The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-24
The Standing of the Clubs.

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| tHcW OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 900
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| If Jimmy Manning's hired men PUT up
at Philadelphia this afternoon anything
| like the article of baseball they ladled
| out to the young representatives, of
/ Georgetown University yesterday there
will be something doing in the Pennsyl-
| vania burg aud the Senators won't be so
| very far from having the most figures to
| their credit when the struggle is finished.
| The game yesterday brought out several
! hundred of the faithful and they were
| well rewarded. for the new Senators
! showed UP in admirable form. Manning
| trotted out trio of his most promising
| twirlers and they all displayed versa
| tility and thorough knowledge of the art
of shooting fast and slow ones. all sorts
| of twisters and alluring teasers over the
| plate, much to the discontinue of the
! young gentlemen from the institution OF
learning. With the exception of three in
nings, in which Gear OBLIGATED, they were
| kept pretty well in the background, al
| though from a purely amateur point Of
view the youngsters put up a stiff propo-
| sition in the shape OF a practice game for
| the locals. But in each instance in which
Georgetown had men on the cushions
Gear either pulled himself up in good time
or excellent support on the part of his
companions prevented the official scorer
from jotting down a mark in the run col
umn allotted to the students.
Lee, a husky young left handler. was
| first installed in the box, and for three
| innings he pushed the ball over the plate
mighty cleverly, although two of the
Georgetown boys succeeded in FASTING the
trademark for singles. Lee handled him
self well, and showed that in tight pinch
he can usually be relied upon to keep his
head about him and to remain anchored
to the United States and not lose sight
of the fact that he is paid a good salary
every Wednesday night to play ball and
not give an imitation of an amateur IA
vorite of the sand lots. He has plenty of
speed and at times uses a deceiving curve
that does some very efficient moving
down.
But talking of pitchers, no wearer of a
Washington uniform has ever jumped SO
quickly into the good graces of local fans
as did Patten yesterday. He was sent in
to show his hand in the seventh inning.
and the very first three balls he handed
waIked back to his bench explaining to
his comrades about the cross-cut ball
which Patten was using.
Drill-stocky little Catcher Drill-pooh-
pooled the idea, and said: "Wait until 1
land on it, and I'll show you whether it's
a cross-cut or a bum in-shoot masquerade
ing under false pretences."
Well, Drill did go up against the Patten
game a moment later, and after the UNI
pire Mr. Belts, had called two strikes on
him in rapid succession, the Georgetown
boy became exceedingly angered, and in
dignantly threw down his bat and uttered
some language.
Patten was not at all seemingly discon-
certed by Mr. Drills lmpolite and unpro-
fessionaI conduct, but modestly and I'M
ostentatiously showed another beauty
across the plate, while Drill was over near
the Senator's bench. and the gentlemanly
Mr. Belts promptly called him out.
Then there was more explaining about
this new cross-cut ball OF Patterns, only
Drill did the talking and the doughty
Connors, he of the centre garden wanted
to go up against II and see If he couldn't
take a fall out of the mysterious sort of
a shoot He anxiously side-stepped the
first two balls that came sailing directly
over the centre of the piece of rubber, and
before he could come out of his comatose
state had been led into making another
vicious swipe at the ball. and he, too. took
his seat in 0sg1st, but not in disgrace,
for he had plenty Of company.
And in sending the three men to the
tall timbers Patten had sent up just nine
balls. a most remarkable record.
This is the way the runs We're scored:
At the very commencement of The game
Farrell was given a base on balls, and
trotted around the bags on Clarke's two
base hit. O'Brien's hit to O Hara was
neatly handled and the big left fielder
reached the base after the ball was safe
" ensconsed In Apperious mitt, Clarke
going to third on the play, and moment
later when DUNCAN lined the ball out TO
Walsh in deep left, he ambled home In
the second inning COughlfn crossed the
rubber on Clingmans sacrifice and
Grady's out to Corners and Lees single.
on a t-by-pitched- ball, O'Brien's hit,
and McKay's tumble IF Dungan's bunt.
Again in the seventh Clarke kept the
scorers busy marking down his move
ments around the bases, which COM
menced with a hit for one base, a present
Dungans hit to deep right. Quinn's hit
was taken care of by Drill. while a
present of a base on halls to Coughlin and
Grady's hit assisted in rolling up two
more scores for Manning's young men,
and when the smoke of the
cannonading had cleared, the score
board showed the Washingtonians
had increased their score to seven.
In the eighth Clingmans single,
a passed ball Grady's two-bagger. Pat
ten $ safe hit for one pillow, Farrell s out
to Corners. and Clarke's second hit for
two cushions sent the record of the pro-
fessionals up to nine runs, when Umpire
Eetts called the game on account of dark
ness and the hopelessness of the cause, so
far as the collegidns were concerned.