Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-04

The Athletics rallied only once yester-
day. and Washington again trotted on the
field al Columbia Park. Philadelphia, victo-
rious after eleven innings of play by to a.
There were stirring times before the Ma
tionals squeezed in their winning run
Mack's men didn't land the laureis, but
they had the satisfaction of giving their
ABB followers a soul-stirring time In the
ninth inning, besides furnishing scare to
the visitors.
When the Athletic players picked up their
bats in the ninth inning all that they could
see on the score board was long row or
ciphers for themselves and four runs FOR
Washington. Just at that stage a little
boy ran across the field waving the figure
90 He placed the So in the Phillies
score The cheer which greeted the Quak-
ers' efforts in the eighth inning at Brook,
lyn for the third time this season served
as a goad to the Athletics.
They rallied promptly, and before they
got through they had put four runs over
the plate and tied the score. Then the
score board boy put up the result OF the
Cleveland-Chicago game. showing that the
latter had lost. That meant that victory
for Washington would put the Nationals In
first place. Mack's merry men We're deter
mined that the visitors should not have
that much satisfaction, and for half an
hour they kept the Nationalist fingers out
of the base ball pie. In the eleventh In
ming however. Washington got In the nee
eSSary run, ana mus the 6Ot d
good strong hold on first place in the Amer
lean League race.
The game was a pitchers battle for eight
innings. with only four hits scored of each
twirler. The only runs up to that stage
were on Washington's side of the slate,
through an error. man being hit by Ben
der and a two-bagger at the right time for
Washington. With the ninth inning both
teams put on their batting clothes, and
the crowd saw some regular Jeffries slug
ging of the horsehide.
While the outfielders had some fairly
hard chances 1t was the infielders that did
the bulk of the work. Murphy carried off
the leading honors both in the quantity and
the quality of his plays. Danny handled
eleven chances without an error. Cassidy,
who was all over his territory. accepted
eleven out of twelve chances. while Knight
figured in nine plays and Nil in six. The
work of these four men was of the finest
character.
The acrobatic stunts of last Tuesday were
cut out by the players. but Murphy gave an
encore to his one-hand jumping catch. In
the fifth Inning. with Knoll on first base
Townsend hit a liner several feet over
Murphy's head. Danny didn't have a
chance to think twice AS soon as he saw
the ball flashing his way Murphy gave
spring into the air. with his gloved hand
extended to the limit. He got his hand to
the proper point in the nick of time. and
the ball stuck in the glove. Then, Murphy
tossed the ball to Davis, and Knoll was
doubled up at first base.
The Athletics had trouble dsposing of
Washington in the first two innings. and
then helped them to score in the third
ktttridge opened this inning with a fly,
which Seybold muffed Townsend was hit
by Bender. Jones hit to right for two
bases. and kittridge and Townsend scored
ON singles by Huelsman and Mill and
knolIs triple TO the center field fence the
Nationals doubled their score in the ninth
1t looked like a forlorn hope when the
nome team went to the bat in the ninth
murphy. however. started a rally with a
drfve to the right field screen which netted
MIN only one base. Knight forced Murphy
out at second and Sehreck singled Bender
gave Hill a fly. Hartsel got the third of
MS four bases on balls during the after
noon, hlling the corners. Hoffman drove A
-hard single to left. which Huelsman per-
united to get away from him The plav
cleared the bases. and Hoffman perched on
third base. Davis then brought Hoffman
nome with the run which tied the score by
three-bagger which hit the Columbia
avenue fence. Cassidy threw out Cross,
ending the inning.
Hueisman opened the eleventh inning
with a two-bagger to left field CASSIDY
gave Schreck foul. Mis- groiInder was
tribe too fast for Murphy to get I'D to-
Hueisman scoring and Mil reaching third
"nen norman fumbled the ball
The score: