Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-08

the leather numerically, one Of his drives
being three-bagger to the clubhouse.
Milan's nimble legs also added to Ste
phens' discontinue. for he committed
each occasion without the consent of the
st. Louis catching department.
One charlotte russo and three cream
Of st. Jacobs Oil and a gallon of arnica
May his pitching arm never go lame
again. He buffaloed Jim McAleer's ST.
Louis aggregation through all the nine
innings. Six scattered safe swats were
the best the visitors could do with his
delivery Long Tom whitfield five Of the
Brownies and issued only one pass. One
lone error Of omission should be charged
to him. because he wound up long enough
to keep an eight-day clock In continuous
Tom Jones to steal home.
Mourning bands and other signs Of sor-
row for Bob Unglaub. He Is out of the
tiers ordering b. 8 indefinite suspen-
pion plus a twenty-dve-dollar fine be-
cause of his run-in with Umpire KERN,
incident to the arbiter's ruling on balls
and strikes In Thursdays game.
Charley Street showed up at the
grounds yesterday primed to catch his
one-hundredth game in the present Amer
lean League season. He was suffering
from a bruise on his heel, received in
that he could not lace his shoe. Charley
wanted to play anyhow. but Marse Joe
was obdurate and ordered his prize
catcher off the grounds. with the in
Another clash with the st. Louis
Browns tomorrow afternoon at 4:3O, with
either Oberlin or Gray on the firing line
for the Nationals.
The value of Brownies speed was we'll
attested in the sixth inning, when he
drove bounder toward first base. Jones
ran UP on the ball and undertook to
retire the runner unassisted. Jones slid
into the bag feet first. but Browne beat
him by a hair 'and earned the decision.
Conroy and Delehanty were called upon
to do the cap-lifting stunt at different
periods of the game, the latter when he
retired Hartzell, the first batter up in
the first inning. by a pretty running
catch of a sizzling drive, and the former
when he nipped McAleese at first by a
beautiful one-hand scoop and throw of
hard-hit bounder.
Judged on their two performances here on
this trip. it would certainly seem to the
unprejudiced observer that the Browns
should not be ahead Of the Nationals in
the pennant chase. The visitors victory
Friday was due to two flukes in row,
the only wobbles charged to the Can
tillonites in the game. and in yester-
days contest the locals fairly played
circles around their adversaries. Marse
Joe's boys excelled McAleer's pets in the
hitting department., on the base lines.
In battery work and in fielding. Mani
testify. the victory was earned.
Bobbie Wallace. at short field for st.
Louis. was injured by bounding ball
as he tried to catch Browne stealing In
the sixth inning and his retirement did
not at all improve the vi5itors' defense.
Hartzell was moved In from right field.
and Petty took that position. Blanken-
back of short on his turn at the bat in
the sixth. and. because Hartzell did not
understand the signals a collision be-
tween two or more Of the fielders was
narrowly averted. The net result of the
play was that Hartzell. Stone and Nc
of the ball and then stopped. The pellet
fell safely between them and Browne
scored from second.
The only flash of his old-time form
shown by Waddell was, in the third in
ming. Milan had scored on his own three
Dagger and Blankepship's hit, and. after
Deiehanty had whitfield. Lelivelt and Con-
roy laid down successive bunts, filing
the bases. Then the Reuben donned q
determined expression. put terrific
jump on the ball and whitfield Mcbride
with three straight strikes. But the
Reuben's .wiles did not disconcert the
Jigger Donohue. because he was there
with the opportune hit. and the inning
was ended only by George Stones perfect
throw to the plate, mailing Lelivelt by
yards.