Evening star., 1901-05-17
GLAD HOMECOMING
Senators Celebrate , Their Return
With Victory.
CONNIE MACK'S TEAM DEFEATED
Military and Naval Academy Mines
to Play.
CURRENT SPORTING NEWS
CURRENT SPORTING NEWS
Where They Play Today.
Philadelphia at Washington,
Baltimore at Boston.
Milwaukee at Chicago
Detroit at Cleveland
National League Clubs' Stnndi,

Connie Mack's Athletics got a big recep-
tion at Manning's American Park yester-
day, and incidentally a good trouncing
the Senators winning out handily by the
score of 12 to g. Lajoie Is a big favorite in
Washington, and little Phil Geier belongs
in this city, and the great string of victo-
ries hung up by the Senators at Boston
proved a strong trio Of attractions, and as
a result 4,50O spectators crowded the
bleachers and comfortably filed the grand
stand.
Everybody stood up and cheered when
Lajoie came to the bat the first time, and
when Geier walked out to the plate the first
time young man met him coming from
the opposite side, and, with a few words,
presented him with a beautiful diamond
ring. Phil was still doff1ng his hat to the
applause, when pretty little miss came
up from behind and extended to him an
immense floral horseshoe of roses When
the great applause which followed had died
down Geier responded with a base hit,
breaking the time-honored custom of strik-
ing out on such occasions.
Senator's Given a Great Welcome.
When the Senators came In for their
first turn at the bat each man was given
a great reception by the spectators. AS to
the game itself little need be told Mercer
pitched a splendid game, having but one
bad inning, for which unaccepted chances
were responsible, and kept the hits of the
Athletics scattered. Fraser on the other
hand, was hit hard throughout the game
the Senators banging the ball hard when
runners were on bases and bringing in runs
in luscious punches. Notwitbs anding the
three miSplayS marked up in the error col
umn against each club the fielding was un-
usually brilliant and applause -inspiring
Clingman and Coughlin killed off several
apparently safe hits through marvellous
plays, the former getting Line drive with
one hand as 1T was going over second, while
Farrell ran almost to the fence and pulled
down an apparently safe hit from Fultzs
bat.
The infeld of the Quakers worked well,
Notwithstanding its being made up for the
first time yesterday Powers was sent to
first instead of Seybod, the big fellow
going into left, and Futz took his old
place at short, relieving Lockwood. Fultz
fell down on almost the first ball hit but
after that he handled himself well and was
the central figure in several brilliant plays
The one player who attracted the most
attention was Left Fielder Foster, who has
replaced O'Brien in the outer garden. His
record on the day was something to marvel
at, as his percentage was LOCO, getting four
safe hits and a base on balls out of five
times at the bat. In the field Foster didn't
have much to do but attended to every
thing in correct style that came his way.
and his debut can be put down as a great
success.
The Senators started off well, scoring
twice in the first inning. Farrell and Quinn
both hit safely and Foster. following suit
sent the first-named over the rubber, while
the second named scored on Evertt's out
at first.
Spectators GrOaned.
Mercer had his bad inning in the second
but as Fraser had several, the slump didn't
count. Boston scored four runs and the
spectators began to groan and to abuse the
umpire. Seybold started the trouble with
single, but Cross forced him at second
Powers also singled and Cross went to
second. Murphy then hit an easy one to
Coughlin at third and the latter, in his
anxiety to make a double play, lost the
BAH and the bases were filled Fraser fol-
lowed with a fine single into center and
Cross and Powers crossed the plate Geier
then hit nice one into right and Murphy
scored, Fraser going to third. Clarke then
made bluff throw to second to catch
Geier and on the balls return Fraser beat
1t to the home plate, scoring the fourth
run.
The Senators went to work in the fourth
scored five runs and the humor of the spec
tators took great change as the score
was then to in favor of the home team.
In the sixth inning four more talieS went
up for the Washington lads and in the sew
enth one more, making a total Of II. The
Athletics chased a run around in the mint h,
passed ball by Clarke being responsible
for the runner crossing the plate.
Following is the official score: