The Washington herald., 1911-06-11
Sox Slaughter
Nationals, 1877
-Four Local TwirLerS Are Hit Hard-WaL-
: ker and HerreH Play in the Game
By WILLIAM PEET.

1t invariably happens that when good
sized Saturday crowd throngs the Flor
ida avenue ball park the Nationals either
get wiped of the map or else lose the
game on lot of boneheaded plays.
Yesterday, for instance, the White Sox
made their initial appearance in the Cap
ital, and, besides winning, IS to Z, bonn
barded four local pitchers in a manner
leaving little doubt as to their average
boosting intentions.
There was also a lot of bad baseball
tossed into the melee by the home folks,
and every little slip-up or bum heave
helped the Windy City tribe to accumu-
late runs.
The real scream of the afternoon was
the advent of young Mr.. Clarence Walker,
from Spartanburg Red as he is called
down in the bushes, stepped to the plate
in the very first inning and knocked the
ball over Pat Dougherty's head in deep
left field for a three-hag gger. His next
appearance called for a double, and the
third time up a single. Pretty nice way
to break into the big show, eh, fans?
Walker pulled down a couple of flies
and displayed a lot of pegging strength.
He is no loafer when it comes to base
running, either.
AlIOBelneT IL looks as II NC
Aleer has picked up a diamond in the
rough-needless to say, this gem requires
a lot of polishing, and then some. He's
awfully green yet, but his hitting makes
him a most desirable citizen.
VIII Be Played Regularly.
Walker will no doubt be played regu-
larly in left field as long as his batting
keeps up. One refreshing thing about
the newcomer is that he seems to have
his nerve with him all the time. He was
ordered to go to the bat and look over
the first two balls. Olmstead shot a cou-
pie of strikes waist high in succession.
This did not faze the youngster a bit
Instead of pulling away from the plate
he waded right into the next ball pitched
and sent it shrieking into deep left.
Walter HerTell, the local sandlotter,
was also given an opportunity to face
big league club when he mounted the hill
in the eighth. Saturday one week ago
Herrell pitched for the WaIford club, of
the Commercial League, tanning twenty
one opposing batters. Yesterday he was
in a Washington uniform. Some jump
from the Commercial to the American
League.
Herrel appeared to be suffering from
stage fright, for in the eighth inning he
did not begin to. show as much stun as
was apparent in the ninth. The White
Sox got to him for a quartet of hits,
scoring the same number of runs. Her
rell, toe, is a long ways of from a big
league pitcher, but one never can tell
what will happen with experience, and
as McAleer has taken a fancy to Herren
the experience would seem to be forth
coming.
AS for the game itself, the least said
the better. Sherry worked the first
inning and part of the second. Gray
followed Sherry in the second and did
not survive the inning. Otey finished
it, and when the runs were counted up
Chicago had snatched nine, on four
hits. three bases on balls. two errors,
sacrifice fiy, and batter hit.
The Nationals threatened to annihi-
late Olmstead in the third. when four
runs counted. Bill Otey clubbed to
deep right for a triple, and scored on
q wild pitch. Milan doubled. Schaefer
famed Walker hit to left for two
spot. scoring Milan EIberfeld died,
Lord to Tannehill, but Doc Gessler
dumped a two-bagger into short left
and Walker was over the plate. Nc
Brides single scored Gessler, and Bill
Cunningham closed the inning by strik-
ing out.
Ctey retired the side in order dur
ing the third, but in the fourth the Sox
mussed him up for 4 couple, a base on
balls followed by single and dou-
BILE turning the trick.
Two More for Nationals.
Schaefer Ushered in the Nationals fifth
with a single Walker shot one safely
past Lord. Elberfeld forced Walker at
second. the comedian going to third
Gessler was safe on a hard rap to zeid-
er, and Schaefer came home. Mcbride
walked and Cunningham whitfield, but
on Zeider's poor throw of Ainsmith's |
gTounder, Elberfeld crossed the plate. |
The score reading Washington, 6; Chi
cago, IL.
The visitors added a run in the sixth |
and two more in the seventh. The Ma
tionals also scored one in the sixth, on |