Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-03

American League Park, New York, with
its wide expanses, looked like green
carpet yesterday, and the Hlghlanders put
the Washingtons on the carpet. The New
Yorks shut out the Senators, who ran foul
of their eleventh straight defeat. Patten
faced the New Yorks, and they punched
hits on him very effectively In the third
and fourth innings. That 1t lis never too
late" was proven conclusively by the New
Yorks. as all of their five runs were made
after two were out.
The batting Of the Washingtons was
mighty weak for professionals-not so
much in the scarcity Of hits, but In the
blindly cropping manner the batsmen went
at the ball. They stretched and strained
and seemed to have no idea whatever
where the ball was coming. Hughes used
a telling mixture on the soporif1c Sena-
torial swingers. He had variety In abund-
ance, and his conglomeration Of drops,
slows and fast highs dazed the restless
zero collectors from the capital.
There were a couple of hobbies in New
Yorks fielding, but they cost nothing and
were quite overcast by the meritorious
fielding. Elberfeld was the bell cow Of
the bunch. He opened with an error but
after that was at once a stone wall and
shadow stone wall so far as hits get
ting by him was concerned and a shadow
in the nghtness and quickness with which
he got over ground.
A couple Of times a cog slipped in New
Yorks' inside machinery-once when Will
liams with three balls and no strikes. was
lured into hitting at the next ball. quick
return right over the plate by Patten, and
the other when Fultz overran third base
on a tumble by the shortstop and was put
out. But on the whole the New York bat
ting showed q better eye and smoother
system than when the team played the
opening series
The first inning was not promising. Con-
roy led Off with a scratch single, but the
others could not get him around. Moran
Threw out all three batters In the second.
The Washingtons had men bases in
both Of these innings. In the second Nc
Cormiek was on third with only one out.
but Elberfeld's throw to the plate Of Kit
tredge's grounder squelched him. In the
third inning a peppery double play by Ell
berfeld. Williams and Camel cut down the
Senators. In the fourth Elberfeld retired
the third batter after a stop back of sec
ond base that even Freddie Parent would
have tabulated with a red mark.
MCGUIRE nailed one Of Patterns quick re-
turns for a single in the third inning. only
to be forced by Hughes. Hughes in turn
was forced by Conroy. Fultz did better.
He hunted safely and very artistically.
Keelers single filled the bases, and two
runs came in on Elberfeld's hard drive to
right for base. Anderson began the
fruitful fourth by going out on a line fly
to Selbach Camel put a single in right
and Mcguire had to retire on a fly to
right. Hughes singled to left, and he and
Camel scored on Conroys double to right.
In returning Conroy's hit the ball was
thrown about in such a headless fashion
that Hughes, who was wide awake, was
able to follow Mcclure home. Fultz then
hushed single from the prevailing bevy
of bingles and scored Conroy.
There was no more scoring. but many
men on bases. Hughes gave three passes
In the sixth, but there were two out, and
the trio of strollers persisted en- route. Sell
bach smashed the ball Justify in the sew
enth with two men on bases, but Anderson
ran out and grabbed the ball from over
head. The score: