Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-01
cY YOUNG "IOODOO" STILL CLINGS TO THE NATIONALS,
~~~ LOCALS HIT VETERAN HARD BUT COULDN'T MAKE RUNS

The honorable Cyrus Young climbed
onto the stage out Florida avenue way
yesterday. and, as per usual. he carried
home the peaches. Some unsophisticated
individuals, who should have known bet
ter were passing each other the glad
hand after the fourth inning and were
turning loose into the atmosphere some
such expressions as. Gee. this is the first
time we ever beat Cy Young. amt it?'
Things did look real bright for the Ma
tionals at that, particular stage of the
game. because they were connecting with
the honorable Cyrus benders with more
than the usual facility, and Pickering and
Delehanty had ambled over the pan with
two runs. while the Bostonese had cor
rallied row Of four goose eggs. But the
man who recently collected salubrious
bundle of kale as the result of a benfit
performance in Boston started his own
team toward victory in the visitors half
of the fifth. Cy was the first man up, and
he raped out pretty bingle into right.
Tannehill was doing the twirling against
his old teammates. and there is no deny
ing that he had his heart set on rolling
them in the dust, but combination of
two scratchy hunts. which followed
Young's hit. spelled his downfall. Nc
Council and Lord were responsible for
these little safeties. and Jesse was
yanked. Manager Joe pulled off pc
culiar performance right at that stage by
sending in Smith and Hughes in close
succession. and they played game of
pitch and toss with Jack Warner while
Walter Johnson was stretching the kinks
out of his arm with Mike kahoe in center
field
johnson Started Well, But
With the sacks full and none out. it was
a serious situation which faced the young
man from the wild and woolly west when
he assembled the mound. Johnson drew
generous round of applause when he
famed Cravath but Gessler, who followed
al the bat, sent a-glimmering the hopes
of the Washington fans. He clouted the
horsehide. and when the ball stopped
rolling, at the southwest corner of the
clubhouse, Young Mcconnell and Lord
were chasing each other along the third
base line toward the registering corner.
Gessler was perched on third when john
son turned to pitch to Jakey Stahl. The
latter inserted his left shoulder in the
path of the second or third ball. grunted
and trotted down to first Even then the
trouble was only half over, because Wag-
ner happened ia have a two-baSe slam re-
manning in his bat. and he elected to turn
1t loose in this same tumultuouS inning.
Naturally, Mr.. Gessler came home and
our ex-Jacob pulled up on third. Sullivan
Criger. Stahl scoring on the play Criger,
who had reached first by a narrow mar
gin on the attempted double play of which
Sullivan was the lone victim. started to
plate when Mcbride headed off a short
throw and made quick return to War
-ner. -..-
Locals Scored First. i
Washington's first two runs came. in the
frs: and fourth Innings. respectively.
Pickering shook himself all over and man
aged to land on the first sack ahead of a
slow roller into McConnelrs territory
Capt. Bob was there with his usual sacri-
fee and Unglaub paid his respects to his
erstwhile bean-eating companions by
boosting double into left center, Picker
ing scoring:
The fourth inning was the brightest of
the game from the Nationals standpoint.
Wagner made a mess of DeIs roller,
hurling- the sphere forty-four feet over
StRhfs head, and Delehanty reached
second The throw might have gone into
The stand. but 1t didn't. Clymer remedied
the seeming oversight by clOuting to right
and Delehanty scored. Freeman had also
saved up hit for that particular minute.
and when the smoke cleared away Otis
was on third. the bridegroom decorated
first and none was out. Mcbride also
landed fairly on one of Young's curves
and the sphere bounded high over the
Il
" on second and Freeman was forced
Apparently Clyrner and Gates who was
coaching, labored under the delusion that
Young had stopped the ball, because Otis
chung closely to the sack until Freeman
was out and then started for home. He
was much too late and Wagner's throw
caught him by mile. Warner ended the
painful session by rolling an easy one
TO Mcconnell.
- IS Capt. Bob Doubled.
: The only other Washington run came
in the eighth. Ganley doubled to right.
made third ron. Unglaubs single and
scored when Del also uncorked a hit
1Inglaub was left at third when CIymer
forced Delehanty and Mcbride hit into a
double play after Freeman had beaten
out roller to Lord.
Boston had enough runs. but they added
one each in the seventh and eighth.
Gessler was there with another triple in
the seventh, and he scored when Stahl
hit fast one to Freeman. In the eighth
-Criger slammed single to left, took sec
end on wild pitch and came home on
-McCOnnelfs single to right.
Following is the official score of the
game: