Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-18
WILLIAMS TRIPLE
DEFEATS MAPS
Big Catcher Makes Timely Hit
Which Scores Runners
From Second and Third.
BOB GROOM PITCHES
A BRILLIANT GAME
KaIer'S WiIdneSS Proves His
Undoing When He Walks
Morgan and Shanks.
BY j. ED GRILLo.

A timely three-base hit bv .Alva
Williams. which gave the Nation
ais three runs in the seventh in
ming of the first game with the
Maps yesterday, drove the Ma
tionals into second place.
The hit referred to came after
kaler, the Maps twirler. had
walked Morgan and Shanks, whom
Mcbride advanced by a sacrifice.
Ordinarily Williams hit would
have been single, but Jackson
gave an amateurish exhibition OF
fielding the ball, loafng when he
saw 1t, coming toward him and
walking after it when it passed
him. That hit gave the Nationals
their victory. Up to this time
neither side had scored. kaler,
young man who seems only re-
Gently TO have acquired what he
might be pleased TO term slow
ball, which he used necessarily.
but TO no advantage. was wild
as a March hare from the outset.
though until the seventh he man
aged TO get away because when
he was i'll danger the Nationals
could not hiI. got off badly in this
inning and walked the first two
men to face him. McBride's sac
ritice followed, and then came the
hit by Williams already referred
10.
Those three runs proved suffi-
cicnt to decide the contest, though
just TO cinch it the Nationals went
ont and gathered themselves an
other tally in the eighth, thanks to
i peculiar play in which Griggs
figured when he failed to touch
first base after receiving a perfec.
play from Baker at third.
Primarily the victory was caused
Nv the brilliant pitching of Bob
Groom. The tall twirler with the
peculiar delivery has had few
breaks OF late. One defeat has
followed another for him when his
work was such that he should
have scored victories. But yes
terday luck favored him, and his
splendid work was properly re-
WaTded.
Groom held the visitors to five scat
tered hits and single run, which did
rot come until the ninth when the result
was no longer in doubt there being two
out when the tally crossed the plate.
There was really only one instance dur
ing the game when Groom seemed
threa tened and then the Maps helped him
out of hole by trying to pull an absurd
squeeze play which was foiled In the
budding Before and after that inning,
the fourth. Groom was invincible. He
was really never in danger, having al
most perfect control and plenty of stuff
in the way of deceiving breaks and
shoots 10 hold the hard-hitting visitors
in check.
kaler was effective until the seventh.
lie was very wild because he insisted on
using a slow ball which he seldom got
over and which was responsible for get
ting him In several bad holes, though he
pitched himself out OF these until the
seventh. when he allowed three runs TO
he scored
For six innings both teams went score
lss.. Foster walked IN the first but died
stealing. and in the second chance for
runs spoiled when Gandl. who had
hit safely and reSched second when Nor
gan walked. allowed himself TO be caught
mapping of second on a quick throw
from Carish In the fourth the Maps
had chance. Hunter led off with hit
but jackson. in trying TO sacrifice, forced
him at second. Lajoie reached out and
lite EsaNl D FnT1 haTv o%.l fv,<r
right field and Jackson went to third.
This brought Griggs, good hitter. up.
but he and Jackson foolishly tried to
work the squeeze play. Griggs missing
the ball and Jackson, of course, being
touched out at the plate Griggs then
flied 10 Moeller and the inning ended
In the ifth inning Baker led off with
line drive 10 right. which MoeIler
caught while on a dead run forward off
lis shoe tops. Peckinpaugh got a hit.
aut Groom struck out Carish and then
heided Kaler's little tap.
Kaler walked Williams and Groom in
this inning, but did after two men
were out and Milan forced Groom at Sec
ond-
The seventh proved that wild pitching
cannot succeed. kaier started by walk
ing Morgan and Shanks Mcbride sacrf-
feed and Williams hit to right for three
bases. scoring both runs Peckinpaugh
followed this lit py fumbHng Groom
grounder and Williams scored but that
ended the run getting, for Milan and
Foster flied out
In the eighth. after Moeller had famed.
Gandi got hit and stole both second
and third. Morgan also struck out but
Shanks hit grounder to Baker, who
handled the ball perfectly and made
splendid throw to first Shanks was out
by yards. but Griggs failed to touch first
base after catching the ball and Umpire
Connolly called Shanks safe. In the
meantime Gandil had scored from third
and the Nationals had a four-run lead
Ryan opened the ninth with hit He
stole second and then Birmingham and
Jackson fled out. Lajoie came along
with a hit. sending Ryan home, and
Groom walked Gri2gs. Johnson, a young
man who just Joined the team, was sent
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