Evening star., 1909-04-27
SLUMP CONTINUES
WITH NATIONALS
Lose to Athletics Through
Weak Hitting and Poor
Fielding.

The Washington players continued in
their batting and fielding slump yester-
day and as a result the Athletics walked
away with the game by the score of to
!. 1t was the first appearance of the
Ouakers In Washington this season. and
while the outfit does not look very strong
it had enough to trounce the locals.
Big Chief Bender was on the rubber for
the Athletics and pitched a swell game
un.a the last inning, when it looked as
though he was in for a drubbing. Dolly
Gray was sent in to bat for Groom and
laced nice single into center. Carey
fouled off several balls and finally was
thrown out at first by Bender while
Shipke, who was running for Gray. took
second. Blankenship was then rushed TO
the rubber to bat for Mcbride. and the
California lad responded with a sizzling
line single into center that sent Shipke
over the rubber with the Nationals only
run. The spectators kept on their feet
and cheered Justify for Unglaub to keep up
the good work. and he responded with fly
into left that was pulled down by Hartsel
after a hard run. Had the ball been a
little lower the little left fielder would
probably not have got up to 1t and the
drive gone for a triple. Deiehanty was
the last man up and he died on little
=. fly to Davis, the ball hitting his bat while
he was dodging out of the way of an in
shoot.
That inning told the tale of the game
from the Nationals standpoint In the
previous eight innings the local batters
were turned back almost In the order
of their going to the plate, a clean
single to center by Milan in the third
inning and a base on balls to Mcbride
in the seventh being about the only
events to break the continuity of the
rotation
Big Bill Burns was on the rubber
for the Nationals at the start Off and
remained there for seven innings. Ills
pitching was fairly good but he got
himself in bad at the start off with q
wild throw to second. and of course
it. had to result in run. After rather
a stormy round in the seventh. Man
ager Cantillon sent out Bob Groom to
the rescue of Burns and the tall right
handler performed Splendidly. not al
lowing a hit in the final two innings
Hartsel opened the game with a slow
roller to right that should have been
taken care of by either Burns or DeIc~
hanty, but both were slow and Topsy
reached first in safety. Barry then
rolled nice to Burns in trying
for "A sacrifice and the big pitcher cut
loose with wild throw to second. Col
lns then moved both runners up with
a sacrifice and Hartsel scored while
Heitmuller was being thrown out at
first.
The Quakers' second run developed
in the fourth inning. Mcbride let Col
Inns fast roller go through him, and
Heitmuller hit sacrifice in front of the
plate. Street grabbed the ball III
plenty of time, but threw badly to sec
ond and both runners were safe Harry
Davis then uncorked a long double to
left and Collins came over the rubber
The final run for the visitors was
pushed over the plate in the seventh.
Bender tore off a nice single into left.
but Hartsel forced him at second on n
roller to Delehanty. Barry then got a
base on balls, only to be forced at sec
ond by Collins on a bounder to Conroy.
Heitmuller followed with a single into
left and Hartsel came over the pam
Following is the official score: