Evening star., 1903-07-07

Cleveland for the last time today. Moore
and Orth being the pitchers.
The Senators showed big improvement
yesterday. and II they once get to hitting
the ball nothing more could be asked.
1t Is a remarkable fact that all the visit
ing teams appear to play their best games
In Washington.
month. yet he got two triples yesterday.
And by the way Flick is very fast on his
feet the Shadow Bay having very little
the better of him.
value Of Delehanty to the team. He is a
better batter than any man on the team
while out of condition. and had he been
going right would have been tower OF
strength to the locals
That man Bradley apparently waits until
he reaches Washington to bolster UP his
batting record. He has not been hitting
extraordinarily hard this season. but in
Washington he always manages to hit
about 900.
Manager Lotus yesterday received a
telegram from Jack Townsend to the ef-
feet that he was i'll. but would report as
soon as possible. Jack caught a bad cold
coming east in the hot sleeper from De-
troit.
Jack Martin is covering third in fairly
good style, and 1t was unfortunate that he
should have made the error yesterday that
lost the game.
Detroit opens series with the Senators
TOMORROW, DelnS mere lOI LIE ICSt VI tHO
week. Pitcher Bill Donovan is said to be
hankering for revenge. and 1t Is to be
hoped that Townsend will be In condition
to go in against him again.
ager Lotus had received no word as to
the whereabouts of Delehanty. and his dis
appearance Is becoming one OF the myster-
les Of the year.
stop Gochnauer and the Cleveland mascot,
"Peetie" Powers, passed away the time IN
a grotesque wrestling match which anorded
lots Of amusement to the spectators.
Charley Moran is certainly playing star
game at short. He has completely regain.
ed his confidence and now whips the ball
across the diamond with an accuracy ana
speed that is remarkable.
Tim Hurst said yesterday that an oner to
umpire in the American League had been
made to him by Ban Johnson He has the
offer under consideration. Hurst IS an ex-
perienced umpire, and when In the Naional
League was competent official having
little toleration for kickerS.-P1ttSburg
Press
Whenever an old-timer looks at Jim Nc
CURE of the Detroits his memory goes
back to a Saturday afternoon nearly twen-
ty years ago at the old horse market. when
Dan Casey made a muff which has made
his name noted in local base ball history.
Casey himself has been out of 1t for ten
years or more, but the memory OF his mum
still lives. Mcclure was great catcher
then, and there are very few backstops that
have got anything on him now. Shouidn't
his career be an object lesson to the young
sters just breaking into the game
delphia Bulletin.
Yesterdays local games were nearly rec
ord breakers for brevity. The first game
lasted only one hour and thirty minutes.
while the second was finished in the extra
ordinary time of one hour and eighteen
minutes The light hitting in both games.
of course, contributed largely to this result.
but the clean fielding helped. The second
game was remarkable in the light work i'm
posed upon the pitchers The average
game calls for about no pitched balls from
each twirier. Yesterday Wilson pitched
only ninety-eight balls, while Joss disposed
of the Senators in nine full innings with
lust seventy-ive deliveries. This Is very
nearly a record JOSS began his stunt in
the first inning by moving down the local
batsmen with the minimum number OF
balls, three each Of the first three Sena-
tors hitting the first pitch. In the second
inning Joss swung his arm only seven
times, and nine times each in the third,
fourth and fifth. His longest inning was
the sixth, when q strike-Out on Wilson,
who fouled off four times. cost him seven
pitches, bringing his total for the inning up
to thirteen. In the seventh he pitched ten.
in the eighth five and in the ninth ten
This performance will seldom be eQualed
Despite the small number of balls pitched
on both sides the usual number OF foul
strikes were scored against the batsmen.
thirteen by the Washington batsmen and
sixteen by the Clevelands