The Washington times., 1912-06-19

Fighting like a pack of wildcats down
to the very end Of the battle, caring
not a whit that they were facing the
worlds champion Athletics. the far
famed conquerors of the Chicago Cubs
and the New York Giants, Clark Grif-
flth's Climbers, daring in their youth
and speedy on account of that very
fact, defeated the Mackmen in a hair
raising ninth-inning finish by a score
of to 4, thereby continuing their marv-
elous winning squirt by taking their
seventeenth successive victory since
Memorial Day.
The diamond combat was well worthy
of the immense throng that saw It,
With the President and Vice President
OF the United States foremost among
ported by nearly 1900 baseball fans
drawn from every walk of life, and
they all waited for that crashing singh
OF Chick Gandils into right field In
the last of the ninth that brought over
Moeller with the winning run.
All Shout "Seyenteenthl"
Then pandemonium broke out. Tho
enteenth straight victory of their
heroes. threw aside all self possession
and raised a roar that went straight to
chanted in unison the number of vic
tories, shouting forth Seventeen" with
mighty shout that went straight to
the hearts of the tired athletes dressing
below the stands for their hurried trip
to PHILADELPHIA
Chick Gandil, the brilliant young
hrst baseman, obtained from the Mon
treal club, Of the International League,
small treasury. was the particular
bright star of the afternoon. and he is
today the hero of every small boy in
the Capital. His three singing bingles
accounted for three Of the Climbers
rtallies, while he scored another him
self. In the field he was smoothness
itself, saving Morgan and Mcbride
trouble by the accurate celerity of his
movements. He stamped himself from
the start a real big Lacquer.
Close behind Gandil in the search for
honors came George Mcbride, the
greeted him or mis- first appearance at
bat in the second inning, and he re-
sponded with single to center. Again
IN the eighth he came through witG
another safe drive to the same place
However, II was by his really brilliant
Gelding that he showed his caliber.
Two Plays Save Day.
Perhaps if McBride's peg to Foster
In the eighth had not been true as a die
Rube OIdring would not have been
SduSnt StedllTS tnlTu, ana the complex
ion of the game would have been
changed radically. Then in the ninth
he circled in behind Maggert at second
base and caught him OFF the bag for
the third out when there were tv 9
runners waiting for Oldring to repeat
his tWo-bagger of the session previous
These two PLAYS alone saved the day
from defensive viewpoint
Groom pitched great ball for six In
nings, and then he seemed to wilt under
the humidity of the afternoon, and the
attack OF the Mackmen In the seventr
the champions suddenly turned upor
him, pounding out four bingles for three
runs and the lead. The onslaught was
most savage, and Groom never showed
quite so we'll afterWard.
AS sooh as the Mackmen began Il
hit Groom, Manager Griffith sent Pelt,
and Hughes to right field TO prepare u
rescue him. Meanwhile the Nationals
brain boz watched the tall twirler ark
iously as man after man came up anC
faded away. He so continued to ~
Until the last Mackman expired In th'
ninth, and neither Petty nor Hu~hei
got into the struggle.
Schaefer's Eagle Eye Won.
That victory finally perched upon tn,
banners OF the Climbers resulted from
the eagle eye Of Herman schaefer. tn,
German prince coaching At third. Hin