Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-30

per cent. The attendance since the team
history of the Washington club under
! similar conditions. With good accom-
modations, such as the club now
furnishes, the public els giving good
patronage, and If some of these days
| 1t should be the clubs good fortune TO
have winning team capacity crowds
will be frequent.
| Whenever this ball club of ours does
any kind of hitting it makes very
favorable impression. This would in
dictate that If McAleer is fortunate
| enough to increase his teams batting
strength that he will have much more
successful season than he has enjoyed
heretofore Against Cleveland hitting has
been hard and timely. and runs have
come rather easy. OF course when the
| hitting and pitching are both weak there
| is no chance to win. and that has been
the case with the locals in numerous
instances this season
| If memory serves us right the last
! time Cy Young lost a game on the local
grounds was two seasons ago. when he
was beaten 4 to ]. George Brown was
| then a member of the team, and il
memory serves us right. he made
home run into the old clubhouse with
Young has been a stumbling block for
| the locals on several occasions. The old
| fellow seemed to- have more speed yes
terday than on the occasion Of his last
appearance here, when he shut the
Nationals out.
! Detroit seems to be in great danger of
| losing the lead in the race. Three straight
defeats at the hands Of the Athletics have
the leaders that by Monday night they
| may switch places. The Mackmen' s
strength seems to lie principally in their
superior pitching staff. When Jennings
| loses with Summers and Donovan he has
| little to fall back on, while Mack has
| numerous pitchers who can deliver even
| after Bender and Coombs have had their
| turn.
| Attendance figures from Philadelphia
| are greatly exaggerated. The world Sc
! rieS games accommodated all that could
| get into Shibe Park, and there were sew
eral thousand below 30, 900 at any of the
| games played there. OF course, the
crowds. they should, but it is pretty
safe prediction that the figures given out
are first soaked in yeast.
| Sacrificing is not INDUCED in as much
these days as formerly. and il is almost
becoming a lost art. The average game
| these days is such that sacrificing is out
| OF the question, and what is more. the
players do not appear to he as efficient
| in this respect as In former years. 1t Is
seldom, too, that one sees a player lay
| down a bunt when he catches the infield
back for the purpose of beating 1t out.
| Now and then batter takes this chance.
| but it is but seldom.
| Speaking of sacrificing brings TO mind
| the fact that it has been many a day
| since a batter who is up to sacrifice goes
! through with the play, even after he
! has made two unsuccessful attempts and
has two strikes on him. They do not
make any effort to lay one down now
under SlIcl conditions huf switch the
play and hit 1t out. The chances of a
| fast man to beat out a bunt under such
conditions are very good, for as soon as
two strikes are called the third baseman
moves back and the pitcher Is not look
ing for the play. And 1t is seldom. too.
that a batter makes g. hit or advances
the runner when he switches from the
sacrifice to hitting 1t ont.
| If there was way of proving it, it
would probably be found that there is lit
| tie difference in the speed of Milan and
| Cobb, though the latter is undoubtedly
| the quickest starter. Milan gave splen-
| did exhibition of sprinting in the seventh
| inning yesterday, when he went all the
way from first to third on an inffeld out.
| He would most likely have stolen home.
| too, in this inning. for he was within a
! few feet of the plate when Elberfeld hit
| the ball through the box.
| Joe Jackson has undoubtedly established
| himself one of the best hitters in
either major league. Hitting comes nat
ural to the ''sloeleSs one.' and ii would
not be at all surprising if he showed i'm
provement next year. Jackson is also
fast on his feet, fields we'll and has a
wonderful throwing arm, though some
one ought to convince him that it is not
policy to throw either to the plate OF
any of the bags on line. for that usu-
ally makes the ball too hard to handle
and forces the catcher or baseman to
| reach high, thus giving the runner a
chance to slide under them