Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-23
ATHLETICS HAVE WON "a
OF LAST II GAMES PLAYED
Nationals Contributed -Four Games to Cham
pion's Squirt Fielding Respon-
sible for Every Defeat-Gess-
Ter Has Good Day.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 Tie star.
| PHILADELPHIA, Pa. June 23-Tte
| Nationals left here last night for New
York. where they will open series with
the Highlanders this afternoon They
| lost all four games in this city, bad field
| ing costing them nearly every defeat
! During their stay here McAleer's team
| drew nearly .i,puv persons for four games
| in three days. This was away under
| the average. as the the worlds cham
pions have been drawing about 1l,00o
persons per game this season. While
at home, the stand which ended
yesterday. the Athletics won eighteen and
lost lost three. giving them twenty-four
victories out of their last tWenty-seven
contests, as they Won the last six battles
of their western trip from Detroit and
Cleveland
Mcbride who made some Sood plays
and some costly errors during the series
here. helped to save a couple of runs in
the fourth inning. After Dixie Wake. !.
had disposed of two batsmen the Ma
tionals gave a nifty exhibition of fielding
and prevented any scoring. Mcinness
started the fire works with single. and
Murphy hit the right field wall for a
double Gessler and Elberfeld relayed
the ball TO the plate so fast that Coombs.
who was coaching at third. wisely held
Mcinnis at that sack. Barry's drive over
crown, but Mcbride scooped up the ball
while on the full run, and caught bats
man on the last jump
The way the White Elephants jumped
on Walkers delivery in the opening ses
sion it looked as If Dixie's stay on the
mound would be short and sweet. Two
singles and double by Baker, however.
netted only one run as Strunk tried TO
go from second TO third base Collins
single and was thrown out by Milan $
perfect throw to Conroy.
Bender was put out of the game for the
second time during the series. Monday,
when the Nationals got to the Chief
in the ninth inning, the Indian kicked
so hard at decisions by Egan and Sheri-
day that he was finally benched. In
Yesterdays game Conroy fouled ball
into the upper deck of the grandstand,
and when a spectator threw it back to
Bender the Chief promptly chucked it
over the grandstand. Umpire Egan Or
dered Bender to follow the ball out of
the lot and he went, after considerable
persuasion from his fellow-players and
Manager Mack.
| Benders sudden exit from the scene
caused Manager Mack to trot out one
of his college 'phenoms' for his Amer
lean League debut. This was. Elmer
Leonard, VINO ndllS from 81. mary Sol-
llege, Cal. which also produced Harry
! krause and Hal Chase. Leonard Is the
tallest man in the major leagues and is
a Highlander. His debut was not very
| impressive. There was a lot of horse
shoes on his pitching and he was lucky
| to get the credit for the victory.
| Doc GeSsler played a big role for the
! Nationals III yesterdays encounter lie
! drove in three of their five runs two
with single in the third inning and
another one with a two-bagger In the
ninth session. In addition he prevented
the Athletics from tying the score in the
sixth inning when two were out and
Baker was on first base. Murphy $
drive looked TO be good for a double or
triple but Doc ran over toward the
foul line and made dive and landed the
horSehide within a couple OF inches or
the grass The next time Murphy came
to bat Milan robbed him Of another hit.
Danny's drive looked IL certain TO
| drop safe, but Milan came in full tilt.
| plunged headlong and speared the ball
| in his glove
| The Nationals showed more pepper in
| their playing than they did all week
| Schaefer got 50 talkative that Umpire
| Sheridan called him down for coaching
| while waiting for his turn TO go TO bat
and later Jack threatened to put Germany
| off the field. Elberfeld, too. was urging
/ the players in every inning and the
| game was the liveliest seen here for some
| time.
| Dixie Walker got along swimmingly