The Washington herald., 1907-04-16
sTANDTNG or THE TEAMS.
NVashington, ., New York, 4.


The new Nationals broke into the vic
tory column with great force and enthu-
siasm yesterday by winning the final
game of the opening series from New
York by TO 4
The game was the best of the three on
TO poor start. Cantillons braves tied the
score in the second half of the second and
took the lead in the fourth, only to lose it
in the fifth In the sixth the Nationals
obtained an advantage of one run, but in
the seventh the Highlanders overcame this
and once more tied the score. In the sec
ond half Of the seventh the locals put the
game out of danger by chasing fve runs
across the plate in the best batting rally
Of the series.
Grifath chose Keefe. the Western re-
eruit. TO serve 'em uD for the visitors,
and for five innings the youngster per
formed creditably. but in the sixth, when
the Nationals commenced TO get too IA
miliar with his delivery. Griffith snatched
him out and substituted ClarksOn- Here is
where the Old Fox made his mistake. for
hardly had Sir Walter, the former HaT-
ward captain, stepped into the box when
the locals commenced 10 give him warm
welcome In the fifth he escaped rather
easily with q double by Perrine which
sent Altizer across the rubber But in the
seventh the Nationals had no mercy on
the oollegian, and they hammered him 10
all corners of the lot on four hits. one
Of them "a double and another triple.
coupled with "A pair Of bases on balls. the
Nationals reaped a harvest of five runs,
which put the result beyond a doubt.
II was one OF those old time batting
rallies. and it set the fans wild with glee
Patten in Fine Form.
Case Patten occupied the center of the
diamond for Washington. and he showed
his midseason form of last year. Al
though he had "a slight tendency TO be
wild and passed three battcrs and had
wild pitch charged against him, he had
the Yankees at his mercy SO far as hitting
was concerned. He allowed six during
the nine innings. but they were so spread
that not more than one came I'm any
single round. In fact, the invaders were
lucky to get as many runs as they did,
n for there was a large element of luck
in each or their tallies. In the first. an
infield hit. an error and a wild pitch was
responsible for the New York score. in
the second the visitors scored on a double
and two outs: in the nth they worked a
man around the circuit by the same
method. while their last run was made
without a hit a base on balls. a sacrifice.
and an out being responsible for the tally.
While Washington was charged with
two errors, the support afforded Patten
was unusually good, and at times the
work Of the men was brilliant On every
throw there was some one backing up
but it remained for the last inning for
the Nationals TO give an exhibition OF
Just how the inheld should play Griffith
tried hard to start rally, and Laporte
the first man up. ripped off q wicked
looking liner Just TO the right of short
Can't Schlahy went after it and dove
lust getting the ball on baCk-handed
catch IL was the circus play of the day
but hardly had the applause died down
before Perrine, Schlafy. and Anderson
pulled OFF a lightning double play which
ended the game.
The Nationals batting showed a decided
Improvement over anything that they
had showed up to yesterday They tor,
OF a total Of twelve hits. including fOul
twO-bagEers and a triple. Anderson ant
Perrine eacn batted at a T. 600 clip, gettiRs
three hits apiece.
Score I'm First lining.
Conroy started of by drawing a bas,
on balls but was thrown out at second
in attempting to steal. Keller beat out
bounder to Schlafily. moved up a peg Of
a wild pitch. and reached third whel
Perrine let Eberfelds grounder get by
The visitors then pulled of the squeez
play. Chase being thrown out at first. bu
Keeler scored. In the second Hoffman hi
n double to right. reached third OF
KIeinows out, and raced home on Keefel
long fly to center.
Washington eVened up in the third afte
two men had been retired. Andersen
doubled TO left, and moved TO third on ;
Wild PITCH scoring on PeTTine's triple 4
right. and Perrine registered d mOmen
later on Heydon's Texas Lacquer 10 left
In the fourth Altizer singled, stole second
and counted on Apderson's single
New York tied the score in the next oi
Keefes double. Conroy's sacrifice. an
Keeler's ty TO Ganiey, Altizer's infiel
hit, followed by Perrine's double, CAV
Washington the lead in the sixth. bu