The Washington times., 1902-07-25

Wen have to give this game 10 Con- |
molly" growled Manager Armour of the I
Cleveland baseball club yesterday after
noon as he sat in the grandstand during
the enforced intermission of twenty-five
minutes. while he gazed wistfully out +;
into the deserted diamond and watched
the rain drops patter on the ball held.
''It's only another case OF the hard luck
that has followed us on this trip" he
added. I'VE ought TO have won two out
of the three games with the Athletics,
and would have won them, too, had it
not been for the errors made by our
bows To all of which his vis-a-vis
assented suggesting by way of condo
lence that many games would be won
g. but for errors.
Manager Armour's complaint was di-
rected at Umpire Connolly because that
arbiter Of the national game happened
TO call Ryan safe at second base in
the third inning. The blonde center
fielder had sent a daisy liner down into !
McCarthy's garden and the left fielder
quickly returned the ball to Beau Gallant /
Lajoie at second. 1t was low throw,
but Nap gracefully stopped with ap- /,
parently no effort and picked the bail of
the ground with his left hand. He was
too late to catch Ryan. however, who
made great slide for the base and got
there.
An Element of Luck.
There was an element of luck in the
next play. however. and washington ben
Gifted by it. Doyle stepped up To the
plate. and. catching one of Bernhard's
swift ones on the end of his bat. he sent
it fiying on line toward the feet Cleve-
land fielder Bay. The latter made
good stop. but the ball was going so
fast that ii caromed OF and scooted out
into the grass Bay didn't see which
wav il went. and while he was consid-
ering the advisability Of getting out
search warrant for tie elusive sphere.
Ryan and Doyle were busy scampering
home. These two runs won the game.
and while il may have looked to the
Cleveland manager that the loss of the
game to his men was due to hard luck,
n is pretty safe to say that the 3,40O
: fans who witnessed the game put the
: victory down to good work on the part
OF the Senators.
A Pitchers Battle.
The game was what may be called in
the lexicon OF the baseball fan pitch
ers' battle. but it was not as dull and
= leatureless as such games usually are
: True. there was no banging of the leath-
er all over the lot. but there were other
features which made the game an inter-
esting one.
Z Poker BIZ Carrick, who occupied
the cen'er OF he play ground for the
locals, pitched d mastery game; one OF
The hest he has put up this season, and
lie deserv,.lly wore the crown Of laurel
at tic END. He was steady al! through
The game. giving but one Dase on balls
and holding down the heavy hitters OF
i :he opposing team at critical times.
= Indeed. every member of the Washington
team played the game for keeps The
= two errors charged to them. one 10 Car
= rick and the other TO Coughlin, were
: OF the excueable sort and did rot figure
in the run scored by the Forest City
lads.
& Laioie Makes Error.
. That great and only hitter Of the ma
tional game, Mr.. Napoleon Lajoie. who
81 is famous for the tremendous swats with
: which he assaults the ball. VAS unable
TO do much with Poker Bill He Sc
I cured only cne hit. but he scored on It.
:. making the only tally credited 20 the
Cleveland team. In the field he was
Z charged with one Of the two errors
= made. but aside from that he gave an
= rxhit.ricn of how tho game should and
: can be played by q past master. II seem
. ea to require no effort on his part to
lick up all sorts OF balls. ard on two
or three occasions his harding OF the
: spherS was so easy and graceful that II
I caiieH forth involuntary murmurs OF ad-
miration.
when Umpire Carruthers called time
gt 4:30 tho clouds in the sky portented
= rain. and the fans moved uneasily in
their seats. They had nothing specially
intercs ting 10 move them IN the game
until the third inning. when the afore-
said drives OF Ryan and Doyle cause1
them TO rise up and shout. 1t began to
drizzie about this time. and there were
cries from the bleaChers to hustle up
s and make a game Of 1t. becaIsc the
locals were ahead and ii looked good.
Mr. Armour's men also appeared to
have forebodings Of defeat for they did
I'll sorts OF funny stunts IN an attempt
TO delay the game
Wood Tries 10 Delay Game.
At one juncture Catcher Wood sud
denly became dissatisfied with the bat
he had been welding in his previous
turns at the plate, and fused around the
bat bag trying to pick out another. He
apparently had serious tine getting
one that suited him, and succeeded in
killing about five minutes time. His
obvious attempt to delay the game was
greeted by a chorus of Kisses on the
part OF the spectators.
Bernhard. the Philadelphia player
who went to Cleveland along with La
joit, was sent in to do the pitching for
the erstwhiie Spiders. There was nc
fault to be found with his twirling