The Washington herald., 1910-04-28
srANDTNc or THE CLUBS.
by WILLIAM PEET.

How is a fellow 10 be an optinist and
say cheerful things about baseball team
when q foreign aggregation blows into
town and makes seven runs In one inning.
winning out IL TO /.
Seven runs in one round ard four more
at various other stages. by the aid of
twenty-one hits. including a home run,
triple, and two-baGger was BostOn's por-
ton in the opening game OF the series
yesterday. while the home team collected
eight swats and only scored one tally.
The tale is a sad one. as some 1000 fans
will attest.
Dolly Gray. who won his game against
the Boston Red Sox In the Hub last week,
was elected to take another shot at the
Bean brigade. and twirled respectable
game up TO the fatal eighth. when. after
four slams IN a row. including a circuit
punch. had been registered. he was yanked
out and Joe Hovlik substituted Joe
could hardly do worse. Manager McAleer
figured. and might possibly do better The
score book showed that he did just about
as well as Gray, for the visitors dubbed
out four hits and scored three runs in the
eighth. and added another on two hits
in the ninth i
Nationals Score First.
The Nationals got TO ArelIanes for a run
in the opener. and had chances TO boost
up their total in the sixth and seventh,
but the timely taps never came.
National Park may have seen exhibit
tons Of hard-hitting before. and the I'M
happy Washington outfit has been trim
med by even bigger scores on their own
domain. but never within the memory OF
American League fans has a visiting club
handed rougher treatment TO local pitch>
ers than that diShed out by the Red Sox
yesterday afternoon.
Nettled at the continued course OF
sOuthpaws sent against them since the
opening Of the season, in addition to
sending Dolly Gray to the bench in the
eighth inning. after hitting him safely
fifteen times the Red Sox showed that
right-handers were even more to their
liking by handing an even sitter desc to
Hcvlik. the big right-hander who sue
ceeded him.
Boston Shifts Lineup.
II was certainly a terrific swatfest. and
the eleventh hour change instituted by
Manager Donovan had a great deal to do
with it After a conference with Capt
Lord in the morning he decided to play
Charlie French on second base to give
Harry Niles a rest, and play both Hooper
and Lewis In the outheld
Lewis got three safe hits out OF five
time at bat and lost another one through
a remarkable stop by Gray. Hooper
got three clean drives. too, and like
Lewis his hitting figured considerably
in the runmaking. French made two safe
hits, and scored two of Boston's runs
Pretty fair for a utility man.
1t will be many a long day before
Washington fans forget the way that
Iris Speaker handled the ash Iris has
been having a layoff with the stick of
late, but he more than atoned for it
yesterday with four terrific hits out Of
five times up. One Of these was a hard.
long drive for a home run over the right
field fence, the first made over that fence
by an American League player. Not for
nine years has a ball been dropped over
there before In addition, he got in one
ripping three-bagger, besides two singles.
Harry Lord got three hits. including a
triple when the bases were full Stahl
got two safe ones and Carrigsn three.
The Red Sox needed 70 hit the ball hard
yesterday. as the Nationals had their
batting toys on, too. for they hammered
Arellanes from the start to the finish OF
the game. on four different occasions the
Senior was in a serious predicament. and
for three different innings Raw Collin was
out behind the grand stand warming up
In readiness to take his place on the slab.
But Arellanes stiffened when things look
ed worst, and the brilliant support given
him by Lord, Speaker, Wagner Lewis.
and French pulled him safely through.
Lords Great stop.
Lord made one OF the greatest stons
ever seen on the local park, a one-handed
stab Of Elberfeld's savage line drive close
TO the ground in the first inning. 1t was
a terrific drive, and Lord stopped il with
his bare hand on the short bound. getting
his man between the bases Had the hit
ever gotten by the Boston fielder IL would
have been good for two bases. and Arel-
lanes might have been sent to the bench
Speaker made a couple Of grand running
catches In center.
In consideration OF the heavy hitting
the fielding Of both teams was remark
able. Milan and Elberfeld exceIIed in the
fielding department for Washington
Lord singled in the first inning with one
down. but 10 no purpose. as the Nationals
started after Arellanes in ominous fash
ion. Milan was the first man to face him
ana ne hit safely Wagner threw Schae-
Ter out. but Lelivelt hit a clean one to
left. Lewis made a lightning throw home
and Carrigan might have nailed his man
mad he stopped the throw. but he didn't:
the run scored and Lelivelt went to sec
ond. Then Lord made that hair-raising
stop of Elberfeld and Lelivelt was caught
between the bases: Gessler drew a pass
but Unglaub retired the side by drop
ping a puny hit in front Of Carrigan and
was out at first
Lewis was the second man to face Gray