The Washington herald., 1911-08-09
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Veil. well-two out of three,

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Well. well-two out of three,
! Piano Legs" Laporte failed to get a
! safety. Quite come down from Mon
| day for the Brownie.
Red Waller sur4 slammed that pill a
/ little. a triple and two singles out Of
| four trips TO the pan fel! to Spartacus.
Buck Becker to-day. Come on. you
| Navy Yard rooters. and travel to the
| park. Buck" will heave them at the
| wandering Browns.
Six runs in the Opening round served
to send Nelson to the stable.
With the sacks loaded, by virtue OF
two passes and a felder's choice, Spar
! taCus Walker drove a beauty TO center.
| which allowed Schaefer and Elherfeld
| to score.
Milan opened Washington's half of the
first by being hit by pitched ball. His
grounder to Laporte ended the rally.
| "Gabby' hit one OF Nelson's benders
and the ball sailed far into left. The
catcher was able to make two only on
the clout.
Stephens made the first hit Cor St.
Louis. hanging a beautiful triple over
MilanS head.
Nelson, who essayed TO do the flinging
met with a warm reception in the initial
| inning, and was derricked in favor Of
Hamilton, a young southpaw.
Bill Cunningham replaced Kid Elber-
field on second. and on his first appear
ance at the bat went down when Con-
molly called a third strike on him-:alled
1t; that's all.
Hamilton retired the side IN order In
the. second. all three batters being easy
outs
Hamilton doubled to. left after Con-
roy had captured Wallace's fly, but died
there as Shotten and Austin were easy
! outs for Cunningham and Mcbride.
Eddie Ainsmith was there with the
pep" adding much ginger 10 the game
| by his coaching.
Stephens hung on to Red Walkers
foul tip. and the Southern boy sat down
on strikes.
Again in the third the Nationals went
out in order, Austin and Wallace taking
care of chances offered them.
Scha went crazy with glee when
he gathered in McBride's poor throw
on Laportes grounder. Dutch got the
ball on nasty bound while stretching
far away from the sack.
Walker made a great try for Wallace's
hit in the fourth. but could not quite
reach it in time.
Hamilton. who had doubled upon his
first appearance, fell victim to John
sons shoots and whitfield at three in the
fifth
Milan was hit in the fifth. but Con-
molly would not allow him to walk He
then grounded to Black.
Shotten tripled to right in the fifth
and Imp Parker gave him the benefit
of a close decision.
Walkers throw to get Shotten at the
plate after he caught Austin's fly was
wild. the Browns speedy outfielder scOr-
ing with ease.
johnson started a fast double that
ended the Browns fifth. when he stab
bed Laport's smoker and threw to
Mac" in time TO force Schweitzer
Schaefer was the first man to reach
first base on Hamilton when he coaxed
a pass in the fifth.
Germany went to second on Cunning
hams perfect sacrifice and Immediately
proceeded to steal the third sack.
Wallace made a fast pay on Gessler's
grounder, and his fine throw to Stephens
nailed Dutch" at the pan by a small
margin.
Stephens throw to catch Gessler steal
ing was high, and the DOC" easily made
the base. Poor old Doc" he tore his
pants again.
Walker did not use his long pole his
second time up, but he got it out again
in the sixth and a smash to center re-
suited.
Kid Elberfeld witnessed the latter
part of the game from the grand stand
The Kids ankle is none too well.
Wild" raped out another safe one
in the sixth. This was the second hit
made off Hamilton.
Gabby died very properly in the SIXTH
moving Conroy up with a neat sacrifice
In the seventh, when Red Walker car
ried one Of young Hamiltons shoots to
the left field fence for a homer, the
bleacherites went crazy. That sure was
one long clout.
That stop and throw OF Conroy's on
Schweitzer's bounder over the bag was
pippin. Connie" threw the ball while
in the air.
The ninth looked bad, but we had too
big a lead for the Brownies to over
Chicago Ready for Gotch.
Chicago. Aug. s.-Chicago sporting cir
cles will welcome Frank Gotch when he
reaches the city on august l6 for his
fnaI ira ininn For the hig fnafrh with