best with the
stick For Maryland N. Whitehouse, Rad
cliffe, and O'Donnell flelded best, and NJ.
Whitehouse deserves credit for the way In
which he drew bases on balls and got hit.
In batting Alexander and Radcliffe ex-
celled.
Fleming and Hafford made similar one
handed stops Of terrific grounders. The
two stops will rarely be excelled for diff
Guilty and quickness.
Georgetown scored in the first inning on
a base on balls by Downs, who was scored
by Walsh's hot drive to second base. Ii
the sixth, Mccarthy singled and stole Sec
ond Fleming singled and he and McCar-
thy executed pretty double steal; Hafford
scored Mccarthy by a hot drive TO second,
and Fleming came home on an error by
Radcliffe, who let Bach reach first, after
Kenna had been put out. Cranston drew
base on balls and Moran reached first on
O'Donnell's error. Downs then cleaned the
bases with home run, and the crowd went
wild over the little centre fielder. This
drive of Downs saved the day for George
town. Mccarthy singled and Walsh struck
out. In the seventh inning Fleming drew
a base on balls, and after Hafford flew out
White reached first on shortstops error.
Bach then brought both home with home
run. Cranston singled, Moran struck out,
and Downs scored Cranston by banging one
at shortstop, whose throw was fumbled by
o'Donnell. Both Mccarthy and Walsh sin
gled and Fleming flew out. In the eighth
inning White and Bach scored on an error
Of NJ. Whitehouse, single by Bach, and a
drive by Cranston. In the ninth Walsh
scored on base on balls. stolen base,
and an error by H. Whitehouse.
Maryland scored three runs in the second
and third on single and a pretty steal
home by Owens and on errors by Hafford
and single by H. Whitehouse. In the
fifth, Bach's tragedy. NJ. Whitehouse was
hit his brother singled, and Alexander
made a home run. Owens went to first
on Moran's throw, Radcliffe was hit, and
single and a double by Smith and Moore
ended things. The rest of Maryland's scor-
ing was done by the Whitehouse brothers,
on Cranston's poor work, and Alexander
and Radciiffe's batting