The Washington herald., 1908-05-28

With a 2-to-1 defeat staring them in
the face. the Nationals closed with a
rush in the eighth inning OF yesterdays
game, punching a double and three sin
giles. giving Washington a pair OF runs
and causing the second consecutive defeat
Of the Cleveland Maps Score. 3 10 p
1t was well deserved victory Had the
Nationals lost 1t would have been little
short of crime. The Maps are reputed
to be a bunch of sluggers. but the best
they were able to do yesterday was 70
make four hits.
Tom Hughes pitched another great
game and improved on any Of his earlier
exhibitions by establishing a new strike
out record FOR the American League
season
Twelve visitors We're sent back 20 the
bench after tanning at the curves Of the
elongated twirler, and had our friend Tim
Hurst been a little more observant
Hughes would have added two or three
more victims TO his string On Tuesday
Rucker. pitching for Brooklyn. IN the
National League, had an even dozen
strike-outs TO his credit. so Tom Hughes
now shares the major league record with
the crack Dodger twirler.
Maps Were Helpless.
Hughes was slow In getting started.
but once he struck his stride he whistled
the sphere across the rubber in such
fashion that the Maps were helpless.
In the first four innings Cleveland got
as many hits In the latter part OF the
game Hughes was absolutely invinci-
bic. In the fifth he famed three batters
In succession, and hts only regret was
that he did not strike out King Larry.
Birmingham struck out on each OF the
three times he came TO the plate. Bemis
Hinchman. and Berger each famed twice.
while Clarke, Stoval. and Bradley were
fooled once
Everything considered Hughes pitched
a grand game. The beauty OF II all was
that he took no chances but worked his
hardest from the beginning.
Heinie Berger was quite a puzzle from
the third 10 the eighth Inning. but once
the Nationals started 70 clout the ball
they hammered the Flying Dutchman un-
I'll they had enough runs to win. Berger
looked pretty good because his team was
ahead most OF the time. but there was
really no comparison between the rival
pitchers. Hughes completely overshad-
owed the Clevelander
Score I'm the First.
Cleveland scored In the first. Clarke drew
one Of the two bases Hughes gave dur
ing the game. and made second on Sto-
wallis out. On Lajoie's clean single to CEN
ter Clarke crossed the plate.
The Nationals lost no time in catching
up. In the second Altizer opened with a
single and Street walked McBride's
drive along the third-base line scored AL
tiZer, but Street was thrown out IN try
ing TO make third.
With two out in the third. Josh Clarke
doubled. and was left. but in the fourth
Stovall wallOped one Of Hughes fast
ones to the Y NJ. c. A. sign in left cen
ter, and was home before the ball reach
ed the inield. Some hit
Ghe run gave Cleveland the advantage
until the eighth, when the fun started.
Milan pasted a double straight over the
first sack and Ganley sacrificed. Dele
hanty beat out high bOunder TO La
Joie, on which Milan chased home Then
Delehanty stole second. Pickering raised
a fly to Birmingham. Altizer poled a
drive TO center, sending Delehanty home
with the winning run. but the soldier boy
was out at third on Streets single.