The Washington herald., 1912-05-13
HOMER BY RYAN
WINS FOR MAPS
OYER NATIONALS
Akers Pitches Good Ball Until the
Sixth, When Rain Begins
to Fall.
BECKER GOES INTO THE BOX

SPECIAL to me washington Herald
Cleveland, May 2-Washington OUT
batted Cleveland to-day, but was beaten
by the score Of to / because Of its In
ability to hit with men on bases The
Nationals made eight singles, double.
and a triple, accepted six passes, and
worked in a sacrifice hit and stolen
base, along with a Cleveland error, yet
failed to score more than the single run
which was handed to the Nationals in the
first round.
That one run looked big for three
rounds Then the Maps tied the score in
the fourth, and the game ran along -eYen
until the sixth, when Cleveland grabbed
on a bunch of fve and. made the count
as # stood at the finish. The man 70
blame for, the Washington disaster was
Buddy Ryan, the. Pacific coast slugger.
Ryan came East with the reputation Of
having made twenty-three home runs
during the 1911 season. Up to to-day he
had not put any dents in the concrete
walls, and the pitchers have rather pre-
ferrtd getting at him in the pinches. To-
day, however, he went TO bat with the
bases filled and one out. He smote the
first ball pitched to him over the right
field wall and screen, the fourth time
the trick had been turned in the history
of the park.
Rain HaIts Game.
1t was a wet ball that was the undoing
Of Akers The boy from Dubuque went
along splendidly until the sixth, but after
the ram, which interrupted the contest
for fifteen minutes, he was not as much
at home on the mound as prior to the
leakage. Kahler was also handicapped.
md in, h0I aT1F F7ea ar1E
that faced him during the latter portion
Of the game But he managed to pull
himself together whenever It got really
dangerous.
Twice Washington had the bases filled
with two out-in the fifth and seventh
and each time Kahler managed to ex-
tricate himself. In the fifth a sensa-
tional catch of Cashion's liner by Jack
son saved Cleveland, while in the seventh
Cunningham found the path to first too
wet to let him beat out his tap to
Bronkie. --
Washington scored its run in the first
inning. Milan walked with two down
and stole, scoring when Craney mis-
judged Cashion's tremendous drive to left
and let il go for three bases Cashion,
however, was stranded on third, as Cum
ningham famed.
In its half, Cleveland led OF with four
straight singles, and failed to score.
Graney was thrown out stealing. Olsen
was nipped in trying to take two bases
on Jackson's single, while Jackson was
thrown out at home by MoeIler when
he tried to score on Birmingham's hit.
Il was in the fourth that the Maps
tied up the score on Jacksou's single
and steal and Birmingham's double,
Birmingham being nailed at home when
he tried TO score on Ryan's single to
Milan.
Maps Big Inning.
Three passes and two hits counted for
five runs for Cleveland in the sixth.
Butcher was walked as a starter. Olsen
sacrificed. jackson was Intentionally
passed. Having acquired the habit.
Akers also walked Birmingham. filling
the bases. Easterly's low liner 10 right,
which CashiOn dropped in an attempt to
scoop It, scored Butcher, Feaving the
bases filled. Then Ryan hit his homer
over the right field wall and the four
Maps sauntered across the plate.
That ended the scoring for the after
noon, Becker replacing Akers in the
lie hall