Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-21
BASE BALL, RACING
AND OTHER SPORTS

called the turn on yesterdays game right
after the first inning. He saw that Lieb-
hardt had good control and that there
would be nothing to it. as the spit bail is
simply unhittable when going right
There are two sides to Liebhardt," said
Bates. He is either very good very
bad and today it looks as If he is going
TO be good. over in Philadelphia he
couldn't get the ball near the plate, and
all they had to do was wait it out and
then walk"
Bates is one of the oldest base ball
writers in the business and a very close
student of the game. He has watched Lieb-
hardt very close since joining the Cleve-
lands and he says the youngster is in
vncble on the days he has control. Lieb-
hardt was feeling his way cautiously in
the first, when Jones got his first single
and Anderson his double. and then after
that put on all the speed he could which
completely baftied the local batsmen.
Cleveland paid big sum of money for the
| spit artist, but it looks like good
investment.
The idea of harshly criticsing Altizer for
| his playing yesterday is outrageous, to put
II mildly. Outside of Bob Ganley there is
no one on the local team who has anything
on the soldier boy, both as to natural abi-
ity and having his heart in the game. The
fact that he failed to bunt safely at the
critical point of the game yesterday should
not dwarf the fact that he has pulled off
many good ones in just such positions in
the past and will repeat frequently in the
future. Ever since Atizer has witnessed
the splendid work of Capt Ganley in the
bunting line. he has been practicing every
morning along those lines and is getting
bette every day. The fact of the matter
is that Altizer met the speedy spit ball a
little too squarely on the bat and the twist
carried 1t up in the air and into the hands
of the pitcher Under the same conditions
again he is just liable to lay the ball
down safely and the little fly yesterday
was a piece of hard luck, nothing Llore.
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not criticised.
The double play that was started by
Delehdnty in the fifth inning was bril-
liant piece of work, and brought the crowd
to its feet with yells of joy Liebhardt
had led off with single into right that
dropped between Perrine and Ganley on
account of mixup in calls. Flick fol-
lowed with fly to Anderson, and then
Liebhirdt stole second Bradley then sent
a fast roller toward left that Delehanty
picked up clearly and caught Liebhardt
off second After the pitcher had been run
backward and forward twice, Delehanty
| touched him on the line and then turning
quickly whipped the ball to Hickman be-
fore Bradley could regain the first sack.
Through the entire play Del" was as cool
as a cucumber and knew exactly what to
do with the ball just as soon as it landed
in his hands.
Today's game will be the last the local
| fans will have chance of witnessing for
! probably result. The Nationals will be
| away until July "a, and in that time are
scheduled to play something like thirty-four
games in thirty days, having contests with
every one of the other seven clubs. 1t will
be a trying siege for the Washington boys,
but it goes without saying that they will
give good account of themselves
This afternoon Tom Hughes will once
more face the Chvelands, and if he is right
the locals will be able to make it three
victories out of four games played. Jack
Heydon will do the receiving. Hughes had
too much speed in the opening game on
account of his long rest and couldn't con-
troll it, Today he will be just about right,
and should be able to pitch a fine game.
The Clevelands are holding Addie Joss
for the Sunday game in Chicago, and will
probably pitch their new man. Thielman
AS one of the Maps put it this morning,
Hughes has US beat before he pitches
ball. and it would be useless to waste a
good man like Joss here when he can turn
the trick against the White Sox Sunday"
There quite cOmmotion in Cleve-
land yesterday morning caused by the re-
port in the morning papers that Manager
| Lajoie had a scout up in the Tri-State
League looking for third baseman to take
Bradley's place The story went good as
| Bradley charged with losing Wednes-
| days game by bad throw to first. The
| Cleveland newspaper men with the NapO-
| Icons received kilograms from their papers
asking about the story. and Manager La
| joie very indignant over the report.
He said: 20 Brien is up in the Tri-State
looking over the different players. no one
| in particular, as any scout does this time
of the year. If he sees a good one we will
| try to land him for next year The idea of
repla cling Brad is simply silly. I'll keep
him in the game if he doesn't make a hit
all year. When it comes down to hitting,
i don't think any of us. outside of Flick,
| is entitled to bouquets just now
The great Laioie had to stand for consd-
! cradle Kidding yesterday from the stand
| on both sides of the diamond. He couldn't
| locate Falkenberg successfully and three
| times went out on foul flies to Deehanty.
| Larry" has certainly lost his original style
this season. all the dash and confidence of
| former years being missing, but it will re-
| turn to him next year. Lajoe can go off in
! his work, both at the bat and in the field.
/ about 10 per cent and still remain the king
! of them all
| When Ganley and Perrne lost Liebhardt's
! fly in short right field yesterday it was
! account of Altizer calling the wrong man.
! If nothing had been said Perrine would
/ have gotten the ball, as he and Ganley
/ thoroughly understand each other. Both
| kept going after the ball and then came
| AltiZer's call for Ganley when Bob could
not quite get up. The same applies to the
| three outfielders. They know how to work
| together and will call for each other just
| the one to whom it looks best.
Plank Beats the Tigers.
! PHILADELPHIA, June 21.-Costly errors
| by Detroit players yesterday helped the