Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-17
NATIONALS BREAK
EVEN WITH BROWNS
Win First Game Through Refs.
Iing's Pitching, But Lose
Second Through Weak
Hitting.

Tie. browns with five new faces on
their roster tackled the Nationals yes
terday. and got away with an even
break, the locals winning the first battle
by the score of : TO q. while the visitors
won the second, 4 TO >. The easy man
nor in which the Nationals shut out the
Browns In the first round doubtless made
them too confident. and when they woke
up and tried 10 do things the weather
was against them and also younsster
of the name OF GilliSan.
4 double header is a big attraction to
the Washington fans but the threat
ening weather kept the attendance down
10 about 1000. Those who braved the
clements were rewarded with seeing a
splendid exhibition in the first round, but
the drizzling rain made the going very
slippery and sackened up the speed OF
both teams in the second.
Outside of Reislings work on the rub
ber two double plays, started by Nc
Bride, We're the features of the initial
hattie. The first double developed IN the
first inning, when the Browns looked very
dangerous, and the second came up IN
the fourth, when Mac jumped a mile in
the air pulled down Griggs line fly with
one hand and had easy sailing in dou-
bling up Hartzell at first. Clyde Milan
also broke into the limeight in the sew
cnth inning, when he ran mile or two
toward the center field fence and robbed
Bobby Wallace of budding triple.
Hardy a Hitter.
Neither side scored in the first inning,
but the locals broke the ice in the sec
ond inning with one run. Yohe singled
To left as d starter, was sacrificed to
second by Mcbride, and he had an easy
time scoring when Hardy soaked out
long single into center
In the third inning three hits and three
runs were registered by the home crew
Conroy started the trouble with single
TO center and reached second in safety
when HartzeH muffed Milans line single.
Cnglaub followed with single to LETT,
and Conroy crossed the pan Gessier
died on Il long fly to Shotten, but the
sacrifice brought Milan over the rubber.
Ielivelt tore off double to left and
Cnglaub came home.
In the fourth the Nationals scored
their fifth and last run. Hardy opened
with a single to left center, and Groom
sacrificed. Conroy died on roller to
Criggs. but Milan placed a clean single
in left, and Hardy rushed home
Joke Was on Ferris.
The Browns looked like registering in
the fifth, when Ferris led off with a dou-
BILE to left, but Killifer flied out to Cess
Ter and Stremmel famed Crompton
was passed by the willy Reisling, and
then Ferris was caught mapping off sec
ond. Reisling kept making false moves
10 throw the ball. and finally got close
enough to Hobe to dash over and touch
him on the line. 1t was a funny play,
and Hobe had to stand for considerable
joshing from the bleacher crowd.
Manager McAleer uotted out another
kid pitcher in the second battle. IN
young Gilligan. while Marse Joe pushed
Bob Groom to the front. Cdlligan was
wild at the start, but settled down nice
ly, while Bob was just the reverse. as he
started off well and then blew"
Lots of sympathy was wasted on the
Browns when the locals scored In the
first and second innings, the runs
coming in so easily as to make the Wis
itors look cheap, but the onlookers did
not reckon on the puzzling speed of Mr.
Gilligan.
Unglaub's Timely Swipe.
Conroy worked out a pass as an open
err for the second contest and Milan laid
down a nice sacrifice. Unglaub poked out
q clean single and Conroy scored.
In the second, Gilligan again got in
hole by passing Yohe, and he reached
second on McBrides sacrifice. Slattery
followed with a line single to left and
Yohe registered. The locals then knocked
IL was time to get busy.
After being BANKED for three innings
the Browns woke up in the fourth and
put the game on ice. HartZell singled as
a starter and Griggs beat out an intended
sacrifice Dewey died bounder to
Groom. pushing both runners up base.
Wallace singled to right and Hartzell
scored. Siattery made great catch OF
Ferris foul fly near the grandstand, but
Catcher Smith came to the rescue with