Evening star., 1901-08-10

The double-header at American League
Park yesterday afternoon between the
Washington and Athletic clubs was an eX-
cellent exhibition of the national game
from a Philadelphia standpoint Not only
did Connie Macks aggregation land both
games by the respective scores of to 4
and . to 4, but the exhibition given by sew
eral members of the Athletics was simply
wonderful and deserved all the praise show
cred on them by the spectators. Those
fans who lean toward hard hitting had
their hobby gratified, and those who par
ticularly admire fast and accurate fielding
had nothing left to wish for.
The big Frenchman, Lajoie, has played
many brilliant games, but it Is doubtful
whether he will ever give a better exhibl-
tion than he did yesterday at American
League Park. He was all over the in and
outfields, gathering in apparent safe hits,
while at the bat he simply killed the ball
Twice he hit the ball over the left-f1eld
fence for home runs, and when he wasn't
making "homers" he was driving in runs
by hitting for singles or doubles. Lave
Cross also ran his captain a close second
in the matter of brilliant plays, several
one-handed stops by Lave bringing the
spectators to their feet, while Mcintyre,
in left, gathered in a one-line hit with his
good right hand which should have been
at least a triple Harry Davis was also
much in evidence, the clever first baseman
making the longest hit credited to Amer-
can Park, the ball sailing over the fence
In center field, a feat never before achieved
by any player on the local grounds
Compared with the exhibition given by
the Athletics the work of the Senators
looked poor, while in fact they put up a
creditable game in the face of the terrific
bombardment. Waldron, in center field,
pulled down several apparent safe hits,
while Clingman, Coughlin and Gear made
several pretty plays
Lave Cross is credited with a home run
In the first game which was brought about
through peculiar play The ball was hit
10 deep left field and would have struck the
fence, but Foster ran almost to the OBJ
struction and threw up his gloved hand in
endeavoring to make the catch. The ball
struck the glove and then bounded over
the inclOsure
In the second game Mike Grady, who is
suffering from a badly spiked ankle was
given a terrible jolt at the home plate by
big Seybold which put the plucky Hiber-
man In dreamland for several minutes Sey-
bold was on third and Mcintyre on first,
and the latter made bluff steal of sec
ond Grady shot the ball to Farrell and
on the return the sphere landed In the
catcher's hands fraction of a second be-
fore Seybold ran into him full tilt Mike
was Knocked prone upon his back and it
required several doses of water to bring
him back to consciousness. The sphere
was knocked out of Gradys hands In the
collision and the run counted.
bernhard and Carrick were the opposing
tWlrlers in the first game, and the former
mad decidedly the better OF the argument
The Senators began the game as though
they were going to drive Bernhard to tall
timber. two runs being chased over the
plate through good hitting, but after this
initial endeavor ''Berny" settled down to
business and pitched good ball Carrick
started off all right, but the long drives Of
Cross, Davis and Seybold counted effec-
lively and really won the game
The second contest was almost a repeti-
tion of the first. Plank scattering the hits
OF the Senators in effective manner
while Patten was jolted hard and often
1t was the first game played at Ameri-
can Park for month, and also the initial
double-header of the season. The local
fans are hungry for base ball, and the
added attraction of two games for one ad-
mission drew fully $500 persons to the
grounds The concourse was in a folly good
humor and wanted to root for the Sem
ators, but the fine exhibition of the visitors
won them over. and toward the close every
body seemed to be cheering the great
LajOie and his followers
Haskell and Connolly were the umpires,
and they came in for many words of COM
mendation for their generally accurate and
impartial work. Scores: