The Washington times., 1902-08-14
St. Louis Browns Admin
lister the Fourth Con-
secutive Defeat.
VISITORS PLAY BETTER BALL
Lotus Men Unable to Hit
the Ball When Hits
Were Needed.
GOOD WORK BY RYAN AND LEE
Their Playing the Bright Particular
Feature of the Locals Eforts-For-
mer Makes Four Hits, While Lee Pulls
Down Two Hard Flies.

Down Two hd1Q r lies.
After an absence of more than two
weeks, the Senators returned to Wash
ington yesterday, and in the afternoon
gave the hungry fans a chance to see
them play ball out at American League
Park. The fans were eager for signt
of the men in uniform who deal out the
e national game. and they turned out to
the number of $500 to give the home
team welcome. Everybody was glad to
see the home folk again, even if they
5 had made a bad record in the West, and
the boys went into the game carrying
the hopes of the crowd.
3 Their opponents were their most re-
cent enemies on the Western trip, the
st. Louis Browns. Somebody said once
that consistency is a virtue. and the
Senator's evidently believed so, too, for
they were entirely consistent yesterday
g afternoon in their battle with the
Browns, for they lost their fourth con-
secutive game TO the Missouri team.
The spectators were pretty well salts
fed before the time for play was called
that the st. Louis lads ought to win,
ard one could hear in nearly every cor
ner of the grounds, Bet you the Browns
win
Better All-Round Playing.
And SO they did. They won-to be
honest-purely because they played bet
ter all around ball 1t is true they are
not credited with as many hits as the
local batsmen are, but they knew when
10 hit and how to hit, and they placed
their bingles and dingles and tringles
just when and where they would do the
most good. In other words, they punched
their hits at opportune times and sent
their runners hcme with enough runs to
win the gs ,e without having to drive
out to get the verdict at the wire 1t
was not head finish at all: the Browns
were always in the lead, and they did
not even have TO be clucked to in order
to win. At all times they had the Sena-
tors on the run in an effort to get within
hsiling distance.
In the field the visitors put up
game that WAS hard to beat. They were
;. fast in their fielding and did not let an
opportunity or the ball get past them
at any time. Not one of them made the
semblance of an error, while on the
other hand. the Senators are charged
with three, one of which resulted In
! run.
= The most serious error that the Sem
q ators made, however, was the error of
= cmission-omission to hit tie ball at
the proper time and omission of that
b very desirable quality known as ginger.
Their playing was listless and slow
They hit the ball occasionally, oftener.
in fact, than the Browns did. but their
hits didn't count like those of their op-
+ ponents.
= Two Bright Features.
There were two bright features of the
Senatorial play that stood out from the
rest like an old-mine stone in an old
? gold setting. These features were the
fielding of Wyatt Lee and the hitting of
Jimmy Ryan. If that man Lee ever
loses his wing he will not have TO re-
tire from the game for want of Job
: There are very few outielders In either
OF the leagues who can give Colonel Lee
any points in fielding. This has been
remarked several times before. perhaps.
$ but the more one sees of this young
mans work in the garden the brighter
shines his work. He goes after every
thing that comes near him and things
rot near him, 100. II makes no differ
cnce whether the ball is ticketed for
the duck ~ond On the outside of the
fence; Wyatt Will go after it. One of
McCormick's terrific swats made the
ball look very much as II IL were des-
tined for bath yesterday, hut before
II got quite over the fence il changed
its mind and decided to fall just with
in the lot. Colonel Lee saw ID coming
ard was there to receive it-plumb up
against the fence, and Mr.. Mccormick
Was robbed of three -bagger Just Il
few moments before. Anderson had sent
& sizzling fly out into the territory be-
Ilao In
very gooi. but the colonel was N the
e. Eeighborh9Cd. and with a leap into the
air he drank At down quite as grace
fully as his relatives of Kentucky would
drink another sort OF high ball.
Ryan. blonde Jimmy. also had several
chances to handle difficult flies. all OF
which he accepted without an error
But il was at the bat that Ryan shone
He faced the pi cher Just five times. ami
the official scorer will give him a per
centage OF 800 on the day. one OF his
quartet Of hits being two-bagger.
Doyle's Serious Error.
The misplays on the part of the Wash
ington men yesterday are charged 10
Doyle and Carrick Doy1e's didn't
count in the run-getting. but Carricks
did. The latters error was however.
% the excusable kind, while Doyle's er-
roTs were fumbles Of apparently easy
grounders.
He also made a more serious error.
the fans VIII tell you. by striking out In
the last inning. when any sort OF little
hit would have brought in a run and
given the home team a chance TO tie the
score. But Doyle was wanting and made
three mighty swats in the air
Powell. who occupied the pivotal point
for the Browns. pitched a mighty good
game. despite the fact that the Senators
got eleven hits -Four OF these hits were
scattered through four innings. and it
was not until the St Louis team had
secured a safe lead that he allowed the
local batsmen to make consecutive hits
of his curves.
Carrick. too, with the exception of
two innings. twirled good bail. Those