Evening star., 1909-09-02
NATIONALS AGAIN
LOSE BY ONE RUN
Browns Scored Seven Times
in First Inning, But Had
Close Shave.
II IL The Star.


ST LOUIS, Mo-. Septembe. - Mana
80 loo Cantillon and his Washington
,iaycrs bade farewell to ST. Louis %"sser-
.nv and incidentally put up one Of the
s,iffest tights the locals have encountered
! soma little time before the Browns
we're finally rewarded with victory: score
; Ia s. BATTLING against seemingly 'nsur-
mo,rn,able odds. the Nationals fought
every inch of the way. and not until the
asst man was thrown out in the ninth IN
ming was st. Louis at all sure OF the ver-
dict
Perhaps had big Jack Powell remained
on the mound for the finish there might
now be different story TO tell. As u
was. after four hits had been made. three
# which came in row and tailed TWO
runs. bringing the visitors count 10 with
ia one run of evening up the tally. Ne
Alecr benchsd Powell and sent Bill tfra-
ham IN the mound. Yohe. WHO bats
from the port side, tried hard 10 nam
mcr out a safety. as with runners on see
,ud and third. a hii meant tied score
~ least. and possibly IL might have sent
Washington into the lead. Iole was evi-
.iently overanxious and instead OF wait
irg Graham out an least for one or two
pitched balls the Washington third
arker cracked the first hall pitched by
bound into Harry Howcl's hands at third.
al!d the rest was easy tor Griggs Two
we're ont at tho time. and iote. of course
made the third. which fact snufeG out all
furtheF chances of CantilloD bagsinc the
verdict.
Locals Good Start.
Washington opened up strong on Powell
The first inning. and without any ap-
parent trosIble Tailed two runs as start
n. The lead for the time being looked
good as it was early seen that the Browns
were playing anything but good ball.
However, il seems that Manager Cantil-
ION made the wrong selection in his twirl-
ng nominee for the day when he chose
0herlin to face the Browns in the final
game of the series. Mr.. Oberlin had moth
nc TO battle his opponents with. and as
2 result, his stay on the mound was short
hut very damaging, in SO far as the
Nationals were concerned.
McAleer's crowd jumped onto Oberlin's
siants In hurry and pounded out three
hits, which netted two runs, making the
count stand two all. Oberlin was derrcked
from the game and Groom substituted.
Before Groom could get started the
Browns tailed five more counts, and II
30 proved at the finish that the seven runs
were just enough to nose out the Nation
ais At that had ii not been that some
foolish throwing of the ball was partici-
pated in by several OF tile Nationals. the
visitors could have won easily and had
runs to spare at the close.
Disastrous Throws.
Yohe started all the trouble in the first
inning, when he had double play in
his hands. by firing wildly at Schaefer.
Schaefer picked up the ball and in turn
heaved the sphere few feet over Yohe's
head. These two errors cost dearly. and
when Groom contributed pair of errors
1T seemed that Washington might as we'll
give up, as they stood but little chance
of ever getting up on even terms again
with st. Louis.
This they refused to do. anI when
finally the side had been retired in the
first inning. Jack McAleese being UP for
The second time and tanning. Groom and
Washington had passed their last bad
round, and thereafter played some classy
ball. They fought and plugged away at
Big Jacks slants in great style. and AZ
last were rewarded when, in the seventh
irning. batting rally was started which
their totals up to four. For time
III the eighth IL looked as .hough another
rally might bring the battling up to even
terms, as after one was down, two
singles by I.elivelt and Yolie We're
bunched. kiilifer and Mcbride how
ever. were unequal To the occasion
and both made easy outs. Then in the
ninth some few changes in the lineup
Were made and batting fest was started
which put the Nationals to within one
count OF their opponents before being re-
tired
Slattery Some Hitter.
Miller was substituted for Street and
famed. Slattery proved himself to be
quite pinch hitter by singing to right
field Browne singled. as also did
Schaefer. Unglaub forced Schaefer at
second Uhile Slat-ery Scpro.l aI;yolt
beat out an infield hit and Browne tai
lied McAleer jerked Powell out OF the
game and sent Graham TO the mound
Fill pitched one ball and ali was over.
Yohe cracked the sphere straight at
Howell and Harrys toss to Griggs beat
tae Washington runner at first by several
feet.
Other runs, two in the first and two in
tie seventh. were scored by Washington.
but none proved so exciting to the fans
as those Tailed in the ninth. Score: