The Washington herald., 1911-08-18
By WILLIS JOHNSON.
to The Washington Herald.

Special to The Washington Herald.
ST, Louis, Aug. IA TALL rangy young
man. who filings from the right side and
possesses wonderful speed, performed on
the mound this afternoon for Washlng-
ton against our browns. The pitcher was
none other tAan Walter Johnson, and the
Browns never had a chance at any stage
of the battle for the simple reason that
Walter had speed to burn on every ball
he shot over and Washington won
Score, to o.
Johnson's exhibition was a corker, and
the Browns were lucky to collect as
many as four hits off his delivery. waiter
started out grandly in the first inning by
retiring the home bunch in order, and
at the close of the battle he was putting
the ball over with just as much speed
and accuracy as he had been doing at
the opening of the contest. The four hits
collected by Laporte, Mclean, Stephens;
and Wallace will be carefully framed
and kept as souvenirs.
Gust Shows Up Well.
The only bright and redeeming feature
of the, hattie, in so far as the Browns
were concerned, was the clever work OF
St Louis new first sacker, Gust. Gust
performed like a real ball player around
the initial corner, handling thirteen
chances without the slightest sign of a
break Although Gust failed to get a
hit. there is no good reason why he
should feel in the least disturbed over
this fact Facing the best pitcher in the
game to-day, Gust had no license what
ever in cracking out any safe wailops.
The truth of the matter is that he should
feel rather proud of being able to say
that he met the ball in all four of his
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none of the drives went safe.
Washington had little trouble solving
Red Nelson's delivery. Red had one
special shoot that he attempted to get
past the Washington batters, but Nc
Aleer's men refused to have IT that way.
Their delight in smearing Nelson's fast
ball resulted in ten hits, and Walter
johnson was credited with three OF
these Fine business to have a pitcher
on the staff of Johnson's class, VINO Is
capable of out-swatting all of his team
mates.
Nationals Score in First.
The men from Taftville scored one in
the first. Nelson plunked Milan with a
pitched ball. Schaefer drew walk C.
Walker sacrificed, Nelson to Gust Cess
ler's long fly to Mclean allowed Milan
to race home. Mcbride was out, Austin
to Gust.
In the second. Conroy walked and Cum
ningham followed with single to left.
Street flied to Mclean, and Johnson
famed. Milan cleaned off the sacks with
a triple to center, Conroy and Cunning
ham scoring. Schaefer was out, Laporte
to Gust.
GcssIer Doubles to Right.
Gessler led off with a double to right
in the eighth. Mcbride was out, Gust
TO Laporte. Conroy flied to Shotten
and Gessler went to third after the
catch. Cunningham singled to left, scor
ing Gessler- Cunningham stole second.
Street was out, Nelson to Gust.
Johnson singled to center in the ninth.
Milan sent roller to Gust, but when
Nelson failed to cover the bag, the
Washington man was credited with
hit. wild pitch allowed both runners
to move up a bag. c. Walker hit to
Wallace and Johnson was nipped at the
plate. Milan and c. Walker worked the
double steal successfully, the former
scoring. Gessler was hit by a pitched
ball Mcbride forced Gessler, Wallace
to Laporte.