The times., 1901-06-16

/ ponent sayeth not-Eoffer was subsu-
tuted. and the manner in which he shot
! the balls across the plate was a eau
ton! In fact. so fast did the spheres
fly into Catcher Yeager's nit that UNI
pire Haskell believed it was the dark
ness that caused him TO have diff
Guilty in following them, and when the
| last man on the Washington side had
been retired in the Ginning. he ran to the
middle of the field and yelled Game
! called on account of darkness" AS a
matter of fact, it was light enough to
| have continued to play for several in
nings. but the natural mistake of Has
| kell-who has showed a remarkably bad
| eyesight during his visit among US
! was received by the crowd with shouts
, Of derision. For a few moments it
! looked as if there might be a game of
| tag. with Haskell playing 1T" He
! sought the kindly protection Of several
/ policemen, who took care that none of
! the harsh words that were being hurled
at him should reach the sensitive ears Of
/ the timid umpire. Soon the storm broke
/ over the field. and when all had de-
( parted but the groundkeeper the lone
/ form of a man attired in blue blouse,
much like those affected by umpires,
was seen to crawl from under the
/ grandstand and, after giving hur-
ried, frightened look to ascertain if the
coast was clear, made a mad dash in
! the direction of the woods. AS he
rounded the corner a youth who was
out in the rain enjoying a free shower
! bath picked up a stone and hurled it
at the fleeing form, accompanying the
aim with the remark: You're rob-
ber." If it was Mr.. Haskell the lad
was greatly mistaken. Mr.. Haskell is
no robber; but he is afflicted with bad
vision, and the ailment was at its worst
form yesterday afternoon about $50
o'clock.
Grady was responsible for the first
run secured by the Senators. 1t came
about this way: The first baseman
banged out two-bagger to centre
field fence and after Clarke had gone
out, Beck to La Chance, Clingman came
to the rescue with a nice single on
which Grady scored. AS he reached
third bag he started to slide around
the muddy field as If he was on roller
skates, and had it not been for the
kindly aid of a fellow player who as
sisted him to his feet and gave him a
good start, the score might have been
one less, so far as Washington is con-
cerned Mercer and Quinn scored in the
seventh on a base on balls, a hit, a
forced hit, and Gradys second two
bagger of the afternoon. With Grady
planted on second, Clarke was unequal
to the task of driving him heme, and
went out on a hit to Third Baseman
Wood. The Senators had commenced
to touch up Scott and he was no longer
hailed as Great Scott" when he went |
into the box. In the eighth the Cleve- |
land management. wanting to clinch |
the game, sent in Hoffer, who found the !
Washington hitters just the thing he |
had long been on the hunt for. He was |
an enigma to them, and the best that |
could be done with his delivery was |
accomplished by Gear, who secured first |
on a hit. but he was almost inlmedi- |
ately retired at second. Then Clingman |
punched three holes in the outdoors, |
ard Coughlin hit TO the pitcher.
Pickering made the visitors first run |
in the initial inning. A base on a clean |
hit, La Chances hit, and Clarke's error
did the trick. Four hits in the next |
inning gave the other fellows three ad-
ditional runs, the lucky men being |
Pickering, Beck, and Shiebeck. In the |
sixth Wood landed on a high ball and |
sent it tearing through a rain cloud in
the direction of the right field. 1t
landed some fifty feet from the club
house ard calmly rolled under the |
piazza, while several hired men on the |
Manning staff watched it. Wood in |
the meantime, cantered home, with a |
four bagger TO his credit, while, up |
in the last row of the grandstand, Man
ager Manning recalled that he had in |
tended only the day before to have that |
space closed up. Just to think if the |
game had been tie up to the time of |
the Wood hit
A prize is offered to the reader who |
can tell by the following table why the |
Senators played all around the Cleve- |
landers and then permitted the latter |
to beat them out: