The sun., 1900-05-02
wv" Philadelphia, II; New fok ..
Chicago. 5: ST. Louis ..
THE RECORD.
RRookLYN. s. BOSTON. q

MI. pos,ons who are holding the tall-eno
- ,hs League pennant race because they
ro, 20, struck their proper gait, took
. =, Washington Park yesterday afternoon
I., shaving traces OF their old-timc speed
.n. ~ ,nslled the Brooklyns to play ten Inn
WV WV s.,ors Hapons smile appeared with VIC
hs' wi,b Tom DAILY hobbling around on
w. .nl,e Jimmy Casey creeping about on
.r,tches, and Joe Kelley hmpihs WIN
e'..,,d N..oh.d knee the Brooklyn inheld might be
,.d 10 be In a crippled state. but the 'hampiohs
.,s n,aying determined ball these days ana LOT
,as, reason alone they sent the Bostons 10 'heir
sa,al last evening beaten again and puzzed Is
.hsn their losing streak would end.
:, wo. untir!ng energy and plenty OF nerve
-ti,b von the dav. coupled OF course with
.nnsrb pitching on the part OF McGlnn'ty. the
..ror man excellent fielding support. partcn-
,,,ly nv De Montrevie. and timely batting.
..nsciallv by broadway" Smith. who sent IN
,be winning run, Sull there were two costly
srrors by Long and Tenney OF Boston wnch
I'd much 10 turn the tide against ueir leani
Manager Selee put young Pittenger, a former
fSstarn Leagutr. in the box. ana the latter,
nsnu Mc,iinnity's underhand delivery which
Ss had seen the iron man using 10 pracuce,
..s1crasded ~ in puz2ing Brooklyn's big hitters
A. va rious periods when safe drives meant runs
pttsnger received valuable assistance from
Iclns, who played wonderful game az thira
hsse many would-be base HIT close TO the bag
bsns knock ed down and fielded 70 nrst WIN
long accurate throws for outs, hamiton cuI
Of couple of drives that looked dangerous ana
long also made some electrical stops. 30 that
"a, n fact The Brooklyns hit the ball much
harder than the score shows
The rlay was monotonous because or outs
h rapid succession until the ioufth INNING,
runs Jennings had been retired on sharp
grass cutter to Long, when smith TOOK TOUT
Falls and was forced by Jones, As me latter
p!ng throw which apparently headed on the
runner, but as Long mufIed the ball Jones. OF
course was safe when the side should have
been retired This costly error, was ielI
moment later when Dahlen cracked hot two
b5 lager TO left and Jones srored Then De
Nontrevile, who had been accidents ally spiked
by Stah in the first half OF TINS innlns. rapped
OUT a three Dagger in the same direction ana
mjsht have scored too, butfor Collln,'s grand
stop Of Farrell which ende the inning =,
sfth With one out, Lowe singled and ran all
he way TO the plate on Longs hard three-oase
hit 20 centre; which would have been an easy
home run but for a fine ope-handed stop hy
Jones and a great throw TO the plate by Sheck-
ard sullivan hit 10 Smith. who made mis-
take in not retiring Long at the Plate and then
threw high to Jennings so long SGrea un-
molested and Sullivan got liie. uut the iatter
was forced the next moment ,,
After Jennings had driven rafting two-bag-
ger TO the right field fence he was caught In
trance of second on sullivan I.liGk 'ntoW 70
/ Iong Jennings could have moved TO thlrd on
Smiths tremendous drive to deep centre. which
Hamilton dragged down after hard run, ana
also could have scored on Jones three-pagEer
70 right But the nap Hughey took cut short
ally that augured well for runs, and as Dahen
vas thrown out by Long, Jones was left
splendid catches by Hamilton and Stahl pre-
rnted more Brooklyn, runs III the seventh
Then both pitchers settled down and the next
Eo innings were quickly played. Long began
BostOns tenth with a crack at Smith and slid
safely in TO first, beating out the Fashion
Plates" throw by hair, In doing so. Long
twisted his an kle and had to take a rest. sui;
ivan folio we'd with a smash that Dahlen could
nave taken. but as Smith made the pickup
be found that second base, was uncovered.
20 did not. throw the ball anywhere.
Rttenger hit hoty to McGinnity. and Long was
forced AT third Hamilton lined out leg
breaker in DeMontreyiile's, direction and q
magnificent running stop by that hustler served
oforce Pettinger while Sullivan landed on
third Ii was now up TO Tenney. the acting
captain OF the Bostons. 10 bring In a run.
McGinnity put on steam. and when Tenney
struck out tho crowd went wild with JOY
Victory came to the Champions in the last
bali McCiinnity had been retired on bril-
liant stop and throw by Collins when Sheckard
smashed the ball SO hard toward second base
that il glanced of Loves shin and went
forty feet UP in the air. Keeler showed an
easy one down to Tcnney, who let the bali
roll between his legs and both runners were
tais, freeman took terrlhc llnc,drive from
!ennings's bat in good style, and then came
and periectos dancing before his eyes. the
leader of fashion smote the ball Oh the trade
mark, where he had been hit ting II all the after
poOn, Love made game plunge TO knock the
BIZ down, but II was too hot for him to handle
snd Sheckard raced across the plate with the
decisive run Smith held a reception on upper
Broadway last night the score: