The Washington times., 1911-07-30
American League President Consult With Oners of the Nationals
CRUSHING DEFEAT
ISHANDEDTONAPS IS
Two Homers in Spanking Nationals Administer to "Old
Cy" Young in Nifty Seven to One
Victory
By SENATOR

cleaning up the galloping Naplanders
to the merry tune Of 7 to /. driving
Uncle Cy' Young from the slab with
two murderous home-run wallops
Jimmy McAleer's nifty Nationals wound
UP very successful week of basebalIinp
out at the painted palace on the
prairies Of Florida avenue. Doc Gessler.
Akhoond Of Swat, and Clarence Walker.
the teams infant, showed the bounding
pill out to the barriers in the third, and
the oldest settler by the banks Of the
Potomac is waking up to the fact that
Jeems' boys have their mad up" and
are making them all hustle for even a
smell at the cheese.
Bobby Groom, perpendicular person
and altitudlnous artist of the hillock,
never twirIed a better game IN his life.
not even for the BelleviIle Spiders
against the Hyde Park Brewers in old
st. Louis. The human toothpick showed
a wonderful variety of curves across the
pentagon, causing eveRS the mighty
Larry to caress the soft airs of the
afternoon. The Powahful Gabby''
Street was ali class behind the pan. and
killed Neal Ball at second when he
would have grabbed the bag.
Mcbride Gets Two Bagger.
After Red Walker had perished in
the second, Mcbride poled one that
Graney and Olson sQuabbled over, and
neither got. He kept right on to second
when Graney hurled the pill wide to
Larry. Conroy tried to bring him in,
put Graney got under his hoist. and
Charlie showed neat safety to right,
and Mcbride was over with the first
run of the battle. Groom gracefully
famed.
The excitement boiled over in the
third, when the aged and decrepit Cyrus
was spanked till he was verrnillion.
Gee, he was waIloped as hard as IL he
had been caught stealing jam from the
top shelf. ''Zeb' Milan ripped one to
came through with a wild toss. Ger
many Schaefer succumbed to n trio of
slants, and then Kid EIberfeld tried the
hit-and-run trick with amazing success,
tamming clean single to left that sent
Milan flying in safety across the platter.
Applause from the mob and Jim Saffel.
Harry Gessler posed dangerously at
the pan, and the fans blew up when
he crashed a drive toward center.
Butcher took look at it, guessed wrong
chased it to the fence in right center.
Gessler forgot his sore arm as he raced
around the paths and came in under
wraps, having made a clean homer.
Saffel
But when you mention applause-well,
there really was an explosion in the at
mosphere when, moment later, Red"
Walker caught one where he liked 1t
and hammered a low fly to left close
10 the line. Graney became an express
train for a second. but he couldn't get
In the way of the wicked drive, and
raced 1t to the end Of The pavilion
Walker kept up all steam, and "Massa
John Henry wisely sent him In, though
the ball was on its way to the pan.
Walker had no trouble in scoring. Two
homers in succession sent the fans into
mysteries. Four runs had been literally
hammered over the pentagon. 1t spelled
the demise Of Cy Young.
The contest dragged itself along,
then, until the sixth, when the nifty
Nationals got busy once more, this time