The Washington herald., 1911-08-11
By WILLIAM PEET.

the Nationals to take all their old hoo
docs by the throat and squeeze the life
out of them. First. il was old Cy Young
with the Maps, then Doc White, of Chi
cago, and yesterday Joe Lake got his
bumps right where the shirt ends and
the collar begins. The Nationals gave
Wallaces Wandering Willies a farewell
slap the wrist yesterday, to s. WIN
ming the SERIES four games out of five.
Time was when Joe Lake had the Ma
tionals' nanny locked up in cold storage,
but the spitball HEAVIER looked like all
the others yesterday, the home folks
gathering fifteen solid swats off his de-
livery Bob Groom, who beat the
Browns Monday. only allowing two hits,
was sent back again yesterday. Sir
Robert was touched up in a lively man.
ner. but proved good enough to hold the
enemy in check when danger lurked
near in the ninth.
Almost any old kind of baseball was
on tap. The matinee did not lack for
excitement, either, as the Brownies eX-
hibited disagreeable traits of character
heretofore kept under cover They tied
up the game on two occasions and came
so close to putting over the tally in the
ninth that would have again knotted the
count that the crowd shivered until Nc
Bride and Cunningham finally put the
last man out
Errors al critical stages and weird
bounding balls were in the main respon-
sble for the runs. Spartacus W alker
muffed a fly in left with two gone and
second and third loaded. and both tai
lies counted. This muff was the first
credited to Walker on the home yard,
ard. of course. it had to come with men
on the bases. Spartacus more than made
up for the error by rumpling Joe Lakes
offerings for a quartet of hits.
Street Steals Third Base.
Other features fro Washington
standpoint was a steal OF third base
by Gabby Street and a single by Bob
Groom. Gabby seldom breaks into the
S. B. column. and Sir Robert does not
occupy scat in the exclusive 80 hit
ters' class. Therefore ii seems no more
than right that special mention should
be made of these incidents.
After Milan and SChaefer had pershed
in WashingtOn's first. Kid ElbCrfeld
pumped a single into left The ball got
away from Schaweitzer and the Kid
pulled up at third Gessler walked. and
Red Walker singled to center and FL
berfeld counted.
The Browns forged ahead in their
half of the second on Laporte's triple.
a pass to Hogan, KritcheIl's out. and
Walkers muf of Bobby Wallace's fly
McAleer's workers tied the count in
the OlHeT Hdll Ol llllS sIoulli NIltll' with
Milan on second, Germany Schaefer
pushed the ball over Wallace'S dome
for a two bagger.
Both Groom and Lake settled down for
the next two innings and there was moth
ing more doing in the run line. The
Nationals. fifth saw two tallies sail over
the rubber. Gessler and Walker cracked
out successive singles. Mcbride forced d.
Walker at the keystone. but few sec
ondS later the Nationals captain sneak
ed down to the midway bag and both
ne and Gessler rOmped home on Wild
Conroy's pretty single to left center.
st. Louis Ties Score.
The Browns seemed to delight in let
ting Washington take the lead, just TO
pull up on even terms with them, and
this is what happened during the sixth
spasm Schweitzer singled to left. La
porte walked. Hogan forced LapOrte at
second and when kritChell died Groom
to Schaefer, Hogan advanced to the mid
way station. Black hit a sharp bOunder
at Mcbride who waiting for the
ball to reach him on nice easy bound,
but the sphere struck pebble or some
thing else and bounded blthely over Nc
Brides head into left field SChweitzer
and Hogan scored and the game was
again Sewed up.
Washingtons sixth was uneventful,
Elberfeld. Gessler and Walker all
raped out safe hits. Mcbride smashed
q grOunder at Wallace, which bounded
over the shOrtstoppers head, scoring |
the Kid and Gessler. COnroy flied to
ShOtten. but Street sent a smoking sin |
gle into left. counting Walker and Nc ,
Bride. Bob Groom pOled hit to right, !
advancing Gabby to second. Gabby |
then stole third. and, as stephens poor |
throw got away from Austin. Street |
sprinted home, placing the points Wash |
ington, 3; Browns. l.
When Laportc singled in the Browns |
eighth. and Hogan drove the ball over |
Milan's head for a home run, nobody |
seemed to care very much, as ii was fig |
ured that Wallace's wanderers could !
never overcome the ltad already oh !
tanned by the Nationals; yet these self |
same wanderers came within an ace of |
doing so in the first half of the ninth.
Almost Sew Up Game.
Dode Criss. batting for Lake. fell a |
victim to Groom's twisters and famed |
Shotten tripled TO left, and Austin |
Shotten and Austin, the score board !
Showing 9 to in favor of the home |
folks. Laporte famed and Hogan beat |
out a ball which took a bad hop to Nc |
Bride, Schewitzer going to third on the |
play. safe swat right here would |
have turned the trick. but Stephens !
gave Mcbride a grOunder, which the
latter tossed to Bill Cunningham ahead |
of Hogan at second. and 1t was all over
Kid Elberfeld retired from the game |
in the seventh, Cunningham taking his |
place, and In this same inning Kritch-
ell, the Browns catcher, split his finger