Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-16
American League Clubs Standing
National League Clubs Standing.

In an interesting and fairly well played
contest of ten innings. the Senators and
Athletics walked off the field yesterday af-
ternoon with honors even. the score being
| tied at to j, darkness preventing further
play.
The newly organized Senators demon
strated that they are fast getting into
form, playing one of the pluckiest uphill
games imaginable and the 1000 spectators
| were interested from start to finish. With
start of four runs in the first inning. the
Athletics fairly carried the local players off
their feet. but there was not let up in any
department and the enthusiasts saw the
game tied, then the lead go to the Senators
and finally tie that came through most
timely hit by the veteran Lave Cross. The
advantage of young. speedy players, with
arms Of steel, was illustrated yesterday III
the clever work of Thoney and Hoffman.
Neither player was afraid to .cut loose
with the bali. and the way the bali sailed to
the home plate on different occasions made
the onlookers confident that still better
work will be done later on On the base
this pair of youngsters were also very fast,
and they served to carry the other men
along in splendid shape. The team work is
still crude. Thoney being allowed to run
into center field after fly that Hoffman
could have eaten up and Mccormick bacd-
ing away into the outfield for another sky
scraper, but Capt. Kittredge will straight
en- the boys out inside of a weeks play.
/ Two games in which to work together is too
short, but everybody played with enjoyable
earnestness, and that covered a multitude
of shortcomings
Southpaw Case Patten was on the rub
Der for the Senators, and although he got
a bad start in the first inning, he demon
strated that he will be as good as ever
off
locating the plate at the start, and when
he did get them over, the ball was hit for
keeps, but in the remaining innings the
Quakers had great difficulty in meeting the
ball fairly especially with men on bases
Back of Patten the Senators did well in a
fielding way, the southpaw being the great
est offender in making two mispiays. a
bad throw home and another to second
Left handed throwers are always erratic.
and Patten is no exception. McCormick's
error was excusable. as the ball was of the
skyscraper sort, and he had to go into CEN
terfield to get under it. With, prompt
coaching Hoffman would have gathered in
the fly with little effort.
Improved in Batting.
At the bat Washington showed a most
decided Improvement and in the face
of the speediest pitching. Moran, Setback
and Kittredge were the leaders with the
willow, each getting two singles, while
Mccormick and Patten were the only ones
to go hitless. The one dsheartening part
of the contest was to see Selbach try to
bunt. He had two chances to move up q
runner, but both times sent little flies into
the hands of the eager infiel6ers- Sci
reminds one of the lamented Deiehanty, in
asmuch as he and the great batsman were
so used to hitting the ball hard that to
Full in and try to drop the sphere easy
is almost impossibility. Setback is in
a bad place with the Senators. Every
body knows he is the highest priced man
On the team, and he must do everything In
perfect shape to please a certain class, but
he is in the best of condition and will
demonstrate that his retention was a wise
move.
From the visitors standpoint the ga ne
was unsatisfactory, as they had four mis-
plays chalked up against them and every