Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-09

in this round, when shotten beat scratch
hit. and then came one of the best hitting
exhibitions that has been witnessed in
some time. Austin singled to left and
Pratt hit far over Milan's head for
triple Kutina followed with double to
right, and Williams came along with an
other double to left Then CashiOn went
in. and sacrifice fly to Milan resulted
from Hogans effort. Wallace followed
with a single. and then Stephens hit for
ilton was walked. but when he and Steph-
ems attempted to work the double steal,
Stephens was nailed at the plate
Chick Gandil continues to show his
teammates the way with the bat, and he
is hitting harder right now than at any
time since he has been with the team.
His first time up brought him double,
and the very next time up he hit into
right for three bases. He hit the ball
hard on his two other trips to the plate,
but could not get it safe.
If Shotten plays the same game against
other teams that he does against WASH
ington, he has every reason to consider
himself in the same class with the star
outfielders of the league. There has not
been a game between Washington and
ST. Louis this season in which he has
failed TO shine and yesterday was not an
exception. He got two hits. walked once,
scored two runs and pilfered two bases on
Ainsmith. Shotten looks like great ball
player. and if he was with team where
he had a chance he would soon make
reputation for himself
There was nothing fluky about any of
the seven hits made off Vaughn and Cash
ion in the sixth. Every one of the drives
was hard hit and SO far away from the
them did not go for home runs. In this
inning the Browns refused to wait out
Vaughn. and most of the long drives were
made on the first ball pitched
Today it will undoubtedly be Hughes
against Adams, Brown, the left
handler. for now that Stovall sees that
lefthanders bother the Nationals he is
very apt to use as many of them as he
has at his command. There are no IA
vors being shown the Nationals on this
trip. Every team gives them the best
it has and hustles to beat them, con-
sidering 1t an achievement to win from
the pennant contenders. 1t will have
been noted that in every city the pitch
ers used are those who have shown the
best form Of late. and that VIII continue
to be so until the end of the season, so
that there is no. chance for the Nationals
to have an easy row to hoe at any time.
An occasional defeat does not discourage
Griffith. though 1t is needless to say that
he does not enthuse under such conol-
tons. Games such as yesterday, ne
team. and he predicts that one defeat
| will not affect his team in the least. He
says that he expects to win every one OF
the other games to be played here, ana
| that with three out Of four taken from
the Browns he will consider his trip
full-fiedged success. To date. thirteen
games have been played in the west on
this trip. and nine of these have been
victories. Griffith expects to come home
with twelve wins and but four defeats,
| though it stands to reason that his team
will have to do some brilliant work dur
ing the remainder of its stay here to &C
complsh this. These tail-end teams some
| times get into streaks where they cannot
be beaten, and the Browns have been go
ing particularly well ever since they came
off their last eastern trip.
Barring the fact that the Nationals
were shut out by the Browns. there was
really little to the game from a wash
ington standpoint. for there was but
| short part of the game that the Nationals
could even be considered, and that chance
was eliminated in the sixth inning. when
the Browns scored six runs, giving tnem
a total of seven. Vaughn had started
none too well, for he allowed ShOtten to
single. and after Austin had moved him
to second Pratt came along with safe
drive which sent Shotten home with the
first run Of the game. 1t seemed that
the score would at least be tied ip the
second. which Gandil opened with
double. but Wn1le he got 10 tHlfu OH
Morgan's out, he was anchored there.
as the next two batters offered easy
chances.
Vaughn steadied after the first round
and was not in trouble again until the
sixth. when he had to be taken out.
1T looked like runs for the Nationals
in the third when Shanks hit safely, but
was doubled-up with Vaughn on the lat
ter's grounder to Wallace. Then Moeller
struck out, but the last strike was
wild pitch. and he reached first safely.
| On the hit and run, Moeller reached third
on Fosters single Foster purposely al
| lowed himself to be caught Off first
in the hope that Moelier might score. but
| the latter was nailed at the plate. In
the fourth Gandil hit for three bases with
one down. but died at the plate when
Ainsmith hit out to Pratt after Morgan
had walked, and the next man up did
not better the situation. After that, but
one of the visitors reached first base
Foster, who walked in the ninth.
What happened to Vaughn and Cashion
| in the sixth has been told. But the
Browns got another run in the eighth
when Hogan doubled and stole third,