Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-27
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dspatcb TO The Star.
NEW YORK June a7.-In any event,
Cunningham broke the ice. He made the
first hit Monday afternoon that he has
made in the series in this city and,
strangely enough scored the only run
" hich Washington made in the game. In
the fifth inning he poked the ball few
feet toward third base. Fisher went
after il with a wild rush of youth and
with the thoughtlessness of youth fired
it at Chase, although there wasn't the
slightest doubt that Cunningham had the
BAH beaten. The throw sent the ball to
deep right field and when Cunningham
finished running he was on third. He
stood there breathing hard with satisfac-
ton. 1t had been SO long since he had
seen third base that he wanted to tell
Conroy about it, but before he could
gather much more wind and confidence
Henry pinked the ball squarely on the
nose for a single to left field and Gun
ningham might have walked home Ihls
connected batting was all that Washing
ton got, for there was nary man on the
team who made another hit.
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Strangely enough. as frequently hap
pens in games of this character. the
Washinetons had it within their power
to give the Highlanders the chase
of the series for the game. For
that matter it was never what might
have been called an easy task to win.
In the fourth inning If Walker had
been able to come through with a sin
gle or if Mcbride could have batted
safely Washington would have scored
twice without exertion. Schaefer
started by talking Fisher out of base.
Elberfeld was raped over the left arm
with an inshoot which would have
ripped clapboards from the side OF
house. Gessler followed along with
sacrifice hit toward third which was
work Of art. He could not have bunt-
ed better had he tried, 1t was up to
Walker to make trouble. He refused
to go after the first. which was over
the plate, and O'Loughlin called
strike. He refused on the next and
that was good Judgment Then he went
after a drop and hit over the ball,
showing where his trouble lies. Fisher
Immediately gave him another, but 1t
was outside and Walker wouldn't bite.
into an inshoot. Had he stuck behind
on it he might have hit hard. but the
mere fact of stepping forward brought
the ball on the handle of his bat and
up popped a little fly to Knight. Nc
Bride poked the ball to Fisher and
was thrown out. Had Washington
scored both of these runs instead Of
losing them the Highranders would
have had a hard game ahead of them,
and it might have been a tie at nine
innings.
In the second Walker was given a base
on balls. Mcbride tried to push him
over to second by hitting to right field
and died on medium fly to Daniels Cum
ningham struck out on a foul tip. Then
Walker. with his thoughts in South Caro-
lima, was thrown out standing UP by
Fisher.
In six innings the washingtons went
out in one. two three order.
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It's queer how base ball goes. In the
old days-that is, the days before the
present team-the Washingtons were wont
to come over to New York and lose about
as often by fielding atrociously as for
any other reason. They usually could
hit and sometimes their pitchers did not
amount to much, but very often they
fielded like blue devils This year the
Highlanders. but that seems to let it
out for the players do nothing else.
Reckon Fisher wasn't In the game
some. Nine assists in one afternoon in
dictate that pitcher is working. OF
these. seven were on infleld hits which
he threw to first Some shortstops can't
get that much work In one afternoon.
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Cunningham had ten chances clean at
second base, and four OF them were
pretty catches of very mean low nies
seemed out Of the question for any citi-