The Washington times., 1911-07-14
TWO CAUSES FOR
TOHNSON'S DEFEAT
Idol Of the Nationals Beaten BY Napanders In Third
Game At Cleveland Owing to Lack of Assist
ance and His Clay Feet
By SENATOR"
Only Washington Ne

CLEVELAND. July H-It was the
same old story. Walter johnson, idol
Of the Nationals, went down to defeat
in the third battle because his assist
ants failed to do their part Of the work
in hand. Then, too. the idol was discov-
cred a couple of times to be adorned
with feet Of mere clay. and the combi-
nation was sufficient to lose the honors
for the struggling lads from Washing
| ton, by a score of to S.
For three innings it looked like the
forerunner of a pitchers combat be-
tween Rubber Knapp and Walter
Johnson, but the fourth saw the break.
With one down, Clarence Walker bang
er one too hot for Turner to hold, and
reached third on McBride's timely
drive to right. George stole in cloud
of dust Cunningham sacrifice satler
to Birmingham let Red" Walker tally.
The other half Of the fourth. how
ever, was disastrous for the Nationals.
Walker and Milan got mixed on Jack
sons Texas Lacquer. and 1t fell safe
as he touched second. He reached third
when Elberfeld threw out Stovall. FL
berfeld leaped into the air and speared
Birmingham's drive with one hand, but
before the applause Of the multitude
had died away, threw badly to Schae-
fer. The ball rolled to right field, Jack
son scoring and Birmingham landing
safely on second base. Neal Ball plant
ed a safety in left, scoring Birmingham
and putting the Naplanders in the lead.
Mcbride became afflicted with stage
fright, juggled Turner's bounce and
then dropped II altogether. There were
two on and they moved up on e passed
ball. johnson buckled down to work,
despite the weakness behind him, and
famed Fisher, but Knapp slammed the
pill over walkers head to the bleach
ers for a triple, scoring Birmingham
and Ball. Schaefer's brittle shins stop
ped Graney's sizzling safety, Knapp
going over with the fifth run. John
Henry ended the session by running
to the stand and taking olson's high
foul and went up a peg When Milan
walked. Schaefer famed and Elber-
field skled to Birmingham, but John
son scored when Doc Gessler singled
too, but Olson turned in a wonderful
one handed stop of Red" Walkers
crack back Of second and got him at
first
Joe Jackson caught fast one on the
nose, driving it to the right field cor
ner for three sacks before Gessler
could untangle his legs from the bunch
of bracing posts out there IN his gar
den. Balls safety that Cunningham let
get by to center scored Jackson in the
fifth.
However, behind as they were, the
Nationals were still going after the
honors and managed to gather three
more runs in the seventh. With John
son out of the way, Milan danced a
double between Jackson and Birming-
ham almost to the fence. Olson should
have made easy work of Schaefer's
bounder, but he tossed wildly Milan
scoring and the comedian getting a
life. Elberfeld was hit and almost i'm
mediately forced by Gessler. Knapp,
wild heave to the stand let Schaefer In
and put Gessler on third, from where
he scored when Ball failed in his great
attempt to stop Red" walkers siz-
slap to Knapp ended the. fun with the