Evening star., 1909-06-03

grounds, but unless it rains this after
noon the conditions will be all right for
| the second meeting Of the Clevelands
and Washingtons. Adde Joss is carded
, for this afternoons game. and as Walter
Johnson will surely be on the rubber
for the Nationals there should be some
thing doing in the pitching line all the
| way.
Clymer pulled off funny stunt on the
| veteran Young in the second inning that
made the old boy look very foolish. Ote
| had reached second as a result of his
double into left and was playing off the
| bag. With Young facing him. and just
as the veteran was getting into a position
to pitch. Clymer made bluff as though
he was going to third Quick as a fash
but Clymer walked back to second and
smiled at the farmer. A single and. "a
double by the locals early in the
game had evidently ratified Young and
made him think that the finai curtain
was about to be rung down.
Although the grounds were soft his
morning. the Nationals were not kept
away from their usual practice and the
| players did their early stunt as though
they enjoyed it.
One of the local S'fans" brought a
phenom in the pitching line by the name
| of Bryant from the wilds of Virginia to
| the park this morning. and Manager Can
| tillon had him tossing to the boys for
| quite while. He Is big. husky boy
with a world of speed and he will be
given further investigation this after
noon. The boy has been pitching for
| club back from the railroads and the
newspapers have overlooked him. al
| though strikeouts and victories have
been his daily repast. As Walter John
| the same way. Manager Joe was interest
| ed in the youngster from the start
| especially as ne has wonderful speed and
good control.
| George Brownies home-run drive in the
third inning was certainly whippoor- will
| and carried to the clubhouse porch on the
| first bound. Several of the local and Wis
iting players were reclining on chairs on
| the porch, but they quickly scampered
out of the way. and the ball hitting one
OF the legs OF chair. was DETECTED into
| the clubhouse. Hinchman started up the
steps after the ball. but seeing 1t disap-
pear inside the dressing room he turned
about and walked to his position in center
Manager La ioie and several of the Maps
thought the hit should have gone for a
| triple account of the players being In
! the way but Umpire Connolly quickly
| explained that the hit in the same
| class with ball batted in the stands
| In the fifth inning Browne drove a sin
/ gle through the pitchers box that came
| within a hairs breadth of taking off one
-.
and there was thankful look on Cy's
face when he found the ball had missed
/ him.
| Everybody wanted to give Bob
| Unglaub home run for his magnifi-
cent drive in the sixth inning but he
had pulled up third and would not
4 have tried for home but for the fact
that Ball had allowed Hinchman's IS
throw to get away from him. Nick
| Altrock was coaching at third. and
| seeing the error, started Tnglaub for
home. which he reached all right. as
I Ball made n poor throw To Bemis. The
| hit was a mighty one, and IT looked as
| though Hinchman had made wonder
| full catch. as he turned with the ball in
! his hands. But the ball had bounded
+, nicely and 'Hinch" grabbed it on the
| first bound.
/ Otis CIymer. who has been batting in
poor luck all spring. opened up NIGEL Y
yesterday with single and a double
and then had to butt into a piece of
, bad luck by hurting his bad knee in
| a long slide to the plate. 1t is a very
| serious injury. and Ote will probably
be out of the game for a month. He
was on third when Street hit to Sto-
vail. who threw home to head off Ciy-
mer. who had started with the crack OF
the ball on the bat. The throw was
all right and Ote tried to slide away
from Easterly. but his spikes caught
In the plate and snap went the bad
knee. II was thought at first that the
leg was broken but an X-ray this
morning demonstrated that only bad
sprain had resulted