The Washington herald., 1910-04-01
BY WILLIAM PEET.


The philadelphia Nationals evened
things up yesterday by handing out to
l licking to the Nationals. In a hard
fought and interesting battle, played on
our ball yard
All four Of the Phnlies' runs came in
the third chapter. of Southpaw Dolly
Gray. who was bOmbarded for two home
runs and single. Gray escaped by the
skin Of his teeth in the opening round,
and was decidedly of his feed.
On the other hand McAleer's pennant
chasers could do nothing with the offer
ings Of Ewing and McQuillan. The
former worked the first five innings, and
allowed but two safe slams. McQuillan
pitched the four remaining sessions, and
was so effective that nothing Ike safe
hit came our way. and not single Ma
tionaI stirred the dirt around third base.
Show Fighting Spirit.
The game was much more interesting
than the score would indicate. and in
spite OF an uphill fight. the home crew
never gave Ia or let up for a second. This
determined spirit is something new 70
local fandom, and not only augurs we'll
for future battles. but speaks volumes for
Manager McAleer and the spirit he has
already instiIed into a bunch of supposed
tail endeTs
Kid Elberfeld gave the fans chance to
look him over for the first time. He was
roundiy cheered whenever he came to the
bat, and his fielding was clean-cut. He
hit the ball hard every time UP. but al
ways into some rapacious felders paws.
Tom Crooks and BIZ Rapp, both wash
ingtonians, were put in the game to show
what they could do. The former handled
himself well on the initial sack, but could
not connect safely at the bat Rapp had
an of day, and his throwing TO bases
was way below his usual standard
While Gray was touched up in a lively
fashion, Doc Reisling. who went in at
the beginning Of the fourth and worked
three innings, allowed only two hits, and
Groom. who succeeded him in the last
three rounds, made good by tanning four
and holding the visitors TO one solitary
bingle.
Our heavy hitters. Leliyelt and Gessler,
failed TO do much damage against the
visiting slabmen. but Clyde Milan came
across with a corking good two-base
smash, while the other bingle credited
to the Nationals was a vicious cut by
Reisling past Bransheld.
Gray in Hot Water.
In the first inning Gray bumped into
a bunch of trouble. Titus singled 10 right
and Bates smashed one in the same
direction. On this blow Titus tried 10
reach third, but beautiful throw by Cess
Ter 70 EIberfeld cut him of three feet from
the bag. Grant followed this up with a
single, and a double play saved Gray
from further worry in that chapter.
The second inning went better for
Dolly. but in the third up went the
balloon. Ewing. first TO bat, skied TO
Mcbride Titus drew 2 base on balls.
Johnny Bates dubbed one to the fence,
near the dressing quarters, and made the
circuit behind Titus before the ball
could be recovered. Grant flied to Ges-
sler, Magee singled to left. and Lelivelt
misjudged Bransfeld's hard drive, the
ball getting away from him and rolling
almost to the corner of the field. Kitty
came home. and also Magee, giving the
PhiIlies four runs, enough TO win by a
gOod-sized margin.
Reisling put check on the batting bee
of the visitors and appeared to be in
fine shape. Groom. who followed him,
was Just as effective.
Nationals score a Run.
The Nationals never had a chance to
push runners across the plate except in
the last half Of the third. Mcbride. the
first man up, went out. Doolan to Brans-
field. Rapp walked Unglaub. who was
sent in to bat for Gray, grounded to
Doolan, who threw out Rapp at second,
Unglaub reaching first in time to spoil
a double play Milan smashed a beauty
TO deep right for two bases. sending
Unglaub to third. Schaefer walked. fill
ing the bases, and Lelivelt also drew four
wide ones, forcing home Unglaub with
the Nationals only tally. Gessler had a
chance to clean up, but Ewing steadied
down. and the doctor made It three out
with long fly to Titus, who was laying
for him almost to the right field fence.
Umpire Handiboe again gave excellent
satisfaction, and the Phillies had few
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