The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-04-27

q noise on the sounding brass and the
linking cymbal- But IN order TO win
II even by the humorous score OF 3
to Z the team had TO make good on
every comment which We have made
q bout Il this season, and that helped
some.
A winning is a winning
L all goes 20 prove what We men
toned in our piece in the paper yester-
dzy. 10 Wit. The IAN team We have
now needs some real pitching right
away. walker was hit hard enough
for New YORK 70 win two or three
games in this league Only the for
tunare accident that Manning, F'Tili,
and WARRIOR were all even easier than
he made II possible L0T washington 70
Pile I'D enough runs at the start to get
By safely in the end Walker was on
like the real thing, but weakened seri-
ously, and would have been bealen
nineteen times out OF twenty.
one clean hit IN the ninth By Bertie
Cree would have tied the score
OF couFse Walker has the excuse that
he got so far ahead that he did not
have 10 exert himself and thus let
down That is All right as far as q
goes, but the fact remains mat toward
the finish he was no mystery, and New
y oTk was Shaping MS shoots IN a most
alarming manner IneI Wnen ne be-
came reckless and wild in the ninth in
ming he was tn hole which might
have caved IN and buried him II New
York had been blessed with a little
luck
Charley Hickman IS sUIu playing and
hitting for Toledo
Walker was by no means alone -
inning, but his eight demonstrated what
CaTplcSSneSE VIII do LClIVelL EOL a ball
sQuarely in his hands and dropped II,
IN the ninth, letting in two runs when
there were two out SCLaeter booted a
hot ETOuuder shat was almost a hit
and that also put two men over the
Washington fans for those bad breaks.
but # the pitching had been as con
SiStenL as Il should have been, their er-
TOTS would not have put the game IN
danger
Poor George Mcbride. he IS not bat
ting even a little bit
Walker is a peculiar pitcher in many
respects His curves are palmer 10
the men IL the press box than those
OF any other JCher who comes here
You can see them break, see exactly
why the batter misses them. and see
why the batter swings at them in the
hrSr place lr is generally supposed
that all deliveries are seen clearly
from the exalted station IN the press
box, but such Is not the case There
are men VINO have not the speed OF
Walker and whose curves are even
more of the roundEoUse' variety
whose shoots are not so apparent Ali
OF this being so. and William Je1-
FlnGS BFlan entering no protest. lhe
question arises If walkers pitching
is 50 well mapped for the upstairs
brigade VIII u not be equally easy
for the hiEh-saIa-ied major lea guer
SWarJerS VINO go against him 10 solve
The little problems he OffeTsG We fear
II Will
Welcome to our league, Brother
Brewer You may have slnued In your
early youth. but reporting baseball in
Brooklyn for a New York paper has
aLoued for 81 all
Doc Gessle r'E versatility as a hitter
was wei illustrated when he made a
triple &C. right and double TO center
The doctors crimes against Washing
ton when he was with Boston were
almost fnvaria bly, committed in right
field He SrCCcly maintains that he IS
enc OF cur most scattering hitteTs.
and he is making good al that He
has had right hand that should
have caused hItl TO he laid or until
10 get vel. and has not been smuggling
a. much as expected but his blows
have been distributed all the way
line HIS right hand was bruised in
batting practice at Norfolk and is
stfI IN had shape il is nothing Seri-
Gus. but 20 laymau's mind il looks
Ike the physician viii develop a mean
cbScesS II he keeus-on TebruisiuE the
same spot
Somehow or other. the Milan person
gets on first He walked twice Eester-
aEar made a. nit and forced "A man All
OF which eventuared into three runs
The fact that Dixie Walker made
two hits and twice scored from second
on somebody elses hits should be re-
memperc8 as an eZreluati1E CITCuu-
stance in commenting upon his wob-
bling In the last half Of the game
He ran fairly well and did his part Of
ine run-gettinE in good style, for
which we are much obliged. II was
two runs that won and ne scored two
II we T21t have q pitcher 20 wrong
one way ne can another This wrinkle
or having him explode because ne
makes q success of Swatting is JUS
the kind of thing luck VIII do for q
team born in the dark Of the moon
like ours undoubtedly was