Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-25
NATIONALS ARE NOW TIED FOR
SIXTH PLACE BY WHITE SOX
Dual Victory of Chicago Allows It to Ad-
vance, Though Washington Beat St.
Louis-What McAleer Has Done.

last year. showing which is most re-
markable and shows the team to be one
| of much class
| So long as the young players are given
chance there is always 2 possibility of
| their improving, while most of the play
ers of years of experience are more pit
| to go back than to improve; another
reason why 1t pays to experiment with
| youngsters.
| The games that McAleer is now view
| ing are furnishing room for thought, for
he Is seeing some Of the players on whom
! he may depend for SUPPORT next year in
| action and twenty Or thirty games of
| ball should give fairly good line on a
| players ability. Ralston, Cunningham
and Somerlot are being played regularly,
and If the appearance OF their scores as
well as the opinion of good judges amount
| to anything all three of them are doing
| fairly well, to say the least AS said be-
! fore, it must always be figured that play
ers of this type coming into fast COM
| pany are very apt to improve under
proper conditions.
In the opinion of most players in the
American League Walter Johnsons sue
cess can be attributed as much to his
nerve as to his natural ability. Walter
is never afraid to try, and this cropped
out when he was still green hand.
Jim Delehanty is telling story now
which is going the rounds of the big
league players which reflects credit on
Johnson because III SHOWS the COIl1ueHCe
the youngster had in himself when he
was a mere kid in fast company.
In one of the games that he was pitch
ing year before last, with the score
very close, the first two men up got on
on errors. Delehanty, thinking to encOur-
age Johnson, walked over to him with the
remark, Here, kid, don't let them errors
worry you; Wen get them from this out y
Don't you worry, was the reply;
give me the ball and I'll get them my
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| three men to face him.
If the squirt the White Sox are making
gives a correct line on the actual strength
of the team, and is not made possible by
reason of the lateness of the campaign,
when but few teams are putting forth
their best efforts, then Hugh Duffy's as-
sregation must be reckoned with next
season.
With that formidable pitching staff the
Sox needed but little to make them a dan
gerous contender in the race. Duffy has
done lot of experimenting. He has been
/ forced to do it for the reason that the
| team he started with proved failure,
| and where the fans have once had the
| taste of championship ball they will not
| stand for loser, and so there was moth
! ing to do but try out youngsters, for
| patrons of the game will be more patient
| with a team that is trying to build up
| than one which is going along with a lot
| of seasoned material that is not success
| full
Chicago has had a carload or more OF
| youngsters this season. Most of them
have failed. to be sure, but when ComiS-
KEY made the trade which gave him Lord
and Mcconnell he secured the nucleus
| for a winning ball team. for 1t was this
| pair which gave the Boston Speed Boys
| their start
| Observe the scores of the two games the
| SoX won from the Athletics yesterday and
! the value of this pair is easily recognized.
| Walter Johnson's poor showing in the
only inning he pitched yesterday was the
/ direct result OF lack of control. When
| ever johnson cannot get the ball over he,
| like most pitchers. has to let up. ana
| then of course he is not hard to hit
! That his inability to locate the plate
| was the result of long lay-off there is
! no doubt, but it may be that he will come
back today and display his old FORM
| 1t would be too bad, indeed If Johnson,
now. that he virtually has the strike-out
/ record cinched. needing but nine more
strike-outs to equal Rube Waddelfs
| record of 301, should be lncapacltated or
lose his form for the remainder of the
| season.
| Someriot has made SO good an impress
| sion in every city he has shown IN that
the belief is growing that McAleer
has picked up most promising first
; baseman in the Terre Haute recruit II
this should be the Nationals good for
tune most important position has been
filled. When you come to think of 1t,
there is but team in the league
which has star at first base, and that
| is New York Jake Stahl is, perhaps
next in value, but none of the other
| first basemen have much class to them.
| In fact, there are several teams badly in
| need of first baseman, and for that
reason it is not at all unlikely that Bob
! Unglaub will have no trouble getting
| berth in the American League if Nc
| Aleer should decide to get rid of him.
| There is a good chance for the Ma
| tionals to shake off the White SoX and
| gain on the Maps by winning the double
| header from the Browns today, a feat
which should not be very difficult. for
| O'Connor is doing little but experiment.
| ing just now and giving all his young
! tiers, regardless of class. trial. The
| Sox have another double-header slated
with the Athletics. and they are not apt
! to go against such easy pitching as Dy-
| CERT and Krause furnished. Incidentally
| that double victory yesterday is very
! apt to bring the largest crowd in the
| history of base ball in Chicago to Comis-
keys grounds to see the double-header
today.