The Washington herald., 1911-07-17
specis1 to The Washington Herald.


Chicago. July 16.-By means Of a rous-
ing ninth inning rally, the ambitious
White Sox won another exciting game
from the lowly Washington club this air-
noon at Comiskey Park and threw more
than 5000 fans into spasms of delight.
They were three runs behind the East
erners when they made their final at
tack and five healthy base hits drove
four men over the plate and made the
final score to in favor of Chicago.
Bob Groom had a lot OF speed and
never let up on it, though he may have
weakened a bit in the last round. He
was able to cut the edges Of the plate
knee high and get the umpires decision
in his favor most of the time. Ping
Bodie became so enraged when he was
called out on strikes in the sixth inning
that he hurled his bat at the players
bench as II he would demolish the con-
crete stand But Ping wisely did all his
talking to himself, so the umpire had no
cause to punish him.
The Nationals batted Young's curves In
a threatening manner in the first two
rounds, but sharp fielding kept the Sox
out of danger. Bob Groom opened the
third with a hit to center and Milan
walked. Schaefer sacrificed With the
Sox infield playing in close Elberfeld
chopped one bit to the side Of Tame
hill Lee knocked it down and recovered
quickly and shot to the plate, but Groom
was there ahead of the ball, while Milan
moved to third and Elberfeld was safe
at first. Then Gessler hit a low short
fly to center field which Ping got his
hands on after a lively chase, but he
dropped the ball. Elberfeld, however,
was compelled to stay at first base, ex
pecting Ping to make the cat"h and
throw home to nail Milan. Ping re-
covered the ball in time to shoot to
second and forced Elberfeld and save
himself an error, while Milan scored.
Gessler was nailed trying to steal sec
ond and the round ended.
Walker Hits for Double.
In the fourth inning young Clarence
Walker began with a slashing double
along the left foul line. and Mcbride fol-
lowed with clean drive to right for one
base, scoring Walker. This was the fin
ish of Cy Young, and Olmstead was called
to the rescue. Ommit got the next three
men out and left Mcbride dead on the
bases.
bOule SIdTleQ d splTlleu pul pElcl tdiiy
for the Sox in their half of the fourth
that netted two runs. One was out when,
Ping laced a hot one just inside of third
base for a double. Mcconnell pulled
drive right over first base and made a
triple of II, Ping trotting home Then
Zeider stung a single to center. scoring
Amby, and the rally was cut off there
when Zeider was out by a hair trying to
steal second, and Tannehill fou!ed to the
catcher.
Olmstead's trouble began in the seventh
after one man was out. Germany Schae-
fer cut a single past second. and Elber-
field got a single on a hot one that Zei-
der knocked down. Gessler pulled sin
gle to right field that scored the German
and sent Elberfeld to third, and when
Payne made a wild throw to second In
an attempt to get Gessler Elberfeld, too.
got home The next two hitters were re-
tired and further danger averted.
White Sox Win Game.
Olmstead set the visitors lown in order
in their two last attacks, and McCon-
nell opened the final round for the Sox
with d walk to first. Zeider got clean
single to left field, Amby taking second,
and Pat Dougherty batted for Tannehill. |
Pat smashed one at the shortstop and
Zeider was forced out at second, Nc |
Connell taking third. Payne raped a
safe one to center field, scoring Nc
Connell and putting Pat on second |
Lange batted for Olmstead and singled
to center, scoring Dougherty. while |
Payne stopped at second Collins ran
for Lange, and with Mcintyre coming up
from ha
and sent in southpaw Dolly Gray.
Matty was called out on strikes, the
third one being knee high on the inside.
Lord then smashed a single to center,
scoring Payne with the run that tied the
count. and Collins raced to third on the
hit. Lord stole second without an effort,
and after two strikes had been called
on Callahan the veteran star poked a hit
over second, sending Collins home with
the winning run. Score: