The Washington times., 1905-06-06
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This happy state or the Nationals IS
due % the activity and energy they dis
played yesterday. when they came to
life ii Philadelphia. held swatfest and
brought home victory. by 8 to !. AZ
ter losing three straight games there
was a general impression that the Ma
tonals would do some small deed Of
valor. and they did not disappoint their
Friends
Baseball is queer, in that 1t is abso-
lutely impossible to tell what a team
will do. Our Nationals had been fool
ing along for three games in Phiiadei-
phia, and not making enough hits to
beat a high school nine. And when they
did hit Il was in isolated spots which
had little to do with the score. Yester-
day they had a complete reversal of
form, batted hard. and got the ball
away safely just when the doctor pre-
scribed such treatment On the other
hand, the Athletics made more hits
than their opponents. but upon several
occasions failed to connect when a DioW
would have meant a run
Henley was chased to the WOODS after
the sixth inning and Coakley took his
place. but the new man also had @ hard
row to tarvel. He was banged three
times in the three innings, and two or
these were for doubles Case Patten de-
served the confidence reposed in him bY
winning his game, but more than
enough hits were allowed by him to lose
any ordinary contest.
| Henley gave a lifelike representation
! of a young man throwing away his own
game when he lined AIullen's sneaker
| over Davis head and far into right in
| the sixth session. Lord had been play
| ing a passive part up - that time, and
IN F4a
duence he threw the bah badly to sec
| ond. allowing Huelsman to score from
| first. Cassidy was next up, and drove
| one to knight, who twisted himself into
I q pretZel and did other cute and anus
| ing tricks, but did not accept the
! home. These were the two extra runs
which may be said TO have been due TO
the strong arm work Of the twirler.
| Why Jones should have been given
an error in the eighth inning is hard TO
understand, as are a number OF other
points in some OF the Philadelphia
score books Hoffman vas on first and
Lord doubled TO center. Jones had 10
| think and act quickly, He figured he
| might have a chance to land Hoffman
at the plate and whisIked the ball to
| the center Of the diamond. There it
was greeted by an impressive gather
of in and outfelders (there is posi-
! binty Of a pun here, but none is in
| tendeD. who gave it a kindly greeting
| and saiaamed low as ii went scooting
| by. Two of them even extended 1t a
| friendly handshake, but none could
buttonhoie it for heart-to-heart talk.
| The ball hurried TO the gIandgtand.
/ Hoffman scored and Lord went TO
third. The problem IS why d ball
/ thrown cieaniy TO the diamond where
| there were four or five agile and high
/ salaried athletes TO receive 1t should go
! as an error to the outfielGer. There
was chance TO get Hoffman, and Lord
! certainly could have been prevented
/ from going to third, but the Quaker
/ City scorers solemnly announced that
! Jones had been bad boy In making a
wild throw and should be spanked with
| an error.
It must be admitted that every now
and then confusion in handling quick