The times., 1901-05-09
How the Clubs stand.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
BALTIMORE. May S.-Baltimore,
AMERICAN LEAGUE

BALTIMORE, May S-Baltimore, o;
Washington. /
The Ringing Brothers did not have the
only circus here this afternoon. At the
baseball park next door to the tented
exhibition, Johnny McGraw and his COM
panion Orioles had a regular circus with
Pitcher Win Mercer. Of the Washington
baseball team, and for an entire inning
there was more doing than in the three
rings and two elevated stages Of the Ring
ling performance That one inning-the
frst-was much in the nature Of hard
luck story for Washington, for every ball
the Baltimore men hit seemed to take a
f1endish delight in scampering away out
of reach Of any of the Senatorial fielders.
Mercer was not a bit discouraged after
the cannonading had ceased, for in the
succeeding inning he settled down to
work and from that time on pitched mas
terly bah
Eliminate the fatal first and you would
have by all odds one Of the very best
games Of ball that has ever been played
in Baltimore or any other city. For eight
innings the men went up to the bat brisk
ly and hopefully and were retired with
great regularity and quickness, with the
result that the game was PLAYED in less
than an hour-to be exact, fifty-six min
utes. After the initial try on the part
OF the home players they were unable
to do anything with Mercer, while the
visiting pitcher received admirable sup
port. especially from Coughlin and Quinn.
The former deliberately robbed Robin
son OF clean hit in the third by making
8 phenomenal one-handed stop over near
short field and recovering himself quick
y enough to shoot the ball over to Everett
in time TO head of the Baltimore catcher.
Then, too, Quinn showed up brilliantly in
the fourth when Donlin cracked out
what appeared to be good base hit The
ball shot over in the direction Of first
base, just out of reach of Everett, but
Quinn, by a mighty exertion, got one
hand in front Of it, and. turning, fired it
TO the bag a moment in advance of the
runner. Both plays of the visitors were
greeted with considerable applause from
the crowd and did much 10 heighten the
interest in the contest
Mr.. Cantillion was sent in to do the
umpiring. and while it is anything but
fashionable TO discuss the bad work Of
the decider Of plays, it is but due to the
Washington team 10 say that at every
point that was the least bit IN doubt the
Cantillion vision was quite defective He
was away of on balls and strikes, while
he made positively rank decision at
first which was.so palpable a case Of do
that the spectators groaned.
An interesting feature Of the game was
the presentation to Bin Clarke by
number Of local admirers Of huge
bunch Of flowers and a pair OF diamond
cuff buttons. The Washington backstop
remained true to the traditions Of the
game, and when the crowd appealed 10
him TO do something 10 show his appre-
clatIon Of the handsome remembrance,
he promptly proceeded 10 pop an easy
one down to short field and was an easy
mark for death at first However, on the
next attempt the tail Nashingtonian
landed squarely on one Of McGinnitys
most elusive shoots and slammed it out
Of reach OF the helders, greatly to the
delight Of his friends
The visitors put up snappy game and
played the fine points for all they were