The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-14
NATIONALS HAVE
But ONE RECEIVER
READY TO CATCH
Henry Wrenches Bad Knee-Ain-
smith Is Sent Home-Williams
Only Backstop Able to Work.
OTHER INTERESTING GOSSIP

Special to The Washington Herald.
Detroit. Mich. Sept. 13.-The Nationals
tonight have but one catcher able to
work, and II anything happens to big
Alva Williams the club will be In des-
perate straits John Henry, who has
been doing the bulk of the work since
Ainsmith has been Ill. wrenched his knee
in the tenth inning of to-day's game. and
had to give way to Williams.
Eddie Ainsmith was sent to his home
in Cambridge. Mass. tonight. as he re-
fused to yield to the treatment pre-
scribed by doctors who have visited him
the past four days on the road. He will
hardly be in shape to, catch any more
this season. Grin Is not figuring on
using him unless he should get over his
bilious fever in a week or ten days,
which hardly seems probable.
The injury to Henry to-day came as a
staggering blow to Griff. Just how seri-
ously the knee Is wrenched this time
will not be known until tomorrow.
Trainer Martin does not think the injury
is as severe as the one which put the
catcher in the hospital for a week in
Washington last summer and kept him
out of the game for nearly a month.
The writer pointed out several weeks
ago that Henry was liable at any time
to open up the old wound and to-day it
hdpptucu same uidIi-
ner as the first mishap. Henry's spikes
caught in the ground as he was about to
make a quick throw to first base in the
ninth inning, while Cobb was on the far
corner. and Veach had taken a third
swing at a ball which Henry dug out of
the dirt. The catcher did not attempt to
throw to Gandil until he saw that Cobb
refused to try for the plate. and he let
go the ball. his left knee was wrenched.
a. nd he ion oil hal II,
strained.
Henry hobbled around the hotel corri-
doris tonight and was chased to bed
early. where trainer Mike Martin will
spend the dark hours placing ice bags on
the injured knee. By tomorrow morning
the exact extent of the injury will be
definitely known.
bodily harm and the club is lucky In
possessing such a capable understudy for
Henry and Ainsmith. Williams will prob
ably be called upon to catch most Of the
seventeen games which remain on the
Nationals schedule.
Manager Jennings. of the Tigers, Is
trying out all of his youngsters to see
what kind of stuff they are made. Pitch
er Boehler from the Newark. Ohio. club
of the Three-Eye League did not look to
may improve. Veach. the left fielder from
Indianapolis, handles himself nicely, and
the baseball writer's are touting him as a
find
Weather predictions here for to-mor-
row say rain, and the game may be
postponed until Sunday, but II IL Is
played Grin will pitch either Joe Boeh-
ling or Carl Cashion, probably the last
Jennings is going to try another young
ster against us. named Troy, said to be
a second Ed Walsh.
Clyde Milan. according to unofficial fig
ures has stolen already seventy-six
bases, and in order to create a new
American League record will have to
steal at the rate OF one base during
every three of the next seventeen games
played. Cobb's mark of eighty-two pur-
Joined sacks last year is the high-water
mark.
1t looks as If Danny Moeller had at
last regained his batting eye. and II
such proves to be the case the Nationals
are going to win a lot Of games in the
West, for when Moeller is hitting the
other members of the club perk up in
the batting department.
Germany Schaefer blames the defeat
TO the fact that to-day is Friday. the 18th
OF the month. Il Just knew something