Evening star., 1911-06-11
CLARENCE WALKERS DEBUT
PROVES MARKED SUCCESS
Spartanburg Youngster Drives Out Triple,
Double and Single, Bringing in Two
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of the exit and consequently the ball had
not been hit beyond 1t. Unfortunately
for the umpire. Egan had ruled that two
bases were coming to Schaefer. indicating
his decision by holding up two fingers,
but Sheridan reversed him.
The umpire behind the bat is supposed
to be the umpire in chief, and yet in
many instances this season. the man with
the most experience has done the base
work The ruling yesterday was an
other instance of the man who knew the
rules not being where he should be. in
charge of the game.
Dolly Gray has not finished a ball game
this season. He has been taken out Of
every game he started and has failed to
make good in those he has been asked to
finish. Gray has not shown any form
this spring, and it will be wise not to
use him unless he can do better work
than he has.
There seems to be no doubt about
Bodies prowess as a batter He looks
terday's game adds material and sub
stantial evidence to the fact. Four hits
for a total of five bases is pretty fair
days work for a young man just seeing
his first weeks in the big league. He hit
every one of the local pitchers used yes
terday and he did 1t without difficulty.
and there was nothing fluky about any
one of his drives.
Jimmy Callahan played splendid game
in center. The veterans speed is sur
prising, for If there is any department OF
the game where a player begins to show
his decline first it is in running, but there
was nothing to show yesterday that
Jimmy was not as fast as ever. In
cidentally he himself grabbed two hits,
two stolen bases, sacrifice and pass.
If any progress SO far as bettering the
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should start with a routing out of ma
jority of the members Of the present
pitching staff There are very few of the
local pitchers who have delivered in
any respect this spring. and surely it has
not been the lack Of warm weather or
opportunities to work. Right now this is
the Nationals greatest weakness. It is
absolutely impossible for any kind of
ball team, be 1t ever strong, to win
ball games or even make respectable
showing when it lacks the pitchers to
hold the opposing team down to a rea-
sonable score. McAleer has one or two
twirlers who can be relied upon to do
this, Johnson and Hughes, when the lat
ter Is not worked too often. Walker did
we'll the last time out. but not before,
while, of the others the least said the
better. Sherry may make a pitcher in
time, but he can hardly be counted now,
in minor league to develop. How 1t
can be figured that there Is a chance for
the Nationals to finish anywhere but last
with hut two pitchers fit to win ball games
is hard to see, nor does the future promise
anything in this respect for the reason
that there are no youngsters on the staff
who may develop. barring Sherry. Gray
and Groom have been here since the
spring of 1908. Everything that could be
done has been done to give them fair
chance. Both have shown form in spots,
but they are not the kind of pitchers that
any manager would want to build up his
team on.
The rest Of the local team would 90
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