Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-19
Special Dispatch to The Star

CLEVELAND. Ohio. August 19.-Perhaps
1t was their transportation over the suspen-
sion of Manager Stahl. while Bradley. who
acted up in the same game. was not even
reported by the umpire Perhaps it was to
help Tom Hughes to another shutout of the
hard-htting Napoleons Perhaps it was to
show that they could play just we'll in
one position another Whatever was the
cause and the purpose. the Nationals played
championship ball yesterday and shut out
the erstwhle leaders with the greatest pos
sble ease. the final score being to 0.
Long Tom was even more effective than
usual against Cleveland and made his rec
ord for the season in this city one run in
thirtysix innings pitched. OF the two hits
charged against him only Jackson's double
in the sixth clean. Bradley's single
was a gift OF the scorers. Hunter Hill
should have had the ball.
Hughes support was superb In the sec
ond inning Knoll. who played right. raced
II the open bleachers for Bueows smash
that was headed for home-run territory In
the fourth Anderson brought the crowd to
its feet by Il marvellous running catch of
drive from Stovalrs bat Again in the sew
enth Knoll! came dashing IN at pellmell
speed and grabbed Il pop from Stovalls bat
close to second base. The best fielding play
o. the day. however, was Hickman's run
ming eaten of Buelow's foul close to the
score board in the eighth. Some of the
fans Were still cheering the catch when
Flick ended the game by striking out on
three pitched balls.
The game opened auspciousIy for Cleve-
lond. NH was out ON a stellar stop by
StoVali- Hi famed and Hickman was out
Oh a magnificent assist by Moore. There
was wild applause when jackson walked
aud Bay sacrificed. There the enthusiasm
ended. for Tom settled down and struck
out Flick and Stovall. and thereafter he
was in complete charge of the situation In
til fourth inning the Nationals started the
run getting. Knoll sent d single wh.zzing
between Turner ard Stovau. Cassidy sac
r,iced pretttiy. Jones struck out, but Hey
deu's nit, which Jackson juggled brought
kEoN home. Another run was scored in
the seventh Anderson doubled. took third
on Knoll sacrIiice and ran home on a
passed ball
The visitors made it sure in the eighth
Heydens third nit was a beautiful double
TO right Hughes drove a warm single to
center, scoring his catcher Mil was safe
on Stov&li'S muff TO Cdrr's assist The
cheerful iliCs ras pended to d nosy greet
ing 10y driving the bah TO deep left for two
bases, scoring Hughes and Mil. This ended
the run-gett ting. in Cleveand's half of the
'SHIii 4l'9Nil "'ttitu ioi moore ana fiuSneS
struck him out on three pitched balls, a
performance for which he was wildly
Cheered. Halia, the Oklahoma recruit
pitched the ninth inning. Cassidy flied TO
Bay Stovau threw out Jones. Heyden was
hit by pitched ball but Hughes went out
Bradley to Carr Only three of the Maps
reached second base and none of them got
near enough Hunter HIS corner to hold
conversation with him. in the first Jack
sons base on balls and Bays sacrifice got
man 10 the second corner. This was du-
pEcated in the second ON Brad's scratch sin
gle and Turner's sacrifice. In the sixth
with one out. Jackson doubled between
Jones and Knoll but in all three instances
the runner was left AT second
Manager Stahl continues to talk bitterly
about his suspension and the fact that
Bradley's offense in the same game was
overlooked. The suspension will be lifted
in time TO permit Stahl to play in Mon
days game. Pat . and Townsend will
probably be the pitchers today. The score