Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28
GAMES WON ANDLOST
IN PECULIAR WAYS
Sensational Victories of Last
Season Recalled by
Umpire Evans.
By Rilly Evans.

everything at ms command, ana SctS
battcd all over the field.
\ few days later the same pitcher may
no selected to work, and, in the language
Of the diamond have nothing" Yet he
scores an easy victory.
Perhaps TO person IS better able to
judge d pitchers work than the catcher
and umpire. l have often marveled at
the way some pitcher would get away
with a snut-out game with a very limited
assortment of curves and speed, and been
equally astonished at the way the oppos-
ing pitcher. who appeared to have every
thing. would be hit.
However. it is the unexpected that
makes base ball.
Addie Joss Of the Cleveland team has
won and lost many tough game in MS
career, but it's questionable II re ever
drC pped a harder ore than he did 10
Washington late last summer.
Joss was opposed to Johnson, and these
two great LHlrlerS were at tneIr pest.
Both had terrific speed and a f2st-5reak-
ing curve, which means the batters We're
doing mighty little execution
Through little breaks in luck each team
acquired a run early in the game. When
Washington went to bat for the last ran
of the eighth inning Joss was going SO
good it seemed If the contest would
surely so iato extra innings
The first man up hit u little fly to cen
ter field that under ordinary conda uohs
would have been the easiest kind OF a
chance for Elmer Flick, who was play
ing the position. 1t was the first game
of double-header, and the sun was d.
rectly in the center fielder's eyes. Elmer
lost the pop fly entirely and the batter
made two bases. The next man Sacrl-
feed, while the following one sent a
long fly to the outfield. on which the
runner scored. Cleveland failed to score
IN the ninth. and the game was over.
1t was sure enough tough one Tor
jess to lose.
Perhaps no pitcher in the history of the
game ever suffered a more cruel defeat
than did Dolly Gray the southpaw of the
Washington team, last summer
On August - Gray opposed the White
Sox at Chicago, and in many ways pitch
cd wonderful game. The scorers gave
Pat Dougherty hit on q drive To bob
I-nglauh that he fumbled. but after the
game Tagiaab himself admitted that lie
should have handled the grounder easily.
If ever a pitcher worked a no-hit game
Cray did that day. yet he lost. Is to 4.
In the second inning OF the contest for
some reason he lost control OF the ball
Despite the most strenuous efforts on the
part of Catcher Charley Street, he was
unable to steady him. In that one inning
Gray passed eight men, seven OF them IN
succession. This lapse of wlldness. coup
led with the three outs, netted Chicago
six runs and the game In only that in
ming did the White Sox threaten the
plate?
Beat that one if you can!
The ability of Barney Petty, the st.
Louis pitcher, is too well known to need
comment. suffice it TO say that few twirl-
ers have anything on him.
Petty Has Hoodoo Club.
Any team that beats Petty when he is
right. always realizes that 1t has been in
III ,aI.,
has usually been able to beat whether he
was in prime shape of not, while there is
another club In the American League that
Petty can never remember beating Cleve-
land is the club that has always been
easy for Barney, while Detroit has been
his real hoodoo.
According to the clever pitcher of the
Browns he can't recall ever having beat
en- the Tigers, although re refuses to adj
init that he never turned the trick For
seven innings last summer it really looked
as if he might do the seemingly impossi-
BILE, but that's neither here nor there, SO
here is the story:
On the morning of Labor day. last sum-
mer, Petty was selected TO work against
Summers. In the second inning the
Browns by a wonderful exhibition o. slug
ging piled up seven runs. and in the next
inning ADDED another. With an eight-run
lead, ii looked as if Petty might break
into the games won column against De-
troit.
Although the Tigers have always been
known for their ability to finish strong
not even the most enthusiastic supporter
of Jennings tribe could see much hope
for victory that day So when Detroit
went into the last half of the seventh
inning with the score standing to 3
against them, things looked very bad
Tor the Tigers.
Knowing that Detroit had always been
regarded by Petty as his jonah team, on
his way back to the bench | said to him:
We'll. Barney, it really looks as If
you might get away with a game against
these fellows"
l was dead In earnest, for never did
Petty look any better. He had great
speed and his dazzling curve was break
ing to perfection.
.'I'll be able to give you better an
swer al the end of the ninth inning" was
Barney's reply.
Petty never got a chance to answer
that day. for in the eighth inning the
Tigers made six runs, and Barney was
chased to the clubhouse. Detroit winning
/? to $ Petty served the same speed and
curves that had bothered the Tigers
earlier in the game, but everything look
ed alike TO the Champs in that inning
and nothing less than a single was re-
garded with favor.
Barney says he intends to win a game
In 1910 from the Tigers.
Jimmy Dygert Secures Revenge.
Jimmy Dygert of the Athletics, who
possesses one of the best spit" balls In
the business. won a game from Cleveland
last season under most extraordinary
conditions
For years the Cleveland club has been
a thorn in Dygerts side The Maps had
the aggravatirg habit of beating Dygert
with monotonous regularity. In fact. so
much SO that Connie Mack seldom risked
sending Jimmy against the Clevelands.
10 matter how good he looked in the
warming up practice.
Late in July Mack found himself I'D
against a long run of double headers
with pitching staff that was only In fair
shape. At the time the Athletics were I'm
the thick of the night for the pennant.
and every game meant q 10. to the foxy
manager of the Philadelphia Americans.
On the day the Cleveland team arrived
in Philly for a tive-game series in three
days the Athletics pennant chances re-
ceived severe jolt by an injury to
Catcher Paddy Livingston that for a time
threatened TO keep him out of the game
for several weeks.
CERT in one OF the games OF the double
header with Cleveland, despite the fact
that he had never been very successful
against the Maps. Tie injury to Living
Ston, however, for a time threatened to
upset his plans. 1t had been the duty of
Livingston to do all the receiving when
any OF the spit" ball pitchers worked
With Morgan, Dygert Coombs on the
rubber Livingston was usually behind the
bat. The condition OF Mack's pitching