The times., 1901-05-18

strong arm that stood him in good need
q moment later He let two strikes get
by him, bot when one came up from Piatt
| that was much to his liking he drew back
| and gave it a jolt on its equator that
| could be heard away off on the free
! graudstand on the other side of the ad-
| vCrtisiRg fence. The ball started on q
mad career for the centre field fence, and
| Fultz was hot after it. He tore on ahead
! glancing every once in a while over his
! shoulder to ascertain whether he was
steering in the right direction. His loca-
tion was all right, only he was about fifty
feet shy of the resting place of that
mighty hit, and by the time the ball was
returned to the home plate Foster had
| touched each base and tied the score. and
had scraped up Il large amount of the
| District OF Columbia on his shirt front, in
his slide under the Quaker catcher, Mr..
Morgan Murphy, the chief of the Ath-
ietics signal service. The crowd was on
It's feet, and for a moment pandemonium
was out on parade.
Everett next came up TO the plate. Cap
tain Bill had not been doing much in the
way Of hitting for some time and the
Knockers Club had just held a session on
him and had decided that he would either
have to have his lamps cleaned or get a
new set of peppers But when he drove
out two-bagger the club passed reso-
luton to adjourn sine die
Mike Grady. who has been slamming
the BAN about quite successfully was
next up, with his most trusty stick. There
was but one run now needed to win the
game Tor the Senators and foxy Piatt
concluded the best thing he could do was
to keep the bah away from the Washing
ton catcher, so he selected one of his
incest inshoots and gave Grady a crack
wonder what he had run up against. Such
small matter as being hit by pitched
ball did not count at this exciting stage of
the game, however, and Grady hobbled
down to Powers territory. The crowd
looked to Clingman to make good for a
single at least just now, but he was un-
able to come to the aid of his fellows on
the cushions and hit an easy one to Piatt
and was helded out at first.
Then it was that BIZ Coughlin stalked
up to the plate. The clever third base
man had had an off day in the fielding de-
partment and had been responsible for
four runs secured by the Quakers but he
was striking as if he was under special
orders from the walking delegate of the
Miners Union. The Scranton boy, with
out much ado. watched Piatt untangle
his arms and legs and shoot an amiable
looking ball up toward the rubber and he
Immediately proceeded to muss II all up.
He savagely caught il, with a strangle
hold, and gave 1t an upper cut which sent
IL scOoting in the direction of the Milky
Way. The ball landed somewhere on the
other side of the lot, but no one thought
of looking for the exact location. The
wildly enthusiastic crowd was pretty well
occupied in watching Everett trOt in home
with the run that was needed to add an
other victory to the credit OF the Sena-
torial aggregation, while Grady was hot
on his heels with another score if it was
needed, but Everetts was enough to do
the trick
Coughlin was not permitted to get far
thCr than first before some hundred in
hgDnN
the fence in front of the rightfield bleach
ers and were in mad pursuit of the third
baseman. He was Collared midway be-
tween first and second and lifted on a
dozen or so sturdy shoulders and carried
in triumph off to the Washington club
house. And out of all the men that had
CoUgiAin suspended in the air high above
their heads as they bore him proudly to
receive the congratulations of his com
panions IN the game. not one was there
but who Is today as proud as the man
who shook the Hand of Sullivan when il
meant something to grasp the hard fist
of the only Yours Truly John l." There
has been no such scene enacted on 10
cal ball field Tor a long time-so long. in
fact. that the Oldest lnhabitant gave il
up after the game on the way home. The
baseball admirer who was not at the park
Yesterday has much to regret: those who
were so fortunate as to be on hand will
tell about it today and forget all about
the glorious victory in the first inevitable
sting OF defeat.
Even if the Meaningless had not. cap
tured the game it would have been very
satisfactory article of ball and there
would have been no kick coming TO any
one who had put up coin Of the
realm for the opportunity Of wit
Messing it. Carrick was in the box
for the Senators. and although his
business swing was in hospital condi-
tiOn he managed TO give a good account
Of himself. and especially after the event
fui fourth inning. when the visitors
touched him uD for four runs and made /
everyone wonder how il would all come
out. He received excellent support from /
Grady. who threw strongly and accurate
ly and hit with VigOr that was remark |
able. But speaking of hitting, that new