The Washington times., 1902-05-24
Talk about your inhospitality.


Talk about your inhospitality!
Nothing has ever been known in
local baseball annals like the treatment
the Washington team received at the
hands of the St Louis players yester-
DAY afternoon.
The visitors jollied the home men
along for eight innings into the belief
that they were really truly baseballists
and not veritablc tyros. and then after
the crowd had been fooled into the same
idea. che st. Louis chaps turned around
in,the very last moment of the matinee
and. sent the local lobsterettes to the
big trees in disgrace.
Manager Lotus was SO overjoyed at
the idea of wrestling two games from
these men from Missouri that he had
made arrangements to leave with the
crowd, and listen to the honeyed words
of praise that the fans were to drop
about himself and his aggregation of
hired athletes.
LOlluS ran MlSCaIl1eQ.
Mr.. LOTUS plan for this grand exit
was- as roseate as any pipe that was
ever conjured from the cooked pill, and
goodness knows nobody wanted him
TO wake up before the time for his
spectacular departure, for he has had
few enough opportunities to mingle with
the crowd and hear nice things said
of his men.
Far be it from any local baseball his
torian to say unkind words about these
people who murmur I'm from Mis-
souri," but it was inhospitable, to put IL
mildly, to make Mr.. Lotus beautiful
vision of ,unalioyed happiness hideous
nightmare-an actually very little re-
moved from most of his experiences
since entering the baseball business in
Washington.
And SO, after Manager McAleer had
jollied Mr.. Lotus, his minions and the
1900 persons at the game into the be-
lief that we were some pumpkins In the
baseball line. after all, he tipped Burk-
EFT and the other Browns TO go in and
show US up, and Burkett and the other
Browns Immediately proceeded to do
SO, and with much ease and nonchalance
at that.
Something Wrong With the Senators.
1t is sad to recall what Burkett and
his associates did to US, but it was a.
plenty, and it made Manager LOTUS
wait until after the crowd had passed
out OF the park before he hailed his
street car.
Also. It made the 1900 spectators In
quire Of each other II it Is always to be
thus. IL such an undeniably good lot Of
ball players as are drawing salary from
the local management are forever to be
made 10 know defeat SO often. IL there is
not some remedy that will break the
run OF bad playing-d0n't, for pity sake.
call IL hard luck-that the men have
been indulging In for these many days
now.
There are a number of admittedly
weaker teams in the league that rank |
far above Washington in the matter of
games won. Few clubs can boast of SO |
many good individual players as the |
Senators. and yet the home crowd loses |
game after game, playing listlessly for |
the most part unless it be on the day |
before the pay envelopes are handed |
around.
There's screw loose somewhere, Mr.. |
Lotus. and it's up TO you to locate it
Rain Was Kind.
During the visitors half OF the second |
iopipy ~ rarnuancnd IN rain and ,yhep
play was resumed the ground was in a
very bad condition. The infielders had |
but little chance 10 give decent ac-
count of themselves, while il was very |
difficult matter for a base-runner TO
keep on his feet while making the cir
cult.
But this circumstance was distinct
advantage for the locals, as they were
enabled TO get five men around the
bases on six hits that, under ordinary
conditions, would have been readily |.
handled by the opposing felders. This
lead of five runs the Loftusites retained
until Mr.. McAleer, the st. Louis man
ager. gave the signal to his men to cut
loose and play horse with the locals, in
the very last inning. Then four hits.
netting brace OF runs, came IN, anu
the game was recorded as a victory TO
the men from the West.
Clarke Warmly Welcomed.
Admiral Bill Clarke. fresh from his
command at Annapolis, was in the game
and when he came TO the bat the first
time the applause Of the multitude gave
Mr.. Lotus an inkling of the regard the
people of this city haze for the catcher.
Clarke has not yet got rid of his sea
Il rs and some of his movements were
triae uncertain. especially when crxis-
Ing around the mud pond, but he had his
batting ere with him all right. and led
the cluf S:th the stick. lie secured a
fne single the very first time he faced
Harper. and again in the seventh he
knoclted out another hit for one base
and In the ninth inning. with two men
10 the bad, he catcher drove the ball
10 center for couple OF sacks.
Il was certrinly a great batting day