The Washington times., 1902-06-27
Wolverton Had a Decidedly
Off Day and Errorized
Two Times.
ADKINS PITCHED GOOD BALL
Beloit College Recruit Showed Up in
Fine Form in His First Complete Pro-
fessional Game-Washington Refuse
Carrick Good Support.
Good morning, Carey!

Good morning, Carey
My. But you were bad yesterday.
Nobody thought you capable Of such ;
stupid bit of baseball business as yol
displayed in the seventh inning wheI
Delchanty and the rest of his cohor:
had it all cut and dried to win from tn,
Bostonians.
If you had only realized the necessit.
of sliding to the home plate, the re
suit of the affair might have been vast
ly different than the tabulated score
shows this morning. But perhaps yol
have a strong aversion TO sliding aloni
this part of the western hemisphere
1t dirties those nice clean, white fan.
mel knickers, of course, but many time!
it wins games, and yesterday-well
never mind, you didn't do the Kelly act
more's the pity. Another such contre
temps and you viii surely fall fro;1
the pedestal OF public favor you havt
occupied since you dropped off the freight
car last spring and proceeded to show
the people hereabouts how cleverly you
can scoop up low thrown balls.
Carey's failure to glide gently into
the last station along the roadway 5y
way of the terra firma route was only
one OF the lew brow plays of the local
ball stan yesterday.
Senators Played Bad Ball.
On the two previous days the Senators
had evidenced knowledge of the game
that was really encouraging, and was
largely responsible for the large as
semblage that left the field very much
disgusted at o'clock last night
One man. who lad been brought out
to see our fellows play by man who
had witnessed the first two Boston
games. and had been industriously en-
gagged all OF yesterday in touting the
Lotus people as real ballists. said TO
his friend: Tell me those fellows play
ball? III bet dollar they can't even
play old sledge. They're schoolboys,
and pretty youthful school players at
that"
This was only enc of number of ex-
pressions of the playing of the Sena-
tors. all along the same line.
AS a matter of fact. almost every man
on the team put up a typical schoolboy
VI Bdl2 hO4Ntl loU tIADI-Ztu On
two different occasions. Keister let an
easy fly pop out of his hands. and Car
rick managed TO figure prominently in
the error column.
Then. with the exception of Carey and
Keister. the locals all fell down at the
bat. The only Del. the hero of the day
before. was not able to cop out even the
dinkiest sort ot a base hit. The entire
team was all to the bad. and no mistake.
and gave Manager LOTUS many a bad
moment as he sat on the bench and
watched with fine specimen of seorn
the awful work of his proteges.
Adkins Splendid Pitching.
Adkins. the college pitcher. the pos
SCISSOR of a skeepskin writ in Latin, that
he regards with as much fondness as
his baseball averages, was in the box
for the Boston men, and throughout the
game he showed uD well. He had lots
OF steam behind his shoots and in addi-
tion he fielded his position in line shape.
Poker Bill' Carriek looked after the
Washington pitching department Poker
Bill's support reminded one very much
Of the sort Of assistance he received
from the Manning players last year,
when almost every mothers son Of them
NSo AAAAfDs-h " tIS " II At- ds luG re-
suit OF dallyiug with the other national
game. Colonel Carrick started out in
fine style to NOV down the visiting hit
ters. but the help he had from his COM
panions was of such a discouragfng
character that he soon gaze up the ef-
fort, and contented himself with work.
ing IN a half-hearted manner Poker
Bill Is something of a collegian him
self. as he vas graduated from busi-
ness college out in the wild and woolley
once upon time but the sample OF ball
he learned at his alma mater did not
yesterday size up with the style of
game Mr.. Adkins learned at the institu
tion that turned him out to earn 4 living
in this cold cold world
Bostons Fielded Perfectly.
Adkins had every advantage over the
local man. His support was OF the gilt
edged kind. Parent and Collins taking
in everything that came anywhere with
in their territory. Indeed, such fielding
as was displayed by Parent is rarely
seen on any diamond, and while the SEN
ators were net able to get away with
the game, there was a deal of diversion
secured in watching the work OF this
brilliant diminutive shortstop. Gleason,
IN center Held played Well, too, and La
Chance accepted every opportunity that
was offered without making anything
that resembled an error, in addition to
securing two hits.
And apropos of hits. Keister got in his
third consecutive home run drive the
very first crack he had at the ball.
1t occurred in the second inning and
was generally supposed to be the inau-
guration Of a deep laid plot to put Mr..
Adkins out OF business.
Washington made its first run in the |
second. keisier's homer. and the other
tally accredited to the locals was Sc
cured in the same inning. After Keis-
ter had doffed his cap in response TO
the popular demand. Coughlin flied to
Gleason and then Carey knocked out
triple. but was caught at the plate !
trying TO score on Lees hit to Ferris. |