The Washington times., 1901-08-11
ENGRAVERS BEAT CENSUS.
They Make Five Impressions
While Opponents Count Two.
The Rest Game So Far in the De-
partment LcnEue-A WhirIwind of
MeEaphonic Instructions and In
nuendOes From the Spectators.

II the dusky patients at F'reedman's Hos
pital did not turn white with fright yes
terday afternoon it was no fault OF the
eight or nine hundred baseball rooters
who trudged out to the National ball park
to witness the game between the Census
team and the nine from the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing. Armed with mega
phones and tin horns. and feeling as
though they would like to test their lung
power, the small army took their seats
and awaited the umpire's signal to play
ball" From the time that signal was
given until the end Of the game there was
no let-up Of the bowling, yelling, and
stamping by the spectators. and had
thirteen-incher gone off in the locality of
Seventh and Florida Avenue at least nine
hundred baseball cranks would have been
none the wiser. for the report. ii heard at
all, would have been barely audible.
A light-haired, fair-complexioned lad
surnamed Fulcher occupied the twirler's
portion of the infield for the men who op-
crate the tabulating machines. and his
curves. drops. and shoots proved to be too
Elusive for seven men with green ink
stains on their fingers. The business end
of the engravers battery was in charge of
'Shags' Thorpe, who also had few strike
outs jotted down on the score card. The
contest was the best that has been seen so
far in the Department League, and had it
not been for several costly errors made on
both sides it would have been fair DEM
onstration of how the national game
should be played. Even as it was, the
fans had no kick to make, for 1t was close
and exciting. and kept all. who were not
standing, constantly on the anxious seat
nf n To
gasp for breath when they saw the field
ing of the Census fellows. At the con-
clusion of the game the Bureauites score
column footed up to 3. while the statistical
report of the First Street clerks run alley
was two.
Mr.. Merriams men We're given the first
turn at the bat, but they did not make
an impression on the second sack, first
corner being the limit of their base run
ners. The Southwest tribe were the first
to mar the whitewash on the counting
block in the initial round. The population
takers got dangerously near the fourth
base in the second. They had succeeded
in getting three men on the cushions, and
were thinking that they had walkover
when the man who guards third for the
Fourteenth Street men closed his grap-
ping irons on a pop fly and tossed it over
to one of his mates. who put out for a
little while at least the man who had been
occupying third. completing a double play
at that station. Things seemed to be COM
Ing the third bagman's way. for in another
moment he had raked in another of the
pop-up variety. This retired the side, and
the Census men had not scored The
legal number of batters came UP to the
plate in the next two innings, but no
more scoring INDUCED in until the
last of the fifth. when the certificate
makers moved up another notch. making
two for them.
The Census men did their first business
in the scoring line In the sixth. when
White hit 70 left and got to the premier
hassock, stole second a moment later and
landed on third when Runkei hit to sec
ond. Runkel was not thrown out at first
for the second bagman had his optics on
White, whose evident intention it was to
score II given little leeway. Davis was
next up, and as he made connections with
the leather White waddled across the
finishing line Barrows' name appeared
next on the score card, and he Iambasted
a hot one to third. A wild throw to first
lost the sphere long enough for Runkle.
who had been on first. to score and to
allow BarrowS to get to third.
Several other First Street men PUNK ed
the pellet, but that was all They did not
swing hard enough to swat the horsehide
into the outiield. The side was retired
without a score for Barrows, who proved
to the fact that he conjured the third
baseman until that worthy threw the
leather to the bleachers. where 1t played
hide and seek with the greenback makers
The score was tied by this performance,
but 1t did not remain so very long, for
the Bureauites got a man around the cir
cult in their half of the sixth, setting
them one ahead of their opponents
Neither side got man past second in
the seventh, but in the eighth the men
from Southwest got two across the rub
Der on long hits to left and centre field.
The men who took the Twelfth Census
were now three behind their opponents and
they hoped to tie or better the Southwest
mems score when they came in to take
their ninth knock at the ball. They made
a failure of 1t, however, for the first man
up could do no more than chop three
times at the sphere and retire to the
bench. The next man hit a slow one to
second baseman and was put out. The
third man up popped up a fly TO third and
It was all over for the Census aggrega-
ton
The score: