Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-31
SPORTS OF ALL SORTS
Athletics Won Both Games of
Double Header from Senators
PITCHERS HIT HARD
DUNKLE KNOCKED OUT IN FIRST
GAME AND WADDELL IN SECOND.
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Clubs Standing.

Two victories in an afternoon was the
Athletics portion yesterday for the third
time this season on their own grounds.
The first game came down easy street.
The score was II to /. The second contest
was Wash!ngton's up to the eighth inning
Then, with two men on bases, Danny
Murphy bumped the ball out to right field
fence cleaning up two runs, and giving the
champions the lead that lasted. The fig
ureS were to 3.
The double headed win of Mack's men
gains for them eighteen points on Boston.
making that club but thirty points ahead
in the championship race.
Plank pitched for the Athletics in the
opening affair and held the Senators to
seven hits. Washington was obliged to use
two men. Dunkle. the recent acquisition
from Chicago. lasted but two innings and
a half and then Jack Townsend, an ex-
Phillie. was put In He went the limit but
was roundly punished
The tables turned in the second game.
Orth lasted, but McGeehan was Obliged
to go to 'Ruhe' Waddells place at the
end OF the sixth inning as George Edward
was unequal to the task he had UNDER
taken.
The Athletics cracked out five runs in
the third inning of the first game a
starter of the twelve they made. Powers
was the first to bat, as we'll as the
last. Singles by DR.. Mike. Pickering, l..
Cross and Hoffman together with a base
on balls to Schreck figured in the counters
while two other players died on the sacks
Townsend then essayed to complete the
job of which Dunkle had made botch
All the local hands handled the bat again
In the fourth inning for four more runs
Townsend punched Powers in the hip with
a shoot and Pickering he passed Hits by
Lave Cross and Seybold scored both OF
them. Danny Murphy hit out double to
center, after L. Cross died on the fielder's
choice, giving Hoffman his life. and the
latter and Seybold scored
Pickering made the tenth run in the fifth
on COug ain ) error, @ steal ana Lave
Cross single.
sebach saved Washington a whitewash
by singing IN the eighth after Jimmy Ryan
had doubled to left field and stole third
Mine Host Monte Cross of Short Stop Inn
served out a hard hit for two bases In
the Athletics half of the inning. and Sey-
bold and Murphy stepped the PAGES to the
plate. Murphy started from first on the
play. while Socks had to travel from third
where he had flown on Coughiin Wild
throw to retire him at first.
Danny Murphy and Cornelius McGeehan
changed the second game into Victory
from a threatened defeat.
The Senators hit Waddell hard from the
start, and when the Reuben" allowed his
opponents to measure on two more runs
with the willow in the sixth, after the
score had been tied at three in the third
Manager Mack counted the big southpaw
out. Mcclellan went to the slab and made
tean mates pf0' after that denying the nine
men who faced him a single hit.
Ryan's single and Selbach's triple gave
Washington a run in the first inning, dou-
bles by Mccormick and Drill made Sec
ond in the next and base on balls to
Ryan, Clarkes sacrifice and Selbach's SIN
gle the third in the third.
The champions opened up Ortiz for
four singles in their half Powers. Wad-
dell, Pickering and Lave Cross were the
lucky Pickering pushed Powers
across the plate. Schrecks out showed
"Rube' and Pick to second and third,
and Laves single sent them home
A fast double play rounded up the Grip
pies in the fourth. Mccormick tripled to
left center field fence and attempted to
reach the plate on Drill's grounder to
Monte Cross Monte sent the ball to
Schreck, who ran Mccormick down and
then caught Drill at second, Murphy max
ing the out.
The visitors opened up on Waddell again
in the sixth. Two doubles and two singles
We're made for pair of runs. Mccormick
furnished the swat, a two-bagger, which
finished the execution Of Waddell.
Drill while al bat objected to two strikes
Umpire Hassett called and he was sent to
the bench. Kittridge took his place and
score and struck out.
Monte Cross made a three-base hit in the
seventh and scored on NlcGeehan's long fly
to center.
Singles by Seybold and Hoffman turned
Into the evening-up and winning runs in
the eighth, when Danny Murphy sent the
leather to right fence for two bases. Scores:
FIRST GAME