Evening star., 1909-06-04
RAIN SAVES MAPS
FROM NATIONALS
Locals in Good Shape and
Eager to Battle With
Visitors.

/ Even the weather bureau had to go back
\ on the Nationals yesterday and let the
rain continue until the grounds became
I too muddy to play. Manager Cantillon
believes he has a good chance of taking
| the Clevelands into camp. and was very
anxious to play yesterday. He had the
| players at the grounds, and not until 3:30
did he walk over to the telephone booth
and order the contest off. At that time
il was still raining. and the base lines
were slippery. with several inches of mud.
Manager Cantillon had told the Cleve-
land management to keep the players at
the hotel until he notified them. one way
or the other. but the messages became
crossed somewhere. and the team drove
into the park in hacks just as the post
ponement was being telephoned down
town
AS this is the first visit of the Cleve-
le-header cannot be played under the
rules. yesterdays game going over until
the next trip east.
Walter Johnson was carded to work
yesterday. and he will go in today. Man
ager Lajoie was tcuting Sitton. his young
sptbalI twirler. for today's battle. but the
chances are that he will send out the
veteran Addie Joss to struggle with the
locals. Sitton pitched splend1dly this
spring but the Maps want games. and II
is hardly likely that they will take a
chance on the kid unless they consider
johnson too much of a puzzle to buck
against successfully.
The club physician has notified Manager
Cantillon that Clymer will be useless to the
team for at least a month but Joe is not
the least bit worried. as Unglaub reported
himself in better shape yesterday than
he has been for some time. and Jesse
Tannehill has almost rounded into prime
condition Inglaub is as good a fielder
as Ciymer. but not in his class on the
bases. From the way Clymer has been
hitting Bob should be big improvement.
and as bingles are what the Nationals
need the most. Clymer's lay-of will prob
ably not handicap the club at all.
Should Cnglaub go back again physi-
cally. Cantillon will send Tannehill to
right field This boy classes up with the
too good a pitcher to send into the out
field and he will go there only as last
resort Just how good an outfielder
Tannehill is can be CLEANED from the fact
that the Washington club can sell him
at any time for $4,000 to Manager Grif-
fifth of the Cincinnatis. who is stuck on
playing Jesse in the outfield.
a reporter of The Star came down
town Yesterday afternoon with Umpires
~
at the Driscoll. Base running was
brought up and Hurst was commenting
on the fact that there were no more
| head-first sliders in the business.
1T has been a wonder to me that ely
mer hasn't broken his legs long before
| this" said Tim. He goes into a base
with all his weight. and If his spikes
strike anything it is only natural that the
bones must give way.
I'm the old National League days there
were several head-first sliders and they
were never hurt. Jack Doyle was the
best in the business, and he was an artist
in lodging the basemen or catcher when
they tried TO put the ball on him.
Some day youngster will bob up
who has mastered the head-first slide and
he will be the talk of the country. There
is little danger to it and the runner
always has the play in front of him.
The umpires will be on the watch. as they
know the chances are greater OF slider
gets the bag he will rarely get the wrong
end of a decision
Have YOU noticed the scores the De-
troits have been hanging up all season:
Rarely, if ever, do they get below five.
and generally over that. In the games
played in Detroit with the Nationals the
Tigers had the time of their lives get
ting men home. scoring but twice in two
games and making but three hits in
each. OF course. the. Nationals did worse
than this. but to hold the Tigers down
better than any other club has done this
season demonstrates that the locals can
not be so very bad. They simply lacked
the timely hit and it is 10 be hoped that
they have at last overcome this de-
ficiency.
Tomorrow morning the Business and
Technical High School teams clash at
I-njOn Lea que Park in the nOrtheaSt the