The Washington herald., 1910-05-01

Two Red SOX scampered home on this
bombardment, and Dolly Gray finished
out the game with enough effectiveness to
check any more Boston runs. Final score,
10 3.
Fielding Features Galore.
The contest abounded in features.
Strange to relate neither team could hit
for an extra base The New Englanders
pumped single after single into safe ter
ritory; everything they bumped seemed to
go just out OF reach OF the National in
1elders. and fall short Of the outer
gardeners.
Chiefly because Of their batting
strength. and not through fielding merit
or ability to run bases, the Red Sox
won.
Had the Boston team made most Of
their hits count. or had they shown any
Of their old-time ability to run bases.
the score would have been something
like 10 to I in their favor. Instead Of
this. they had to battle all the way for
the game. and even Manager Donovan
himself felt none too sure Of the result
until the ninth inning closed.
Seldom has any team that visits Wash
ingtOn shown such a tendency TO throw
away opportunities for runs. In the four
games played here the Red Sox have
raped out no less than sixty-six hits.
outhitting the locals more than two 20
one. And yet three Of the four games
PLAYED have been exceedingly close
Powerful Hitting Aggregation.
The one salvation Of the Red Sox nine
has been its unmistakable power 10 hit
Even with Speaker out Of the game yes
terday afternoon. tho batting strength did
not suffer. for Niles got in three timely
singles, French, Hooper, and Wagner
each contributed a trio Of safe ones, and
Lord and Jake Stahl got couple apiece.
The only ones in the Boston lineup who
did no. hit safely were CarrIgan and Kar-
ger
Time after time promising scores were
thrown away. In one inning the Red Sox
made Eve consecutive hits without a sin
gle man being retired. and yet but two
runs was the result. In the opening in
ming they got three safe hits and failed to
score. and at different periods during the
game the same stupid work upon the bags
that has characterized the entire series
made itself manifest II is high time that
team work, brainy coaching. and some
. system Of keeping the base runner keyed
up to the situation should be developed
Unless the Red Sox get together and
remedy their weakness in this respect
they will have all they can do to keep
out OF second division.
After being handed some awfully weird
support. for which he was partly ac-
countable in the opening inning, Karger
settled down and pitched nice ball during
the remainder Of the game.
French stung the second ball that
Walker pitched for single, to left field,
but was thrown out trying 20 steal This
was an unfortunate slip-up. as both Lord
and Niles followed with safe hits Hoo
per was robbed OF hit by Mcbride. who
ran 10 second to cover the bag, and
quick double play resulted. Thus three
hits went to waste.
The way Washington LAID the ball down
in the last half made Karger look pretty
foolish. Milan led of with hunt TO
Stabl, and was safe on Karger's half
hearted effort TO cover the bag. Schaefer
was thrown out by the Boston pitcher.
after the latter could have forced Milan
had he held Germany's drive. Lelivelt
caught Karger asleep when he laid down
another hunt. Wagner made a good stop
Of EIberfeld's lucky hit. but could get
neither the runner nor Milan. who tailed.
Gessler hit to Lord. who threw the ball
over Stahl's head. two more runs COMING
in. and Doc making second. Wagner
fumbled Unglaub's easy grounder. and
Mcbride ended the agony by hitting into
a double play.
More weird work characterized the sec
ond but in spite OF bad support. Karger
prevented run getting. Street began by
getting a pass, Lord came in on the run
for Walkers intended sacrifice. bur the
latter dropped the ball Just over Lords
head for the cheapest kind OF a hit. Milan
sacrificed, Lord to French, and Street was
caught at the plate when he tried 20 score
on Schaefer's tap TO Wagner. Schaefer
would have been caught off first had the
Boston infelder been wide awake Lel-
welt made the third out on a fly 10
Hooper.
One OF the most miserable exhibitions OF
boncheadedness and. stupid base running
ever seen on National Park was con-
tributed by the Red Sox In the fourth
Niles opened with a safe drive, and
Hooper's single to right pushed him
around to third. Stahl hit safe Niles
scoring and Hooper making third. Wag-
ner planked one safely 10 center Hooper
counting. Lewis singled bad coaching
holding Stahl on third base. On CARR
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