Evening star., 1909-07-10
TOM HUGHES STILL
HOODOO OF MAPS
They Touch Him Up for Eleven
Hits, But He Strikes Out
Twelve Men and Wins.

Hughes pitched.
That ought 10 he ''nuff sed, as when
ever Hughes pitches against the Maps 1t
usually signifies victory for the Ma
1ionals
1t was The same old story yesterday.
Cantllon's men winning, t 70 :: How
ever it was not so much the pitching of
Hughes as were a timely hit by Street.
the managerial acumen displayed by Can
tilIon 1t a critical stage Of the game and
a spectacular catch of Jack Lelivelt in
deep center that worked the undoins OF
The I.ajoetes
Hughes was found for eleven hits, m
Guiding a double and two triples, but the
best the Maps could do ~ the run line
was three. lie famed twelve Nappies,
several Of them at critical stages lie
had but one real bad inning and it was
in this that the Maps Sarnered
four hits. netting two runs. 1t was un-
fortunate for the locals that none of their
extra base swats came after Il series Of
singles instead of before They jumped
Hughes harder than in any three games
in the last year or two but il was not
the locals day, and when the final Nap
the count by one.
round, when he walloped safely 10 right,
driving i'll two runs.
Joe Used His Noddle.
Local fans had to doff their caps 10
CantiIlon in the sixth when he showed
lis keen perception by yankng jim
Delehanty 20 permit George Browne to
hat Two Nationals were on bases and
none out Joe wanted n sacrifice.
Browne failed in his two attempts to
bunt and then delivered "a single to deep
short. That started the Nationals on
the road to victory.
As for I.elivelt's catch. ii Is doubtful
il the like of it has ever been seen on
the local field will ever De made
again. II was simply marvellous. Inc
Nationals were leading. 4 to ;. when
birmingham came to bat in the sixth
round. He met one Of Hughes straigh-
ones fair and square, and the ball sailed
on line to deep center. Lelirelt set
sail for the sphere. and just when 1t
seemed as if the ball would so over his
head he leapcd high in the air, and
pulled il down. He was running. SO
fast that in jumping up he lost ms pal
ance when the steaming drive came in
con act with his gloved hand
lie tcppled over, turning complete
poised in midair on his right shoulder,
and then fell over his back; but he
chung fast to the ball There is no doubt
thai the drive would have counted
fn.. a home run. Birmingham had laid
ar his weight against the sphere and had
ii got by I.elivelt it would have rolled to
the deep center field corner 1t was a
grand play for the new National garden
e and the Cleveland fans, although the
locals were one run behind. showed their
appreciation by loud applause
Circus Stunts by Flick.
Elmer Flick made a grand catch of
l-nglaub's long fly up against the right
field bleachers in the third, cutting Off a
run for the Nationals. Lelivet was on
second at the time and Cantllon, who
was coaching. yelled for him TO come
on" Joe did not think thsre was a
chance for Flick to make the catch. but
Elmer. ba gged the ball and Ielvelt was
doubled off second Flick re1ayins the
ball To Perring, who made bad toss
To Ball, the latter dropping the ball. but
recovering it the fraction of second
before Leliyelt got back TO the bag.
While Flick's catch was nice bit of
fielding. it did not compare with that Of
Lelivelt.
Henie Berger started to pitch for the
Maps and got away we'll in the first in
ming but the Nationals found him in the
second round. 1t was evident To ma
jority of the fans that 1t was not Ber-
gers day, but Manager Iajoie. probably
intoxicated with the success of winning
seven straight games. thought the Dutch
man could get away with the game and
permitted him to remain on the rubber.
Their were Rhoades Sitton and Liebhardt
all waiting and anxious to relieve the
German cherry, but Lajoie did not use
the derrick.
Street Real "Pincher."
Delehanty started the second round
with single over second. the ball taking
a bad bound over Balls head as he was
about to field it. Donohue tried To sacr-
fice. but popped 10 StovaN Conroy fol
lowed with a szzl ng single TO right.
CantiIlon insisted on playing the game as
il should be played when Mcbride locked
10 MIN for "A switch in signals after fail
ing TO sacrifice N his first attempt, and
George laid down beauty bunt along
first. Stovall touching him out Then
came Charley Street Now, this fellow
may not he leading the league in bat
ting but there isn't Il effective
pinch hitter against Cleveland in the
business Berger probably forgot all
about Streets piuch-hitttnS procliyities.
and, Notwithstanding that, Tom Hughes.
the man who gets about three hits in
season, was to follow. Berger dished up
straight ball 10 Street. Crack! The ball
travelled on "a line to right field and Dele
hanty and conroy both registered.
Hughes then grounded TO Bradley
Leiivelt started the third with a sharp
single to right and reached second
Man's sacrifice. Flick then robbed Tn
-laub of a triple by his nice catch and
doubled up Lelivelt at second
Just See EN- Loom.
The Nationals went out in order i'll the
fourth. but loomed up dangerous in the
fifth. With one down. Street singled to
left and Hughes sacrificed cleverly Leli-
welt beat out hi; to deep short. Ball
made the throw to first too late 10 retire
Lciveit. Street saw StovaI holding the
ball and kept right on for the plate after
rounding third. but was out in inches on
Stqvalls perfect throw 10 Bemis.
Including the fifth inning. the Nationals
had found Berger for six hits. but mas
much as the Maps forged To the front in
their half of the third round Lejoie de-
cided TO take chance of Berger ''lucking
II through the nine rounds. He made a
srievous mistake and realized il after the
sixth inning ended.
Milan led off with a single between Ball
and Bradley. Berger wasted a couple of
balls on Unglaub in an effort to have Be-
mis- nip Milan of first. When Berger
tried 10 settle down Ire could not locate
the plate and Bob walked. AT this stage
of the game Cantillon decided 10 yan<
pelchanty and substituted Browne
George singled TO deep short. Ball never
had a chance to nip him AT first and made
the throw to second for force-out OH
InGlaub. Luck against the Maps
And the ball hit the bag. Had the throw
heen couple of inches higher. Pcrring
would have bagged the ball in advance Of
CnSlaub. AS il was all hands were safe.
Heine Was in the Way