The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-10

| do was to crack out an easy one to La
| joie. Carrick was the next man up. Only
| one run was required to tie the score and
| Coughlin was located on third, patiently
waiting the hit that would enable him to
| get home. Col. Bill Clarke. who Is at
| the throttle of the managerial engine
| during the absence of Boss Manning, was
| over on the bench all diked out in his
| joyous raiment. Both Win Mercer and
! Col. Wyatt Lee begged to be sent in and
| given a chance to kill the ball. but at
| this moment the Clarke thought reser-
| voir stopped over and Mercer was an
| chored to the bench with a lasso, while
| Colonel Lee was sent out back of the
| barn to warm up.
'.Carrick," said Colonel Clarke, first tell
me If you think the shade ofemy pink
hose is becoming to one of my complex
ion and then go in and win your game;
and Carrick, plant the ball somewhere on
the other side of the high fence.
Now, Carrick is reputed all over the cir
cult to be a good pitcher, but he is one
of those hitters who labor under the i'm
preston that you can slam out base hits
by pushing out your left heel in the direc-
ton Of third base and bringing the bat
into a present-arms position. or course,
having chance to win out, he fell down,
ard the best he could do was to give the
official scorer chance to credit Pitcher
Hank Plank with,a strike out
Did the bleachers groan2 Well, yes; and
the grandstand, too.
Then Waldron. who had been hitting
the bail with the earne stness OF chlnk
at a dope layout on Saturday night, was
expected 10 keep up his good work, but
IL was too much of a proposition for even
this distinguished gentleman, and his long
drive was taken care of by Fultz. and
Coughlin stayed at third.
In the second game, Patten was sched-
uled to do the throwing act He proved
an easy mark, especially for Col. Nhpo-
leon Lajoie, who is as great man in
his way as was his distinguished name
sake and while the latter was never able
to become more than a corporal in the
mind of the polloi. Larry now ranks
in the colonel class. and as soon as ne
can get into a real mix-up. he will de-
mand court of enquiry. He is making
strenuous efforts to bump up against some
of Ban Johnson's fog-horn voiced UNI
pires. that the wish of his life may be
gratifed He has already selected Major
Muggsy'' McGraw as his right bower
In the enquiry. and he will this afternoon
pay his respects to General Nick Young
and enlist his friendly offices in the COM
ing investigation Yesterday Larry"
COPIED out two homers in the second
game and in addition, tucked three sin
giles under his arm during the afternoon
1t was truly a great batting exhibition,
was this work of Lajoie. and shared
with Mike Grady's knockout the honors
of the matinee.
The trouble experienced by Mr.. Grady
happened in this wise:
1t was in the initial inning, and Sey-
bold had reached first on a safe hit and
got as far toward the haven of rest as
The third harhor on McIntyres bingle.
MCINTYRE made a dash for second and
Grady shot the ball down to Farrell.
Seybold in the meanwhile, had not been
mapping, but had thrown open the throttle
and was headed for the terminal under
full head of steam. Farrell got the
ball back to Grady in coed shape, and
the local receiver planted himself directly
in the middle of the track to flag the on
rushing heavy freight Grady might as
well have been a quarterback endeavoring
to down a centre rush FIVE yards from
the goal line, with three yards to gain
and one minute to play. Seybold crashed
into him with all his ponderous avoirdu-
pois and naturally Grady went down be-
fore the onslaught. The ball rolled out
of his clutch and he gasped for a second
and then lay in the russell dust as peace
full as a sleeping babe He was instantly
surrounded by the members of the two
teams, who took excellent care to see to