Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-17

At Washington-Clear.
At Boston-Clear.
At New York-Cloudy.
At Philadelphia-Cloudy.
The Nationals continued their losing
streak yesterday with Cleveland. the COM
ing champions winning by the score of I
to 1. 1t was very close to a shut-out but
the lonesome tally was hung up in the ninth
inning to the great relief of the loyal fans
The locals are hardly in shape to put up a
good battle against any club in the Ameri-
can League, and when they face the Cleve-
lands victory is almost hopeless. The
Cleveland pitchers in first-class shape
and when one of the local players gets a
hit 1t looks as though the twirlers sent the
ball over the plate on purpose. taking a
chance that the felders will shut off the
bingle.
Earl Moore and Jack Townsend were the
opposing pitchers yesterday. the former
having much the best of it, the hits of the
locals coming after the game looked sure
for the visitors. At that Moore was hit
harder than he has been this season. six
hits for a total of nine bases being the
Nationals record. Jack Townsend went
along swimmingly for five innings and then
doubtless lost heart on account of the hope
less look of the struggle. and the Cleve-
lands began clouting the ball hard ten hits
for total of eighteen bases showing what
they did to thS Delaware boy.
There were few bright spots in the game.
Center Fielder Jones making a remarkable
fly catch near second base of Moore's fly
in the fifth inning. and Jackson and Iajoie
turning out sensational work for the Cleye-
lands. Jones' catch was really case of
misjudgment. as he doubtless thought the
ball was coming into his territory. He
started with the crack of the ball on the
bat and began calling for the catch, so that
Cassidy and Mil Sidetracked their efforts
and when Jones finally closed his fingers
on the sphere he about a yard from
second base and had covered a great dis
lance to get it. HuelSman in left had an
exceptionally busy day, having eight put
outs and one assist, one fly being very diff
ficuit
In the batting line Nil and Jones led the
Nationals the former getting double and
single and the latter two singles. Mullin
hammered out triple that resulted in
Washington's only run. Jackson. for the
Clevelands, got only one hit, but 1t was a
beauty into left and was good for four
bases.
Blanks were handed out to each team in
the first three innings. and then the CIeve-
lands broke the ice in the fourth for one
run With one out, Flick got base on
balls and Lajoie popped out to Hill. Brad
ley then hit a short fly over third. and
Flick should have been out there. but Huels-
man threw short, and the ball bounded
badly to Cassidy. who covered the sack.
with the result that the runner kept on
home. In the sixth a combination of a
double and single stolen base and a
wild throw gave the visitors two more.
The eighth was interesting. on account of
hits thrown away. Bay opened with a sin
gle and died at second trying to stretch it
into double. Flick followed with a triple
to left. and was run down on the line when
Lajoie hit to Cassidy, the batter making
third before the play was completed Brad
ley tore off single into left and Lajoie
scored. In the ninth Jackson hammered
out his home run, making total of five
runs for the visitors.
Mullin was the first man up for the Ma
tionals in the ninth, and hit beauty-bright
against the right center-feld fence for three
bases. 'Andersons best was a foul to Be
mis-. but Huelsman hit such hot liner at
Turner that the latter dropped the ball,
and was glad to get the big fellow at first,
Mullin crossing the plate with the Nation
ais solitary run. Cassidy then closed the
game by going out at first, Stovall to Moore.
The score: