Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-11
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Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 11.-CIeVe-
land fans wonder why Dolly Gray is not
the greatest southpaw i'm the league. Ger
tainly no pitcher I'm the circuit has par
fed the Maps more imam has this left-
handler this season. A month ago he let
thc,,, down with four hits and no runs
at Washington Yesterday he held them
scoreless again in nine innings, the game
being a draw He worked strong all the
nav his curve ball working beautifully
With men on first and second in the
fourth inning and none out he struck out
I.aioie. much to the Iatter's disgust, and
II was not until the ninth that Larry
was able to get a hit off him.
Manager McAIeer seems to have I'M
covered two rafting good recruit pitch
ers in Meyer, from Youngstown. and
Otcy. from Norfolk. Otey worked only
two innings but he had everything and
had the Maps guessing. Moyer wen.
eleven innings yesterday before ne los'
control and the game as well. Ho"eNei'
had he been supported perfectly In 'he
third inning he would have captured the
victory in nine innings by the score OIL
TO l. With men en- bases lie was very
effective In fact. the Maps second run
was made on a doubtful hit by LaJoie'
Some second sackers would have eaten
up Larry's drive, but it got away from
EilIifer and went as hit. Meyer is a
spit-baIl pitcher and puts conslderaoie
speed on the ball Until the fatal eleventh
he had excellent control.
In Catcher Ainsmth, the Lawrence,
Mass, recruit. Washington seems to nave
q worthy successor to GIN Blahkens'ip'
who had the reputation of being the fast-
est catcher in the circuit in getting down
to first base. Ainsmth goes down 10
the initial sack like a college sprinter'
and Terry Turner on two occasions was
inst able to get the ball to first in time
10 beat out the speedy boy from the east
AinsInith surely looks conner, and II
should be remembered that on account
OF illness he had not caught game for
two weeks prior to reporting TO McAieer
here Tuesday.
Wild Conroy is the only member of NC
Aleer's bunch of outfielders who has play
ed up to his usual form in all depart
ments of the game here. Milan went
three games without reaching first base,
and McAleer finally benched him in favor
of Lelivelt. who had been out or the
game because of being spiked in ST.
Louis Gessler has fielded acceptabiy,
but has not batted as consistently as
was his wont here in Cleveland. Prior
to this series he has generally DATED
close TO 400 at League Park.
In the four games played thus far by
the Naps and Nationals the fielding of
the two shortstops, Turner and McBride,
has been remarkable and causes the fans
In remark that while the American
League is not very strong on third base
men, it certainly can point with pride TO
It's shortstops, for the National League
surely will have to go some to turn out
six short fielders who can equal Mcbride,
Turner, Wagner, Bush. Wallace and
Knight And Blackburne and Barry are
not SO bad. The two best fielding short
s:ops however, are right here now.
Deacon Jim Mcclure all but broke
into the game yesterday-the first time
since the last game of the season in 1908.