The Washington times., 1907-05-29

The HighlanderS were stu SHAKING
this morning over their narrow escape
yesterday when Washington's cub
southpaw. Graham. allowed only one hit
in the first seven innings, and in the
eighth did not loosen up enough to lose
Il he had been given good support In
the crisis.
The young left-hander bad the New
Workers completely up a stump, and
made them nervous about today
when Patten, who is considered by
many the best left-hander in the league,
Is booked to take a crack at them
Patten and Hughes are the only Wash
ington twirlers who have won game,
and Patten has beaten New York three
times this season.
Il is not n CHEEKY prospect Tor the
Yanks Griffith changed his batting or
der yesterday. letting keeier lead OF
and putting Hoffman eighth because OF
ROffmsn's weakness against slucWhetl-
trS This proved a wise move. Tor
Danny was not there with the clout In
the eighth with "a great chance 10 90
"a stunt he famed miSerably- The same
batting order will be kept today, Il Pat
ten pitches as per schedule.
Jack ChesbrO IS carded To oppose Pat
ten. Jack is fat and sassy, but Is con-
fdent that he is In good enough form 70
Keen the Washington tailenders in the
cellar. Kleinow viii catch him.
Excuse US a moment while we muir
muir Hard Iuckl'
It's an old plea, and it doesn't get
you anything-that hard luck story-but
you can't help digging it up in discuss
ing the game Washington lost to New
York yesterday by to l.
Up TO the eighth inning not New
Yorker reached second and only one
A.
sacrifice. and two more singles were fol-
lowed by the tanning Of Danny HOf-
man, yet a run scored. In the ninth
Keller made a perfect bunt, and Will
Jams followed with a doubtful double
to left that Mil booted. and thereby
allowed Keller To score from first with
the winning run Surely this timely
grouping in the ninth of Williams hit
and NILS error was the real thing in
the perverse fate line.
That Washington lost was due to hard
luck: that It did not win was due TO
remarkably uneven batting. In the first
six innings Washington got one hit In
each rOund. The seventh was a total
blank. Hickman made a double I'm the
eighth. scoring Cross with Washington
lonely run, and the ninth was also
blank. Seven hits scattered over seven
innings and divided among six men, is
somewhat out of the ordinary.
Grahams fall-down was not due to
WildneSs- He had a monetary weak
ness which New York grasped promptly
enough to win. He did not give base
on balls hit nobody. made no wild
pitches, and was cool as an iceberg I'm
uincheS. IN fact, he conducted himself
company, and there isn't a pitcher I'm
the world who wouldn't be apt 70 strike
a little of streak such as came his
way In the eighth and ninth sessions.
Next to Graham. our best bet in tho
hero line was Charley Hickman. He
made two stops at second. one OF a
line drive and one of a deep grounder
that we're the real classy stuff and won
much applause from the multitude For
a man with piano legs, q cum knee and
other troubles with his props he was
most amazingly Spry. Also, il was his
Uld-timc smuggling with "A man on the
circuit and a tally needed worse than
a warm wave this spring that kept
Washington from being whitewashed. AS
a disSector OF curves he cuts lots OF
ice in this hangover winter.
We note with pleasure that Charles
Jones, the eminent centerhelder. IS
batting much like a human being and
a bail player Having seen the error
VI bis ways in the matter OF using a
bat that could get i'm the money as
The mainboom OF a four-master, he has
selected a much smaller stick. and IS
grasping that far from the handle. a
la Keller with most gratifying results.
His average has been jumping about
twenty points per week since he saw
the light, and he is now in the 800 class
and mingles with the very best people
in the profession.
Jones is an intelligent ball player.
and after he doped out his new system
set TO work TO perfect himself i'm the
new style. 1t IS interesting to watch
him at bat He is still some shy on
getting the stick around fast on A
swift shoot. but at that he is many
times better than formerly and does
not have that tendency to make him
self ridiculous by hitting at a bail
that Is already in the catcher's nit II
looks like a good bet that he will i'm
prove right along and for some wears
to come wall not again be the mark he
was for pitchers in days gone by.
Ganley did not get a hit yesterday.
but there were many who thought the
bunt Doyle fooled In the third should
have gone as n credit mark for the
batter, as IL was a hard ball TO field
Taking second on Doyles bad throw
10 first, Ganley moved up when Graham
was nipped at the plate on Jones' in
field drive. ard there died. In the field
Ganley nailed two flies. but his best
work was I'm knocking down Conroy's