Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-24
WOE HANGS OVER
NATIONALS CAMP
Double Defeat the Fate of Man.
ager Canti||on's Men
Yesterday.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
GALVESTON, Tex, March 23.-Woe as
thick as black molasses in freezing weather
hangs over the National camp tonight.
They are down and out in disgust so to
speak. McClosky's hitless wonders de-
scended on their arena today and plucking
their tail feathers. chased them to the
woods. 1t was awful, when one comes to
size up McClosky's aggregation of juveniles
that he expected to win the National
League pennant with, but nevertheless it
turned out to be defeat. more CALLING
still. shut-out. Score, ST. Louis, 8; Wash
ington, 0.
But when one comes to study it over it
Is not very much surprising Too much con-
fidence in themselves some hard luck in
hitting If there is any such luck, and
whole lot of erratic pitching by good men
who temporarily went wrong. Like all
teams of youngsters, McClosky'S bunch are
just now beginning to feel their oats and
they went at the veterans like a lot of
famished wolves. Later on in the season.
when the ld-timers in their own circuit get
warmed up, the latter-day Napoleons out
fit will resemble a poor imitation of a hole
in doughnut, and a very small hole at
that.
Take the Nationals and the Cardinals two
months hence. and the latter could not
win one game in fifty. But it turned out
differently today, as tearfully related above.
Honors Go to McGlynn.
While the score shows that collectively
McClosky's men all had a good share In
the winning, the real honors belong to one
stony McGlynn. That fellow is a husky
player of Pennsylvania-Irish descent who
halls from roundabout Scranton. This is
his first year in major league company,
but he is venerable spring chicken. He
has been pitching in the mountain country
Of the keystone state for the past twelve
or fifteen years, and If he is day old he
Is we'll over thirty.
Technically he had nothing; he lacked
control, at times he did not have speed
enough to make a dent in pail of dish
water and his curves" were straight ones.
Practically he had a few real things q
puzzling slow ball, hat full. of brains
and lot of staying power. Therefore he
got away with his game
Graham was good in spots, but his wild
ness was costly. Smith got away with two
innings, but was tapped freely in the other
two. one crack by Byrne In the ninth going
over the shortest part of the left-field
fence, sending Jake Beckley home ahead
Here's the way the ST. Louis runs accu-
mulated:
How the Runs Were Made.
Marshall started off the third by being
hit and McGlynn sacrificed. O'Hara struck
to left scoring Marshall. In the fifth
Marshall singled to center. but was caught
mapping at first. pass was issued to Nc
Glynn, O'Hara put a hard one over Hick-
mans head and Kelly showed double
sacker down the left foul line, two runs
scoring.
Smith assumed charge of the slab work
in the sixth and got away with that inning
Perrine let OHaras grounder slip through
his legs in the seventh and Kelly landed
the ball in the right for base. Bennett
sacrificed. Beckley died on fly to left
Byrne sent hot one between third and
short and two more Cardinals hung up fig
ureS.
The climax came in the ninth. O'Hara
went out and Kelly worked Smith for q
gift of first. He took second on wild
pitch and third on an out, scoring on
Beckley's smash that was too hot for even
Lave Cross to smother. Beckley walked
home after Byrne made his easy home run
over the left-feld fence.
There was a world of good fielding In the
game, and it was lovely because both teams
worked hard. but there was much wran-
Cling. and McGlynn's slowness made it
string out until darkness began to gather