The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-09-08
GOT MONEYS WORTH
At OUR BALL YARD
Beat Yankees Twice and
Hickman Made Record.
CLEVER WORK WITH POLE
Cheerful Charley Made Eight Hits Out
of Ten Times Up and Received
Ovation.
CLEVER WORK WITH POLE

Great indeed were the doings at the
ball park yesterday when the 6.412 fam
atics saw the Nationals get sweet re-
venge out of Clarke Griffith's Highland
ers by downing the visitors In both
games of the double header by IL to 6.
and 10 to respectively.
Never did a 3. B. crowd get more for
one price of admission than was served
out yesterday. Besides the double vic
tory a batting record for the season
was established by Happy Hickman.
who clouted out eight hits for a total
of fifteen bases during his ten trips 10
the rubber. No less than eight pitchers
were used during the afternoons enter
tainment. Joe Yeager was knocked un-
conscious by running against the left
field pavilion fence after foul fly. and
Hughes lost and Hickman found the
stick pin which was presented to the
twirler on Tuesday. but what amused
the fans most was Arbiter Sheridan
ordering of clarke Griffith of the field
for too much lip music after close de-
cisions. Who could ask for more?
What Sluggings!
Charley Hickmans clever work with
the pole was easily the feature of the
two contests. Five times during the
every time he landed safely on the
leather-one triple. a brace of. doubles
and pair of singles. In the second
game triple a double and single was
the contribution of the genial guardian
of the second hassock. After the game
several hundred rooters gathered around
Cheerful and carried him to the club
house. a compliment that is seldom paid
TO a player at the local lot.
Leader Stahfs timely changes of
pitchers saved the opening game for the
Nationals. X was Case Patterns turn
to do the f1inging, but he lasted but
three innings, when Bill Wolfe took
up the going The blond twirler was
also little off. so Stahl decided TO take
no chances, and trotted out Country
Fallxenberg, who succeeded in holding
the Yankees at bay during the remain
ing three innings.
For four Innings Al Orth pitched like
a winner. but in his last round he col
lided with Stahl at the plate. and as
his business fin panied him, Griffith sub
stituted Jack Powell
The game see-sawed along until the
eighth. when the home players got busy
with their bats and clouted Powell S
curves TO all corners of the lot. and be-
tionals had Melted five runs. which put
the game on the shelf beyond the reach
of the Gothamites.
Got Busy Early.
Washington lost no time in making
sure of the second game. Griffith had
only two twirlers available, and OF
these he chose Goode to do the work.
But the youth from the minors had
nothing up his sleeve that was esre-
ciaily deceptive. and by the end of the
third the Stahlers had lined up five
runs, which looked pretty good to all
save the crowd on the visitors bench
In the fourth Goode gave away to Hogg,
and the latter pitched good bail until
the seventh. when the locals registered
two and in the eighth the Nationals
brought their grand total to ten by
chasing a trio of runners across the
rubber.
While Goode and Hogg were getting
theirs Jack Townsend was pitching one
of the best games of his career, and
fully deserved to win. Jim Mcclure
three hits were the greatest damage that
was done to Townsend's delivery.