The Washington herald., 1911-07-05
Nationals Split
With Red Sox
Wild Conroy Breaks Up Morning Game with a
Home Run-AHernoon Battle Hard Fought.
Players Affected by the Intense Heat.
Special to The Washington Herald.

Boston, Mass. July awhile ex-
hausted players fell by the wayside and
pitchers came and went so rapidly that
track, the Red Sox and Nationals went
through their double session to-day, an
even break being the more or less satis-
factory result.
Fierce as was the heat yesterday, it
was even worse to-day, and while Elber-
field was the only National to succumb,
the ranks of the Red Sox were severely
oecimated by the intensity of Old Sors
rays.
No less than six pitchers worked dur
ing the day for Boston, two twirlers be-
ing chased by the heat in each game.
Ctcotte succumbed early in the morning
battle, and after doing fine work as a
relief pitcher in the afternoon contest,
he tainted at the end of the eighth and
had to give way to Joe Wood.
For the third time in the present
series, Tom Hughes was called upon to
take the firing line. He practically saved
the morning game by stopping batting
rally after Walker had been chased.
And in the afternoon, when he was
called upon to assume the burden that
Groom found too exacting, he might
have forced the Red Sox TO extra in
nings had he been retained, instead of
leaving the game to allow a pinch hitter
to take his place at the bat
Wild COnroy the Hero.
Conroy was the hero of the morning
game, and his three hits, one a home
run, an exact duplicate of his swat of
the day before, counted heavily in the
run-getting, and was the chief factor
in his teams victory. Dixie Walker,
however, was not exactly a hero, as he
was chased to the bench in the morning
battle, and 1t was of his delivery that
the Sox won the afternoon game
There was one other feature of the
double session; this was the hit of Doc
Gessler in the morning. The NJ. D.
walloped the ball with all his strength
and sent it on a line to right field,
where it connected with the bull and
earned Gessler fifty bucks. So hard
was the drive that it bounded back to
first base, and Doc could get only one
base on it.
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fer and an error by Myers gave Wash
ington a run in the opening inning.
Three hits, a pGRJs, and a hit by the
pitcher gave the Nationals three runs
and forced Cicotte to take to the
bench in the third. Two passes by Hall
and a double by Lelivelt gave Wash
ington another in the fourth, and the
last tally was the result of Conroy's
home-run drive in the ninth
All of the Red Sox scores in this game
were made in the sixth inning. Up to
this time Walker had kept the locals
hits pretty well scattered, but he al
lowed Hooper, the first man to face him
in this session, a safe hit,' and his
troubles began right OF. Gardner fol-
lowed with a double, Speaker hit safely
and Lewis spanked out a two-bagger.
Here Walker was yanked and Hughes
took up Dixie's burden. Yerkes quickly
famed, but Purtell raped out a double,
and the fourth run came in. Purtell
got to third, and only for Engle slipping
up on his drive down the third base
line another run would have counted
and the game been tied. The score:
MORNING GAME.