Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-23
National League Clubs Standing.

| The Washington and New York teams
had a great batting matinee yesterday
afternoon at American League Park and
the visitors easily came off first best by
| the score Of IL to 6. The Senators sur
prised themselves and all the spectators by
| hitting the ball very hard. but took their
usual course of fielding badly, which more
than offset their hard batting
Manager Clarke Griffith went on the rub
Der for the Hghlanders and was touched
up for thirteen hits with a total Of twenty
| bases, about the hardest drubbing this
| clever twirler has received this season
| Back of Griffith his compa Mons stood up
| manfully. a dropped fly by Dougherty be-
ing the only misplay charged against the
| team. Orth, who did the twirling for the
Senators. was not hit so very much harder
than Griffith. but his support was miser-
able and he allowed seven of the fifteen
hits to be punched in the fourth inning
Just how effective the two pitchers WERE
can be CLEANED from the fact that Wash
ington earned all of its six runs, while
but one was earned by the Highlanders. In
| the fourth inning. when all the damage was
done. Stahl muffed high fly back of sec
ond base which would have put an entire
different complexion on the game had the
ball been caught, and the error appeared to
dishearten Ortiz to such an extent that he
simply lobbed the ball over the plate.
ne feature VI the game was the Spletulu
batting of Dougherty. who recently Joined
the New Yorks from the Bostons. He went
six times to the bat and laced out
triple, n double and three singles, two of
the latter being somewhat lucky. Camel
was next best. with three singles
Everybody on the Senatorial team. with
the exception of Ortiz got one more hits.
McCormicks triple and single were of the
timely order and scored runs, while his
long fly to FutZ in the sixth inning also
brought tally over the plate. In the field
Barry fielded nicely, although he had one
bad error. For the Highlanders Williams
was the star. the ten chances that he &C
cepted being of the clean and accurate
order. At the bat Jimmy was tied up, as
Orth had him his list and kept the
bingles from going off his bat.
In the first inning. Dougherty started of
with a nice single into left. but he was
put out trying to steal. after Fultz had flied
out to Stahl Williams ended the inning
by going out, Mccormick to Clarke
Then the Senators got busy, Cassidy du-
plicating Dougherty's feat by leading of
with pretty single over the shortstop's
head. Donovan was Johnny on the spot
with a beautiful sacrifice, Cassidy easily
reaching second Moran then hit to Osteen
and the latter thought he could catch Cas-
sidy at third. but Joe slid under Thoney and
was safe. Setback then hit an ugly bounder
to Williams and retired at first, Cassidy
scoring on the out. Mccormick came for
ward with timely single over second and
Moran raced home. Stahl followed with
terrific triple to the right field fence. scor-
ing Mccormick. and was put out himself
trying to stretch it into home rum the
ball being we'll handled by Anderson to Will
liams to Mcclure. Stahl made a splendid
slide to the plate, but Mcguire got the ball
on him in time to score an out. The big
fellow was heartily cheered for his gallant
effort to score.
For three innings the New Yorks could do
nothing with Orth. but in the fourth he
blew up and the bombardment he received
was something fierce. DOugherty led off
with single. FultZ followed with a double,
the former scoring on Williams long fly to
Stahl. Anderson then hit high fly back
of second which Stahl made a good try for,
but after getting under the ball muffed it
and FultZ raced home, while the batter
reached second. Then followed in quick
succession a single by Camel. double by
Mcclure. triple by Thoney, double by
Griffith. and on Dougherty's second time at
the bat in this inning he secured a double
Fultz oblgingly ending the agony by going
out, Mccormick to Clarke. with seven runs
chalked up to New Yorks credit. This bat
ting bee took all the life out of the Sem
ators. and everybody seemed stupefed by
Orth's work after his splendid start
In the fifth, New York scored another run
on Anderson's and McGuire's singles In the
sixth Setback tripled to center and scored
on McCormick's long fly to FultZ.
In the eighth, both sides hung up two
runs, a base on balls. triple and an error
being responsible for New York's pair; while
a single. triple and long fly to the out
field did the trick for Washington.
In the ninth inning the Highlanders hung
up their last run on Cancels single. a force
to second and Cassidy's wild throw to first.
For Washington, Cassidy, Donovan and
Moran went out in order.
The score: