The Washington herald., 1907-07-26
Nationals. B, ST. Louis. ..

The Goddess of Chance 1roWned on
the Nationals yesterday, and as q result
Of her Vaccinations the Browns eked out
a victory by TO g.
Nothing but the most bull-headed luck
imaginable enabled the Mound City outfit
10 score the two runs which won the
game. It all came about in the eighth
inning after the Nationals. by a pretty
rally, had tied the score in the previous
round With one down, and a runner
on first, Joe Yeager raised a fly back
Of first base which was too far out for
Anderson and too far in FOR Ganley. II
looked good for a single and would prob
ably have advanced the first man 10
third. When it struck a few feet inside
the foul line instead of hopping along
into right field. as this sort Of a hit does
in 30 out of 100 cases. the ball took wild
bound and curving at sharp angle,
hoped merrily into the bleachers. As II
was out of sight of the ump it went for
home run for Yeager and also scored
Wallace. who started from first base.
These We're the two tallies which caused
the downfall Of the Nationals.
It was certainly q hard ball game for
Cantillon to lose. In many respects the
Nationals performed as creditably as on
the previous day. The work in the field
was faultess, and at the bat the club
did fairly well considering that Jack Pow
ell was at his best. The big fellow had
everything. including plenty Of speed, and
during the greater part Of the game the
L. -r.. f-,1= a
fat lady On a fire escape. The home
players could garner only half a dozen
hits, but three Of these were punched in
one inning. and, coupled with an error,
gave the Nationals three runs.
Hughes Was Erratic.
At times Tom Hughes was effective, but
at other times he was erratic. and was
touched up rather freely. He served
eight innings and eight hits were made
while.h .he was on the rubber In the sew
enth. with a man on second and one run
needed to score, CantilIon pulled Hughes
out and substituted Hickman at the bat
When the Nationals took the field for the
eighth session, Hank Gehring, the Des
Moines recruit, was sent TO the center Of
the diamond. With one out Wallace
home run.
When it was realized that the Nationals
We're beaten some fans put Cantillon on
the anvil for having taken Hughes out
They claimed first of all that Hughes
should have been kept in the game, and.
secondly, that If he had TO be taken out.
some more experienced pitcher should
have been substituted. AS long as the
game is over one may say almost any
thing, but CantIllons reason for making
the change was this:
Charley Hickman has the third best bat
ting average on the team. and it was
only fair 10 presume that he stood more
Of 4 show of getting a hit than did
Hughes. After Hughes had been taken
out ii was a question who should be sub
stituted. There was Smith. Falkenberg.
Graham. and GehTlng. Smith performed
so often In the West that he is rather
overwOrked. and Falkenberg and Graham
are inclined TO be wild. so Cantillon fig
ured that Gehring. who has all sorts Of
speed and exceptionally good control. was
the best man for the emergency That
Yeager's fly bounded into the bIeachers
was not the fault Of any member of the
Washington club.
The seventh was from a Washington
standpoint the most interesting inning OF
the game as ii was in this round that all
of the Nationals runs were scored
Charley Jones hit a fly TO right and in
the Wild scramble after the ball Niles and
Tom Jones collided and Charley reached
second and continued TO third when his
namesake threw wild. Altizer hit a slow
grounder and the Browns tried to run
Jones down between third and the plate
but Spencer dropped the ball and the Ma
tional scored while Altizer went to sec
Ond. Je ck Warner doubled to center
scoring Altizer. and after Hickman and
MIL substitute batters, had been re-
tired. Clymer whipped a triple into deep
left scoring Blankenship, who was run
ming for Warner.
Three singles and a triple netted St
Louis two in the fourth, and in the fifth
they got one more on two singles and q
base on balls Then came the fatal
eighth, which decided the game in favor
OF the Westerners.
The OmciaI Score.