The Washington times., 1912-06-04

ST. LOUIS, June 4.-The slaughter OF
George Baumgardner and Charlie Brown.
two young Brownie hurlers; the sudden
and mysterious ascention into the heav-
ems of Joe Engle, the baby Of the troupe
under c. Calvert Griffith, and the great
rescue stunt Of romasso Hughes marked
the third battle between the Nationals
and the Brownies. Under the avalanche
of bingles, many of them doubles and
triples. too, the poor old battered and
despised Brownies, the cellar champions
Of the circuit, were buried to the tune
of 13 to 4. The Nationals whaled the
eternal daylights out Of Baumgardner
and Brown, totaling seventeen clean
hits for the unlucky number of runs.
1t was some massacre.
Mcbride Leads Batters.
AL Williams and George Mcbride led
in the assault on the local twiriers, each
lad pilins up three blows |or his after
noon's total. The dandy captain horned
in with a pretty triple to the right field
bleachers, and Williams crashed out 4
two spot just when 1t did the most
good.
Oh, yes, "Nimble Dan" Moeller. the
Rochester rambler; "Buzzer' Foster.
"Zeb" Milan, and Chick" Gandil got a
couple Of base knocks apiece. just to
prove their right to stay In fast COM
pany. Milan stole second and third in
one inning, too, which was some run
ming on a warm day.
Joe Engel twirled excellent ball until
the eighth, when he climbed into his
aeroplane, waved his hand to Dutch"
Schaefer, sobbing at the bench. and
sailed away into the ethereal regions.
contributions to the Brownies. Clark
Griffith foxily cut the string and let
him depart from the ball game. sub
stituting that wise old veteran, Tomasso
Hughes: He stopped the onward rush
OF the Brownies with a single tally.
Historical, indeed, was the appearance
of Lou Crtger, the old battery-mate OF
Uncle Cy" Young, behind the plate for
the Browns, and most marvellous OF
all was his throwing out of Milan at
tempting to steal in the seventh. The
veteran had all his old time skill in
pegging. and was cheered to the echo,
even by the Nationals, when he stopped
Milan purloining.
The Phenom Blows UP.
1t was a great ball game for five in
nings. In the sixth Baumgardner got
his, and after that all semblance of
propriety faded from the combat Shot
ten singled in the opening inning and
scored on Laportes clean drive to right.
Pratt followed with a single, but per-
ished stealing.
"Nimble Dan" Moeller tied the score
in the third when, after hammering a
terrific drive to the right field bleachers
for three corners, he tailed on Fos-
ters daisy double to left
With one down In the fourth Al WILL
Jams put Engel in a hole when he
dropped Wallaces high foul at the
plate, for the Scotchman promptly
breezed safety. to center Morgan
booted Criger's slow roller and there
were two on instead of three out.
Baumgardner came through with a safe
drive to center, scoring Wallace, and
Shotten illed the sacks with a safety to
left.
Criger ambled over on Hogan's safety
to right, but Stovall and Laporte per-
ished.
Triple for Mcbride.
The Nationals tied up the battle again
| in the hfth. Mcbride tore of a triple
to the night neld bleachers. scoring on
Williams double TO center. The big
backstop tailed when Moeller danced a
! single to right.
The sixth saw the mournfuI finish of
| Baumgardner. Milan's triple 20 the
| right Held seats opened the frame, Gan
| diis single to right bringing him over
| Shanks sacrinced. but Morgan singled
| 10 right, scoring Gandil. Williams rip
! "ing single TO center brought Morgan
aeross with the third fun Of the session.