The Washington herald., 1910-07-29
NOT IN GOOD FORM
Poor Pitching Responsible
For Twining's Defeat.
GAME IS a BATTLE ROYAL
Big Crowd Gets It's Moneys Worth
and YeIls Itself HORrse - Watson
Spikes YounEster who Gets in Way
When Riddle Knocks Home Run.
Herald Leads Commercial League.


Twining and Manhattan played exactly
the kind Of baseball yesterday afternoon
at McDevitts that the big crowd which
journeyed to the field expected to wit
ness. and the Manhattanites came away
with victory tucked securely under their
caps because they hit Twinings pitchers
hard when hits meant runs For four
long innings Twining led by a safe mar
gin-fve runs, in fact-and the wise ones
nodded their heads and the 'I-told-you-
So crowd got busy. About this time
something happened. II isn't right 10 re-
peat the sad story. but we have 70 do it.
The Manhattan lads suddenly became i'm
bued with a spirit to lambast the horse
hide TO all corners Of the lot, and the
Twining boys didn't seem TO grasp the
situation; 10 see that the lead which
they had obtained early in the game
was slowly ebbing away. When the nth
runner crossed the plate in the fifth in
ming and a horse shout proclaimed a tie.
the Twining team woke up. took a brace
and for a while faced their opponents
on an even basis. Joe Engle. the
youngster who was slated 10 go TO Roa-
noke in the Virginia State League (ac-
cording to an evening contemporary.
was nit so hard ne slid away out OF
sight and was quickly forgotten in the
maddening throng.
King Brady was showed into the
arena to stem the stormy tide at this
time, and he did his work like the man
he is for two innings. when-and here we
stop 10 weep again-something happened.
Riddle led off with a hcme run over the
left field bank that made the left fielder
tread air, fall all over some Of the spec
tators, and finally lose sight OF the ball
after II hit the ground. The next batter
was passed. and then Kraft. that sea-
soned old professor with the wagon
tongue. sent one screaming sl1yward in
the center garden for a triple. Kraft
came over the finish line on a heIder's
choice and swelled his teams runs TO
three for the round. Brady then puck
cred up and got by the rest OF the ses-
sion.
In their half OF this fatal inning Twin
ing pluckily fought every inch Of turf
like the gritty bunch OF sand-Iot players
they are but despite their best efforts
they could only set one man around.
Crestfallen. feeling like they were with
out friends IN the world. the New York
avenue aggregation packed their bats and
wended their way home along dark and
unfreQuented byways They had lost the
game they had expected to win. and they
had lost every cent OF money they could
place on the battle There is but one bit
of consolation for the rooters and follow
ers of the losing team. now that yester-
days game Is past. and that is, Twining
will be on the Job fresh and full OF fight
when tire umpire calls play BALI the
day they are scheduled 70 meet Manhat-
ton on old McDevitts Field again.
The Washington Herald team, by de-
feating the r. P. Andrews club, took a
commanding lead in the Commercial
League race yesterday. and It looks like
the newspaper men are going to win the
flag The Herald nine viii play three
more postponed games-one with r. P.
Andrews. one with D. n. Walford. and
one with the Southeast Y. M. c. A. All
of these teams will be hard to beat. but
one at a time Manager Graf has no fear
but that his boys viii get the long end
Of the score. If the Herald nine wins
the flag. they will deserve the victory,
for harder working set Of bali players
never journeyed forth from newspaper
Office TO contest bSu game.
The Commercial League will hold
business meeting Tuesday.
Sunday. at $3.50 O'Clock. Kenilworth will
play Aloysius at Capital City Park. Sat
urday afternoon, at Marshall Hall. Ninth.
Of the Sunday School League, and Navy
Yard. Of the Capital City League. viii
meet, the occasion being the annual ex-
cursion Of the machinists.
BY winning yesterday. Hamline crawled
up 70 within three points Of the leaders
in the race for the pennant Of the Sun
day School League.
The Aloysius Club was easily beaten by
the Sewage Pumping Station nine. The
fact that Manager Maurice O'Connor had
banked on King Brady 10 do the tvirl-
ing, and that youngster played in the In
dependence League with Twining instead
Of with the churchmen. probably ex-