Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08

put through then.
George Mil seems to be slated for regu-
lar outfielder one of these days, as the little
fellow certainly fields with confidence in the
outer garden and hits the ball better than
when playing the infield. Howell's high fly
in the second inning worried Mil for the
fraction Of second. but he finally got un-
der it all right and made the put-out. At
the bat George was the real candy kid
his timely single to center in the fourth in
ming scoring Washington's first run.
There was a pretty wordy warfare going
on for few minutes during the game be-
tween Umpire O'Loughlin, Manager Nc
Aleer. Patten and Powell. The two st.
Louis men tried to rattle Patten while he
was on the rubber and OLoughlin wouldn't
stand for it. He chased Powell Off the
field and threatened to do the same thing
for McAleer. but the storm blew over with
out any more damage being done.
The error charged against Lave Cross by
The Star reporter in Thursdays game
should have been given to Perrine, accord
ing to the players of both teams. Cross
throw was a perfect one, but Perrine
damned into 1t on the and pushed the
ball out Of his hands. From the press box
1t looked like wild throw by the veteran.
The fans in the grand stand and
bleachers were all stirred up when Ganley
dropped Yeager's fly in the eighth inning
and Wallace scored. The spectators had
been on the anxious seat for several min
utes, as the game was drawing to close,
and with Thursdays defeat in their minds
thought the turning point had come and
that the Nationals were in for another
throWdown in the last inning. But they
reckoned without Mr. Patten, who kept on
pitching as if nothing had happened. and
the crowd went home in a joyful mood.
There was lots of twist on the ball that
went to Ganley. and the little fellow. not
knowing this, got overconfident and the
muf resulted. Bob pulls off so many
hard catches that it seems incredible to
hear of him muffing an easy fly.
After a person witnesses Bobby Wallace
work at short the reason can easily be seen
for President Hedges paying him the big
salary he does. He Is simply the whole ST.
Louis team and without him the aggrega-
ton would look very punk He keeps all
the players on their toes, and in addition is
one of the best stortstops In the business.
He got ball back of second from Ganley's
bat with one hand yesterday and threw the
batter out at first. When Ganley'S speed
going to first is considered the play was
marvellous one.
Roy HartZell made a pretty stop in the
eighth inning of Cross roller to right, but
came near spelling it all by poor throw to
first. The ball was over near first and
Hartsell had to go the limit to get his hands
on it, but he finally caught up to it, gath
cred it up and threw short to Tom Jones.
The latter was onto his game all right and
managed to trap the ball in time to head off
Cross Tom Jones certainly played mag
nifcent ball and on three different occa-
sions saved the infielders errors on short
throw balls.
Charley Hickman had gone far enough with
his injured knee and deserved a rest with
the result that Anderson was pulled into
first base and Mill sent out into left field.
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good and Anderson and Mill will take care
of their new positions all right.
Charley Jones has been in a batting
slump during the past couple Of days, but
he is slowly coming around all right and
will be back in his stride by Monday at
least. Yesterday lie gave flash of his
great form when he threw Hartzell out
at third from deep center, and then again
in the eighth inning he soaked that triple
to the center field fence in the old Jonesy
style.
The mx-up in Boston was the chief topic
of conversation among the local fans this
morning. 1t goes without saying that Nc
CURE will simply be a figurehead, as Presi-
dent Taylor still has the managerial bee
in his bonnet, but doesn't want to sit on
the bench and take his medicine. Mcguire
Is wise enough to let Taylor do the man
aging as long as he rakes in a big salary.
The letting out of Collins and Dineen was
a good move as a starter, and one or two
others will have to be got rid of before the
Bostons brace up. Connie Mack has GER
tainly reincarnated many old-timers, and
he may do the same thing with Collins,
and If he does the Athletics will be greatly
benefited. Dineen has given it out that
he wouldn't work for Taylor, and of course
a change had to come for him. The Boston
club Is in a much worse position than
Washington account of the many
changes and while -1essrs. Taylor and Nc
CURE are foundering around on insecure
ground Manager Cantillon will be getting
his two feet on solid ground and showing
results 1t is bound to come.