Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-09
BASE BALL, RACING
AND OTHER SPORTS

square, but took II out on C1ymer. whom ne
| robbed of a triple almost against the CEN
ter field fence Clymer soaked the ball on
a line to right center. and whIe on .he
dead run and with both arms extended
Flick just managed to reach the BAH ana
pun 1t in.
In the seventh two beauties turned up
when Charley Jones pulled down Larry
fly. and Altizer dug Clarke's bounder oue
! OF the ground and threw him out at nrst;
| In the eighth Jones came right back ana
made another fly catch. this time on Iurhes'
that was even better than his previous ei
fort on Lajoie. Turner hit into shoT. l!s t'
center and Just out of reach of Delehanty
and Ganlsy. Jones kept coming IN. yeillns
at the same time and having a clear way.
he got up to and caught the sphere aoou'
steen inches from the ground w. Itii tt,
man almost duplicated Jones EFFORT IN the
next inning when he dashed In on Dele,
hanty's short fly to left. and 1uSt nahasG :.
to get his hand under the pall peioie -
struck the ground. 1t was so close .n''
many thought he had made PICK up ~
stead of a square catch. but the resounoitls
smack on the glove satisfied Umpire Evans
that Hinch had caught the pan al right
Falkenbe deserves lots OF praise tor ms
SPLENDID work yesterday. ana WIN sooo
s.,nport from Heydon and Blankenship ne
would have pulled off easy victory.
Iaioie and w. Hinchman both stole pases
on Mac at critical points, and had he turned
back either of them run would nave peeii
saved. -
Biankenship Is working with a terribly
painful finger and few men would go In
under the circumstances, Both his nuns
yesterday were directly into the mitt ana
should have been held. but In trying TO save
the sore finger the ball slipped away. But
eliminating the work of these two players.
"Fak' is to be criticised for apparently
losing heart when errors are made BEHIND
him. There were two out In the seventh
when ''Dels" throw slipped through
Blanks glove. and all the tall pitcher had
to do was to continue his fine work and
shut them out. But he slipped cog. gave
Birmingham a base on balls and then to
cap the climax permitted weak hitter IKE
Heinie Hi2chman to slap a double into left
field. Hlnchman. right handler. has been
hitting so weakly for Cleveland that Lajoie
got him to turn around and bat left handed
yesterday. and perhaps 1t wasn't good ad-
vice for the Maps
Manager Cantillon has added still another
twirier to his corps. He had SO much sue
cess with Johnson In going into the back
woods leagues that he determined to take
a chance on another one OF almost the
same description. This time the twirler
halls from the Wisconsin State League. and
is a big left-hander Of the name Of Fran
els who has been pitching for the Wausau
club of that league.
Manager Cantinon has been tipped of on
this pitcher by several Of his friends In the
west. and he recently paid the expenses OF
close friend in Chicago to run UP and
look the big twirler over This friend tele-
graphed that Francis Is the goods" and
deal was arranged with Manager Weeks
yesterday whereby he becomes the property
OF the Washington club. Francis Is re-
ported to be fully six feet tall, and with
the same big arms and easy swing pos
sessed by Johnson II he Is within 13 per
cent as good as the Los Angelas lad he
will be valuable pitcher for the local
team. Francis will join the Nationals in
Chicago on the coming trip and come east
with the team.
infa
talked over trades yesterday: there was
nothing doing along the Stovall-Anderson
suggestion. as published In last evenings
Star. Larry Is hopeful that Stovall will
see the error of his ways, pay his fine and
DO ready to play with the Maps on their re-
turn home. Bradley will be ready to re-
sumo work then. and this would place the
old infield In shape once again. Should
Stovall sulk In his tent and refuse to take
his medicine Lajoie may then decide to
turn him loose and take Anderson and Mil
In his place.
A peculiar feature of yesterdays game
was the fact that four times In succession
Falkenberg. with the assistance Of his field
ers. disposed In order of the three leading
batsmen of the visitors. Thus Flick,
OBrien and Turner were put out in one
two-three order each time that combination
faced the pitcher. This caused Lajoie to
start four innings first batsman. The
first time he walked on four wide balls and
the last time he was safe at first on
ShiDke's low throw to Blankenship. Each
time the big chief" scored. the second
time largely by the grace of Mr.. Sheridan.
who called him safe at second on q steal
when 1t appeared to the crowd that he had
slid gracefully into the ball waiting in
Delehanty's hands after Heydon had made
a high. slow throw. 1t Is very unusual for
the three leaders in the batting list thus
TO go out in order many times in one
game. The fact reflects the great strength
of Falkenbergs pitching when there was
no one on the base lines