The Washington herald., 1908-05-15

A complete reversal in batting form
over the day previous. together with Tom
Hughes masterful pitching. enabled the
Nationals 10 shut out ST. Louis in
well-played and highly interesting game
yesterday by to o.
On Wednesday the Nationals repeatedly
got men on the bases and had excellent
opportunities to score, but the hits were
so few and far between that only one
rrn was scored. Yesterday the case was
different, for in three innings, when men
were within scoring distance, timely wal
lops chased enough runs across the plate
TO give Washington the advantage at
every stage.
Tom Hughes was in grand form, and
1t is no exaggeration to say that he
pitched his best game Of the season.
His control was almost perfect, and in
the first seven innings the Browns
scratched together only three scattered
singles. During this period not a visitor
walked.
In the ninth the long fellow made the
l,So0 fans sit up and take notice by allow
ing st. Louis to fill the bases with only
one out. and Ferris and Tom Jones, two
wicked pinch hitters, coming up. 1t was
currency TO cough drops that the Browns
would get at least one man home, but
Hughes then performed his best feat of
the day by tanning Ferris and forcing
Jones to go out on an easy gTounder,
leaving the Browns scoreless with three
men on the bags
WaddeIl's Curves solved.
Rube Waddell. who has long beer. con-
sidered a hoodoo for Washington, opposed
Hughes, and while he was quite puzzle
at times. he got his bumps when hits
meant runs. The eccentric twirler gave
only two bases on balls, but this pair
of passes were turned into runs by good.
clean hits. A single a triple and the
squeeze play gave the Nationals their
other tallies.
Each team was charged with an error,
but the fielding was generally clean. with
two particularly brilliant plays. In the
sixth inning Danny Hoffman risked life
and limb by running almost against the
bleacher fence and making a circus catch
of a drive from Mcbride. and las every
one thought that it would be impossible
for Hoffman to reach the ball. Freeman
started with the crack Of the bat and was
easily thrown out before he could get
back to first base.
Mcbride brought the crowd to its feet
in the eighth by leaping into the air and
stabbing a liner with one hand.
An interesting feature Of the game was
the manner in which Ollie Pickering com
pletely overshadowed Charley Jones. In
fielding neither man had much to do. but
at the bat there was nothing to II but
Pickering. The ex-Brown faced the
pitcher four times With two down In
the first he singled and advanced Dele
hanty TO second. from which point Del
scored on Streets nit In the third. with
TWO down, slashing single by Pickering
sent Milan home from second. and in the
sixth the man whom Washington got for
Jones was safe when Williams fumbIed
a liner, while in his last time I'D he beat
out pretty bunt and then scored on
Streets triple.
Jones Fails 10 Hit.
The first time up Jones flied to left.
the second time. with two on the bases.
he went out on an infeld chance. and the
other two times up he famed.
With two out in the first, Delehanty
walked, got TO second on Pickering's S
safety and counted on Streets double.
IN the third Milan walked and stole and
counted on Pickering's single to left.
Honman's great catch killed Washing
tons chance Of scoring in the sixth. but
n the eighth two more runs were added.
win Delehanty retired. Pickering beat
out a ount along the third-base line, and
completed the route on Streets triple to
the clubhouse. Street crossing the nlate
moment later on the squeeze NAV
freeman bunting toward second.
The Browns best chance developed in
the ninth. Charley Jones struck out hur
stone and Williams laced out singles
ana Wallace walked. filling the bases. It
was then that Hughes steamed them