The Washington times., 1902-07-29

I There was a swatting soiree at the
American League Park yesterday after
= noon. The Senators were the swatters;
the champion Chicagos were the swat
tees.
1t was glorious fun for the three thou
sand and some spectators while il last
ed, and while the enjoyment was only
spread over a single inning. it was Of the
proiix variety. It has never been ap-
preached, has this particular inning
the ffth-and while there have been
other portions of ball games played on
local grounds within memory of the
fanniest fan, that fifth pert OF the matt
nee yesterday was about the ne plus
ultra of concentrated ball.
1t was the real, three-ringed circus of
the national game, and yesterday our
people were the performers, while the
Chics occupied the position of the small
boy crawling in under the canvas with
a stury circus routabout OF the rough
a sturdy circus roustabout of the rough
barrel stave.
Will Live in Memory.
After that fifth inning the performance
settled down to regulation ball. but the
memory of the seven hits, a hit by
pitched ball. a base on balls and an
error donated by one of the Clarke Grif-
fifth outfit, the whole netting us ten runs
in the one inning, will supply portion
of fandom's conversation when the winds
are chilly and the ball players are
spending their time on the police force
or the fire department or conducting
booze bazaars.
Wyatt Lee, who has been romping
around in right garden for the past few
months, was sent in to pitch for the
Senators.
Lee Pitched Fine Game.
The colonel was expected TO pitch fair
Iy we'll, but nobody had the slightest idea
that he was due to contribute such a
bang-up game as he did. 1t was his turn
to &c in and pitch, and If Manager Lotus
is welded to anything In ball, it is max
ing the pitchers take their regular turn
at the box work.
So this is how it happened that Colonel
Lee oficiated at the function yesterday.
He was opposed by young man with |
the Celtic cognomen of Callahan, an
elongated youth with an abiding faith
at least he had before the game-in the |
idea that he cut a good deal of ice as a |
baseball pitcher. After the Washington |
men had completed the fifth inning rout |
NJ Ca1T TaI ~
larly his boss. Clarke Griffith, who is
something of pitcher himself-at odd
moments-voiced the opinion that he
was a false alarm.
AS for Pitcher Callahan himself, he
simply stood in the middle of the dia-
mond and witnessed his reputation be-
ing all mussed up without any sort of
protest He took his medicine with
not little good grace, although It is
pretty certain he'd have wept for joy
had C. Griffith told him to give some one
else a chance to pitch.
Washington's Hard Hitting.
During this interesting fifth act,
Washington secured seven hits, two of
which were home runs, credited to Ely
and Clarke, while one was a double,
with Jack Doyle figuring as its proprie-
tor. There were quartet of singles,
nit by pitched ball-Carey was the
target, and the ball hurt his wrist so Sc !
verely that he was forced to retire from
the game in favor of orth-a base en-
balls and a double steal.
All these things netted ten runs for ,
the Senators.
Not in the entire game but in this one
inning
Would you wonder that Callahan was :
slightly soggy in his upper story when g
he came in from the field? I
His associates were sore on him. too. {
for making them chase all over the field .
after the hits until their feet were f
nightly weary. and they heartily ?
wished the whole thing were a thing Of q
the past.
These ten runs settled the game. and
never aiterward was there the slightest ,
chance that the contest would 20 to the .
visitors. They were permitted TO nab a !,
measley little run in the sixth inning. =
but we went right after them and got It :,
back. Il
Connolly Describes a BaIk. a
pmDires Carruthefs and Connolly ran :,
the affair to the best Of their Joint abili- =
it must be said in all
,andoF that neither has much of any
Empirical talent to boast Of. -
Connolly came here with a reputation n
as something extra ane in the umpire io
inc, but after a season he turns out to al
be only q gold brick, like the majority tl
of his kind "
Connolly IS not without ability fl -
should be understood, but 1t is misdi
'ected. 1t is that sort of talent that O
s 1est utilized on the seat Of nigh. In
'a"k cab, and with so very few really