The Washington times., 1902-06-02

During the past week the Senators
made quite an improvement in their
" X. and II the men can show better
judgment while on The bases. and do rs
good batting and feeling as during the
pas; seven DAYS. there Is some little
hope OF pulling out Of tho seventh posi-
tion. which they have been adorniag SO
gracefully for the past few weeks.
The games with St. Louis and Chicago
developed the fact that the locals are
hitting the ball better than they dill
earlier in the season, and their work on
Decoration Day morning in particular
was notable for the number Of hits they
secured.
Manage- Lotus expresses himself as
very much encouraged over the recent
showing Of his men. and while he real
izes fully that some Improvement is de-
sirable in the base running end Of the
game, he looks FOR better work all
around in the Immediate su.ure
The men have been playing out of TO
sition during the week on account of in
juries 10 Ely and Keistcf. although ;he
lgtter was recovered sufficiently to par
t'cipate in the Saturday game with Chi
cago, contributing a pair OF gli:tering
errors. one Of which assisted the visitor
in winning the ramo.
Ely expects 10 he in the game soon.
ana with the Senators playing in their
regular positions in she field and hitting
as they have been of late. there is every
-e7son to believe that there viii be a
change in their position in the race for
he championehip-and a change for the
better, TOO. i; should be explained.
Detroit will cone to Washington for a
series CT three games tomorrow, and
with the appearance OF the Tigers the
ocal fans viii have witnessed the work
If the entire American League aggre-
;ation.
The Western teams have showed Up
much stronger than The Eastern organ
fzatio2s. This IS particularly 50 OF St
Louis. while even the tail-end neighbors
81 the Senator's. the once despised Clcve-
iands. put up an article OF ball while
here that was calculated to make one
include them in any estimate OF the
relative playing strength Of the differ
snt teams OF the League
Chicago plays very much the same sort
of game as last year. Clarke Griffith
spends most OF his time on ;hf bench
ievising means whereby the Champs can
land game. and inbucs his men with
the idea that they are drawing their
!ancy salaries TO play ball and not
merely 80 through the motions OF play
Ing the game.
Griffith is well equipped in all depart
uents. lie has a splendid lot Of hitters.
ana his men are fielding cxcellcntly.
The acquisition OF Lajoie and Bern
hard to Clevelanl VIII. no doubt. add 4
tower Of strength to Manager Armour's
team. It is likely that Bonner, VINO has
been captaining the Cleyelands thus far
this year VIII have to make way FOR
Lajoie.
Bonner has had number Of trials IN
the National and American Leagues and
every time b. has proved wanting Last
seascn he took charge e the Toronto
club, Of the Eastern League, when the
Canucks were wabhling around at ne
end Of the race and Immediately under
his direction the T0rOutos commenced to
play different sort Of game. one that .
commanded the attention OF the entire .
baseball world. The team quickly caught I
up with the leaders and finished in seq 1
ond place.
Manager Armour, under the impression
that Bonner would be able to do some
thing like this for Cleveland secured
him TO head the Spiders bat he has
proved failure and the chances are
that he viii soon be playing agaln in one
of the minor leagues.