The Washington times., 1901-07-23
How the Clubs stand.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 22-Hart was
certainly in evidence this afternoon wher
he faced the Senators. Only once in the
game did he ''let up and that was the
only chance the visitors had of stepping
upon the home plate. That happened in
the fifth inning. The first two men struck
! out, then Hart tempted Gear with an easy
one and the batter landed ii for two bases
The next three men each got q single and
three runs crossed the plate all of them
earned. Then Hart got down to business
again, and struck out the next batter on
three balls, Hart and Yeager retiring the
side all alone. In every other inning of
the game Hart had the Washingtons at
his mercy and kept the hitting down as
he liked.
Lee, who did such good work for Kan
sas City last season, started in for Wash
ington, but he only lasted three innings.
for the home team jumped on him with
both feet and secured seven hits off him.
including two doubles and three-bagger.
He also hit one man with a pitched ball
and gave another a free pass to first base.
netting five runs. After that Gear was
put in the box and for four innings pitch
ed great ball. only one single being Sc
cured off his delivery, but in the eighth
inning Cleveland struck another batting
streak and hammered out three singles.
adding one more tally to the score
Hart was given gilt-edged support
throughout the game, not the semblance
of an error being made by the Cleveland
players, and one or two OF the stops and
throws were of the phenomenal order
Pickering, the first man at bat, lined a
beauty into centre for base. He was ad-
yanced to second on Mccarthy being hit
with pitched ball. O'Brien sent the ball
into right field for base, scoring Picker
ing, Mccarthy going to second. Beck hit
to shortstop, forcing O'Brien at second
After La Chance had been retired on q
fly to left field Mccarthy crossed the
plate, and Beck came home a moment
later on Bradley's beautiful two-bagger to
the left field fence.
In the second inning Shiebeck led off
with two-bagger along the left field foul
line. Hart advanced him to third on
neat sacrifice to first base. Pickering
flew out to centre and Mccarthy drove
single into right, scoring Beck.
Beck started the third inning with n
cracking three-bagger to the centre field
fence. La Chance flew out to Clingman
and Bradley came to the rescue again
with single, scoring Beck. feager was
given a base on balls. but a neat double
play ended the run-getting in that inning.
The home team scored another run in
the eighth inning. After La Chance had
been retired on his long fly to right Brad
ley lined one over the second basemans s
head for a base. He stole second and
came home on throw by Clarke to catch
him at the bag, the throw landing the
ball into centre field.
Washington scored their only runs of
the game in the fifth inning. After Hart
had struck out the first two batters Gear
hit the sphere for two bases into right
field. Waldron followed with a single,
scoring Gear. Farrell lined out another
single. sending Waldron to third, and
then Farrell stole second. DUNCAN sent
both runners home with a nice hit to cen
tire. but he was left on base. as Clarke,
the next batter up. was struck out After
that the visitors had no show of scoring
and only once got a man as far as third
base. The score: