The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-21
SENATORS ARRIVE HOME
Players Disappointed at Postpone
ment of Game With Georgetown.
The Team Goes to Philadelphia
Tuesday Night for the First Cham
pionship Game of the Season-
Mnnning's Faith in His batteries.

1t was a great disappointment to the
local admirers of baseball that rain pre-
vented the game between Manning $
American League tear and the George
town Club yesterday. The professionals
We're in fine fettle for the contest, while
the collesians We're determined 10 give
them a good game. The two teams will
meet tomorrow. if the weather will per-
nit. and again on Tuesday Manager
Walsh of the Georgetown Club wanted a
third game, Wednesday. but this will be
impossible as the locals are scheduled to
open the regular American League sea-
son at Philadelphia on that day.
rhe Senators will leave for Philadelphia
Tuesday night. as Manager Manning does
not want to take chances on being delayed
en- route by accidents of any kind. and de
sires to get on the scene of the first con-
test in good time to give his men plenty
OF rest.
Great preparations have been made for
the opening game by the Athletics man
agement, and il is safe betting that
much larger crowd will be in attendance
than was present when the Phillies We're
walloped by the Brooklyns on Thursday,
when scarce 5000 persons witnessed the
first National League game, while as a
rule. the inaugural game has drawn an
assemblage averaging from ten to fifteen
Thousand.
There has rarely been more disap-
pointed bunch of ball tosssrs in Washing
ton than the Senators were when they
landed at the Norfolk and Washington
steamboat wharf and learned there was
no possibility of game yesterday. The
one hope that had cheered their last few
days at the training grounds at Hampton
was the thought of what they would do
to the ambitious young Georgetown
youths The pitchers We're particularly
anxious to get in the game and demon
strate that they were able to put up the
games of their lives by shifting out the
wearers of the blue and grey, while the
heavy hitters on the team spent most Of
the time on the homeward trip figuring
out what their batting averages would oe
after they had faced the Georgetown
twirlers And then to reach Washington
and find that steady downpOur had put
the grounds out of business for a day or
SO, anyway, was most discouraging.
The men spent most of the day at the
Ebbitt House. which will be their head
quarters during the season. A few of the
players who were not afraid of the rain
went out to take view of the new
grounds. and expressed themselves as
highly pleased with their stamping place.
Those who remained indoors idled away
the hours relating the wonderful plays
they had made at the Virginia training
quarters. and particularly in the game
against the Phoebus team when the coun-
try youths were shut out, while the SEN
ators rolled up uhirty-three runs. or some
thing like that number. Secretary Need
ham, who officiated as the scorer for the
game, admitted that the Washingtonians
may haze made sixty-eight runs during
rh.ae ANA h. txrgag he. hot oil for
a few moments rest and that during his
absence the players must have crossed
the rubber a score or more of times: but
as he was not on the scene he could not
take any official notice of the runs. hence
the thirty-three record which was pro-
mulgated