Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-15

| Newton. 2. Stolen bases-Keeler (2) and DAILY (2i.
ball-By Howell. l; by Newton. l. Passed ball
Kehoe. Umpire--Nir. o'Day. Time Of game-l
hour and IL minutes.
Boston, 2, Pittsbure, 3.
Pittsburg was defeated yesterday at Bos-
| ton for the third straight time. the Beam
aters winning by the score of Z to3. Lewis
vas very effective. not run being scored
| In the first seven innings by the Pirates,
| but hard hitting secured them three runs
| III the last two tries at the bat. Waddell
| was hit hard. Following is the score by
innings:
Pif,sSnre ',...,....: 1888 IA
Earned runs-Boston Q: Pittsburg, 2. Two-base
| hits-Cark and Williams Three base hts-Collns
and Tenny Double nM ayws and Tenny First
Lewis. q; by Waddell. Q. Umpire-Mr. Emslie.
! Time of game hour and SO seconds.
Other Games Played Yesterday.
AT Chicago-Chicago. 8: Indianapolis o.
At ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4; Cleve-
| land, 1.
At Kansas City-Kansas City, 10; De-
! troit 3.
At Observation-Disclosures 5; Buffalo, g.
| At Albany@COrtland. 2; Albany, 0.
At Utica-Oswego, 8; Utica 8.
At Experimentation 8; Troy, 7.
AT enectady-Schenectady H. Rome, J.
| At Syracuse-syracuse. 8; Montreal. 5:
| al hOSueSleIp
Base Ball Notes.
Attendance at Brooklyn yesterday-1,OOO.
| Howell pitched his first victory for the
| champions yesterday.
Herman Long made two errors yesterday
for Boston. and he may be EARNED" out
| to minor league.
Buck Freeman Is certainly in the
dumps. He has been batting very poor all
| season, and has not made hit In the last
three games.
| Rain knocked out the Y. NJ. c. A-George-
| town game yesterday. but three innings
being played. The blue and gray had
scored five runs to the associations moth
ing when time was called.
Today the real trying out process for
| Boston begins. All the eastern clubs have
| been playing good ball. and for the next
| two weeks they will battle among them
| selves. Should the winning streak con-
tinue the race may be walk-over for the
beaneaters.
Teams selected from the clerks of the
| Riggs National Bank and the American
| Security and Trust Company will meet in
a base ball contest tomorrow afternoon at
| National Park.
| Doubtless Tebeau has good reasons for
| playing Donlin at right and keeping Dono-
| van on the bench, but they are not per-
| ceptible to the naked eye Of an outsider.
Donlin has done nothing to indicate that
| he's In the same class with Donovan.
Many people thought that Lave Cross
| was as good. If not better man, than Nc
Graw. Now McGraw is hitting 400, while
| Lave Is around 30. And the hunts that
| Johnnie will get and the bases he will
steal,
| Kervin, left-ha nder who is pitching for
Scranton In the Atlantic League, is said to
be the pitcher Mr.. Tebeau wants. Kervin
| is credited with some fine performances.
| but he has been sponsored by the man who
recommended Atherton. Goeckel. Patton
and Freeman to the league. If Mr.. Mer-
| ril's last choice is not better than the fore
going players. he won't do by 500 miles.
Cincinnati's record of twenty-fQur hits off
of Quakers Ortiz and Frazer Monday has
been surpassed but once in the big league
| this season. That was in the opening
game OF the season., when Boston made
twenty-five hits in that 1917 game with
Philadelphia. Orth and Bernhard were the
| pitchers punished that day.
King Dickson the famous player of the
unive1 sity team. has been signed and will
play third base for the Phillies this after
| noon. Dickson was one Of the best college
players, and in the opinion OF such COM
petent critics as Arthur Irwin and Roy
Thomas. he will make good If he comes
| by the retirement Of Lauder. and with
Lajode back in place at second. the Phil
| lies will have to take no ones wash this
season
Every day 1t becomes more and more ap-
parent that the race for the championship
| in the major organization Is going to be
| more fiercely contested than ever before In
| fact, as pointed out in these columns be-
| fore. any team that can average from $50
| to 600 all summer is going to be very much
| In 1t. If the championship team goes much
above the latter mark 1t will certainly have
played the fastest, kind, of ball.
Old-timers agree that none or the pres
ent day base runners, Billy Hamilton ex-
| cepted, are anywhere near the standard
set by Harry Stovey, and the old-timers
are about right. In negotiating the dis
| lance from the plate and back again,
Stovey went over fewer feet of ground than
any man who ever played ball, John Ward
not excepted. and when 1t came to sliding
he was in a class by himself. These adj
vantages, coupled with his extreme speed,
easily made him the greatest base runner
Of the lot. f- G,
MERGERS return to the pitchers box. after
making a failure Of almost every other po-
sition on the diamond, Is a brilliant illus
tration of the old proverb which bids a
shoemaker stick to his last. Mercer al
| ways has been one of the six best pitchers
| In the world, but he has always been duck
ing hard work in the box. During the six
years he was with washington he did three
months honest work. Bill Joyce got that
out Of him in 1895. Mercer has pitched
some of the greatest games the writer has
ever had the pleasure OF witnessing. He
has slow ball, speed. curves. drops and
change OF pace. He is a great fielder In his
position, good batter for pitcher and
clever on the bases. II Ewing can make
him work as Joyce did he has great
| twirler.
BY the way. Mercer always could beat
Mr. Tebeaus club. The old Cleveland club
was for years mark for Winnie.
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