Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-14
MCGUIRE SEES A CHANCE
FOR MAPS TO WIN FLAG
Cleveland Manager Thinks He Has One of
Strongest Teams-Cy Young Is
Down With Tonsilitis.

room. He takes long chances, but has the
nerve 10 carry out his plans. The more
one sees of Elberfeid the stronger grows
| the impression that he is playing the best
/ ball of his career for the Nationals
Four clean. consecutive singles off of
Ionng drove him To the bench. 1t was
! Collins great throw from right field by
which he caught EIberfeld at the plate
/ mat prevented the locals from scoring
more than two runs in the second.
: Milan batted in tough luck lie hit the
pail hard every time up and his liner to
blackburn in the fifth, which resulted in
doubi. play. was the hardest-hit ball
OF tue SiilGe. and would have been good
TOT th:ee bases had ii gone through. His
oiiiy nlt was line drive TO right field
Wn1ch Collins made game effort for
Dut Co'i!d not reach. Had Groom been
wide arak: he could have gone to third
CT Inc nit ard Milan would have had
credit for two-bagser.
Inc so, infield made two double pIays
on line drives. Mlan's. in the fifth. and
t.i''ei ie'ds liner to Zeider, in the sixth,
were both turned into doubles
Conroy was on second with two strikes
| on Elberfeld when the latter gave the
hlt-a nd-run sign. Smith put it over and
Elpefieid sent sizzling nner to Zeider,
anu as CchfoE was on his way to third
re couio not get back and was dou-
/ hie1 -.
FRANK Smith was not the puzzle he
| usually Is bat that was probably be-
| cause he worked for fully an hour he
iole the game. as he did not intend to
I:'cn The SoX were so confident that
Young Cy Young would go the route that
u" ptcnef was kept in reserve in the
event he Went poorly.
Cnariey Street caught another brilliant
game. None of the Sox took a chance
s.eanns. SO Charley had no throws to
make. but Ne made a capture of a fonJ Nv
rlsht on of the stand in the fourth in
nlng with two on the Eases, which nm
doubtedly did much to help Groom out of
q hole. '"' u
1t was tile first victory in a week. and II
was We'll earned. The Nationals played
errorless ball behind Groom, who did his
pest work In the pinches.
The locals scored i'm the Secopd ;,n;po
when Eiberfeld. Gessler. U-ngIaub and Nc
6rlde al singled. On Unglaub's hit TO
Tieht Eiberfeld was caught at the plate
Gessier. too. would have been caught on
McBride's hit. for Cole had the EaU 70
Block in plenty of time. but Cessler in
crushing into the big catcher knocked the
pail from his hand. Then Smith tool,
Ioungs place, and when Blackburn made
low throw to the plate On Streets
srounder Unglaub scored Tho two RIM.
were enough to win. though it did not
look so. ~
Inc Vlsitors' only run came in the sew
enth. when Groom walked Cole as a
starter He then hit Purtell and failed to
get Biackburn's bunt i'm time. thus filling
the bases. with none out. Blocks liner
was caught by COnrOy. and then Groom
walked Smith. forcing Cole over the plate
McBride made good stop of Zeider's
srounder and threw Purtell out at the
plate. and when Conroy gathered in Col
HnS little groundar the inning was over.
the eighth. "
Groom opened with hit, and Milan fol-
lowed suit ConrOy tried to sacrifice. but
popped up a foul which Gandil caught.
then made wild throw to first trying to
double up Milan. The result was that
Groom and Milan moved up. KilIifer
FORCED Groom at the plate on his ground
err TO Purtell, but Elberfeld hit safely to
left and Milan scored, and when Barrows
fumbled the ball Killifer and Elberfeid
moved up to second and third, from where
they scored on Gessler's tap over Smiths
mead, which Blackburn threw to first too
late TO get his man. The score tells the
rest of it.