The Washington times., 1911-06-13

Doc Gessler, the Akhoond of Swat
and Rolla Zeider defeated the Nation
ais yesterday. The Akhoond wasn't
Akhoonding yesterday a little bit II
he had he would have cracked out a
safety in the first inning when he
came up with the corners covered and
again in the sixth when he appeared
with two on ahead of him. The first
time he whitfield and the second time
he slapped a liner to Ping" Bod1e.
Hard" Zeider's prize winning per-
formance came in that sixth. too.
Clarence Walker had edged around
to third and Kid Elberfeld had landed
on the midway when 'wid" Conroy
came up, freighted with the hopes
and fears of all the fans. He made
Doc White pitch to him, and seeing
good one coming, hammered 1t
toward left field between Harry Lord
and Hard" Zeider.
At the crack of the stick Walker
was off for the plate and Elberfeld
had crossed it, too. for what looked
like a couple of tallies. But Zeider,
covering ground like an antelope,
reached out with his bare paw, hook
ed in the flying pill and round
housed it over to Charlie Mullen. No
one ever expected the ball to beat
Conroy, but 1t did. Jack Sheridan
said so, anyway, and the two runs
didn't count for shucks. So the
Nationals lost out by a score of to o.
eral times a hit behind him would
have changed the complexion of the
game. He fairly and squarely famed
Bodie in the ninth. only to have Rub
her Collar Egan walk the batter:
That peeved the Alabama beauty and
a couple more runs trickled over be-
fore the inning ended.
Mcintyre scored in the very first IN
ming. He safetied to left, taking an
extra cushion when Clarence Walker
played with the bounding pill. Lords
sacrifice put him on third, from whence
he scored on Callahan's, drive to the
left field seats. Callahan foolishly tried
to steal home, but found Street waiting
for him.
Bodies Goes Over Fence.
"Ping" Bodie carefully pinged a dive
over the center field fence in the fourth,
not quite as good a wallop as that of
Bill Cunningham. but still very sue
cessful and necessary. 1t carried over
the low fence near the club house. This
Bodie person is a brute when it comes
to slugging. He should be barred from
a gentleman's game of ball.
The final inning saw two more White
Sox runs come in. Harry Lord was
there with a safe drive to center for a
starter, and promptly filched second.
Jimmy Callahan sacrificed him to third,
and Ping was up. Ping had whiff-
ed on his previous appearance, and
should have whitfield again, but Rub
ber-collar' Egan allowed him to walk
Hard" Zeider dashed teaser toward
Schaefer and landed safe when the
comedian and Dixie Walker got tangled
up on the play, losing the ball between
them. Lord scored right then. Choui-
nard died by the, sky route, but Mullen
biffed a single to left, sending Bodie
across. Walker tossed out Billy Sulli-
van.
The Akhoond Of Swat had a fine
chance to mix up things in the OPEN
screamed a beauty to center. Clar-
ence Walker reached out and tapped
a double to left. Elberfeld wasn't a
bit nervous and walked filling the
bags. Doc White remembered some
thing about the Akhoond's charac-
teristics and famed him. Then he
forced Mcbride to pop to Chouinard.
issued to young Walker. Kid Elber-
field, never giving up in the face of
trouble, singled to left. Bodie got
under the Akhoond's mighty drive
and Sullivan tossed out Mcbride. 1t
was UP to Connie who was spiked
by. the marvellous stop and heave of
It was an interesting game to watch
from several angles Doc white never