The Washington times., 1912-06-21
Nationals Drop
Second Double
Bill to Athletics

OutClassed, that's all. That one little
word explains why the Nationals drop
ped another double-header to the
worlds champion Athletics by scores OF
to and to l. When stacked up
against Eddie Plank they waved their
bats like umbrellas, those same bats
which had driven Baumgardner, Ed
Walsh. Frank Lange, Jean Dubuc,
George Kahler, and Lefty" George to
rout and ruin. Then when Carroll
Brown, a rank "busher," ascended the
hill In the second clash, they were
moving under the same hypnotic infu-
ence and could effect nothing with their
wands.
Chick" Gandil alone stood forth az
q regular. Dig league player. He played
a fine game in the field and corrailed
four bingles during the double clash,
three Of them in the second melee. Yes,
Gandil Is Of major league stuff, there's
no mistake about that.
But the rest-very bad, very bad Dan
Moeller and Eddie Foster were like
putty in the hands of Plank and Brown,
neither of them doing a thing to prove
his right TO he with a winning team in
the big show: Ray Morgan, until his
return from the West, the hardest hit
ter on the team, couldn't do anything
more than wave his wand fan shion.
During their record making series of
victories, the Nationals could always
savagely and at all times, no matter
what the odds were against them. So
far on their slump they have gone to the
other extreme, proving that they can't
get a hit or anything like nit when
the need is the greatest.
Perhaps, as Manager Griffith explains,
their natural relaxation after their
winning streak will wear off and they
VII begin to hit. Perhaps today they
WILL land on the ball in old-time style
At any rate, they all looked alike yes
terday with the single exception Of
Chic Gandil.
Only Five Hits
Eddie Plank. wrinkled as any prune
the veteran hurler of the Mackmen,
held the Nationals down to five scatter
ed bingles in the opening game, never
giving them the slightest chance to do
anything. Meanwhile. lucky hits were
giving the Athletics runs and when the
that Plank has whitewashed his oppon-
ents by a score of to O.
Bakers single in the second, Strunk' s
sacrifice, A passed ball, and MCInnis'
first run. In the sixth they bumped a
couple OF lucky bingles off Joe Engel,
and mixing these with two sacrifices and
walk, counted three tallies.
Lord opened with lucky hit TO left
and Oldring's Texas Lacquer dropped
tust out of reach of either Shanks Nc
Bride or Foster. Collins sacrificed and
Baker was passed purposely. Strunk' s
hoist to Milan let Lord score. and then
with all the Nationals gardeners play
ing dead left for him, his usual place
Of hitting, "Stuffy" McInnis succeeded
in driving the ball to right field. 1t
was a triple, for Moeller was in center
field and Morgan and Gandil had to re-
trieve the ball. getting it after Oldring
and Baker had scored.
AS Dutch" Schaefer had hit for En-
gel in the eighth, pounding out a
double to right center, Joe Boehling
WAS sent to the slab in the final half OF
the frame. He started by passing Col
Inns and a wild heave to tho grand
stand put Collins on third. from where
he Tailed on Bakers solid drive to
right feld.
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