Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28

clerk In third auditors ONCE; Z. A. Parker.
second base and LEFT field, Bureau Of Internal
Revenue; George H. Fox, third base. graduate
OesD Georgetown College; 8. L. Studiey. left
Reid clerk In Treasury: II. w. Berthrong (said
to be . brother hn-lav Of John Edson), center
field clerk. once Comptroller Of the Currency;
Harry C. Mclean. right field. clerk. third audi
tors oohee: A. Y. Robinson. CLERK. and @. Z.
Smith. shortstop and substitute, fourth audi
tors once.
The team made Its Arst tour IN 1857. The
cauh was led BY Arthur p. German and the
president Of the club, Col. Frank Jones. and
Henry Chadwick, the ofaeial scorer, accom-
panied the team. although the writer Is told
Z. Potts. at that time with the Repablican
and later and for many years clerk Of the Po-
Lee Court
Among the teams defeated on that tour were
the Capital City Club Of Columbus. Ohio: the
Clncinnatfs and Buckeyes of Cincinnati: the
Louisville Club Of Louisville KY: the Western
Club Of indianapolis: the Empite and Union
Clubs Of st. Louis and the Excelsior and Ath-
letics Of Chicago. It was to the Forest City
Club Of Rockford. III, that they lost their only
game. and that to the score Of - to .. It
was claimed ut the time and vigorously denied
that the game vas thrown. and looking back
just 60 years 1t does seem that there might
have been some justification for this impression.
However, this defeat did not denoralize the
Nationals and the next day they defeated the
Chicago Excelsiors. admittedly better team to
the tune Of - to 4. and in one Of their games
in this tour they made lib runs to their OPP
ponentS rs. After this they returned home,
accompanied by Messrs. Hodges Cronin Brown
Patterson. Munson, st. Clair, Ever, Gramar,
Dorsey, Stewart, Corvan and Price who left
Washington with them. The expenses of the
trip amounted to - ZOO. which was betrayed
by those who went on the trip, since the club
did not take any gate receipts.
THE writer has before him three eonnplinen.
tary cards Of admission given his father
when city editor Of the National Republican
All are for the season of 1853. One Is issued
By the National Base Ball Club, and its
grounds are given as Corner Fifteenth and L
Streets. North" Another has on it the name
Olympic Base Bali Club. and its grounds are
given as white Lot. South Of the Executive
Mansion" The third is the card Of the Union
Base Ball Club, and it played at the Union
Grounds
BY l878-79 Washington had what it con-
sidered Q very good ban team. not of champion
ship timber, although 1t did have some very
good players in its lineup. Mike Scanlon. Bob
Drinkard. Horace Bennett, Charles White and
Jim Ragan were its directors. Its players, so
far as known We're: Jim White second base;
Babe Trott, catcher; - Myrtle, first base;
Oscar Baiasld. right field: - Derby. pitcher;
John Hollingshead. left field; Phil. Baker,
center and catcher: Jack Lynch. pitcher;
- Elliott, third base and Mcclellan. short.
It was this team that Billy Wise civilian z.
Wise) Joined along about 1880 after having
pitched for the Patriots. Sadie" Houck,
"Mammie" White and Aloysius c. Joy also
having once been members of this club.
OF course the writer has recollections of
Billy WiSe's ball playing, and he has known
him, too, for a long while, and the otter eve
ming he had a nice talk with him about old
time base ball. Billy said he sort of drifted into
the big league when he substituted for one of
the Nationals pitchers. who at the last moment
was taken i'll, and he being in the crowd of
on-lookerS was invited to 60 in and pitch, an.i