Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-15
Petty Pitches Good Ball and
the Nationals Are Beaten
GROOM LASTS TWO ROUNDS
0tey Finishes the Game in Clever
Style-Gray and Powell Prob
able Pitchers for Today.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.


batting averages and their percentage in
lowly and despised Browns are apt to
worry the Taftville aggregation That's
because Manager McAleer is hard pressed
for pitching talent. With Walter john
son and Tom Hughes on the hospital list,
it is up to genial Jeems to do some ex-
pert juggling with his other twirlers in
an effort to take the three remaining
games from the tailenders.
Bert Groom. who is almost a St.
I-ouisan, living in Belleville. ILL.,, not very
distant. was McAleer's original twirling
nominee, but he failed to fool the Browns.
When he retired McAleer was forced to
use Bill Otey, who finished up Satur-
days game in Chicago. Otey did fairly
well, but Groom had already spilled the
beans.
Manager McAleer said he was unable to
give a good guess as to what twirler
would be sent to the hill In todays game.
Whether it was the old rivalry that
the Browns bear the Nationals or the
presence of two newly acquired players
in the lineup, the Wallacean tribe went
we'll and annexed the opening show with
the visitors, to .
Looked Differently.
The Browns. who have become pretty
much of a joke. looked like a different
team. incidentally, it was the first game
the Tigers and Athletics each taking four
new faces. Ralph Meyers. who was OBJ
tanned from the Boston Red Sox, played
nice game at first, while Bill Hogan.
the former Athletic outf1elder. went to
left. Owner Hedges says Hogan's re-
At that, Barney Petty, the veteran
Highlander, did we'll to hold the Ma
tionals to two runs.
They pounded him hard but he kept the
swats we'll scattered in all but the eighth
round. Then Eiberfeld Gessler and Nc
Bride did some nice smuggling. The two
runs resulted.
Petty and Jack Powell are the only
Brown pitchers who are showing anything
like major league form. so with Petty out
of the way it wouldn't be surprising to
see the Nationals take three in a row.
The Browns really looked like ball
club yesterday, but they make that ap-
pearance so seldom that the victory was
really a surprise to everybody.
The players are all hitting, but the field
ing and pitching have been joke. 1t will
loow awful bad for McAleer unless he
does better than break even against the
local aggregation.
That the local fans are getting tired Of
the Joke brand of ball on tap here Is
evident from the fact that only 1872 per-
sons paid to see yesterdays game.
For a Sunday crowd, that's about the
minimum. even with St. Louis long string
Of losses.
Nationals Look Good.
Even In defeat the Nationals looked
good in the lone game played. The de
Tense was sound. the playing of Milan
and Cunningham especially featuring the
matinee.
According to Manager McAleer Walter
johnson will hardly be able to take his
turn on the slab for another week, but he
to his home in Coffeyville, Kan. Johnson
remained in his room at the Planters
Hotel yesterday.
Germany Schaefer, always a hit in St
Louis kept up a line of conversation with
the fans behind third base. He was in
jected into the game as pinch hitter for
Otey. but was only able to push out
roller to Wallace.
George Mcbride was given a loud hand
when he killed an attempted double steal
In the seventh. Hogan and Stephens
tried the twin pilfer, but Georges long
return to Henry had the former Athletic
by a yard, and he seems fast, too. Ac-
cording to Jack O'Connor. Mcbride was
the only shortstop who could handle the
long throw on this same play success
fully.
With only weekday crowds turning out
President Hedges is putting up
a new stand: it Is for the fifty-cent pa
irons. The old pavilion will also be torn
down and a new one erected. The stands
will then accommodate about $500.
a bout 1000 more than the present limit.
Pat Newman. the first baseman, has
been turned back to the Houston (Texas
League) team by Manager Wallace. He
has failed to hit and field up to expec-
tations.