Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-05-21

Another splendid victory was placed to
the credit of the Washington club yes:er-
DAY at American Park, the Philadelphia
aggregation being defeated in the last inn
ing, by the score of ) to 4. Too much
credit cannot be given to Wizard Wyatt
Lee, the youngster from the wilds of Kan
sas, who held the Quakers down to seven
.scattered hits and in addition made the
great finish possible through his hard drive
to right field for two bases. Chick Fra
ser also pitched exceptional good ball for
eight innings. but in the fatal ninth he
seemed to lose all his cunning. and, as a
result. the bingles went ringing off the
bats of the Senator's enough runs result
ing to place another victory to their credit.
The game was most enjoyable to Look at.
the fielding being fast and for the most
part accurate, while the hitting was Just
hard enough to make matters interesting.
An Exciting Finish.
The exciting finish was of that sort
which pleases the fans" immensely and
keeps alive the great interest in the game
The score stood to in favor of the Ath-
letics. when the Senators came to the bat
for the last time. Coughlin. the first man
up was an easy out, short to first and the
crowd commenced filing out. Lee, the next
man up. evidently concluded to do his best
for a lost cause, and hammered out Il doll-
BILE to the right field fence. Farrell then sin
Sled to center, but Lee was taking no
chances. as one run would do no good, and
closely Rugged third. DUNCAN then ripped
off timely single to right, scoring Lee and
sending Farrell to third The crowd by this
time was on its feet and yelling like a band
of Comanches With two men on bases and
one run needed to tie the score Quinn came
to the bat, and, on the second ball pitched,
the sphere landed on Joes good right arm
and the bases were filled.
Foster then hit an easy one to Dolan,
who fielded it nicely to Lajoie at second,
and double play looked promising but
Larry made bad throw of it. pulling Sey-
bold off the initial bag, and the tieing run
crossed the plate, as only Quinn was re-
tired on the play. DUNCAN was now on
third beseeching Captain Everett to bring
him home. and the latter, true to his
emergency hitting reputation, sent a beauty
bright into left, and the winning run
crossed the plate. Down on the field
swarmed the crowd, and for a minute or
two Everett was tossed around like a foot
ball by the excited mob.
Details of the Came
The Athletics began the business of run
making right at the start. Geier singled
to left and FoultZ to right, and on the fol-
lowing out at first of Hayden and I-ajole
the first named crossed the plate. In the
fourth two more runs were marked up for
the visitors and the spectators became rest
less as Washington had yet failed to
get runner over the plate. La joie and
Seybold tore off nice singles, and after they
had been moved up a base on Cross sacri-
flee goth scored on Murphy's single over
second base.
After the visitors had been retired in the
sixth the Senators went to work with their
STICKS. and before the last man had been
retired had placed two talies to their
credit. Quinn had been retired at first and
Foster was forced at second, after he had
n1 fT fire - IL.
Grady then hammered one to the left field
fence. good for two bases. Billy" Cling
man then got in timely double along the
right field foul line, and the two men
ahead of him scored
In the eighth the Athletics made another
run, which set the totals at to in favor
OF the visitors, and as Fraser was pit ching
glIt-edged BAH 1t looked as if the game be-
longed to the visitors. Geier reached first
on CouGhlinS error, and went to third on
FultZ single to center LajOies groundcr
to Quinn was slow. and Geier crossed the
home plate as his captain was being re-
tired at first. The exciting ninth inning
followed as told above, and the crowd
went home nightly pleased over the
game finish of the Senators.
Joe DOlan. late of the PHILADELPHIA Ma
uOnal League club PLAYED his first game
with Connie MaCk'S Athletics Yesterday
ana. notwithstanding his three errors his
work was very good. II seemed as if al
most every bail hit went to Joe. as he cap
turcd ten out of his thirteen chances. Not
one of his three errors was costly as the
side would be retired before the PLAYER
reaching first could score
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