The Washington herald., 1908-06-04
Special to The Washington Herald.


Annapolis, Nd. June S.-Ten thousand
persons enclrcled the athletic field OF the
Naval Academy this afternoon and saw
The Midshipmen down their friendly
rivals, the West Point Cadets, by Is to 3
II was the eighth annual game between
the two government institutions. and the
victory of the Middies is noteworthy for
the reason. first, like their rivals. they
have broken the hoodoo by winning a
game on the home grounds, and second
~. it makes the series Of contests stand
even. each having won four games The
series was first inaugurated in, 1900. the
arrangement being TO play the games al
ternately at West Point and Annapolis.
and during the first six years It was a
strange coincidence that the home team
was never able to win.
Last year. however. the soldier lads
broke this fatality by taking the victory.
The thrOng Of spectators ut to-day's
game was the largest that ever witnessed
any kind Of an athletic contest in Annap-
Oils Seating accommodations were lin
tied. and about half the people stood
throughout the game. The crowd was
game itself was concerned, II afforded 1T
tie Of a contest. The West Point lads
were never in the running.
Douglas IA Puzzle.
Douglas, Nays mighty football player
and all-arOund athlete. was on the rub
Der for his team. while Hyatt was select
ed to do the twirling honors for the Wis
itors. The big MILDLY athlete proved
terror to the opposing batsmen. allowing
but four scattered hits, retiring eleven
men on strikes. and tightening when mat
ters looked dangerous
He gave way to Lanphler In the ninth
inning. and before the latter could gather
himself together Army obtained two hits,
which. with errors, netted them three
runs
The Middies took kindly to Hyatts
curves at the start Of the game. and 1t
was a matter of general comment that
some one was not substituted for him
after the second inning. when the Middies
tailed eight runs, enough TO decide the
game. And to make things worse. Hy-
ats team mates backed him up in mis-
cradle fashion, a total Of twelve errors
being chalked against them. The Mid
dies used the stick freely throughout the
game. getting one or more hits in each
inning.
Douglas was a puzzle 10 the soldiers
The West Pointers gave their first ex-
hibitiOn Of ragged fielding in the first
inning, when a wild pitch, a passed ball,
an error, and two singles gave the Navy
two runs. Again in the second inning
Hyatt contributed 70 the run-getting by
giving two free passes, and another COM
edy of errors allowed the Mlddes to get
eight runners across the plate with but
four singles
Army Becomes LtstIess.
The big lead which the Middies thus
obtained seemed to dampen the hopes Of
their rivals and the work after that was
liStless- Time and again the felders mun-
ed easy flies. and the infeld men also
juggled and were frequently slow in
handling the bah. The sailor lads were
faulty in fielding on five occasions, but the
errors were scattered and only one proved
costly. That was in the ninth inning
when Battle made a wild throw 10 first
after handling a difficult fly.
The Middies Tailed their other runs
In the fourth and sixth innings getting
three I'm each. In the fourth two singles
and four errors did the trick. and those
in the sixth resulted from similar pro-
ceedings.
The West Pointers were BANKED until
the fifth, whom they got one runner home
on hit, base on balls, and Jones muff
Of Meyers ny to center. They tailed one
more in the seventh on two hits and
wild pitch. In the ninth, after Douglas
left the box, the Middies seemed to go
to pieces and the Soldiers got three runs
as the result OF two hits and three errors
before the Sailors rallied and retired the
side.