The Washington times., 1910-05-04
NATIONALS JUMP ON
WOBBLING PITCHERS
Catching Doyle Mapping and Pounding Him Another
Sample of Teams Batting Strength-Groom'S Show
ing Better Than Score Indicates.
By THOMAS S. RICE.

The old story that Washington right
now has good ban team Is ITS pitchers
set going, was demonstrated again by
The S 10 score IN its favor in the
second game with New York
jos Doyle started badly for New York
IN the first f1nnE. He IS ordinarily
quite a good pitcher but the 1aJes re-
versed themselves TINS time and 1t was
the opposing rwirler VINO Wcohled az
the 20 OF Before Doyle could recover
himself he was hammered for ave RUS,
and It was all over but the shouting
Many times IN the sixteen games that
have been PLAYED bv the Washington
team this season exactly the same thing
has happened, and fl Is the big en-
couraging sign about the OUTFIT which
has caused II 10 be declared Unani-
mousIy the best that has represented
Washington for years
The general batting strength was
shown when Ford who succeeded Doyle
IN the first inning, was touched FOR q
triple by Gessler, following EIberfeId's
single. in the send inning. thai nerted
another run Hits by Groom and Schaef-
er- and an error by Ford on Milan
blow IN the sixth inning, produced the
last Two runs The hitting was good
all down thu line, for when the hall was
not slapped safely the pitchers were be
ing worked for bases on balls, and
those passes helped bring confusion 10
Doyle IN the first inning.
Although Doc GessIer has not been
batting as consistently this season as
was expected. he had too good q natural
eve 10 give rise TO the belief that he
would not be q star sLicker again bis
hits have been none 100 frequent, but
they have been scattered from one side
OF the OutGeld TO the other IN g sur
prisiug manner. and have usually been
OF the sturdy variety which made him
famous ATCAleer had not lost faith IN
Nun, and had no reason Ior doing SO
Al extremely sore hand. added 20 the
doctors batting troubles. but that has
been getting better recently GeSsler
came into MS own yesterday with the
kind Of hits that made him such a
dreaded visitor when he visited here
with Boston In the lCsL inning with
three on bases and one out. he doubled
to center. sending home Milan Schaefer-
and ElbeTfeld In the second inning
after Elberreld had singled. he rrlpled-
as has been told, putting EIDerfeld over
the plate IF the doctor keeps The stride
Of Improvement he has Evidenced ia the
past week Washington IS going 10 he
even more alarming 10 the other teams
FOR Lelivelc and Gessler, with UuElaub
following are enough 20 make any
pitcher Try SO hard 10 fool them tEac he
Is likely 10 get into serious difficulties
Groom Trave-ed somewhat in the fifth
inning, but IL was not q serious matter
washington was six runs ahead, and the
natural tendency was 70 let down Bit
Luck goes against the washington
pitchers. even If It helps the hatters, and
Groom was a victim Of this On the sixth
HeUDliI hunted. and took Third on
VOTERS hit 70 left ChaSe's out scored
Heuphill- Nof-e- taking second WGire-
was eE-eTTD-uzIed trying 20 steal third
That made II two out. and Groom had
q right 20 take things a little easy, but
then hints Of trouble appeared cree
worked him for a pass. and scored on
I.zpOrte-E double 10 left Here comes a
divergence in the stories Roach drove
one that carOmeI Off The sEius Of Nc
Bride Some Of the best scorers In New
YORK gave Il 2 base hit. while others
called Il an error Tor the =nnrtSt0p-
Anyway. Laporte scored with New
Tork's third and last rIn-
At the end Of the fifth inning. when
New York had made three or four, hits,
according TO the different views Of the
scorers, and Groom had given two bases
on balls. NCAleeT was going TO take him
out Of the box. but washington made
TWO more runs right away lu ITS 1alf o.
the sixth. and McAleer decided 60 give
Groom another chance IL happened %
be a wise move 10 Jet the apparently
doomed riSht-ha1der remain for he
pitch the ball that has been expected OF
him
The support awarded Groom in IA,
first four innings IS described as rs-lel
Door The actual errors for the whole
game were only two II Roach hit am
Mcbride did not make r. ElsCEe in th'
fifth hence there ives nothing radical
j. wrong with the fielding IN those earl
sessions,
Washington got an even break OF
GOOD things going wrong When Milan
Usz I'D in Tire first inning with Nc
Bride on third. the signal for tE
squeeze play was given, but Milan fail
Cd 10 connect with the bali, and Nc
Bride was an easy victim coming sEolue
In the fifth inning when W0Iter MAD
his apparently foolish effort 10 s-ea
third i was not as foolish as Il looked
but another case of q bright proSpec
that did not pan out - was an IN
tended case Of hit and r-u- JliS Gre
E1d not hit
Groom got ore clean cIout and on
that was Just as big in tho slmrlaT ~
and fusL as useful In the scoring til