Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-26

Il.
Chcaeo-pittsburg- Ratn.
Base ball fireworks popped. snapped and
fzzled at American League Park, New
York yesterday fearfully and wonderfully.
The affair wound up with set piece of
little Willie" Keller making a home run.
Little William draws a huge salary for
being the hardest man to keep from get
ting base of any man in either league.
He took four of them yesterday in a clus-
ter. and with them the game the High
Ianders defeating Washington by the score
of to ).
Willie Keller abides as the last, lingering
memory of a remarkable contest. won in
the eleventh hour. The real feature of the
game was a young person named Hogg,
who used to bloom unseen away out along
the golden Pacific coast-mainly Tacoma
where base ball is as numerous as the eli
matte changes and surprising. From this
desuetude, pleasant but enervating. Hogg
was rescued by Clarke Griffith, who has as
Keen a nose for ball players as a pig has
for truffies. Persons who saw the work of
the Highlanders in the south returned deep
~ impressed with young Mr.. Hogg.
Gotham jury of bleacherites turned up its
nose at these stories-until yesterday.
After Hogg's clean, smart cool pitching
yesterday. when he was sent in by Fox
Griffith to save the game, New York root
ers are inclined to believe that the modest
young twirler is a little better than even
his advance agents placarded him to be.
Sitting back of the wire screen, where
piIchers are judged, yesterday many an
oid-timer gasped at the remarkable show
Ing of the newcomer.
Something About Hogg.
slashing curve. his In especially scraping
the Washington batsmen away from the
pan like flies from a platter of sorghum
All this after Walter Clarkson had been
properly put away by the Nationals. Hogg
Is a medium sized, easy going sort of chap.
Before he went into the game Griffith must
nave had him sitting on a square of ice
10 the young man took matters as COM
fortably as seal near the magnetic pole
he was never furried, although he found
himself now and then in a tight situation
and he kept right after the edge of the
pate with a daring that took with the
crowd.
Taking the game big and large il is
necessary to admit that it was chock full
or back-lot base ball most of IL contrib
uted by Grihth's men. Fool base ball
much or 1t was, and between plain down
right errors and failure to take advan-
tage OF natural opportunities the High
!anders were fortunate indeed not to drop
the whole business down into the second
percentage column.
1t was a wide open game throughout.
ana the door to victory stood atar from
the call OF play. Potentially the High
Iahuers nave II In them to win such a
game as that without obliging Keller to
1oreclose on so many of the bases that
he has mortgaged for the season. Truth
TO tell. Gritflth's men performed crudely
yesterday, and they viii take whole lot
OF belaboring before they round into the
keen form of last year. Some of them
are a little too stout at present they do
not play together and they do not think,
BETTER teams than the Nationals Will visit
New York very soon, and the Highland
ers have got to group themselves a little
better If they are to come into the focus
OF the championship lens.
Accidental Runs.
Most of the runs yesterday were acct
dents, pure and simple and the two
teams entered the ninth inning tied and
Just about as new to base ball as If thew
had not threshed around through eight
previous sessions. Smart fielding choked
off the Nationals in their half, but pros
poets seemed fairly rosy when so good a
man as Dougherty stepped up for the
Highlanders. Patrick could do no bet-
ter than raise foul to Kittredge which
the Washingtonian 1ipped right up
against the stand. Up trotted the diminu-
tive keeler, ready. as every one thought
TO punch out bunt or sit out a base
on balls.
Unexpectedly the small person squared
away and slapped the ball down to deep
center field for home run. The crowd
was down on the field before he reached
the plate. but 1t was a clean home-run
drive and won an amateurish game that
was not without its exciting features.
Hal Chase made his first decent hit
yesterday. but 1t is to be doubted II IL
would have counted as heavily as 1t did
had not the entire Washington infieId
been playing IN close ready to choke Con-
roy at the plate The score: