The Washington times., 1911-08-21
NATIONALS TUMBLE
FROM GLORY SEAT
WITH DULL THUD
That Trouncing Administer
ed to Them by the Sox
Was Awful.
By SENATOR"
Only Washington Newspaper Man
With the Nationals,

CHICAGO, Aug. H.-Oh, what a fall
was theer, my fellowpatriots.
After dazzling through three weeks In
a manner that attracted the attention of
the whole major league baseball sphere,
the Nationals tumbled yesterday with
a dull, sickening, and resounding thud.
They received their worst walloping Of
the year. pulling up at the finish with
a lone zero to match against the eleven
good healthy tallies garnered by those
pale hose. The Nationals were licked to
a fraZZle.
They were beaten, trampled, routed.
trimmed, spanked, and generally mauled
in q most ungentlemanly way, and they
took 1t particularly to heart because 1t
was Sunday, ard they were the guests
of the maulers.
Usually a recruit gets mis- baptism OF
fire on his first appearance, but the
ordinary order was reversed in the case
of Navy Yard Charley" Becker, and.
after having astonished the other clubs
by his auEplCious start, he got his yes
terday, and it was no baptism. 1t was
a drowning.
Becker was hit, hammered, walloped.
and generally treated in most scandal
Gus fashion by club that he was sup
posed to be able to beat. Hits to the
IlBnI OF MIN, MUS 10 the leII Oh nlIl,
and hits in front of him, vOlleyed and
thundered as those ravenous White
SoX took sweet revenge for thar t.,
ing Becker gave them his first time out.
Not In Shape.
But with all his faults do not think
the idol Of the southeast was as bad
as the hit total would paint him. He
was about as near the form he dis
yNlo Ic
Arsenal Point to Chain Bridge. but If
he had had any sort of decent luck and
had been properly supported in the field
the hits against him would never have
run into double figures. Becker was
not himself, otherwise he never would
have been lambasted for twenty safe
ties by such a band of hitless wonders
as these Sox.
Opposing the pride of Eighth street
southeast was Ed Walsh, who of late
has been as busy as a candidate the
day before election. 1t was the third
time in four days that the mighty
Walsh has toed the Goodyear for Co
miskey's crew, but the fact that he was
being overworked was taken about as
seriously by the hefty HEAVIER as is a
Prohibition candidate in New York.
The Nationals were credited with
seven hits, but If you divided that by
two and subtracted a couple you
could get some idea of what Walsh
would probably have allowed had his
team been without a commanding ad-
vantage all of the way.
Big Crowd Out.
More than a dozen thousand natives
Of this Commonwealth of magnificent
distances chose baseball ahead of the
aviation meeting and possibly it was
the psychological effect of being away
al nd Si1a
Louis that caused the Nationals first
upset since leaving their native heath.
With all their faults, however, the
Nationals copped first honors for bril-
liant fielding. In the sixth inning,
Mr.. Block, who used to wear a W.
on his shirt, tried to lose the ball on
drive that was tagged for Lake
Michigan, but Clyde Milan ran eight
miles across the field and grabbed 1t
echo.
This made Clarence Walker jealous.
so in the next inning he sprinted cross
country for eight miles and quarter,
and then crashing into the stands.
That settled the issue between the pair,
and, just to show there was no bad
feeling. the Carolin1an and Tennesseean
both went, after an easy fly in the
polite that they allowed it to drop in
front of them while the big chief slid
up and down the bench wearing out the
stern of his Sabbath toggery and saying
things that would have looked out Of
place in the Police Gazette.
In the first and third. with two out,
the Nationals had men on third base,
but they expired Three hits and an
error bv Becker put the Sox in front
in tho third. and from then on they
won as they pleased. If YOU have tears,
prepare to shed them now.