Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-13

Standing of National League Clubs.

heavy downpour OF rain yesterday
afternoon. while the st. Louis Browns
were at the bat in the sixth inning. caused
a stOppage of further hostilities between
them and the Senators. the score reverting
to the end of five innings. with the totals
figuring up to 2 in favor of the gentle
men from Missouri. The first shower put
In It's appearance while the Browns were
at the bat In the fifth inning. but after
lasting twenty minutes Umpire OLaughlin
called the men out to continue the game.
Sawdust was sprinkled around the home
plate and the pitchers box. but the base
lines a sea of mud and water. After
enough innings had been played to COM
plete a game and everybody had settled
back for good finish between the two
teams. as Glade ceased to be puzzle
after the rainfall, the second shower put in
it's appearance.
Townsend's rest Of four days had it's
usual result. and he was as wild as a
Texas broncho. giving a base on balls to
Hemphil in the first inning. and then
nearly taking Tom Jones head off with a
terrific inshoot. This exhibition unnerved
the Delaware lad for a minute, and two
clean singles by Heidrick and Wallace
scored two runs. Townsend was back in
his right stride in the second inning, and
third Burkett got base balls. but a
good throw by Clarke nailed him at second.
and Hemphill struck out. Jones singled
into left, but Orth gathered In Heidrick' s
long fly.
In the fourth the Browns got busy with
their bats and the Senators with errors,
four runs resulting before the third man
had been retired. Wallace started off with
a beautiful double along the left-field foul
line. and Paddens sacrifice sent him to
third Hill singled over second, scoring
Wallace, and went to second himself on
Kahoe's single into left. Orth made a
beautiful catch of Glade's long fly into left
center, nut made poor return of the ball
to O'Neill, and Hill scored all the way
from second after the fly caught.
Kahoe went to second as the ball was
thrown home and scored a minute later
when Donovan dropped Burkett's fly after
a hard run. Burkett started to steal sec
ond and continued on to third. as Clarke
threw into center field. Hemphll's timely
single scored Burkett. This ended the
Browns scoring. but it was plenty.
For the Senators, ciphers went up in the
first three innings. not hit being scored
OFF of Glades swift pitching, but in the
fourth good sequential hitting scored two
runs. After Coughlin had died at first
Donovan drove double into left. and
crossed the plate on beautiful line single
into left by Cassidy. The latter raced to
second Burkett threw home. and took
third as Stahl went out on bounder to
Jones. O'Neill then hit another liner into
iell anu 1aSSiuS scored. MCt OrnQlCh enQeu
the inning with a pop fly to Hill.
The Senators played for rain in their half
OF the fifth, but arbitrator O'Loughlin
kept them working until there was no
chance of a let-up and was finally compelled
to close proceedings for the day.
From start to finish the Browns played
a snappy. winning game, and took the
limit on every ball pitched. The batting
of Wallace and Heidrick was the feature
of tie Browns game. while Cassidy gilt
tered the brightest for the locals.
A fast double play was pulled off by the
Senators in the first inning that closed off
a bad start for Townsend. Heidrick and
Wallace had scored Hemphill and Jones
hits. and the first named was on third
when Padden hit to Cassidy. Joe made a
nice throw to Clarke and Heidrick was an
easy out at the plate. While this play
being made Wallace moved up to third.
and then Padden continued on to second
TO bring throw. Clarke whipped the ball
to Mccormick. and Wallace started home.
but quick throw by Barry also nailed
Bobby at the plate This piece of work
was fast and accurate and woke up the
spectators.