Evening star., 1901-07-03

joyable from the players well as the
spectators point of view, but the heavy
bank of clouds that lowered over the south
west kept the attendance down to about
ZOO.
Case Patten and Wiley Piatt were the on
posing twirlers, thirteen safe hits being
made off the local man. while twelve were
charged against the Quaker; but the Sen
ators managed to bunch their "binsles' i'll
the fourth and sixth innings effectively
enough to land victory. Piatt's bases
balls, of which he contributed eight, were
very costly. and in one instance when be
allowed Patten to walk it looked very much
as though his wildness had lost the came
right there and then. Patten was bumped
quite hard. especially by Lajoie and FuI:Z,
but the Titian-haired lad was steady and
this regularity finally landed his ctIb
winner.
Fast Fielding
The fielding of both teams was fast and
for the most part accurate, an unfortunate
wild throw by Dolan being the only Iais-
play charged against the Athletics, while
Clarke and Coughlin were the only trans
gressors on the local team.
1t was at the bat where the Senators
We're shown at their best. the hitting cxhi-
oltion OF the locals being about as timely
and strong as has been forthcoming from
the team 80 far this season. Dale Gear
placed four hits in safe territory two of
which were doubles but the last one was
or the ''huke' order Piatt should have
gathered it in The ball never touched his
hands and for this reason goes as n hit
Jack Farrell simply outdid himself with the
SUCK, MS triple and two doubles being of
the 1double-ringer" class and chased runs
over the plate every time Jack was I'm the
slough of despond for some time in a hat
ting and helding sense, but he has come
srouna arc IN royal style and his work OF late
a1Cya6
clarke also got in timely hits
Hard Hitting Promised.
Both sides started off well in the first in
ming. and thus early gave indications
the bail would ne hit hard, a run being
Chaiked up to the credit of each club The
Senators rested IN the second, but in the
third took the lead by making one run
Inc Athletics failed to score In the second
ana third. but in the fourth made one run
and tied the score for the time being In
tEe same inning three runs crossed the
pIate for the Meaningless. the result Of two
bases on balls oy Piatt Foster waIkad
Quinn hit safely and Coughlin sacrificed
another free pass to Clingman filled the
bases and after Patten had struck out
JACK Farrell lifted d line drive to the CEN
ter Held fence for triple, clearing the
bases.
In the fifth both sides put a tally to their
credit, and in the sixth the local fang,
were placed in the dumps for a few min
utes, as the Athletics chased three runs
over the rubber, tying the score But
when the Senators came In for their turn
at the bat there vas something doing, and
again base on balls caused the yisito
downfall.
Quinn walked and was thrown out try
ing to pifer second. Coughln hit a siz-
Zling double into right center, but Cling
man went out. third to first. Patten then
| came up with record of having made
base hit in months time and he was al
| lowed to walk to first on balls. He would
have made the probable third hand out, but
instead, the bombardment of Manila fol-
| lowed. Farrell sent out beautiful double
| sacker. clearing the bases: and base hits
| followed from Clarke, DUNCAN and Gear,
sending in two more runs. Neither side