The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-20
Washington Lucky to Win
First Game With johnson
b Remarkably Wild,
GROOM A FAILURE
IN SECOND GAME
Yankees Pail Upon Youthful
Twirler With Dire Results.
Many Substitutes.

NEW YORK, June 10.-AEore than
e0.Oo0 people crowded into American
Lssgue Park yesterday afternoon and
listened with ears 10 the ground for the
Yankees TO break the losing streak
which has hung like a cloud over the
team all the last week. but the fans had
TO wait until the second game of a don
bic header before their favOrites We're
crowned with victory. Washington took
the first when il IeH on Jack C9aeshro
IN the ninth inning with the score a tie
and 1olted home four runs, which made
the final score to 4. The second con-
test was a different story and the High
landers won easily, to 3.
The initial game made many a spec
tator retrospective of tfse early season
days when the Yankees pryed Off runs
IN chunks of seven and eight to the in
ming against the Nationals. A few OF
these spare tallies could have been used
yesterday Jack ChesbrO's collapse
in the ninth inning also made many a
fan look back little further TO the
days when the Happy One was irwin
chile and his iron arm felt no i'll effects
from two games in an afternoon So
quickly does g baseball idol pass
First Was Ragged
The opening attraction was an up and
down sort Of affair. the Yankees being
ultimately down. The crowd was hap
py when it was announced that Ches-
j.
each other. The Washington star
pitched a very cratic game, and when
he was good ne was all TO the strike
out, and when he was bad he was wild
To bear out this statement attention
might be called 10 the fact that he gave
five bases on balls. struck out ten bat
tiers. and made tive wild pitches IN
fact. the day was remarkable FOR loose
heaves. nine being totaled against the
FIVE pitchers who worked.
Chesbro made out we'll enough rantii
~ H. H-Ha HE
shoots plentifully a couple of errors
and a base on balls aided and abetEed
The busy run gatherers until the hosne
talent presented demoralized appear
ance indeed. Even the fans laughed /
at some OF the dismal efforts TO stave
of the impending defeat
Johnson ErEatic.
johnson. who had been harder for the
Yankees TO analyse than a jig saw puz-
zle Up TO the fourth. made his first as
cension at that junction.
Both sides were conservative about
getting men on bases up to the ninth. |
Then four grouped hits, two being dou-
hles. two errors and a base on balls /
gave the Nationals a quartet OF runs
aud the game. The Yankees made one
IN their half on two passes and a wild
pitch before the setto was terminated.
The second game was a case Of the
many are called but few are chosen
for while the Nationals ran in subsut- /
tufeS, The Yankees. Win an uuCltaIiEEtA
combination, were always the leaders.
Groom was never much of puzzle, /
and the StallingS crowd started right on 4
in the first inning. They got two more i
IN the NTH on a couple OF hits some
bad washington baseball, and one
cLargeab bic error. Three Yankees
streaked across the plate so close to- Il
gefher in the sixth that they crowded /
each other, two getting home on long !
double by Lake
One IN Ninth.
L began tc look like a whiteWash. but 4
IN the eighth four hits and a wild pitch
nethsd the Nationals two The waist Of
the Washington batting order started
the llinth, but a base on balls and a
double were good for only one run 4
Nick AltrOck, who had relieved
Groom IN the eighth when an emeT- /
geHcy batter had hit for him, made the
last out of the afternoon by tanning. /
Nick" started to play right field in the
fiTst game, was taken out and pitched
one inning of the second
The Score: