The Washington herald., 1912-08-02

runs; otherwise Groom would have
handed them a row of goose eggs.
Gain on Boston.
As the Nationals won the ball game
Foster is forgiven. Boston took the short
end Of a e-to-1 score against the St
Louis Browns and consequently the Ma
ttonals made up the ground lost yester-
day, and there is some happiness In this
The victory came mighty near being
costly one for Griffith. as Howard
Shanlks was hit In the left temple by
one of George Mullins fast balls. and
knocked unconscious But for the fact
that Mullin Is getting shop worn and
lacks his old time smoke, Mr.. Shanks
would never have known what hit him.
The accident happened in the third in
ming. Shanks was set for a curve ball
when Mullin shot. over a fast one, and
the youngster was unable to duck in
time Shanks had to be carried to the
bench by his team mates. mpireU Con-
molly asked for a doctor. The outfelder
was unconscious ten minutes. and to-
night Griffith is thanking his lucky stars
that Mullin is growing old and fat.
/ Crawford Goes Hitless.
As usual Bob Groom had Sam Craw-
ford looking like a rank amateur. Every
Dul one WhcH Nlic AcuOeotooic soAAa
stepped up to the plate he had a chance
to score runs with a safe hit, but twice
Groom famed him, and on the last ap-
pearance Morgan and Gandil took good
care of the mighty slugger.
Tyrus Raymond Cobb electrified the
crowd by stealing home in the Tigers
sixth. but the Peach had nothing on MI
Ian, in the Nationals seventh, as Clyde
not only allowed himself to be caught on
first and eluded all pursuers to second,
but followed this up with steal of third
SO the crowd quickly switched and
cheered the Tennessee flyer to the echo.
Big AL williams teamed with Groom.
and the husky catcher gave a dandy ex-
hibition, as many of Groom's twisters
were low. and hard to reach Milan was
the terror with the swat stick; his double
in the third and single in the seventh
scored three runs all told. Dan Moeller
also hit like fiend, and contributed
catch in the eighth that averted trouble.
The Tigers touched Groom up lively in
the opening frames. but fast work behind
the twirler kept the platter clean Not
a run was registered by the foe until the
fifth, when Louden grounded to Foster.
and reached second as the midget threw
the ball away. Moriarty's out, Mcbride
to Gandil sent Louden to third, and he
scored on an unexpected triple by Deal.
supposedly the weak hitter.
Foster Errs Again.
With Bush out of the way in Detroit's
fifth, Cobb grounded to Foster and Ed
die threw low to Gandil. A perfect peg
would have turned back the peach. Craw-
ford took three measily swings. Groom
bounced the third strike over the plate
and the ball hit Williams on the knee.
Cnhh fearfnD for
ond. Williams threw Crawford out, and
before Gandil could shoot the ball over
TO Foster, Mr.. Cobb was shaking the
dust out of his togs at third With
I,ouden up Cobb took a daring lead off
third and dashed for the plate. A low
pitch by Groom was all that saved Cobb,
for Williams could not grab the ball in
time &c touch the runner. Two errors
in row by Foster and a timely single
from Deals bat added the third Detroit
run.
Mullins started out like world beater.
For two innings the Climbers could do
nothing with the chubby one, but when
he hit Shanks on the dome during the
third inning, as described in the fore
going, the fat pitcher wobbled and the
Nationals choked three runs out of him.
Walker ran for Shanks. Groom sacri-
feed and beat Mullins throw to first
Foster sent up a high fly and Walker
raced home on the out Milan inserted
a smoking double into the game, scoring
Groom and Moeller, and with this COM
manding lead the Nationals again start
ed their famous climbing act. Moeller
tripled to left center for a starter In
the FIFTH and scored on Fosters out, Bush
to Moriarty. Another tally came our
way in exactly the same manner in the
sixth, only Morgan and Williams pulled
the trick. Morgan tripled to right center
and when Bush threw out Williams, Ray
counted.
Score Again in Seventh.
Not that the Nationals needed any
more runs, but Just to show how easy
1t was to send the boys around the bases,
another tally was chalked up IN the sew
enth. After one had gone, Moeller sin
gied and was thrown out at second in
Fosters tap to Moriarty. Foster stole.
and came home on Milan's single to CEN
ter. Right here came Milan's great base
stealing act. Purposely drawing the throw
from Mullin, Clyde allowed the whole
Detroit team to run him down. He
promptly proceeded to show up the entire
bunch by running through them and
reaching second unscatched On the next
ball pitched Milan stole third, sliding
under Deal, who got the ball on a per-
feet peg from Stanage. Gandii made the
third out, Louden to Moriarty
Fosters errors might have sent any
rifchar ofhar than Groov,, nm q, ~. "a.