The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-09
How the Clubs stand.
RALTIMoRE. Man S.-Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, May S.-Baltimore, 8;
Washington. /
The Ringing Brothers did not have the
only circus here this afternoon. AT the
baseball park, next door to the tented
exhibition, Johnny McGraw and his COM
poniOn Orioles had regular circus with
Pitcher Win Mercer. of the Washington
baseball team, and for an entire inning
there was more doing than in the three
rings and two elevated stages of the Ring
ling performance. That one inninS-the
frst-was much in the nature Of a hard
luck story for Washington for every bali
the Baltimore men hit seemed to take
fendish delight in scampering away out
of reach of any of the Senatorial feeders.
Mercer was not n bit discouraged after
the cannonading had ceased, for in the
succeeding inning he settled down to
work and from that time on pitched mas
terry bail.
Eliminate the fatal first and you would
have by all odds one of the very best
games of ball that has ever been played
in Baltimore or any other city. For eight
innings the men went up to the bat brisk
ly and hopefully and were retired with
great regularity and quicl1ness, with the
result that the game was played in less
than an hour-to be exact, ffty-siX min
utes. After the initial try on the part
of the home players they were unable
to do anything with Mercer, while the
visiting pitcher received admirable sup
port. especially from Coughlin and Quinn
The former deliberately robbed Robin
son of clean hit in the third by making
q phenomenal one-llanded stop over near
short field and recovering himself quick
ly enough to shoot the ball over to Everett
in time to head off the Baltimore catcher.
Then, too, Quinn showed up brilliantly in
the fourth, when Donlin cracked out
what appeared to be a good base hit The
ball shot over in the direction of first
base, just out of reach of Everett but
Quinn, by a mighty exertion, got one
hand in front of it, and, turning, fired it
to the bag a moment in advance of the
runner. Both plays of the visitors were
greeted with considerable applause from
the crowd and did much to heighten the
interest in the contest.
Mr. Cantillion was sent in to do the
umpiring. and while IT is anything but
fashionable to discuss the bad work of
the deeider Of plays, it is but due to the
Washington team 10 say that at every
point that was the least bit in doubt the
Cantillion vision was quite defective He
he made positively rank decision at
first which was>so palpable a case of do
that the spectators groaned.
An interesting feature of the game was
the presentation to Bill Clarke by
number of local admirers Of "A huge
bunch of flowers and pair of diamond
cuff buttons. The Washington backstop
remained true to the traditions of the
game and when the crowd appealed to
him to do something to show his appre-
citation of the handsome remembrance,
he promptly proceeded to pop an easy
one down to short field and was an easy
mark for death at first. However. on the
next attempt the tall hvashingtonian
landed squarely on one of McGinnity's
most elusive shoots and slammed it out
OF reach of the fielders, greatly to the
delight OF his friends.
The visitors put up a snappy game and
played the fine points for al. they were