The Washington times., 1901-09-26
How the Clubs stand.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
AMERICAN LEAGUE

washington won again
all on account of n miscue by Holmes,
the Tigers right fielder, who can take the
entire responsibility for his teams defeat
Holmes muf and the efficient service rem
dered by Case Patten in the centre of
the diamond gave the locals the game in
the second round for after three Man
ningites waltZed around the four-bag cir
cult in that inning they could not get
man across the pan.
When the Tigers came on the diamond
Jimmy Manning that they were pass
ing envy up to him in large. solid chunks
and. dipping down deep into his think
tank and fishing out a few good ones. he
decided that 1t would be wise to pit a
good south-paw slab artist against the
Wolverines. He called up his assortment
of twirlers and directed them to take
their seats on the bench. and after recit-
ing Enc, meny, miney, mo" over several
times, the last syllable being counted on
Case Patten, Jimmy told Patten that he
was 1T" Jimmy reminded the south
paw that some old founder of the early
ages had said that Satan had taught
left-handed people TO use the wrong
hand. and he told Case if that individual
had taught him to do any stunts with his
south paw he should rack his memory
and bring every one of them into practice.
Patten promised to bring all of his
tricks into the game. and took his stand
on the rubber with several new ones up
his sleeves. which he intended TO spring
on the visitors in case of an emergency.
The Tigers were held down to five scat
tered hits. none of which did any dam
age, as they got the first run on Dungan's
error and the second on a single to right
field. which was just trife too low for
Sammy. who parades in that territory.
There werc seven miscues accumulated
by the Meaningless. two of which netted
the Detroits both their tallies In the
first inning. when a slow one was lined
to short, Clingman stopped it, but failed
TO recover himself in time to cut the run
ner of at the premier hassock. This was
the first one, but Patten followed shortly
after with a bad tumble of a bunt which
struck his glove on the first bounce. He
added another in the sixth when another
Tiger hunted. and he began to play foot
ball with the sphere in his endeavors to
gather In the bunt.
The visitors soon got on to Patterns
weakness and began TO hit to him with
surprising regularity, but after making
two fumbles the south-raw concluded that
1t was about time to draw the line. Mer-
Ger also secured two errors by dropping
balls that were difficult to hold, as he had
to reach out several feet for them. Far
rell was credited with an error when he
hit a base-runner in throwing to first to
complete a double play. The spheroid
bounced over near the place where sit the
people who pay % cents to say rude
things to visiting teams. Mercer, who
gave graceful chase, was unable to get
his digits upon 1t until a man had ske-
daddled across the finish line
But the worst of all was the one that
was chalked up to DUNCAN. Sammy must
have been thinking Of the condition of
the cash register at his cigar shop, for
the nniscue was one of the most mex
cusabic fumbles seen lately, and allowed
the Detroits 10 score one more run than
they were entitled to. McAllister got to
the initial bolster on an error by Mercer,
and Roscoe Miller, the Tigers twirler.
came to the front and singled to right
garden. The ball bounced directly into
the cigar shopkeeper's hands, and a va
cant-lot player would undoubtedly have
picked it up, but such was not the case
with DUNCAN. He threw up his paws
as If to gather it in. but his calculation
was way of and the ball rolled to the
fence with the fielder in hot pursuit. He
recovered IL after McAllister had crossed
the terminal ana Hhen ne came in TO
take a swat at the leather he was given
the hard thrown-down. the frozen fist,
the frigid frown, and several other fan
like evidences of displeasure
'.Ross:e'' Miller locked after the Wis
itors' interests in the box. and whenever
he does the twirling it is goodbye to hits.
for the lad has some very difficult shoots.
Such was not the case yesterday. for the
Meaningless lit on his delivery with the
persisteney with which the ofiicious blue
fly lights on bald head, and but for the
good support the pitcher received from
the outhelders there would have been sew
eral more runs made OFF his delivery.
When the game was over Miller felt as
much relieved as papa does when he has
paid off his sons last chorus girl entan-
clement.
The game was listless up to the third
inning, when the fun started for the SEN
ators. Coughlin stepped up to the bat
ting slab and picked out one of Miller's
drops and raped 1t over the second base
mans head. Case patten was next on
the list and after doing war dance
around the plate he finally drew a free
pass to first Waldron, who was taking
no chances of Tiger getting under his