The Washington herald., 1907-04-21
Yesterdays RESULTS.
Philadelphia, 65 Washington, ..
New York, :; Boston, L.
Chicago, 2; 81. Louis, I.
Cleveland, 4 Detroit, 1,
GAMES TODAY.
No Games Scheduled.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
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Philadelphia. Pa. April 20.-Held COM
plctely under the spell of Kitsons mas
terly pitching for four innings. the Ath-
letics found their batting eyes in the lat
Ter rounds, and, materially assisted By
passes to first won from Washington to-
day by the score OF 10 s. 1t was an in
teresting contest, Witnessed by 5,s5S spec
tators.
Washington died hard. Not until Monte
Cross grabbed Hickman's grounder, tossed
the bali TO Murphy. completing the final
out Of the game, was the contest Won.
Washington made a determined finish.
But for a display of poor Judgment by a
player coaching at third the Nationals
might have tied the score in their last
time al bat. The visitors hit Bender
hard all through the game; in fact much
harder than the score shows, but in only
ono inning did their batting produce
runs Kitson was in fine form early IN
the game, but he pitched poorly in the
late innings. not only being hit quite hard.
but his passes and tumble were directly
responsible for four OF the Athletics runs.
Washington la Lead.
In 10 the fifth the Athletics had failed
TO find Kitson for a single hit and when
they went 10 bat in their half Of the
NTH were Handicapped by lead of four
runs.
1t was in this inning that they began
10 get on more familiar terms with Kit
sons curves. although the latters free
transportation TO first largely contributed
TO the two runs scored in this inning
Lord began the inning by reaching nrst
on balls. but was out stealing. Bender
walked. as did Hartzel. Cross hunted
safely. Seybold drove scorehing
grounder to Schlafiy. which the latter
stopped. but could not handle in time to
retire the runner Bender scoring. Davis
flied to Jones, Hartzel crossing the plate
after the catch.
In the succeeding inning Schreck, the
first man to bat. was safe at first on
[itson's tumble Knight struck out. Lord
drove the ball 10 deep left-center,
Schreck scoring ahead of him, Altizer' s
poor return Of the ball giving the batter
the credit for a home run. In the sew
enth inning. with one out, Seybold sin
gIed 20 right and, with Davis retired,
scored on successive singles by Murphy
and Schreck. The Athletics scored their
winning run in the eighth inning Lord
the first man TO bat was passed to first
from which base he crossed the plate on
HartzeTs slashing double against the
right-heid fence.
score Four Runs.
Washington made fusillade of hits in
the fourth inning. Jones was the first
man to face Bender, the latter fumbling
mis- grounder. Perrine drove out a long
double 10 right center. Jones taking third
base. Heydon singled to left. Jones scor-
ing. but Hartzel held Perrine on third.
kis0n struck out Ganley hit 10 ieit
field. the batter taking two bases, and
Perrine and HeydOn going home Schlafiy
flied TO Knight, but Cross lined out long
single to center, Ganley crossing the
plate. Anderson banged the sphere to
left field for a double, Hartzel holding
Cross on third. AltiZer could not continue
the cannOnade. and was the third out
Knight to Davis.
In the ninth inning Perrine and Heydon
received bases on balls in succession.
MIL batting for KitsOn. moved each man
mp "a base by. sacrifice. Ganley hit q
hard sigle to left, Perrine scoring Hey
don was coached TO his death At the
plate HaTtZel making a neat and quick
pickup of the ball and an accurate re
turn to Schreck, mailing HeydOn by a
ward. Hickman batted for Schlafiy. but
the best he could do was TO offer an easy
grounder TO Cross, forcing Ganley al
second
IN the fourth inning Catcher Blanken-
ship. OF the WashingtOns had a finger
broken by "a foul tip off Seybold's bat and
was replaced by Heydon.
The fielding features were the playing
of Lave Cross, two running catches by
HaFtzel, and catches of terrific line
drives by Knight and Schlafiy.