The times., 1901-06-28

Foster receives one of Lewis fast in-shoots or
his business arm.
| cover from his astonishment enough to
| run back to the sack Then Gears catch
| of Lewis fly in the sixth inning was a
| splendid exhibition of git-edge ball. The
! hit came to Gear~after he had made a
hard run. He grabbed the sphere with
! his right hand and IL slipped from his
hand. but before the BAH touched the
/ ground he graSped ii firmly in his left
and completed one of the most senSa-
! tonal plays of the year. Several of the
( Boston gentlemen could not believe that
/ Gear had made a perfect play, and ran
up to Umpire Sheridan and proceeded to
register a kick on his decision. Buck
Freeman, in particular, wanted to show
his old friends on the right field bleach
ers that he had inhaled sufficient oratory
during his residence in the Hub to be
in the same class with Cicero, Demos
themes. II. Clay and Web Davis. The
noble Buck was just nicely warming up
to beautiful peroration when the rude
umpire told him to "cl0se up or he
would be sent TO the bench. Whereupon
Buck descended from the rostrum and
resumed his regular business of playing
ball.
Mr.. Sheridan, a new representative
of the umpirus genus, put in an APP
pearance yesterday afternoon and gave
general satisfaction. That is TO say he
was not assailed with any of the terms
Of endearment that were handed out to
Mr.. Cantillion or Mr.. Haskell; but wait
until he runs up against a local crowd
after his vision is out of order and the
home club gets the worst end of It. Mr..
Sheridan is the proprietor of a lovely
voice, built on the plan of the gentlemen
who sing Rocked in the Cradle of the
Deep in the minstrel shows. A won
derful feature In connection with the or
gan is that ii is apparently as strong in
the ninth as in the first inning. Certainly
the Sheridan vocaliZation is about the
proper article for a baseball umpire, and
even the occupants of the grandstand on
the adjoining hills can get a hazy idea
of what the decisions on balls and strikes
are. II Mr.. Sheridan behaves himself as
decorously as yesterday, and keeps up
his good work throughout his visit to
Washington, he will undoubtedly be the
recipient of divers press notices that will
be the envy of every other umpire in the
league.
The Senators scored their first run in
the fourth inning. Gear was able to con-
meet with one of Lewis high inshoots and
whacked the ball over the head of second
haseman Ferris, much to the delight of
the spectators, VINO had just about come
TO the conclusion that Lewis was going
TO prove one too many for the local hit
ters. although Colonel Lee was doing
things to the Hub sluggers ali the time.
Then Foster made a Swipe at the ball and
when he noticed it was about 10 land
safely, he fell in dead faint. The sur
prise was too much for his heart and il
took some moments for even the crowd
to recover from its supreme astonishment.
This was not remarkable, when 1t is re-
membered that Foster had Eot made a
hit In any of the previous five games and
that he had had plenty of chances to win
games by simply hitting the ball to the
outfield. over on the players bench Man
ager Manning s eyes could not believe that
Foster had actually made single, and
he called into requisition a large tele-
scope. But when ne saw where the ball
landed, he gave a wild war whoop and
made a mad dash for the box Office to
count up the receipts of the game, so that
his mind might be diverted from Fosters
feat. When Bill COughlin had a try at
the bat his efforts resulted in a cracking
base hit that sent Gear over the plate
with the first rUD Of the game, and the
assemblage let forth a mighty cheer in
honor Of Gear and Coughlin, and a tiger
for Foster
There was no more scoring until the
eighth, when, with one man out, DUNCAN
knocked out mis- customary double, and
might have reached third, had the man
agement been thoughtful enough to pro-
vide the first base guardian with an au
tomobile. But Dungan's Hprinting abili-
ty has IT'S limits, and second bag is about
the limit, unless the ball very consider
atcly gets lost somewhere, in which event
Sammy is strong enough to walk
around the bags. But his hit was good
enough 70 start the fireworks. Gear fol-
lowed with hit to Ferris, which he sent
10 first in time to head off the runner,
but which permitted DUNCAN to get
around to third precinct. Foster again
won black face type mention in the Of
fetal reports of the doings by slamming
the ball over the heads of the fielders for
a single and sending DUNCAN home with
the second run of the Senators. There
was nothing doing after this. as Foster
was thrown out in his attempt to steal
to second.
The Boston men~Were unable TO force
one Of their tribe around the bags dur
ing the afternoon. although they came
near doing II on several oc-
casions In the eighth In particular. the
situation was decidedly -heshy, and
a great sigh of relief arose when, with
two OF the Beaneaters on bases, the last
man was retired on a hit to Lee, who |
threw she ball to Clingman at second.
This was the cause of the good feel |
ing toward the Senators about 6:l5 o'clock |
iac Fairf