The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-25
NATIONALS MEET
WACO, TEXAS, TEAM
THIS AFTERNOON
Failure of Washington Players to Locate Sphere
Responsible for Poor Showing Against Cardinals.
FalkenbergS Explosion Habit Returns,
By THOMAS S. RICE.

WACO. TEN. March Washington
plays the Waco, Tex, League team here
today. plays il Dallas tomorrow, and
Fort Worth on Wednesday.
Team work. base running. signals, and
all sidelights of baseball are very well
in their way and win many a close
game. but unless you can hit a little bit
you can't win even seventh place
championship from a team of understood
youngsters who seem destined TO he
last in their league
For further particulars see Joe Can
tillon, manager of the Washington
American League team, which was
trounced at Houston yesterday by the
St. Louis Nationals in the third and de
Gliding game of the spring series be-
tween them. As both teams finished
seventh in their respective leagues last
year the critics now have much food
for speculation and doping on the re-
spective merits of the National and
American organizations. Boosters Of
the American League have been claim
ing that even the weak Washington
team of last season was strong enough
10 finish in the first division of the Ma
tional. but that line of talk viii have
TO be chopped now.
FaIkenberg's Ascension Habit.
on Saturday, when the Cardinals wal
lOped our brave boys by TO 0, we were
inclined TO charge it up to hard luck
and things breaking badly. Yesterday
there was nothing of the sort, unless
you can count Falkenberg's explosion
in the third inning hard luck, which it
was not--it was the OutCTopping of a
deeply settled habit.
The only things that broke badly yes
terday were the curves of Beebe. who
positively refused to pitch nice. even,
Unbroken balls that Washington could
hit. He had the misfortune TO have
two hits come together in the fifth, and
one of them was a long drive with men
on second and third that scored two
runs. The rest of the time he made
the enemy look foolish, and If the Wash
ingt0n team doesn't improve in stick
ing there viii be a crash in the Capital
this summer like the monument topping
over.
Supposed Hitters FAN Down.
With the exception OF that one crack
by Ganley in the fifth, there was a
miserable failure on the part of the
time. Hickman, Anderson, and Cross,
all mighty men, supposed TO be there
Wit. the goods in an emergency failed
w@.sn they were needed the most.
Elankenship got two OF the lonely four
hits.. Anderson a double, and GanIey d
single.
-Four outs We're made by the Cardinal
Ear gardeners. Lifting the bali to the
fence for timely long flies with men on
bases was a lost. art IL was all very
sad and the future is not bright.
That the men who fell down so hard
with the stick yesterday viii bat better
and bring In many runs is almost a
clnch bet, but it would be a great COM
fort if they would get a move on
The batting in all the exhibition games
so far has been away below par, even
In the joke contests between the Tegu-
lars and Colts at Galveston.
old-FashiOned Singing Absent.
There has not been a sign of an old
fashioned smuggling bee. Even when
Washington beat st. Louis at Houston
last Sunday it made only seven hits
and they all came in two innings. It !
takes a few weeks for the veterans to
get started, but batting is a natural
knacN not an acquired art, and % a
man up tree it looks like they should
be able to see the ball better than they
nave been doing this spring.
talkenbarg's curse has been the ten
dency toward one weak inning. He is |
q good pitcher, but when he balloons he !
aces II so rapidly and effectively that
there is hardly any use in taking him
out, for after the damage is once done
he Steadies and holds his own He |
has been showing up so well this spring /
mat CantillOn thought this minor league
tendency would not be so prominent this :
year, but the exhibition yesterday must |
cause the manager to scratch his head /
Explosion Was Typical.
The explosion was absolutely perfect |
and typical ST. Louis made five of /
its nine hits and all of its five runs. !
three of which were earned. in the third
inning. In only one other inning did |
man get beyond third. He is GER /
tainly the heart disease kid for the fans 1
If CantllOn OF anybody else can teach /
MIN to be consistent we will all vote ave
on the miracle proposition. The score;
Washington. r. IT, o. A. F. |
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