The Washington times., 1910-04-17
DON'T LEAVE GROUNDS
UNTIL ALL IS OVER
If You Do, You May Miss Batting Rally Worth Two
Ordinary Games-Coombs' Peculiar Passing Has
Been Equaled
By THOMAS S. RICE.

Well. well, kind O. seems Ike the
dope that the Washington batting
strength in the upper part OF the list
is going 10 deliver the goods this sum-
mer Is correct
Suppose we had had with us yester-
day such a team as Washington has
been wont TO have for the past ten
years or So What would have been
,le feeling when the home folk came
UP IN the ninth inning, two runs behind
and pitcher going as good as Coombs2
Would you have hung around expect
ant and rooted franticaIly. or would
you have CALCULATED. oh prunes," and
have beat il to the cars while the coast
was Ciear2 II you are a roOter Of the
Big BIZ Taft style, you would stuck
around on general principles, but such
ardent enthusiasts who stick by the
snip until the topmasJ disappears. are
scarce IN these parIoUs tines You
would have taken it on the run for
seat IN the electric carry-su
No, it's different this ear. with
Washington a ruI. OF so TO the bad in
the last session. you may be losing
the thrill Of your life 10 hike from the
park too soon Some Of our best citi-
zens did that yesterday and are far
from happy today In the future they
viii wait.
This spirit Of stickativeness IS abroad
in the land and especially in the Wash
ington team itself Il has been com
mented upon by all The washington
writers, but It Is worthy Of repetition
Fine weather for going TO Boston,
COMBS feat Of deliberately passing
man 10 6u the bases IN the ninth inning.
then passing another one that forced IN
the winniz run, does not stand alone in
baseball history IA the major leagues
When Jake Staal was the Washington
manager and the team was leading the
league for a minute IN 1915, the shove
that started Washlnston's remarkable
slide 20 the bottom that year was re
ceived ia exactly the same manner II
the writer remembers correctly, IL was
Johnson who was the villain IN the
tragedy The first city visited on that
disastrous Western trip after The biz
reception here in Washington was
Cleveland In the ninth inning with the
score lied, two out and one on bases,
Malachi KittredEe conceived the bril-
liant idea Of passing Larry Lajoie and
another man TO MI up the bases ana
give a play on every corner Fine think
Ing Stahl adopted the suggestion and
the tUo Maps were walked Then ia
CO5Sen. Il he was the pitcher was sig
naled q pit The ban straight over IN
stead Of following orders the genius on
the slab tried TO ian the man al bat and
succeeded IN pitching four balls in a
TOW. Not one Of which was within three
feet Of the plate The roar from that
crowd IS SIN echoinE in the Cleveland
stove League
~
d. h.
the season open April l. run 20 April a
and then adjourn until May = That's
about the way the weather figures out
in this climate
some exceedingly thoughtful pitchers
and catchers IN the American League
have another think coming % them
They have evidently been doping Doc
GessIer as a strictly TiEht-feld hitter
which he has always been wherefore
they ara serving him shoots on the out
side When the Doctor IS going badly
this Is all well enough, but when he is
in form and has his eye on the ban, the
plan Is likely 10 20 wrong as & did
yesterday he slapped a triple 70 left
that made II possible 70 beat COMBS
later After that COOmbS tried another
tack and gave him one inside which
the saWDOnes smashed TO right. This
versatility filed COMBS with doubts
and alarms. but II filled the Capital fans
with anticiPations Of a very pleasant
summer to be spent IN watching the
Doctor snite the ban first one way and
then the other A whole lot depends on
the vigorous treatment We expect Cess
Ter 10 treat the bah, and he seems 20 be
preparing 70 make the dreams come
true
BY the way. 5essler's first hit OF the
ma Tor league season was a clean one 70
left field OF Bender In the second in
ing on Friday.
II voyfr mind xfu bark hack 20 last
season you viii recall that a peculiarly
Of NTcP-ifp-S sticking was that for
~oUfeeSedIv weak batter he was suFpris-
in-Iy successful in piuches- An expla-