Evening star., 1909-06-19
TALL TOM HUGHES
SHUTS OUT BROWNS
Veteran Had Grand Support
and Nationals Win in
a Romp.

Demonstrating tie fact that his salary
arm has lost little Of its cunning, Long
Tom Hughes went up against the st.
Louis team on the Nationals lot yester-
day afternoon and brought home the
candy by the stut-out route. In the
course of the proceedings the Nationals
Garuercd five runs, or four more than
enough 10 cinch the victory.
Hughes was materially assisted toward
this end by faultless support in the field.
the crowd being brought To its feet ON
several occasions by superb stops Of
screcching grounders and equally meri-
tortous catches .: difficult sNyscrapers
and line flies.
For ST. Louis Criss pitched an unusual
game. being strong when there was lit
lie danger. and apparently letting down
~ piuchcS. Criss is credited with eight
strike outs, as against two for Hughes.
hut the support accorded the visiting
twiTied by his teammates WAS ragged
in the extreme VI least three of the
runs made 10y the Nationals were directly
attributable 10 Wobhles 10y the St Louis
IN and outields. and the victory which
Marse Joe finally gathered TO his bosom
would not have come under ordinary
circumstances until the lucky seventh in
ming, aud even then errnrleSs work by the
visitors would have held the total To two
runs.
Criss Contributed.
As II happened. Criss contributed con-
siderably toward his own downfall by
issuing one of his three passes TO Cab
by Street III the second Inning, and in
the seventh inning by curving in
shoot again clyde MiIau's shoulder. Both
of these free rides Ia the initial sack re-
fy4 --irsg, /.
cause. contrary to tie usual order Of
events. the lower end of Cantillons 5 bat
Ting order did most of the orportune
swattinS, and all of the runs We're regis
tered by the last four men on the list
The solitary exception in this sequence
of events WAS George Browne. who came
10 bat at the psychological moment on
Two different occasions after the men III
the bottom of the batting order had sue
teedeu III getting on the bases. Browne
Jnade tWo-bagger in the second inning
scoring Street and Hughes and in the
seventh Inning he slammed out another
safety, bringing Altrock and Hughes
across the rubber with q brace of tallieS
st. Louis error column received its
first entry when Ferris fooled Browne s
bunt and the runner was safe at first.
Ferris had another chance on Conroy's
hunt, but the latter had TOO good a start
and reached first ahead of the ball
Brownies effort to reach third on the
play would have succeeded. but ne slid
over the bag. and when Wallace came
down after jumping for Jones throw he
landed on Georges PROSTATE body be-
fore the latter could scramble back to the
sack. Cnelaub's effort to bring Conroy
home resulted only i'll pop fly to Will
iiams, and after Donohue had drawn a
pass Mcbride ended the inning by
V hiffiug.
Two runs which the Nationals scored
IL the second should be charged against
Ferris second error. Milan opened the
i00ing by going ont on strikes and
-tltrock did. likewise after Street had
drawn a free ride 10 the initial sack
Hughes laid down a safe bunt, which
Ferris threw wild To first. allowing both
runners to advance a base Then came
George Brownies mighty slam into right
field, and Hughes and Street scored
y hie Browne was thrown out at third
in trying to stretch his double into a
triple