The Washington times., 1910-08-30

Washington team got ho-le-
Is this winning streak a hOrTid con
Epiracy upon the part OF the Washing
ton club to get the pubiic's money2 We
are not making any charges, but tie
taking both ends OF a doubIe-hea1er
frBnn DctroiJ On Saturday AID IeLE5J-
i-ts IN St. Louis yesterday makes Us
suspect something is wrong Why may
not the string OF nineteen victories cut
Of tire last thirty-foUr games be merely
4 cheap trick TO take the coin from the
fans BY seemingly raising the team 10
fifth place-just around the corner from
tie FIRST division2 The whole procedure
Is so unnatural that II IS impossible
not TO view Il aslzance. For instance
after Washington had entrenched It
self in fifth place, why could not the
national commission throw out all the
games We have won In the streak on
The ground that The city is using reg
Ular professional playersZ We have
understood for the past ten years than
II was against the rules Tor Washing
ton 10 nave regular bah players IN its
lineup. and now that the rules have
been broken, We fear the w0rs,
lake undoubtedly committed suicide
when he forced in the winning run
IN the ninth inning Of the second
game by giving three bases on balls
Manager 1IcAleer repeated this
morning the assertion that he
VaS gong 10 continue AlusTlLL
as his regular catcher for the re-
ma1nder OF the season, uepSiCe the
return Of Charley Street. As has
been said before, this is no reflection
on Street. merely a wise move on
Lhe managers part 10 crowd ali the
major league experience possible into
AlnSmlTn S career III order 10 have
him ready 10 take his ru-u rarrnircr
next season without having to waste
tine getting him ready The Wash
ingtOn club has been striking slumps
carry every year now Tor four years
In succession, and those slumpS have
-nuIlihed 10 a large extent the almost
1nvaTlaDle return 10 form of the team
as the schedule neared completion
Having Two star CaJchers all nj and
on the job should have something to
Go with checking this fearful ten
cency OF the past
Anybody found Lakes right wing.
with which he committed suicide2
Although 8IcAIeer would ike 20 take
Cunningham, his young second base
nan from the New England League. and
RalSTOn- his outncid-r from 4 krcu- Ohio,
On ne next JIlp OK the team through
the west they VIII not be worked ex-I
cept IN ernerEencIes- The hfth-pIaea
fever is upon the mauzEer a. strongly
as upon the fans and the fans have a
baseball tenpeFs ture thar IS sending
them into a LeIIrTuu- No longer 40
they look at the two town clocks
which never agree, and decide TO accept
the slower While they spend a piece rF
the time between the reEIsterfnzS or the
two tin1epieces getting another high one
Nay they hasten 10 the park bright and
cary and the late conner nowadays has
70 hustle Tor a seat
We earnestly besoueEt our athletes
10 be I'D and doing with St Louis yes
Jerday-. and they right uD and done IT.
Amt II 500
The St Louis Browns are nos going IN
win any medals this wear for base run
ninc- They made more foolish plays
yesterday than any one ball team we
have seen in one 5av IN q long tine
and those mental IaDses are a strong
stimulus 10 our ZICat- TrueSdaIe affe-
singing IN the first and third innings OF
the first sane was both times caught
Gat-fCoted of the bases uv Dolly Gray.
CTiEEs Sned Tuadlv 10 second IN the first
game when HarLzell smashed to Scla=f-
er. ard ran sqaareIy into the baEf in
Scnaefers hands, giving the German
plenty Of time TO throw To first and
double ND HaTICZeu Had ne STOPPED.
Sch1efeT would have had 10 change his
stride ana throw TO second, where
fsriggS would have been forced hrir
HaFtZell would have reached first IN
the second same Newman was on Sc
ond with hut one o-t and Czri--z ronpeI I
70 Schaefer- The very sound Of the
blow indicated Il was a pop ny. Ear
ReWn1m continued 10 third and WAS
naturally doubled I'd at second They
do say Newman had forgotten there .vzs
ONLY one OUL. but that does not listen
good in major league ball FfartzefI was
on SecOHd IN the Efth inning, with enc
out when SChuFeiUzer Grove 10 Mcbride [
H8rtzeH was -al5Eht between second and
third, Schaefer making the cut Then
the German reIayed the BAN 90 first
base and SChWciILers light went out on
JnEjaTb's quick stab Such things *
plain Why the Browns arr 50 far in the
cellar although the bail team is not as
bad one by any means as its percent
age would indicate
After the work he did yesterday.
Dolly Gray can sass the Suprenle
Court all lit wants 70.
Germany Schaefer's catch Off New
nam in the eighth inning Of the second
game. which saved the DAY. was. IN
the opinion Of many observers. the
most difficult catch that has been