The Washington herald., 1907-08-11
Cleveland Takes Final Game
by Two TO One.
EASY FLIES GO FOR DOUBLES
sOgsy Condition of OutReId Kept
Clyme= from Getting Under Hits by
Flick and LajOie and Two Runs
Result-NationaIs Got Only One
ScOre-Shipke's Pretty Play.
Cleveland. 2, Washington, /.

On field which in several places was
ankle-deep in mud the Cleveland Maps
captured the get-away-day game from the
Nationals by , TO /
The rain which had continued inter
mittently for more than twenty-four
hours converted the National Park dia-
mond into morass Of mud, and at the
time set for the beginning OF the game
the field was in such condition that
hostilities were postponed half an hour.
AS both teams were scheduled TO catch
early trains Umpire Evans decided at 4
O'Clock to start play rather than disap-
point about 200 fans who had assembled
TO get a final look at the Nationals before
the club started on a tour Of the Western
section of the circuit.
As is usually the case the visitors prof
tied by the unwonted surroundings, and
while there is little solace in saying that
the Nationals would have won had the
field been dry. the fact remains that the
hits which drove in the two runs of the
visitors would have been easy outs but
for the soggy ground.
Two Doubles DO Trick.
IN the third, with a man on second.
King Larry poled a long fly to left. which
Clymer reached just in time to knock
down, but as he slipped when he started
after the bah, it fell safe, and went for
a double. while OBrien. who started
from second. drifted home The Maps
winning run was made in the seventh.
after two had been retired, in the same
manner in which the first score was OBJ
tanned. Elmer Flick doubled to right,
and O'Brien repeated his leaders stunt by
smacking the bali into left Once more
Clymer skated after the sphere. but again
he arrived too late TO make the third out.
and Flick registered the final tally.
The Nationals lone score was at least
clean cut, for with no one out. Clymer sin
gled to left, was sacrificed to second by
Ganley, reached third on Mis- hit. and
scored on Altizer's out
Considering conditions, both Charley
Smith and Addie Joss pitched good ball.
but IT was the same old story with Smith.
Every time he Is primed the other fellow
IS just little better Smith allowed
Cleveland eight hits, which he kept seat
tered through six innings, while the Ma
'-N--e-4S byl S4A ulL OF JOSS IN iOuT Sepa-
rate rounds Each club made two errors.
none OF which figured in the scores.
ShipIIe's Pretty Play.
The fielding honOrs went 10 BIZ Shipke.
our trusty guardian of third base. who
made a spectacular one-hand stop and
a fast throw, retiring Lajoie in the ffth
inning, leaving a Nap on third base.
The first near-run came in the first in
ming, when Flick led off with a double
and got 10 third on O'Bren's sacrifice. but
the slugger was thrown out at the plate
by Altizer on Turner's chance. Birming-
ham worked around as far as third in
the second. after being given a life on
Saipke's low throw to first, but the
Clavelander died when Flick was retired,
third TO first. In the fifth. O'Brien sin
gled to left, and was caught off first by
Smith, but in trying TO run him down
between bases. Blankenship made a poor
throw, and the Irishman slid into third
Turner famed, and then came Shipke's
circus catch, which sent the Maps into
the field.
In the third, with two gone. Smith
p0ked a Texas Lacquer into right. and
chased around y third on Clymer's hit
10 right, but Ganley went out to Lajoie.
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