Evening star., 1901-05-13
BOTH TEAMS PLAYED GOOD BALL.
story of the Senator'S Victory on
SATURDAY..


Yesterdays Boston Herald has the fol-
lowing TO say about Saturday ) game be-
tween the Senators and Bostons:
Now Ted Lewis is a good pitcher and
as a teacher he excels but an an aeronaut
he hardly takes rank as a professor. He
essayed j little balloon ascension from the
American League grounds yesterday after
noon, and he went up all right.
But he forgot the very essential neces-
sity of carrying ballast along. and the re-
suit was that he had all kinds of trouble
before his drag anchor caught in the box,
and he got back to earth. The trouble
was Jumped ard took the form of success
sive bases on balls, followed by long hit
and victory for Washington by the score
of 3 to =.
When Lewis got back with the people,
of whom there We're over 1893 who shud-
dered and covered their eyes when he shot
heavenwerd. he played ball, good, heady
ball, but the damage had all been done
then and he beaten pitcher. 1t was
his first attempt on home grounds and he
should have made good.
In more ways than one it pitchers
battle the soft ground being favorable
Boston got after Prof. Lee in style, but
lacked effect, and the eight hits four of
which were doubles, were so widely dis
tributed that but two runs came from the
Shuttle. On the other hand Washington
found Lewis for but three hits in the nine
innings
The two teams played good ball, and
considering the wetness of the ground 1t
was snappy. Not an error showed against
Boston or Washington, though McLean's
reach saved Parent from being penaliZed,
and King James own quickness saved him
self from one of those things"
Boston was in harder luck than the score
shows, for it was deprived of Freemans $
services at the bat, and Freeman had no
to blame but himself at that. 1t all
came about through Freeman disagreeing
with the umpire in strenuous "A way
that he was ''benched.' He got too far
off the second station on the way around
and was thrown out. Haskell had pa
tience with his protest. and Buck be-
came a spectator from that time.
Mclean took his place at the bag, and
made good in more ways than one good
that Freeman was not missed. so far as
the fielding was concerned. But the young
Goliath was too anxious when at bat, and
here is where Freeman's more mature eX-
perience might have counted in sending
tallies across for Boston.
Steady play marked the game through
out, and there were few sensational fea-
lures. One was a stunning ieft-hand
catch of liner from Collins bat by Cough
lin and the crowd rose to him as only a
Boston crowd can to visiting PLAYER
Then there was a beautiful double play by
Parent. Ferris and Freeman in the fatal
first that perhaps saved Lewis from fur
ther disaster.
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first up for Washington, deadheaded 1t to
first, and gathered second on Everetts :
sacrifice. Then Foster and DUNCAN We're
each the recipients of gratuities from
Lewis, and the bases We're full. Joe Quinn
was arrayed in batting togs. apparently
for he got one of the few that Lewis had
put over the plate up to this time and
when it stopped rolling the old Boston
favorite was tanning himself on second and
the three .'deadheads'' had crossed the
plate.
Boston got the first of the two tallies in
the second inning, after being retired in
the first attempt ON four pitched balls 1t
began with Collins going to first on a sim
gle. By corking piece of base running
he was scored on Freeman's double Parent
got hit to deep short, Freeman proceed
ing to get himself caught and fired
In the fifth Boston's second and last run
was scored up. Ferris started 1T with a
double to right, and scored on successive
flies to the outield by Criger and Lewis.
Twice after this Boston had a man on
second, once with only one out and failed
to connect. With Washington all the way
along after the first it was practically a
case of out in order, and not a man got
beyond first base; in fact, only two got
there safely, beside two OH third force outs
Score