The Washington herald., 1907-05-13
Special to The Washington Herald.

special 70 Ihe washington heIatu
ST. Louis. 10. May l2-Washington put
up an exhibition Of baseball to-day
which. if persistently and consistently
maintained, would place that team in
one two, three in the pennant race be
fore the summer is half over. Incidental
ly. Washington defeated the Browns 2
to O.
A big though not a record Sun
day crowd was out Patten. who vainly es-
sayed to do things to the Browns on Sat
urday and gave up after one inning. went
into the box again to-day, and the Browns
smiled broadly. thinking they would find
his slants the same simple puzzles they
were yesterday. But Patten proved TO
be a hero.
IN the nine innings. only one clean hit
was made off Patten. Yeager's, in the
seventh. which was a hot rap between
Cross and Altizer. The other two hits
were scratches of the worst kind Charlie
Hemphills slow one 10 Cross was han
died with all possible dispatch. and the
throw to Anderson was perfect, but
Hemphill, who has not been able to got
a hit more than once a week, was leg
ging it in the hope OF saving himself
from another row Of goose eggs. and his
sprint won out for him. Barney Pelty's
hit was due 10 the fact that Patten
could not get out of the way Of his
smart rap through the box, and could not
be expected to handle it. He knocked
the ball down, but before Cross could
recover it Petty had reached first.
Nationals Fast Work.
The Nationals played a remarkable
fielding game, gObbling up everything that
came their way. and making many fast
plays that brought the grand stand to its
feet. Cross and Jones were the stars in
the field work. the latter especially win
ming golden opinions from ali impartial
observers. He chased to the center field
fence for Wallaces long line hit in the
second, and pulled It down. He dashed
into short left for Jones' Texas Lacquer,
and ate ]; up. A little later he took a hot
liner off Niles bat just back of second
base, and in the eighth raced to deep left
center for George Stones drive. Altogeth-
er, he had five put-outs. all hard chances.
and all handled with such speed, accuracy.
and precision as to make them appear
almost easy.
The Nationals scored their two runs I'm
the fourth inning without hit Jones led
of with a fly-out to Yeager. but Cross
waited and got a base on balls Anderson
then hit smartly to Niles, at second. The
ball was on the players left side, and he
started TO throw to first, when O'Connor.
who was catching for the Browns. and
seemed eager to run the whole game.
called 70 Niles 10 throw to second.
Niles did so. and Cross beat il out. Wal
lace barely taking the high throw with
his naked hand. Altizer's out put Cross on
third and Anderson on second. Then
came the saddest accident that ever a
crowd or Brown ro0ters were forced to
witness. Mil hit n little pop-up fly lust
back Of the box. Niles and Wallace
started for ii at the same time.
Neither would give up till the ball
was almost down. then Niles. who was
leading Wallace by a few feet, quit. and
Wallace, who had just decided to do the
same was compelled to spurt forward a
half dozen yards 10 reach the ball with
his outstretched hand and drop It. Cross
scored. Then Anderson and NH started
the double steal. O'Connor threw TO
second to head of Mil. Niles ran in. re !
ceived the throw, and returned it TO the
plate, low, and to the wrong side. and
Anderson scored. Schlahy retired the side /
with hot ole 20 Petty. which he caught |
in his stomach and got to Jones az first |
in time.
The Browns never had a chance to |
score They managed 10 get three hits |
throughout the game. but no two Of them
came together, and I'm six innings they |
went out in one. two. three order.