Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-02
WON IN THE ninth

Lower took the field for the second
half of the third and Miner proceeded to
repeat Mellen.s stunt
brest was the first up, and Black I'M
dertook to foul Roger. who however,
while pretending that he was going to
strike by running out to meet the ball,
completely foued Black, and SO Roger
got his base. Big Mellen, the pitcher,
tried to bunt. but Hal, who was expect
ing this, had started for the plate on the
run the moment Black started to pitch.
me punt started for the first base line
and Roger started for second but before
the ball had rolled three feet Hal had
IL. He tagged Mellen out and, whirl-
| ing quickly. threw to Everson, who al
most missed because it was done so
swiftly. However, he caught the ball
and tagged out Brest as he started to
slide The play saved a run, for Laird,
the next man, drove a single to left and
brest could easily have scored from
second but for the wonderful double
got to first, but the players all relaxed
little after the exciting play and Laird
walked few feet off the base, when
Gipb1e caught him mapping by d quick
throw to Case and there We're three out.
Jefferson had come a little closer to
scoring in the third. Lowell was field
ing all right, but they had not got d
hit.
Everson came up first i'm the fourth,
and YOU could see by his expression
that he meant to change things. He got
near hit. But for Hollins it would
have been a single, but Holins robbed
nm by great stop on his left side and
threw to Church and Johnny was out
i-arke also got near hit. a two-bagger,
had not that big Twitchell turned it into
an out after a long chase. Then Talk
ington hit dandy liner about five feet
over La joys head apparently but
Larry leaped up and caught it and Low
ell again went to the field without a
hit
In their half Jefferson broke the ice.
Little Tommy Beach opened the inning
with his regular two-base hit past third,
the Kind no fielder can get. Capt.
Church didn't wait for more than one
ball to be pitched. He hit the first one
Delvin. and Beach was out with Church
on first and Hollins to help him. They
worked the hit and run. Church getting
to third and Holins to first. One out
and men on first and third.
A run was almost certain. especially
with Larry up. He made good with a
long fly to darlington. who made d
great catch and a fine throw to the
plate. but perfect slide by Church made
1t impossible for Gibbie to tag him, and
the score was 1 to and two out. with
Hollins on second and Warcford at bat
Sam drove long liner to left center, and
Larke, starting with the crack of the
bat, got it after a hard run, and the
; inning was over.
In the fifth inning Lowell didn't get
a hit. but did get two on base Rob5
hrst hit a grounder to Church, but was
out, Church unassisted. Hans taking
time to study Mellens curves walked.
Hal hit grounder TO Holins, who FUN
bled, and both runners were safe. Lowell
now had men on bases for the first time
and We're where jefferson was in the
fourth inning. but Delvin hit fly to
Beach and Gibbie struck out, so Lowell
did no better than Jefferson in its first
effort with men on the bases
In the Jefferson half. Twitchell hunted
and Delvin. LAST to even up things. fun
bied the ball. Brest hunted toward first,
but Hal again fielded perfectly and,
throwing to Hagner. forced TwitchelI
Then Mellen singled to center, and Talk
lngtons throwing arm came into play
for he caught Roger trying to get to
third by fine throw to Delvin Laird
rolled an easy one to Hasner, and was
out at first.
''All right said Hughie, we won't ex-
pect pitchers to tire themselves out rum
nlng Then he signaleo Everson to try
to get base on balls
Johnny let the first one go by. Strike
one announced the umpire Ball one, -
ne SAID as the next one came over The
thlrd ball looked good. but Johnny had
been told to wait il out and the umpire
announced Strike two The next one
sent up by Mellen was intended to fool
Johnny; 1t was all but over the plate.
but Johnny didn't move Ball two
said Laftin. The fifth one was just like
the last one, and the umpire shouted
Ban three. and the Lowell rooters be-
gan to hope 1t was now three balls and
two strikes The next ball would be the
important one. On it came almost waist
high. 1t looked like strike, sure, and
Johnny was about to hit at it when sud
denly it began to drop downward and al
most before it had hit the ground in front
OF the plate (Which it did do) Johnny was
on to first for he knew ii was ball
Capt. Larke walked up to the plate
with a confident air.
''Now's the time shouted Hughie from
the coaching line. You can do it, Fred, .
he continued. Make il two-ba gger
while you're at it and we'll only need one
more
Fred nodded in reply, and then as the
ball sped toward him he swung hard for
two-bagger to left center that brought
Johnny home with the tying run. Talk
lngton had the fever by this time He
came to bat and let two go by, but the
third he hit for with a mighty drive to
center.
With the crack of the bat little Tommy
Beach started for the fence, running as
back at the ball When he got to the
fence he turned quickly. raised his hands
about as high as lis head and caught the
ball as easily as though he had been
standing there watching it al the time
He himself couldn't tell how he knew
just where that ball would drop, but
everybody knew he had robbed Talking
ton of home run, and Larke had to
hustle back to second. for he had been so
sure that it wouldn't be caught that he
hadn't waited. That catch by Beach was
enough to stop any one from trying to
knock the ball over the folders heads
Robb must have thought SO anyhow
for he hit one on the ground to La Joy,
who made easy work of getting ii to first
| ahead of Ty. The score was tied and it
had looked moment ago as though one
run would win the game
Now it was Jefferson's turn To go out
/ in one-two-three order. Beach fouIed out
| to Gibbie. Church struck out and the
best Hollins could do was to drive a long
fly to Ty. out in the right field, of which
he made an easy catch.
In the seventh inning Hans drove one
to Hollins and was retired on an easy
throw to Church. Hal hunted and was
again thrown out by Mellen, and DeIyin
flew out to Twitchell. SO there was little
chance for Hughie to get excited on the
coaching lines For Jefferson it was al
most the same, La JOY went out Hagner
to Case. Warcford hit a high one which
Johnny got easily. Twitchelrs was an
easy grounder to the box and he was
thrown out at first.
When the eighth inning started, how
ever, there was feeling throughout
the crowded stands as though something
were going to break. One felt In the
air. The Lowell players were mildly ex-
cited The feeling was shared by Gibbie
who was first to bat Hughie felt it was
Their or never and said It's up to you,
Gibbie," and Gibbe stood up to the plate
as though he meant business The first
ball pitched he hit for a foul. The next
one was called strike, the third was a