The Washington times., 1902-06-28
HEN DISPLAY LACK OF AHBlHICN
Umpire Carruther5 Comes in
for Much Popular Dis
approval.
AR0USES WRATH OF CROWD
Al Hands Delighted When Umpire Is
Struck by Ball-Local Twirler Wild
-Keister Makes Fourth Consecutive
Home Run.


Cornelius MacGillicuddy. who hides his
fine lower county cognomen when he is
p the baseball business under the alias
of plain Connie Mack, had a good. quiet
laugh on his fellow manager, Thomas
Lotus. after the Washington-Phlladel
phia game yesterday Mr. MacGillicud-
dy joshed Mr. Lotus for bringing out so
many of the fair sex to display what
fine bunch OF athletic fellows are on the
pay roll of the local baseball team
Of course, Mr.. Lotus had it all fig
ured out that his followers would win
the game right handily. He argued that
after the grammar school exhibition Of
the day previous there was bound to
happen the customary reversal of
FORM as the horsey people would put it.
But like the letter of the song, the
reversal that we all lonsed for failed to
eventuate and the local chaps continued
their chase after Cleveland for the honor
of trailing along at the end of the pen
nant procession.
Not a Prize Game
The sort OF game the Senators put up
yesterday for the entertainment of the
four thousand or SO spectators wouldn't
win the BOBBY pri-e at a boarding house
progressive ping-pong tournament The
locals have evidently slipped their troll
ley, temporarily, let the baseball edi-
torial we hopes. And we also hope that
Manager Lotus will indulge in a good
heart-to-heart confab with his people
very soon. They plainly need something
that will act as a stimulus to better
work, for TO tell the unyarnished truth
the recent work of the aggregation of
ball talent known as the Senators has
been very punk
Perhaps before MIR Cornelius MacGil-
hcGddy says adieu to Manager LOTUS
we Will have had the pleasure of hating
the pennant pursuit of these Quakers.
With the Athletics came many old
favorites-the Cross family. Double and
CTiss; Harry Davis. who hankered after
a home run drive that would rival his
punch of last season which still holds
the record for spectacular swipes; big
Seybold, who would look just as hand
some in Washington uniform, tramp
ing around the right garden: Fultz, the
feet Hartsel. the fair haired, blue-eyed
Teuton with the knack OF playing the
game as it should be; Schreck whose
full name Is something like Schrecken-
gost, but the Philadelphia avoids paying
excess baggage on it and uses the abbre-
waited form out of consideration for the
newspaper writer's and finally Wiltse-l
Wiltse the pitcher who can curl him
self up into all sorts of kinks and then
carefully unwind his arms and legs and
peg the ball up to the plate in a very
speedy manner
Wiltse in Favor
Yesterday Wiltse was rather fortu-
nate in that the umpire-the genial
but altogether too frequently absent
minded and dopey Mr. Carruthers-fa- |
vored him in various ways, chiefly by |
giving him many advantages when il |
came to deciding whether the little |
leather ball actually cut the center of |
the plate or sailed by the rubber out
side of the prescribed limits.
And then, too, Mr. Carruthers also (
showed an unlookrd-for partially for /
the Quaker people in making decisions
regarding plays In the field.
On several occasions he gave evidences /
OF gazing into the grandstand at the .
beyy OF fair femininity when his optics
should have been directed at what was
transpiring on the bases. One time in
particular Mr.. Carruthers' reckoning
was terribly at fault. II was in the
third inning. when Hartsel hit slow
one to Townsend, who felded the ball in 4
plenty of time to head of the Philadel- +
phian at first. but Mr.. Carruthers care |.
lessly, or perhaps Intentionally. from |!
sheer force Of habit. waved him safe.
For several minutes the entire Sena-
torisl crowd surrounded the lone uln-
pire and expostulated with him. but he
was as stanch in his determination not
TO reverse himself as Manager Lotus
is that his hired hands shall shove
Cleveland out Of last place before the
season Is so very much older.
Cauuthers in Bad odor.
A few moments later, when Harry
Davis endeavored TO bunt to advance
Fultz from first base TO second. and
when the ball persisted in flying to the .
foul territory, the aforesaid Mr. Car '
ruthers further displayed his fine judg-
ment by mentioning the fact that Davis
was not trying TO bunt the ball at all.
but that he was doing his level best to
put the sphere out of commission.
The crowd hooted and howled and
hissed. and some Of the more unthought-
ful Of the assemblage suggested to Mr.
Carruthers that he pursue himself I
around the block and endcayor to catch I
up with his eyesight which had stray I
ed from its moorings.
Almost the very next ball that Towns
end pitched. Davis fouled, and 1t struck s
Carruthers on the side Of the head, jar
ring him very considerably. a
The crowd yelled with delight at the
sight Of the iucklcss and fricndless CGl-
pire writhing in pain.
One young woman in the grandstaud |
inquired Of the broad d-shouldered young :
man who had brought her to the func-
t'on If 1t was usual for the people to O