Evening star., 1909-06-18
COMMENT ON THE GAME.

When Manager Cantillon reached the
park yesterday afternoon he hung up
the change of the batting order back
of the players bench, and 1T carried Alt
rock as next to the last batter and to
play right field. During the practice
Altrock and Blankenship were out in
right field, and the catcher made the
pitcher look like the proverbial 80 cents.
Blank caught the ball in every way
ina aginable. and SO impressed Manager
Cantillon that he was sent into right in
place of Mick" Blankenship got along
all right as nothing was hit to him, un
til the sixth inning, when Williams
tore off Il long fly into his territory. In
stead of turning and running with the
ball, Blank began TO back and back,
and just the ball landed in his hands
down he went heels over head. When
Blankenship regained his feet Marse
Joe waved him TO the clubhouse and
sent out Aluock, but the rain came
down the next minute and Nick failed
to get his name in the score. The old
boy will play right today and do it WELL
and if he could hit up to Blankenship's
standard he would be regular instead
of d volunteer.
Second Baseman Jim Delehanty is get
ting along nicely and will be back in the
game in few days. Club Physician Cox
reported to Marse Joe last evening that
Jim was making splendid progress and
that he should be able to resume work by
the middle of next week at the outside.
If Marse Joe could only get running
mate in the batting line for Unglaub and
Browne what a sweet trio it would make
for the Nationals At the present time
Unglaub is batting like fiend, meeting
the ball hard and with a splendid swing,
his double and triple yesterday being
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Bob's wallops is that he can hit with men
on bases. his bingles yesterday scoring
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Browne. on the other hand. is not a
hard hitter, but belongs to the crafty
kind, dumping the ball down in front of
the plate one time and then lining it out
the next time UP. Yesterday George got
away with his first hit by beating out
slow bosnder to Wallace, and his next
effort was a clean line single INTO center.
He is hard to guess at every point of the
game.
Conroys intended sacrifice in the first
inning had funny look from the press
box. Graham started after the bunt and
then tried to stop as Wallace dashed up.
Instead of helping Bobby, the pitcher
slipped down on the grass and directly
in front of the ball. so that the short
stop couldn't pick it up. Wallace gave
Graham a sour look and slowly walked
back to his position.
MarSe Joe revamped his batting order
yesterday, placing Unglaub in Delehanty's s
place and moving Mcbride up next to
Donohue in place of Milan. The change
worked we'll right at the start, as Nc
Bride lined out the clean single to right
that brought Conroy over the rubber in
the first inning. And that f1ashy boy Nc
Bride can hit them in a pinch about as
well as the best in the business.
Old War Horse Tom Hughes is slated
to pitch for the Nationals this afternoon,
and as he hasn't gone the full distance
for quite a while he should give a good
account of himself. The weather at pres
ent is a point in Toms favor, as the old
boy is not much stuck on working with
high temperature on tap
AS Jack Powell is down to work for
the Browns ii should be battle of the
vetS. as both have been at the business
about the same length of time. Powell
is the crafty pitcher, while Hughes de-
pends upon his speed and control
The Nationals leave for New York to-
night. where they are carded for two
games tomorrow afternoon and two Mon
day. They move over to Philadelphia
for games Tuesday and Wednesday, and
then return home to tackle the BoStons
Thursday. 1t will be a busy week for
the boys, several postponed games will
have to be gotten out of the way, one
double header with Boston being on the
cards