Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-26
COMMENT ON THE GAME.

OIdTke q nlSn ny right iSiu at 'hN
old northeast grounds that came down
about six yards from the bleacher seats.
and as the ball had a great twist on it, 1t
bounded into the seats and went as home
run. winning the game for the Washing
tons. Yesterday George Yeager soaked the
ball on the nose for a high fly into right
field. and as it also had lots of twist 1t
bounded into the bleaCh her seats and won
the game for the Browns. When Clarke
made his hit it raised all sorts of glee ana
jubilant shouts, out Yeagers hard clout
yesterday received in dead silence.
There nothing of the punk hit about
Yeager's drive, but a clean hard swat.
triple at any rate. 1t was simply the
Browns luck to nave it bound into the
seats and score them a victory.
1t was excessively close and hot at the
park yesterday, which doubtless kept down
the attendance. The spectators presented
a peculiar sight, as every man and boy in
the crowd had taken off his coat and the
array of shirt waists gave color to the
different groups in the stands. person
can get a line on the haberdashers' styles
of hundred worn by the crowd were
either white light in color. Umpire
Evans dotted his coat and appeared in a
white flannel shirt with blue trousers and
blue cap. and the combination costume
looked very seasonable and neat. There
is no reason why the umpres. whenever
they feel like it, shouldn't appear in such
costume in hot weather 1t has happened
several times that the arbitrator have kept
on their coats and really suffered from the
intense heat simply to keep up the regula-
tons.
The Nationals opened the game in fine
style in the first inning, pulling off several
sensational plays that put everybody in
good humOr. Niles the first man up
and he banged q line fly into left center
that had all the marks OF going safe. Both
Clymer and Jones dashed after the ball.
and as it was getting the best of the
former Charley called for the catch and
got it on a dead run about twenty feet
back of the left fielder. 1t was a long run
for Mr.. Jones. but he never hesitated and
pulled off one of the prettiest catches of
the season. Hemphill followed with line
single into left but to the joy of the spec
tators. Tom Hughes caught him off the bag
by quick throw to Anderson, and he was
down by the first baseman and finally
put out by Delehanty. Stone wound up the
inning with line fly to Delehanty that was
a scorcher, but directly at the second base
man.
During the afternoon there were many
kilograms received at the park from st.
Louis for Catcher Jack O'Connor. telling
him that he was being doomed for McClos-
keys place as manager of the National
League team in the Mound city. O'Connor
smiled when asked if he would accept the
position. and said:
II don't like to knock any one out of
job and l hate to leave McAleer. but we
are all out for the money. and if the own
ers of the club want to get rid of McClos-
key and can buy my release from Hedges l
don't see why l shouldn't take a shy at the
mana cement game.
OConnor's home Is in ST. Louis, and the
Robnsons will make the star move of
their career if they secure the veteran
catcher. There is no in the business
who has anything on O'Connor as to the
knowledge of the game. and from what We
know of him, he should be able to handle
players in winning style.
John Anderson laid down of the pref
test hunts imaginable in the fourth, and
incidentally made Joe Yeager look foolish.
Delehanty was on first, and big John tried
to send him to second with a sacrifice. The
ball rolled along the thrd-baSe line and
Rugged the chalk mark almost up to the
third sack Yeager dashed in as the ball
was hit and could probably have nailed An
derson at first. He thought the ball would
roll foul at every twist but 1t hung on and
finally stopped on fair ground, to the glad
shouts of the spectators.
Pickerlng's hit in the fifth was a lucky
affair and scored run. to the great dis
gust of Tom Hughes. Pick cut loose
with all his might to soak the ball. but in
stead of hammering it to the outfield, a
perfect bunt resulted, and Niles dashed
home. The chances the ball would not
have gone safe had he met it squarely with
the bat.
Dave Altizer pulled off fine stunt in the
seventh inning on the fast-hying Stone.
The latter hit the ball directly through the
center of the diamond and it appeared to
be going safe when AltiZer dashed over,
grabbed the sphere, and threw the batter
out by inches. Stone is fast going down to
first. and, seeing that the play would be
close. made a great slide for the bag and
raised big cloud of dust. His efforts were
useless. but it demonstrated that he is do
ing his best to help along the Browns.
When Tom Jones and Niles collided in the
seventh inning going after Charley Jones
short fly to right field both men were badly
bruised but nothing serious resulted. Niles
was struck in the abdomen by Toms knee.
and the latter received clout alongside the
head from the formers elbow that nearly
knocked him out. The collision was I'M
avoiGabe, as both men had a chance for
the ball, and it looked from the stands as
though either could have gotten it without
colliding.
When Catcher Spencer first Joined the
Browns he weighed about 10 pounds. Since
then he has taken on flesh and now weighs
fully 24O pounds. While the excitement
was on in the seventh inning Clymer raised
a high foul that came down in the left side
of the grand stand. Spencer dashed after
the ball. and. losing his bearings, crashed
into the boards in front of the boxes. The
collision was such a hard one that he shat
tered the top boards into splinters and
pushed the Otner boards Iuiiy SIX lncneS
out of line 1t lucky for Spencer that
he had so much flesh on him or he undoubt-
eddy would have broken some bones. AS 1t
was. he went back behind the bat If
nothing had happened, to the great wonder |
ment of the women in the stand and the |
laughter of the Brownies who were on the |
bench. Jack OConner remarked that 1t |
would be good thing to prop up the grand |
stand, or the next time it would be pushed |
over.
Il take my hat of to Joe Cantllon." said |
Pittsburg man in the grand stand during |
yesterday S game, for getting hold of ely |
mer. | consider him one of the most valua- |
bic men playing base ball today. l watched |
his work in our town last year with increas-
ing admiration. and very sorry to see |
him go out of the game on account of his |
bad leg. Just wait until he gets the use |,
of his feet again and he will show you |
some base running. He is a whirlwnd on |
the bases He is fast and, what is more, |
aggressive. He steals when you are look |
ing least for that sort of thing. He takes |
advantage of every chance. What with |
his hitting and his base running he will be |
a most valuable man to the Washington
team.
The visitor reminded that Ganley |
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