Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-26

Inc senators put up a sleepy game
against the Cleveland outfit yesterday af
ternoon and were easily defeated by the
score of 8 to 4. In direct contrast to We'd
nesday's game, the local players appeared
to be unable to get out of their own way,
several of the men going about their work
In such an Indifferent way as to call forth
protests from the spectators. The players
should remember that only the dyed-in-the-
wool enthusiasts go to the games these
days and their faithfulness should be re-
warded by at least an effort to entertain.
not disgust them. No one looks for the
Washingtons to beat the Clevelands, but
the spectators who pay their good money,
like to see little life In the games instead
of funeral professions.
The features of the game were the bat
ting Of Herring. a stop of a hot grounder
by Mccormick and fly catches by O'Neill
and Bay. Herring played his usual game
around first, getting lost in tight places.
but at the bat he a star yesterday,
getting two singles and double which
could have been stretched into a triple
with fast running. In the fifth inning
Turner hit a fast grounder over second,
which Mccormick stopped with one hand
after hard run and Barry's wonderful
quick throw to Herring shut off the bat
ter by step. 1t was marvellous stop and
the spectators cheered the clever second
DGSeInan Tor several minutes. In the
seventh inning Carr opened up with drive
TO right center that looked very good but
ONeill by hard run got under the bail
with arms extended and held on to 1t. In
the eighth inning. Percy Huelsman drove
out a sky scraping fly that seemed to be
going over the center field fence, but Bay
kept sprinting and sprinting, with the re-
suit that he finally got under the ball as
it was coming down about twelve feet from
the Enclosure. 1t would have been a sure
triple had 1t got away from Bay
Wolfe and Bernhard were the opposing
pitchers and had Patten worked 1t would
have meant a victory for the locals 80
they have always trimmed the big fellow
on the home grounds. Both twirlers
worked poorly, but the Clevelands punched
their hits on Wolfe and drove runs over
the plate in clusters His support was also
poor many mistakes being made that 90
rot figure in the error column.
The Clevelands started on IN the mrs.
base on balls and quickly stole second, as
Herring rainbowed the ball to Cassidy
mapping Lush flied out to Donovan, and
Flick beat out a bunt. Stovall also tried
to sacrifice. but reached first In ,I safety
a wild throw to Clarke allowed Flick to
In the third the Blues hung up four runs.
the result of four singles. a sacrifice and
batter hit by the pitcher. In this inning
Carr hit to Hill. the latter getting the ball
home nicely to Clarke. but the d,6 Gatc1e er
to touch the runner.
After hanging up four c!phers the Sem
ators finally woke up and scored one run
in the fifth Herring led off with nice
single, and reached third on Wolfes and
ONeiil's outs at first. HILL then hit to
Turner. and on the latters tumble Her
ring scored.
Both sides scored in the sixth, the Cleve-
lands pair of runs resulting from single
by Lush. a double by Flick and Stovalls
timely single to center. For Washington
Donovan singled to right after two were ere
toward left by Kittredge. Bradley being
too far back to nip, the fleet" catcher
Herring then whipped a nice. timely single
into right and Donovan scored
The next two innings were BLANKS, but in
the ninth the Senators had a little fun
with Bernhard. hanging up two runs. Her
ring went out to Carr unassisted. but Sto-
vail fumbled Wofe's grounder, and he
was safe. O'Neill laced fine single into
left, and Hill sent Wolfe home with a sin
gle over second. Cassidy also singled to
center. scoring O'Neiil With two on
bases Huelsman and Mccormick struck
out the latters final swing at the ball
being a foul tip. Score: