Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-11
NATIONALS GOING GOOD.
Played Fine Ball and Shut Out Bos-
ton Team.

Jake StahIS band of husky youngsters
had their eyes peeled yesterday and took
the beaneating crowd from Boston into
camp in fine shape When the smoke
cleared up eleven beautiful swats had been
registered on Chick Fraser's delivery. the
sum total including four doubles, food for
four runs The best that the Bostons could
do with Patten was six scattered hits, that
resulted in but three men reaching third
base. The chance to score came in the sec
ond, with Woverton on third and Lauter-
born at the bat. The Boston second base
man hit short one over second. but Jones
got sprint on and made a beautiful catch
and then. without waiting, snapped the ball
into the plate in time to catch Wolverton
ana cut Off the run. Stahl led everybody at
the bat getting four bingles. one of them
good for two bases out of four times up.
Manager-Captain Stahl had made the pre-
dlction that with the coming of warmer
weather his forces would begin to unkink,
and his prediction was made good to
nicely. The infielders We're all on tiptoe
and the outfelders cared for the long hits
that came their way in pennant style Jones
especially distinguished himself and was
responsible for six Bostons coming to grief
Hills work on third and Cassidy's at short
was above criticizm, the little shortstop
getting two hot ones in deep shortfield
after Hill had made an unsuccessful at
tempt to head them off and getting them
over to first in time to nab his man. Only
one error was made by the locals-a bad
throw by Cassidy to first. Chick" Fraser
is one of the best the Boston team has, and
If the Nationals can connect with his
shoots the way they did yesterday they
ought to be confident of causing some pretty
bad quarter-hours for some of the American
League twirlers. Case Patterns work was
exceptionally good, and his quick return
of the ball netted him at least eight or ten
strikes on the unwary Bostonese. He
showed good control and was backed up
in fine style by Kittredge.
Jones started the ball rolling by hitting
long one. that looked good for a triple
over center, but CAMEL pulled it down.
Hill and Stahl tore off singles however, and
then Huelsman with his promise to repeat
his long swat of the day before, ripped out
a beauty for two bases that scored both the
men ahead of him. The Nationals got two
more, one each in the second and third,
and then Fraser kept the rest of the hits
scattered and no runs resulted. In the
second CaSSaday made single, went to
second on kttredges sacrifice hit and
came home when Case Patten heaved his
shoulders and sent the ball over the right
field for two sacks In the third Stahl got
his second hit. a double, and went to third
on Huelsman's sacrifice coming home when
Cassidy hit TO Lauterborn and the latter
threw wild to the plate to catch the burly
local first baseman. Cassidy went on to
second, but Needham nailed him at second
by hot throw to Raymer. In the next in
ming kittredge made a two-bagger and in
the fifth Stahl hit a hot one over second.
but was killed at second steal. Huels-
man followed him with a single. and an
other score might have resulted had Stahl
been content with first Ease. In the sixth
kittredge lifted one into right garden that
looked good for out that Cassaday,
who had gotten to first on TenneyS low
throw to Fraser, waited on the bag The
ball fell between right field and second, and
CaSsaday couldn't make second before it
was snapped over. Patten struck out. In
the seventh, with two hands out, Stahl
trying to pilfer second. In the eighth the
side went out one, two, three.
For the BoStons. Camel started off with
a single and was caught at the plate try
ing to score on Raymer's double. Jones'
pretty play came in the second cutting off
a run and in the third and fourth the
Beaneaters went out in apple-pie order.
to stretch it into triple. Huelsman re-
layed the ball in in time to Hill to nab him.
The decision called for a little heart-to-
heart talk between Needham and Umpire
Snyder. but no bloodshed resulted Dele
hanty made single in the next inning, be-
cause the ball got by Hill. and although
Cassidy stopped II. he could not recover
suited, because Stahl stopped Sharpe's
grounder at first and shot the ball over to
Cassidy in time to complete double play.
Three flies sent Boston out on the grass
in the eighth. In the ninth Cannell
reached first on Cassidy's poor throw, Ten
ney hit TO Jones and was out. Raymer hit
to center and Stahls grass cutter advanced
both runners. Then Mr. De!ehanty tried to
demolish one of the hospital windows and
the result was long fly straight into
Huelsmans hands and the game was over.
The score: