The Washington times., 1905-04-16
Washington, o; New York, 4.

Washington, o; New York, 4.
Another game lost and no excuses to
make. Verify the writing of baseball
in Washington is n sadscme job.
Yesterday was cold and chilly day
all around, without a single little sun
beam to delight the hearts of the frozen
fans in the bleachers or the shivering
rooters in the grandstand. Not only
We're our nifty Nationals defeated, but
they were whitewashed, and the scoffe-s
were abroad in the land.
Still Nervous.
Some of the nervousness and stage
fright which marked the opening game
was visible yesterday and accounted IN
large measure for the doleful collapse
of the hopes oil those who thought that
possibly the tide might turn and the
metropolitan. aspirarts for the pennane
be thrown into the mud. Hill. the star
performer on FRIDAY. could not stand
the pace yesterday and made an error
in the fourth inning, which was the d.
rect cause of one run being scored, and
figured largely in another Stahl, the
child manager. also made an error IN
the fourth that helped fh,. scoring
r: the third inning Long Tom Hughes.
who was pitching for Washington, took
a long nap and by giving three bases
IN balls and allowing a sneaky little
hit to snort forced in run 1t was
great chance for Thomas to show him
self the real cheese but it was not to
be So and by little eagle-eye work
Ccnroy picked out four bad ones for
gift run. the first of the season
There'll Come Day.
1t was an off day all around. but there
Should come a time some day, when the
Yanks are far away when the Nationals
will have chance to spread themselves
The team did not play the bali OF when
IL is capable, and after it has had more
experience against major ieaguers II
will certainly show Improvement
The visitors did not shine with any
special brfIliancy and the pitching OF
Al Orth was the principal reason for
the failure of the home folk TO score
Orth was as cool as the day, and never
became ratified when in tight place
Washington made five hits off him, but
with the exception of double by Stahl
in the first inning and a soulful swat
by Kittredge in the third, they were
of the scratchy variety. and the Ma
tionals really never had good chance
to score In the eighth inning Jones,
who led Washington at the bat with
two hits, ramned a hot one to Orth,
who tried to stop it with his bare hand.
Powell Immediately succeeded Orth,
who retired to nurse a badly split fin
ger
Lively Second Inning.
Chase. of New York. did not do so
well at first base yesterday. He drop
ped two throws that he should have
heid and had the Nationals been UP
to snuff they might have gotten Il
couple of unearned runs Conroy made
a great stop in the second inning of a
hot one from Cassidy and sent 1t over
to first so fast that had the decision
been against the National ShortStop
there would have been little kick com
ing In the same inning HuelSman
knocked down a high boy from Will
liams and turned Il prospective homer
into a double. Also in this inning Kit
tredge stopped wild pitch with his
bare hand and choked of. Il run. Alto
gether, the second session was full
of business and the best in the game
The third inning was chiefly remark
able for stupid base running by
Hughes. He had reached third, with
two out, after sundry adventures, when
Hill. who was on first, tried TO gallop
it for second thinking Kleinow would
not have the courage to try the long
throw. kleinow knew Hughes better
than Hill did and made the throw.
Hill was caught between first and sec
ond and Hughes had chance to come
home, for things were happening rapid
iy around the second bag. but he had
other plans. Bracing himself firmly
up the third sack. striking an heroic
attitude, he recited with truly remark
able dramatic force:
Come one. come ALL This rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as L.
Bricks for Applause.
1t was a splendid recitation of Sir
Walter Scott's famous lines, but 1t
should have been applauded with a
bunch of bricks, for before 1t was over
the curtain had been rung down by