The Washington times., 1901-08-04
PRINTERS WIN A HEAVY GAME.
Compositors Set Up n Dozen Runs to
Inferiorites, Ten.

In a heavy batting game yesterday.
with almost as many errors as runs. the
Government Printing 6aice nine beat the
Interior Department tea&n-at the National
Ball Park
In the first inning. with Havens on base,
a youth named Keane. who is said to
have been reared in Swattersyille, lam
bssted one out into a secluded and un-
guarded spot in the plain and made it
good for four bases. This was the first
scoring of the game by either side and
the printers had two runs as a starter,
which was not bad beginning.
Then came the time for the Land Office
men to do a thing or two in the scor-
ing line. After securing two bingles off
Browns delivery, and having had one
of their men jolted in the Stats with the
horsehide, they began to make impress
sions on the score card. Two of their
tribe scored on long hit and three more
romped home on two passed balls. while
still two more did a canter over the same
course, on fielder's choice, making seven
for the lnteriorites. This put them five
runs TO the good, which lead they held
until the fourth, when they counted two
more around their opponents.
Uncle Sans printers did not score
again until the sixth. when they made
up for lost time and banged the spheroid
all over The outfield and compelled the
outfielders to take to the tall shrubs TO
recover IT. This was the inning in which
Mr. Glotfelty met his Waterloo and the
one in which the typesetters scored six
tallies, putting them only one to the bad.
Mr.. Hitchcock s men did not like this sud-
den turn of affairs, and they openly ex-
pressed themselves to that effect. They
tried hard to distance their rivals in the
sixth, and came very near succeeding.
One elongated man whose name appears
on the payroll at the Interior Depart
ment. decided to lose the ball. and chose
as the hiding place the right field bleach
ers. The ball landed among the seats
a M ia hlra n Esl. . I.
was on its leisurely tour of inspection the
batter was dashing wildly around the
diamond. and in his hurry forgot to
touch the second snag on his tourney
This would have been all right had the
arbitrator of balls and strikes not had
his optics on that worthy But the Inter
iorite was to have no such luck, and as
one of the pToofreaders pressed the sphere
against the runners throbbing bosom he
was called out after having dashed
home and retired to the bench.
The printers needed but one run to tie
the score, but try as they might they
could not get man any farther than
second in the seventh irning. In the
eighth there was something doing. While
two men IN We're 9ceqpying the first and
second bags the ball was seen to fly sud
denly into deep centre. where the fielders
were unable to locate it until the batter
had reached second and the two men had
scored. The North Capitol Street men
We're now one point above the high-wa
mark, but were not satisfied until they
had scored two more OF their tribe, which
set them three above that mark and out
of harms way.
The Land Office men had heard of
games being won in the latter part of the
final inning and thought that there might
be some truth in the repetition of his
tory. Pondering thus. they began to
ring in the heavy swatters. but the III. S.
failed to make good. They came very
near evening matters. though. when all
of the bags were occupied and n hot one
was lined out to left. one man scored
and another started in. but on second
thought he decided to remain on the third
corner. There was only one man out
and with a man on third the Interior men
felt confident of their opportunity and
had high hopes of winning. Several of
their number We're thereupon seen to
smile with the II told you So effect.
But when one OF their men hit slow one
TO short and another cut three large hori-
zontal slices out of the atmosphere
around the home plate those hopes We're
shattered. The smiles were seen TO fade
from the faces of Mr.. Hitchcock's wards
as they realized that they had yet their
first game to win. ,f....it
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