The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-08
Nv WILLIAM PEET.

Providing the rain holds OF to-day the
Nationals VIII wind up the American
League season IN a double-hesder with
Connie Macks Athletics, the FIRST game
10 start at 1880 o'clock.
DOC" Reisling win pitch the opener
for the Nationals and Walter Johnson is
slated TO twirI the second. Johnson is
particularly anxious to win his game, as
this viii give him a record Of 3 victories
against l. defeats The big fellow said
last night: Il am going TO pitch my head
OF against the Athletics. as II has been
my ambition 10 win twenty-five games
for the Nationals this season.
ReisIing also wants 10 come across with
victory, as by so doing he will have
won eleven and lost the same number
this year-verily a creditable performance.
The Nationals will also go the limit
TO grab both games this afternoon, as By
so doing there is a chance 10 hnish In
sixth place. The chance IS remote
one. as Chicago VIII have to lose both
OF their remaining games against De-
troit.
II Washington wins two and Chicago
breaks even the teams will finish the
season tied for sixth place. The same
holds good il washington wins one and
Chicago loses two.
/ The White Sox are going at a fast clip
right now, and as they are playing on
/ their own grounds to-day and Sunday,
1.-THE Tigers chances OF rounding up a
Fcouple of victories are slim.
| At . o'clock this morning IL was rain
/ ing steadily and the chance for pulling of
to-day's double bill is doubtful. as the
/ field al Florida avenue yesterday was
so soft that the Boston game had 10 be
called of, although the members OF both
teams were on hand and waited until the
/ last minute before It was finally de-
eided not 10 play
! The Boston team left town on the
o'clock train for New York, where they
meet the Highlanders IN the final game
on their 1910 schedule.
Paul shannon, the Boston Post expert,
/ travelling with the club, had the follow
/ ing TO say in his paper yesterday about
/ the Nationals new players:
The Senators look a great deal strong
or than when they were last in the Hub,
and in Ralston, Ainsmith, Cunningham,
and somerlot the local team has picked
up a quartet OF pretty promising young
players. Cunningham, formerly with the
| New Bedford team. covers lot OF
ground, hits the bail we'll, and is the
idol Of the fans. while Ainsmith. another
New England League graduate, looks
| like a pretty promising catcher
Like the majority Of the Nationals,
almost every member Of the Boston club.
from Manager Patsy Donovan down,
favors the Athletics over the Cubs in the
coming worlds series. During a tanning
bee at the hotel yesterday morning the
Boston crowd collected a good-sized pool
and snapped up $500 worth Of bets at Il
| TO on the Cubs,
Manager Jim McAleer yesterday signed
| a contract for two years more as pilot
OF the Nationals, and the stockholders
are to be congratulated on obtaining his
services. for he has demonstrated beyond
all doubt that he can give the Capital
winning ball. With McAleer's long ex-
perience and shrewdness. together with
the present fine nucleus, II would not be
at all surprising II he gathered around
him a bunch next year that would finish
somewhere in the first division Nc
Aleer viii not be hampered for lack OF
funds. and will be given fun sway in
the matter of signing, releasing, and
trading players.
McAleer has made himself solid not
only with the stockholders OF the club